"Wording" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley
... policy of all laws has made some forms necessary in the wording of last wills and testaments, and more with regard to their attestation. An ignorance in these must always be of dangerous consequence, to such as by choice or necessity compile their own testaments without any technical assistance. Those who have attended the courts of justice are ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone
... to sign legal papers without reading them?" demanded Patricia, with just a little touch of resentment in her tone. She had rather prided herself upon the wording of this document, which she had so carefully dictated to Melvin, and it hurt her to think that her stipulations were passed over ...
— The Last Woman • Ross Beeckman
... verbatim. In the second my memory may be producing the sense without the exact wording, but I have no doubt at all that my words practically convey what the mother wished ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... however, even in the dull wording of the Fleming's official statement, to look upon this unequal strife; to watch the elder woman, the strong and sturdy Provencial, come of a race hard as the flints of its native Crau, as day after day she stones, knocks down, and crushes her ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet
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