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"Disjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books

... sentence propounded to him was, "Mahomet was driven from Mecca, but he returned in triumph." His rendering of the first words I did not hear, my attention not being arrested until "but," which proved to him a truly disjunctive conjunction. "But!" he ejaculated—"but!" and paused. Then came the "practical" leap into the unknown. "'But' is an adverb, qualifying 'he,' showing what he is doing." Poor fellow, it was no joke to him, nor probably ...

— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... decoyed, or enticed away.' The statute, however, uses the word 'detain;' and this, it appears to me, has much the same force and intention as the previous words. It is to be noted, however, that it is separated from them by the disjunctive 'or;' and, therefore, it might be argued with some plausibility that any act of forceful or fraudulent detention, after notice, by persons who have originally acquired a child's custody in a lawful way, came within the section. The point is new, and ...

— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins

... a disjunctive ... patchwork," replied the Wonder. His abstracted eyes were blind to the objective world of our reality; he seemed to be profoundly analysing the very ...

— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford

Words linked to "Disjunctive" : oppositive, contrastive, conjunctive, adversative, alternative, divisional, partitive, disjunctive conjunction, separative, disjoin