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"I have the strongest praise for the book as a whole-the biological foundation, directness, freedom from cant and prudery and the practical way in which the author gets to the level of his readers.
The cant phrase is only too well known-"Lots more where that came from".
You’ve got all our late respected father’s cant and none of his firmness.
He was no philanthropist; the cant of platforms was intolerable to him; yet he was thinking of a step which meant giving up his own happiness for that of others; with, of course, the constant society of the woman he loved.
Forty pounds was the reward offered for the conviction of certain offenders, and it was obviously to the advantage of the thief-taker not to interfere with a promising young criminal until he should commit a forty pounds crime; premature detection was tantamount to killing the goose that should lay the golden egg, and the common cant phrase of the day, when referring to a juvenile offender, was, "he doesn't weigh forty pounds yet.
Balsquith-I cant shoot them down.
0219m Original 0247m Original 27 0251m Original "Pieces of Eight" 9251m Original WING to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.
“It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off.
" The Prefect was fond of the cant of diplomacy.
Our telescopes and our mathematical investigations assure us on every hand-notwithstanding the cant of the more ignorant of the priesthood-that space, and therefore that bulk, is an important consideration in the eyes of the Almighty.
I gave due inward applause to every object, and then I remembered how old Earnshaw used to come in when all was tidied, and call me a cant lass, and slip a shilling into my hand as a Christmas-box; and from that I went on to think of his fondness for Heathcliff, and his dread lest he should suffer neglect after death had removed him: and that naturally led me to consider the poor lad’s situation now, and from singing I changed my mind to crying.
It’s a sad pity of that likely young lass, and cant Nelly Dean.
He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor.
' It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family.
Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.
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