Citations:chuse

English citations of chuse

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obsolete spelling of choose

• 1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred, page 298:

  Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome.
  By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon

• 1649, An Agreement of the Free People of England, Article VIII:

  the next & all future Representatives, shall continue in full power for the space of one whole year: and that the people shall of course, chuse a Parliament once every year, so as all the members thereof may be in a capacity to meet, and take place of the foregoing Representative

• 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland, p. 148/9:

  I did several times move, (...) That he would chuse one of the very foulest and plainest matters that he had against me...

• 1680, Robert Filmer, Patriarcha, Chapter III:

  so the People of Rome gave to the Ten Men, who were to chuse and correct their Laws for the Twelve Tables, an Absolute Power, without any Appeal to the People.

• 1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Sect. III:

  Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.

• 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, C:XVII:

  But if a little Exerciſe you chuſe,
  Some Zeſt for Eaſe, 'tis not forbidden here.

• 1761, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Volume 4, Chapter 66:

  Now a widow, an' please your honour, always chuses a second husband as unlike the first as she can: so the affair was more than half settled in her mind before Tom mentioned it.

• 1787, The Federal Convention of 1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article 1:

  The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

• 1817, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 3rd edition, Chapter 2:

  "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse," said Mr. Bennet

• 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 45:

  "I wonder how you can bear that odious woman's manners," returned her mother; "I expect that you will all grow like her in time. But it is of no use my saying anything; you will go if you chuse."
  "Oh, thank you, mamma," cried Georgiana, not chusing to hear any more, and down stairs she ran to communicate the permission.