In the chariot there are nine, and six and nine make fifteen.Add to them the five of the rear-guard, and we have twenty.…Cited from Fruitfulness, by Emile Zola
You are going to say that, with my wealth, my accomplishments, my beauty, my friends, what more can I want?What do I care about a secret that can neither add to them nor take them away?…Cited from A Ward of the Golden Gate, by Bret Harte
He had his own difficulties with his father, and she would not add to them.She managed the house, checked over the bills and sent them to the office, put up a cheerful and courageous front, and after a time sheathed herself in an armor of smiling indifference.…Cited from A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The student who learns his laws and principles out of books may have a very clear and definite understanding of them.He may be able to add to them or to teach them.But he has little skill in their practical application as compared with the student who learns them in a laboratory.…Cited from Analyzing Character, by Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
They are past our help and past our praise.We can add to them no glory, we can give them no immortality.They do not need us, but for ever and for evermore we need them.…Cited from Brave Men and Women, by O.E. Fuller
These instances, which he produces here, are searching; but they are none too searching for his purpose.They do not come any nearer to nature than those others which he is prepared to add to them.…Cited from Plays of Shakspere Unfolded, by Delia Bacon
The insight into experience which art provides is the more valuable because it is communicable; to possess it alone would be a good, but to share it is better.All values become enhanced when we add to them the joy of fellow feeling.The universality of aesthetic expression carries with it the universality of aesthetic insight.…Cited from The Principles Of Aesthetics, by Dewitt H. Parker
"Add to them wood and water and what little more a man needs he should be able to find.""It's wood and water that we ought to hunt now."…Cited from The Texan Star, by Joseph A. Altsheler
Those we will endure or combat as we can.What we desire is, that the friends of humanity should cease to add to them.Our disposition toward the ills which our fellow-man inflicts on us through malice or meddling is quite different from our disposition toward the ills which are inherent in the conditions of human life.…Cited from What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, by William Graham Sumner
I will, however, give you a few simple rules for the preservation of health, which, though incomplete, will be of great benefit, if faithfully pursued.From experience, study, and observation, you will no doubt be able to add to them many improvements.…Cited from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females, by Harvey Newcomb
You may add to them, but you cannot diminish them.And it is the business of a University to determine what books of this kind exist, and to enforce the understanding of them.…Cited from Val d'Arno, by John Ruskin
Altemira a Tragedy, brought upon the stage by Mr. Francis Manning 1702, dedicated to Lionel earl of Orrery, grandson to the author, with a prologue by lord viscount Bolingbroke.We may add to them his state letters, which have been lately published in one volume fol.The rest of his lordship's political papers perished in the flames, when his house at Charleville was burnt in the year 1690, by a party of King James's soldiers, with the duke of Berwick at their head.…Cited from Lives of the Poets, Great Britain/Ireland, Vol. II, by Theophilus Cibber
Put two onions to color in butter or in hot fat.Then add to them the beef, which you have cut into pieces the size of a small cake.Let it cook for a few minutes, then add pepper, salt, a carrot sliced, and enough water to allow the meat to cook gently by the side of the fire, allowing one and one-half hours for one and one-half pounds of meat.…Cited from The Belgian Cookbook, by Various
They wished to re-establish religious peace, and finally sent thousands of priests into imprisonment.They wished to repair the ruins which covered France, and only succeeded in adding to them.Thus there was always a complete contradiction between the individual wills of the men of the revolutionary period and the deeds of the Assemblies of which they were units.…Cited from The Psychology of Revolution, Gustave le Bon
Prepare exactly as for Plain White Soup, but just before serving beat up the yokes of 2 or 3 eggs.Add to them a very little cold milk or cream, and then a little of the soup.Pass through strainer into hot tureen, strain through the rest of the soup, and mix thoroughly.…Cited from Reform Cookery Book (4th edition), by Mrs. Mill
Enough of sifted flour to make a stiff batter.Warm the milk and butter together, and add to them the salt.Beat the eggs very light and stir them into the milk and butter.…Cited from Seventy-Five Receipts, by Miss Leslie
Her tears gave the answer; she could add to them nothing but an assenting nod of her head.They would have flowed in double measure if she had guessed the pain she had given.…Cited from Queechy, by Elizabeth Wetherell
Shell them, lay them in a pan of cold water, and then boil them about two hours, or till they are quite soft.Drain them well, and add to them some butter and a little pepper.They are destroyed by the first frost, but can be kept during the winter, by gathering them on a dry day when full grown but not the least hard, and putting them in their pods into a keg.…Cited from Directions for Cookery, by Eliza Leslie
Boil the sugar and lemon rind and juice in 1/2 pint of water for 15 minutes.Beat the eggs well, and add to them the sweetened water.Strain the mixture through a sieve into the dish in which it is to be served, place it in a larger dish with boiling water in a moderately hot oven, and bake until set.…Cited from The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book, by Thomas R. Allinson
Words mean whatever careful and accepted writers have used them to mean; and the business of a dictionary is so far as possible to record these meanings.But language, being a living and constantly developing growth, is constantly altering them and adding to them.…Cited from The Making of Arguments, by J. H. Gardiner
