He could never have penned one of those laborious paragraphs of Suetonius which seem transcribed from a carefully kept note-book, with a lifeless catalogue of the vices, the virtues, and the eccentricities of the subject.
A few paragraphs further on the sailor became convinced that the maître had fallen in love with his client.
He opened a book, but it was impossible to read two paragraphs consecutively.
The two paragraphs would not have been omitted in a copy intended for Hill, because it was Hill's troops that at the time were stationed nearest to Frederick City, and were prohibited from entering it.
We hope, accordingly, in the following paragraphs to clear up completely to all intelligent readers the whole doctrine of Money.
There is little composition or connection in their work, no molding of paragraphs or rounding of phrases, no oratorical development, no gradation of tone.
Still the writer's energy is felt in massive paragraphs of powerful declamation.
The object of the foregoing paragraphs has been to show that the popular intellect was well prepared for religious poetry, and had appropriated the forms of Allegory and Vision.
Naples adds the luxury of southern color, felt in Sannazzaro's waxen paragraphs and Pontano's voluptuous hendecasyllables.
Illustrations are moved from inside paragraphsto between paragraphs.
FN] We could wish that your letters might contain paragraphs for the public.
The address contained two or three additional paragraphs in reference to other subjects.
The public mind was judiciously educated up to the receptive point by a series of graduated rumours and paragraphs of ascending interest.
I believe it is a sound rule to destroy all preliminary paragraphs of this kind.
I say this, though there is an occasional book-reviewer whose preliminary paragraphs I would not miss for worlds.
This and the following paragraphs are taken from Saint Augustine's commentary on Ps.
In the morning, from five to eight, he was busy, in the quiet of his room, with those light, nonsensical paragraphs and editorials which made his readers smile in spite of themselves.
This was nothing in itself; but here was a man wrestling with fate in a cellar, who could turn you out two hundred such paragraphs a week, the year round.
The opening paragraphs of the will all tended to confirm their hopes, since the bequests to existing institutions were of small amount.
These last paragraphs may savour a little of the don, and possibly suggest an emanation from the shrunk skull of the pedant.
I take some paragraphs here and there to make a connected picture.
His technical adroitness may be studied best by reading rapidly the final paragraphs of any hundred of his stories.
Let us consider, for example, the followingparagraphs from "Markheim.
The paragraphs thus presented, and which constitute Chu Hsi's first chapter, contain the sum of the whole Work.
Two short paragraphs are all that are given to the illustration of the point, and they are vague generalities on the subject of men's being led astray by their feelings and affections.
I have thus in the preceding paragraphs given a general and somewhat copious review of this Work.
Pauthier calls the paragraphs where they occur instances of the sorites, or abridged syllogism.
I flatter myself that the preceding paragraphs contain a more correct narrative of the principal incidents in the life of Confucius than has yet been given in any European language.
Seven paragraphs suffice to illustrate these statements, and short as they are, the writer goes back to the topic of self-cultivation, returning from the family to the individual.
Room aplenty in this could have been made for the dozen valuable paragraphs contained in the second.
This probably was the original reason for adopting the inverted black P [P] which is retained in our translation of the Bible to markparagraphs or transitions.
He knows that everlasting concern with perfection in trifles is a belittler of souls; that correcting sentences and paragraphs and Latin and German exercises and algebraic problems and geometrical proofs is poor food for a human mind.
Yet Dick managed to make a few live paragraphs out of it that Guilford, "The Blade's" news editor, accepted.
Returning to the desk where he had been sitting, Dick ran off a few paragraphs on the outlook of the coming High School baseball season.
Can't you give us a fewparagraphs of real High School news?
Whenever it is possible, construct solid paragraphs of quotation, and solid paragraphs of summary.
In form, it is very much like the summary paragraphsin the body of a speech report.
This idea of throwing the emphasis and interest to the beginning applies to the individual paragraphs and sentences of the story, as well.
Whereas, if the gist of the story comes first the editor may run any number of paragraphs or even the first paragraph alone and still have a complete story.
Hence the paragraphs must be short; the very narrowness of the newspaper column causes them to be shortened.
Count the number of words in the sentences and paragraphs of representative newspaper stories.
These quotations are usually interspersed with paragraphs which summarize the unimportant intervening testimony.
The average lead, you will find, contains less than fifty words and the paragraphs following it are not much longer.
Determine how many paragraphs it can lose without sacrificing its interest.
Quoting:= Quote all extracts and quotations set in the same type and style as the context, but do not quote extracts set in smaller type than the context or set solid in separate paragraphs in leaded matter.
Each story begins again after the lead, and in one or more paragraphs explains, describes, or narrates the incident in detail and in logical order.
It results from exactly the same thing that makes the newspaperparagraphs short--the need of many breaks.
If your readers are interested enough to read beyond the first three paragraphs they want details and will not be so particular about the order--for they already know how the story is going to end.
Our story by paragraphs would read as follows: 1st Paragraph--The lead.
There were feverish paradings of Fleet Street, when I turned out vivid paragraphs for the London Letter of a Northern daily, receiving half a crown apiece.
As we have already remarked in the paragraphs dealing with the legend of Oannes or Ea, several of the myths he quotes as coming from the Phoenician sage are manifestly of Babylonian origin.
In 1838 he forwarded his translation of the first two paragraphs of the Persian text, containing the genealogy of Darius, to the Royal Asiatic Society of London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paragraphs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
