"Ill-sorted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself doubtless got the suggestion of determining the question "by lot" from it. What more natural than that it should be used again when the subject of appealing to chance came up in conversation? It "was an excellent good word before it was ill-sorted," and we were fortunate in having a minister who was scholar enough to know what it meant. The language used by Mr. Motley conveyed the idea of his instructions plainly enough, and threw in a compliment to their author which should ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
