"Adjuvant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... form, according to the state of his mind at the moment. He delighted in a work of art, both for what it was in itself and for what it could lend him; he would fain go along with it, thanks to it, as though sustained by an adjuvant, as though borne in a vehicle, into a sphere where his sublimated sensations would wake in him an unaccustomed stir, the cause of which he would long and vainly seek to determine.' So he comes to care supremely for Baudelaire, 'who, more than any ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... of Quintilian, "Manus non modo loquentem adjuvant, sed ipsae pene loqui videntur," while Cresollius calls the hand "the minister of reason and wisdom ... without it there ...
— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery
... then continued, in an attempt at a bantering manner, "that you refer to your luxuries as preliminary to—ah— matrimony, which is said to be the only gainful occupation that my sex leaves almost exclusively to yours, and in which fine clothing is undoubtedly an adjuvant. But observation leads me to think that it is a business less profitable ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark |
