"Subtract" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "it is a number, for you can add it, and subtract it, and multiply it, and divide it, just as ...
— Rollo in Scotland • Jacob Abbott
... the brave speech of a brave gentleman, my friends," she began, "and I would not if I could subtract one lovely word from that lovely tribute to the men and women and order to which he belongs. What he has said is the truth, raised to the eloquence of a martial soul. Until the present time we women, as he told you, have figured ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... the poor our superfluities, and very often more than that, to borrow rather than suffer the unfortunate to wait for assistance; to subtract from our pleasures, and even to bear privations, the better to help all the afflicted, without distinction of opinion, age, or sex; to measure the kindness done rather by their wants, than our own resources, and ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli
... nothing is gained by crowding two days' work into one for the poor sake of being able to boast of the exploit afterward. It will be found much better, in the long run, to do the thing in two days, and then subtract one of them from the narrative. This saves fatigue, and does not injure the narrative. All the more thoughtful among the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... sure she's forty-nine," said Anderson. "Subtract twenty-three from forty-nine and you have twenty-six, with nothin' to carry. Besides, old Charlie's middle ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
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