"In and in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... try, while diverting the Brothers from pride, to turn them toward the true path self-knowledge and self-perfecting. Besides this he advised me for myself personally above all to keep a watch over myself, and to that end he gave me a notebook, the one I am now writing in and in which I will in future note down all ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... no one has dealt with such pitiful subjects as his later volumes involve, at once with such total absence of "gush" and with such noble and pathetic appreciation. For Scott's misfortunes were by no means the only matters which touched him nearly, in and in connection with the chronicle. The constant illness and sufferings of his own child form part of it; his wife died during its composition and publication, and all these things are mentioned with as little parade of stoicism as of sentiment. I do not think that, as an example of absolute ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
... definition of an educated man: "One who is not satisfied to survey the universe from his parish belfry." Everywhere else, the intellectual class have some sense of the ill-consequences of "breeding in and in," and take care to infuse into their minds the vigor of new ideas and the nourishment of strange knowledge. How impossible for a Northern State to think of doing what Alabama did last winter, pass a law ...
— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton
... sterility question, I do not think there is much doubt as to the effect of breeding in and in in destroying fertility. But the sterility which must be obtained by the selective breeder in order to convert his morphological species into physiological species—such as we have in nature—must be quite irrespective of breeding in ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... use sometimes, when the weather is very hot and I am grafting in the midst of sunshine on a hot day, a solution that I have described containing salts belonging to the salts of trees. I use that to dip my graft in and in that way the enzymes that are freed from the cut surface are removed by the solution in such a way that they do not interfere. Practically we can get almost one hundred per cent. of catches of our grafts now by the paraffin method, that is, with perfect scions, perfect stocks and ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting - Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 • Various
... kept rushing the matador, who always slipped smartly and gracefully aside in time, waiting for a sure chance; and at last it came; the bull made a deadly plunge for him—was avoided neatly, and as he sped by, the long sword glided silently into him, between left shoulder and spine—in and in, to the hilt. ...
— A Horse's Tale • Mark Twain |
