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‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Just what is supposed to be wrong with the pursuit of fame is not always made clear. Plato disapproved of competition for praise on the grounds that it would tempt the great to bend to the will of the crowd. It is hard to argue with that, and social degradation remains a fear.
(transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.
(transitive,obsolete) To put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.
1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 30:
A Water-monster, called the Nickard, does enter by night the chamber, where a woman is brought to bed, and stealeth when they are all sleeping, the new-born child and supposeth another in its place, which child growing up is like a monster and commonly dumb.
1726 , John Selden, Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti Opera omnia, tam edita quam inedita, page 1009:
... that they when the queen is in child-birth, be present and warily observe lest the la-dies should privily counterfeit the inheritable sex, by supposing some other male, when the true birth is female,
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