ex) Yes, I have read that little bundle of pernicious prose, but I have no comment to make upon it.

ex) Ah, what a delicious day!

ex) You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first. 'Tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size. --Shakespeare

ex) Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. --Richard Cushing

ex) This orchard, this lovely, shady orchard, is the main reason I bought this property.

ex) The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,/ A refuge in times of trouble. --Psalm 9:9 (KJV)

ex) You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables. --Samuel Johnson

ex) Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. --Samuel Johnson

ex) To err is human; to forgive, divine. --Pope

ex) Success makes men proud; failure makes them wise.

ex) In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. --Samuel Johnson

ex) I am not sure whether to side with those who say that higher taxes reduce inflation or with those who say that higher taxes increase inflation.

ex) I am not so sure I can accept Tom's reasons for wanting another new jet.

ex) . . . Whether he took them from his fellows more impudently, gave them to a harlot more lasciviously, removed them from the Roman people more wickedly, or altered them more presumptuously, I cannot well declare. --Cicero

ex) O value of wisdom that fadeth not away with time, virtue ever flourishing, that cleanseth its possessor from all venom! O heavenly gift of the divine bounty, descending from the Father of lights, that thou mayest exalt the rational soul to the very heavens! Thou art the celestial nourishment of the intellect . . . . --Richard de Bury

ex) But all such reasons notwithstanding, dear reader, does not the cost in lives persuade you by itself that we must do something immediately about the situation?

ex) Henry Jameson, the boss of the operation, always wore a red baseball cap.

ex) Is your friend George going to run for office?

ex) That evening we were all at the concert, a really elaborate and exciting affair.

ex) Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. --Matthew 5:16 (KJV)

ex) It is in the box. 

consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. 

ex) On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame.

ex) They spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding.

ex) In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. --Richard de Bury

ex) What is learned unwillingly is gladly forgotten.

ex) He labors without complaining and without bragging rests.

ex) The concerto was applauded at the house of Baron von Schnooty, it was praised highly at court, it was voted best concerto of the year by the Academy, it was considered by Mozart the highlight of his career, and it has become known today as the best concerto in the world.

ex) To have faults is not good, but faults are human. Worse is to have them and not see them. Yet beyond that is to have faults, to see them, and to do nothing about them. But even that seems mild compared to him who knows his faults, and who parades them about and encourages them as though they were virtues.

ex) Since your application was submitted before April 10th, it will be considered.

ex) Those kids are from Southern California? Then they must be either crazy or perverted.

ex) Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued. --Wilson

ex) The cars do not sell because the engineering is inferior, the quality of materials is inferior, and the workmanship is inferior.

ex) laughing happiness

ex) lifegiving water 

ex) Is he smart? Why, the man is an Einstein. Has he suffered? This poor Job can tell you himself.

ex) An earthworm is the Hercules of the soil.

ex) But the lake was not, in fact, drained before April.

ex) In short, the cobbler had neglected his soul.

ex)  He, without doubt, can be trusted with a cookie.

ex) There are a thousand reasons why more research is needed on solar energy.

ex) This stuff is used motor oil compared to the coffee you make, my love.

ex) What behavior, then, is uniquely human? My theory is this . . . .

ex) But what are the implications of this theory? And how can it be applied to the present problem?

ex) The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. --Joshua Reynolds

ex) Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness. --Luke 11:34 (RSV)

ex) The orders came directly from the White House.

ex) buzz, clank, clash, screech, whirr

ex) Someone yelled "Look out!" and I heard a loud screech followed by a grinding, wrenching crash.

ex) eloquent silence

ex) Senator Rosebud calls this a useless plan; if so, it is the most helpful useless plan we have ever enacted.

ex) I do here make humbly bold to present them with a short account of themselves and their art.....--Jonathan Swift

ex) Ferocious dragons breathing fire and wicked sorcerers casting their spells do their harm by night in the forest of Darkness.

ex) Quickly and happily he walked around the corner to buy the book.

ex) This wealthy car collector owns three pastel Cadillacs, two gold Rolls Royces, and ten assorted Mercedes.

ex) He left the engine on, idling erratically and heating rapidly.

ex) We walked to the top of the hill, and we sat down.

ex)  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. --Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV)

ex) The Starfish went into dry-dock, it got a barnacle treatment, it went back to work.

ex) But the new calculations--and here we see the value of relying upon up-to-date information--showed that man-powered flight was possible with this design.

ex) But in whatever respect anyone else is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am just as bold myself. --2 Cor. 11:21b (NASB)

ex) The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea.

ex) Wisdom cries aloud in the streets; in the markets she raises her voice . . . .--Psalm 1:20 (RSV; and cf. 1:21-33)

ex) They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.

ex) And to set forth the right standard, and to train according to it, and to help forward all students towards it according to their various capacities, this I conceive to be the business of a University. --John Henry Newman

ex) But how can we expect to enjoy the scenery when the scenery consists entirely of garish billboards?

ex) Is justice then to be considered merely a word? Or is it whatever results from the bartering between attorneys?

ex) I see men, but they look like trees, walking.

ex) James now felt like an old adding machine: he had been punched and poked so much that he had finally worn out.

ex) The argument of this book utilizes pretzel-like logic.

ex) Farmer Jones has two hundred head of cattle and three hired hands.

ex)  If I had some wheels, I'd put on my best threads and ask for Jane's hand in marriage.

ex) Okay team. Get those blades back on the ice.

ex) The 1906 San Francisco earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area.

ex) You know I would be a little disappointed if you were to be hit by a drunk driver at two a.m., so I hope you will be home early.

ex) Such, then, would be my diagnosis of the present condition of art. I must now, by special request, say what I think will happen to art in the future. --Kenneth Clark

ex) Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. --George Orwell

ex) They asked the question because they were curious.

ex) While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. --John 9:5

ex) If a person observing an unusual or unfamiliar object concludes that it is probably a spaceship from another world, he can readily adduce that the object is reacting to his presence or actions when in reality there is absolutely no cause-effect relationship. --Philip Klass

Reference in the audit report to a material limitation placed on the auditor's examination or to uncertainty regarding a specific item in the financial statements.

Reservation in a proposed agreement making the agreement unenforceable unless a specified condition is met.

Also refers to a limitation or restriction that narrows the scope of language (such as that contained in a statute) that would otherwise carry a broader meaning.

ex) This is no small problem

ex)  not uncommon

ex) not seldom