"Sum up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... To sum up, then, the results of the foregoing exposition thus far, what I hold to be the three principal, or most general, arguments in favour of the theory of natural selection, ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes
... . . . that this is a very dull letter. But you know what I am. I can be practical, but only deliberately, by fixing my mind on a thing. In this letter, I sum up my last month's thinking about money resources. I haven't given a thought yet to the application and distribution of them in rent, furniture, etc. When I have done thinking about that you will get another dull letter. I can keep ten poems and ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... fate now depends on your votes." Here the speaker sat down in his place, And directed the Judge to refer to his notes And briefly to sum up the case. ...
— The Hunting of the Snark - an Agony, in Eight Fits • Lewis Carroll
... "Let us sum up. We are able to prove three things: 1. That the house in Vine Street belongs to you, and that Sir Francis Burnett, who is known there, and you are one; 2. That you were visited in this house by a lady, who, from all the precautions she took, ...
— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau
... men of Sicca sadly congratulate themselves, and begin to look about them, and to sum up their losses. Being the proprietors of the neighbouring districts, or the purchasers of its produce, they lament over the devastation, not because the fair country is disfigured, but because income is becoming scanty, ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
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