"Abruption" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and have been, during a course of seventeen years, those of them who now act, and those who are dead or absent, men with whom to have acted was indeed satisfactory and pleasant,—my late Collegues part with me, and I with them, regrettingly. Our reciprocal Esteem is not lessen'd by this abruption of our official intercourse. And as every man who feels what Society is, ought to determine to be serviceable to the Public, my removal from this office neither weakens the determination, nor probably will be found to have impair'd the means of effecting it. ...
— The Farmer's Boy - A Rural Poem • Robert Bloomfield
... What makes this pretty abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain ...
— The History of Troilus and Cressida • William Shakespeare [Craig edition]
... think, above the original in elegance, and the conclusion below it in strength. The connexion is supplied with great perspicuity; and the thoughts, which, to a reader of less skill, seem thrown together by chance, are concatenated without any abruption. Though the English ode cannot be called a translation, it may be very ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... to Belford.— Curses him for his tormenting abruption. Clarissa never suffered half what he suffers. That sex made to bear pain. Conjures him to hasten to him the rest of ...
— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson |
