"Exclusiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 94. This exclusiveness was characteristic of the age. Cardinal Richelieu and his associates were not qualified by education or by any tendency of their natures to inaugurate a reformation in this direction. The experiment of amalgamating Catholic and Huguenot in the enterprises ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
... exclusiveness of my literary tastes. That might have enabled you to divine what kind of a person I am in the matter of love. I grow so hard to please as a literary artist, that I am driven to despair. I shall end ...
— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater
... schoolmaster has not touched it; the school pulpit has boomed over its development in vain. Nor has the schoolmaster done anything for or against the young man's political views, his ideas of social exclusiveness, the peculiar code of honour that makes it disgraceful to bilk a cabman and permissible to obtain goods on credit from a tradesman without the means to pay. All this much of the artificial element in our young English ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... which the sophomore team gave the Sans five, who had so illy represented the juniors at basket ball, was a defeat the Sans found hard to endure. Adopting Leslie's advice, they carried their heads high and affected great exclusiveness. They also entered upon a career of lavish expenditure within their own circle calculated to attract and impress those who had formerly shown respect for them and their money. It was successful in a measure. They could be snobbish without trying. ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... Nor does the exclusiveness of federal admiralty jurisdiction preclude the States from creating rights enforceable in admiralty courts. In The "Lottawanna,"[382] it was held that federal district courts sitting in admiralty could enforce liens given for security of a contract even when created by State laws. ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
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