1 'I don't quite understand that definition,' answered Arkady.
2 In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: VIII 3 And having entered on the path of definition, of which he was fond, Napoleon suddenly and unexpectedly gave a new one.
4 In the first case, if inevitability were possible without freedom we should have reached a definition of inevitability by the laws of inevitability itself, that is, a mere form without content.
5 Just so the force of man's free will is distinguished by reason from the other forces of nature only by the definition reason gives it.
6 It's merely a matter of definition.
7 However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded meditation.
8 But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first.
9 Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon.
10 Amy's definition of Jo's idea of independence was such a good hit that both burst out laughing, and the discussion took a more amiable turn.
11 Administering the definition like Tar-water.
12 Give me your definition of a horse.
13 It was the most premature definition ever given.
14 The law of all is liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Robespierre's admirable definition.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 15 "He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman," Gerald had definitely arrived.