"Tautological" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in no mood for talk; indeed, I scarcely ever am in such a mood, unless it be with a pretty woman or a great sinner. You may regard that sentence as tautological if you like; I sha'n't ...
— Under the Andes • Rex Stout
... prove. Now it is evidently an instance of the omission of either of two words from the complete account by different witnesses. The Evangelist employed both words in order to emphasize the gratitude of the Apostles. The words are not tautological. [Greek: Ainos] is the set praise of God, drawn out in more or less length, properly as offered in addresses to Him[621]. [Greek: Eulogia] includes all speaking well of Him, especially when uttered before other men. Thus the two expressions describe in combination ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... Cradock suggested the reading "rocky cove." Rocky cave is tautological, and Wordsworth would hardly apply the epithet to ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... converged to the rendezvous. It was as if some huge spider were gathering its legs about the victim. The special order issued breathed a spirit of calm resolution worthy of the general commanding and his troops. Nobody that I remember criticised the tautological expression, "The progress of this army must be forward." We were prepared for a hard fight, for we knew that the enemy was strongly posted. Most of us were to be under fire for the first time, and there was some talk ...
— The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 • Basil L. Gildersleeve
... first and chiefest duty to the reader is to make my book readable at the same time that it lays before him the whole matter which the text offered or ought to have offered. Hence I have not hesitated when necessary to change the order of the sentences, to delete tautological words and phrases, to suppress descriptions which are needlessly reiterated, and in places to supply the connecting links without which the chain of narrative is weakened or broken. These are liberties which must be allowed, unless the translator's object ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... infantine lips should afford an opportunity to those who watch over their welfare to point out to them on a proper occasion the instruction which they contain. In the first line, the term pussy cat may be considered tautological, as pussy and cat both refer to the same animal; but if so, it is allowable, as pussy may be considered as the christian name and cat as the surname of the animal. It is to be presumed that the cat addressed is young, for ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat) |
