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"Indirection" Quotes from Famous Books

... mommer that she never see a gempman go so shabby. She longed to admonish Mr. V.V. on some of these matters, but on the whole hardly saw her way clear. However, it is possible to do a thing or two by indirection in this world, as one half the race has had gone reason to learn. And one sultry night in mid-July, the little buncher seemed able to talk of nothing but the astonishing suit Jem Noonan had just obtained at the One-Price Outfitting Company for the somewhat laughable sum of $7.90. A three-piece ...

— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... can go no higher than his character permits it to go. He was to learn that only out of a man's will to conquer himself can come the finest accomplishment of his work. And he was to learn that for most of us fate works with curious indirection. So that the story of Roger's dream deals not with a struggle between capital and labor, but with a man's struggle with solitudes; it deals not so much with machinery as with nature; and not so much with scientific ...

— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... or occupation, or indirection, we managed to extract considerable satisfaction from the view of the lower St. ...

— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Indirection" : dissimulation, process, dissembling, procedure, deception, deceit