"Solely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not taken into account; but after that, every merit and every fault is watched with jealous care, and, when the day of judgment comes, the order of the arrangement of the chronometers in the list is determined solely by consideration of their irregularities of rate as expressed in the columns, "Difference between greatest and least," and, "Greatest difference between one week ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... employ 'physician' in an exact sense, and then again 'shepherd' or 'ruler' in an inexact,—if the words are strictly taken, the ruler and the shepherd look only to the good of their people or flocks and not to their own: whereas you insist that rulers are solely actuated by love of office. 'No doubt about it,' replies Thrasymachus. Then why are they paid? Is not the reason, that their interest is not comprehended in their art, and is therefore the concern of another ...
— The Republic • Plato
... to say that the Liebesfruehling exceeds in fame any one of Rueckert's Oriental collections, including the Weisheit des Brahmanen. The exception to the rule is Bodenstedt. His reputation rests almost solely on the Mirza Schaffy songs; but it will scarcely be pretended that ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... you met?" Loo said mildly. "Or are your opinions formed solely by what you have read in ...
— Combat • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... Whenever the eyes of the wearied travelers rose from the decayed leaves over which they trod, his dark form was to be seen glancing among the stems of the trees in front, his head immovably fastened in a forward position, with the light plume on his crest fluttering in a current of air, made solely by the ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper
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