"Pronouncement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not forgotten. "You read it to me, Charley," she murmured. "It was a striking pronouncement. How deeply your father must ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... phenomenon. No, the fear that differs so essentially from the one called forth by an imminent natural danger, is aroused within us by the obscure idea of justice which heredity assumes in the drama; by the daring pronouncement that the sins of the fathers are almost invariably visited on the children; by the suggestion that a sovereign Judge, a goddess of the species, is for ever watching our actions, inscribing them on her tablets of bronze, and balancing in her eternal hands rewards ...
— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck
... the patriarch remained silent, idly opening and closing the blades of his knife. The Hillmen ranged along the wall, who had listened attentively to Terry's arguments for opening up their country to the outlanders, waited their chief's pronouncement with set faces and gleaming eyes, their brown bodies still ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... in which he commented on that enthusiast to his followers, and we may believe his assurance that his writings brought general dislike and danger upon him. His moralizing (of which we are happy to say there is a great deal) is based on Tiresias's pronouncement. Moralizing has a bad name; but than good moralizing there is, when one has reached a certain age perhaps, no better reading. Some of us like it even in our novels, feel more at home with Fielding and Thackeray for it, and regretfully ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... a stability, a ballast, in Phillotson's pronouncement which restrained his friend's comment. "Shall I—leave ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
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