"Epitomize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... examine at a better perspective one of the leaning walls. Down the steps of the building came a young man who seemed to epitomize its degradation, squalor and infelicity—a narrow-chested, pale, unsavory young man, puffing at ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... the opportunity when I had it," replied Hugh. "I want to ask your help. May I begin at the beginning, and tell you all the story? or must I epitomize and curtail it?" ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... and nodded. The mountaineer is not given to demonstration. He rarely shakes hands, and he does not indulge in superlatives of affection. He loved and admired this man from the outside world, who seemed to him to epitomize wisdom, but his code did not permit ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck |
