"Shallowness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shouting the above would take the trouble to examine the lists of an up-to-date library they might blush for their shallowness, that they have been basing their opinions on their memory of library lists at least ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... vast region watered by the Amazons. It is a small village, formerly a missionary settlement of the Jesuits, situated a few miles to the eastward of the Para River. Here the ship anchored in the open sea at a distance of six miles from the shore, the shallowness of the water far out around the mouth of the great river not permitting, in safety, a nearer approach; and, the signal was ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates
... you for literature.'" In the same magazine for June, 1874, Paul Hamilton Hayne condemned severely the provincial literary criticism which had prevailed, — "indiscriminate adulations, effervescing commonplace, shallowness and poverty of thought." "No foreign ridicule," he said, "however richly deserved, nothing truly either of logic or of laughter, can stop this growing evil, until our own scholars and thinkers have the manliness and honesty to discourage instead ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims
... unmoved. What's the reason? 0, well, The same I intend to expound Some evening next week, when I'm going to speak On the shallowness of the profound. ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... of the cities and towns now, and only set down the rivers and main features, as they continued their steady journey day after day for all of a week. At the end of that time the increasing shallowness of the river, the many sand bars and the nature of the discolored, rolling waters, made them sure they were approaching the mouth of the great Platte River, which, as they knew, rose far to the west ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough
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