"In use" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... words is in the actual production of a theme wherein there is need to bring out these differences in meaning by the use of words; but some help may be gained from a formal study of synonyms and antonyms and of the distinction in use and meaning between words which are commonly confused with each other. For this purpose such exercises are given ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... house. The three sides will be screened against the creeping, fluttering things, but not against the good fresh air and all the breezes that blow. For protection against storm, to keep out the driving rain, there will be a sliding glass, so made that when not in use it will occupy small space and shut out ...
— Revolution and Other Essays • Jack London
... form of salutation familiarly in use between them. Beasley followed it by inquiring, ...
— Beasley's Christmas Party • Booth Tarkington
... the Water City! My heart sunk with dismay. The cylinder I held in my hand I had thought the only one in use in all the Light Country. With it I felt supreme. And now they had it also in the ...
— The Fire People • Ray Cummings
... which underlie all naval war. Those principles, if we have determined them correctly, should be found giving shape not only to strategy and tactics, but also to material, whatever method and means of naval warfare may be in use at any given time. Conversely, if we find strategy, tactics, or organisation exhibiting a tendency to reproduce the same forms under widely differing conditions of method and material, we should be able to show that those forms bear a constant and definite ...
— Some Principles of Maritime Strategy • Julian Stafford Corbett
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