It will contain, like the Tale, a short but real narrative; it will seek, like the Parable, to convey a hidden meaning, and that not so much by the use of language, as by the skilful
introduction of fictitious characters; and yet unlike to either Tale or Parable, it will ever keep in view, as its high prerogative, and inseparable attribute, the great purpose of instruction, and will necessarily seek to inculcate some moral maxim, social duty, or political truth.
Am I the victim of a delusion--or did our fair friend really ask me to give her an
introduction to Miserrimus Dexter?"
Jebb, with
Introduction and Supplementary Notes by J.
Tear up your letter of
introduction, and don't stir a step further in the direction of Whitehall."
Are the sentences mostly long or short; periodic or loose; mostly of one type, such as the declarative, or with frequent
introduction of such other forms as the question and the exclamation?
The
introduction of firearms has rendered them more successful hunters, but at the same time, more formidable foes; some of them, incorrigibly savage and warlike in their nature, have found the expeditions of the fur traders grand objects of profitable adventure.
Strangers, on a first
introduction to her, were accustomed to wonder why she was not a man.
We were provided with letters of
introduction, as a matter of course.
Terry O'Sullivan," was Maggie's formula of
introduction. She led him around the room, presenting him to each new-arriving Clover Leaf.
But I have all this time left the reader without any formal descriptive
introduction to this whimsical young lady angler.
I -- alas, I alone in Flatland -- know now only too well the true solution of this mysterious problem; but my knowledge cannot be made intelligible to a single one of my countrymen; and I am mocked at -- I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the
introduction of Light from the world of three Dimensions -- as if I were the maddest of the mad!
None of that interesting Sensibility or amiable simpathy in her manners and Address to me when we first met which should have distinguished our
introduction to each other.