"Criticise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and found a sense of peace and quietness there. She sat by his side, close to a massive pillar, near an open window set deep in the ancient wall. The breath of the warm summer wandered in, and she did not criticise the singing or the sermon. Through it all she could hear the distant bleating of flocks and the hum ...
— A Vanished Hand • Sarah Doudney
... it out and turned it over in her hands with critical intent, but there was nothing to criticise. It was a beautiful doll. She held it with a curious, shy tenderness. But that time she did not sit down with it. It ...
— Rebecca Mary • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... my care, nothing will be easier than to criticise this book, if any one ever chooses ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... that undue preference is given to foreign ways of cooking, the author begs her readers to remember how much of the success of any dish depends upon its taste; if it is well-flavored, and palatably seasoned, the eaters of it do not closely criticise its component parts. It is just there that benefit is derived from European culinary skill; the judicious use of a few inexpensive sweet herbs, and savory sauces, will raise a side dish, made from the cheapest cut of meat, in gustatory excellence far above ...
— The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery • Juliet Corson
... inventor of firearms in the world," is the unanimous verdict of the gun experts of the Colt, Remington and Winchester plants, whose business it is to study and criticise every development in firearms. ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
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