![]() Something in his tone surprised the doctor, but before he could ask for elucidation Poirot had made another dive onto the floor.† (source) Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, 1927 …when she visited this widow, or that struggling wife in person with a bag on her arm, and a note-book and pencil with which she wrote down in columns carefully ruled for the purpose wages and spendings, employment and unemployment, in the hope that thus she would cease to be a private woman whose charity was half a sop to her own indignation, half a relief to her own curiosity, and become what with her untrained mind she greatly admired, an investigator, elucidating the social problem.† (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949 My hope is that a comparative elucidation may contribute to the perhaps not-quite-desperate cause of those forces that are working in the present world for unification, not in the name of some ecclesiastical or political empire, but in the sense of human mutual understanding.† Some I have already elucidated-such as a grease spot on a passport, and so on.† (source) Agatha Christie, Murder On The Orient Express, 1934 The elucidation of crime is your m etier, not mine, my friend.† ![]() One grows accustomed to sorrows, she elucidated.† (source) Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders, 1936 We all crowded round Poirot asking questions, elucidating this point and that.† (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998 The assignment is to elucidate and analyze your "family educational tree."† Happy to have beaten the moon to the top of the hill, and to have a lovely lair from which to capture it as it rose, Alessandro might have ignored Nicolo's inability to see the stars near the horizon, but half a century of explanation and elucidation would not let him.† Max Byrd, USIA Kenneth Vorhees, White House Press Corps and Professor Jonathan Percy of the University of Chicago (Genetics Department).† Francis Martin, University of California (Berkeley) and the President's Science Advisory Council Dr. Mason, NASA Intelligence (Arlington Hall) Dr. (source) Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King, 2112įor their help in elucidating the background of the Wildfire Project, I must thank Roger White, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Houston MSC) John Roble, NASA Kennedy Complex 13 Peter J. He knew you couldn't just call a taxi in Jeddah or Riyadh - or so said the guidebooks, all of which were overwrought when it came to elucidating the dangers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to foreign travelers.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005 He elucidated the meaning of the incense-how it symbolized life and happiness-and spent long minutes recounting legends about Guntera, how the god was born fully formed to a she-wolf at the dawn of stars, how he had battled monsters and giants to win a place for his kin in Alagaesia, and how he had taken Kilf, the goddess of rivers and the sea, as his mate.† He could not elucidate it any further for her, and they drove on to the big hardware store.† (source) Gish Jen, Typical American, 1991 Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.† (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991 ![]() He would listen eagerly not because he had any hint of what the old man would elucidate, but, to the contrary, because he hadn't the vaguest idea of what had made the man who limped steadily alongside him on the road to Sant' Angelo and Monte Prato.† ![]() (source) Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, 1969 Yet he persisted, patiently elucidating the coats of the cell wall that caused a reaction in host tissue and helping to discover the half-dozen toxins secreted by the bacteria to break down tissue, spread infection, and destroy red cells.† (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994 The style of teaching was Socratic in nature ideas and theories were elucidated through the leaders asking and answering questions.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Brisingr, 2008 Unfortunately, I cannot elucidate either of his statements.† (source) Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1997 Yes, she does elucidate for us the very secret world in which she lived-the rabbit's view of the field, if you will.† Natalia followed up a moment later with a long message, full of links to articles and images of the Miami area, elucidating the many activities possible in winter-sport fishing, jet-skiing, dancing.† (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009 ![]()
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