"Employ" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such prose, Malherbe prepared a highway. He aimed at a reformation of the language, which, rejecting all words either base, provincial, archaic, technical, or over-learned and over-curious, should employ the standard French, pure and dignified, as accepted by the people of Paris. In his hands language became too exclusively an instrument of the intelligence; yet with this instrument great things were achieved by his successors. ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... There's just one thing I should venture to suggest, and that is, that you cease at once to be a typist and employ one yourself instead. It's most essential that you should live up to your position. Oh! I'm very ...
— The Title - A Comedy in Three Acts • Arnold Bennett
... turned out of his estate an Abyssinian officer in his employ named Ambur Khan, and conferred the same on Prince ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell
... as the commentators assume, there would have been a sufficient motive for his later actions. But ambition is foreign to the Shakespeare-Hamlet nature, so the poet does not employ it. Again and again he returns to the explanation that the timid grow dangerous when "frighted ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... men were ready to brave all things while he led them. So, after having despatched his German business, he determined to employ the short remainder of the summer in a reconnaissance en force across the Channel, with a view to subsequent invasion of Britain. He had already made inquiries of all whom he could find connected with the Britanno-Gallic trade ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
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