"Annotation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than ever, the compilers faced a difficult task in balancing the prime requirement of a thorough and adequate annotation against the very practical desire to keep the results within ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... uttering no further word; for him the interview ended right there, cleanly and satisfactorily. From the door the girl glanced back. Mr. Queed had drawn his heavy book before him, pencil in hand, and was once more engrossed in the study and annotation of ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... large packet—all our letters of this year sent back again, directed in a strange hand, to "John Halifax, Esquire, Beechwood," with the annotation, "By ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... something like a consecutive story. Mr. Douglas speaks modestly of his editorial work. "I have done," he says, "little more than arrange the correspondence in chronological order, supplying where necessary a slight thread of continuity by annotation and illustration." It must be said that Mr. Douglas has done this exceedingly well. There is always a note where a note is wanted, and never where information would be superfluous. On the taste and judgment of his selection ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... billet; memorandum, minute, record; remark, comment, annotation, commentary, scholium, gloss; mark, token, sign, feature, peculiarity; observation, notice; distinction, repute, celebrity, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
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