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Issue or topic condensed into a few words so as to give a brief description of the general, and most important, points of the issue in question.
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The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led beneath a low archway, and up a dirty court, into this dispensary of summary justice, by the back way.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
This summary shows the general principle of arrangement of the "Catalogues": each line seems to have been dealt with in turn, and the monotony was relieved as far as possible by a brief relation of famous adventures connected with any of the personages -- as in the case of Atalanta and Hippomenes (frag.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
The reader may please to observe, that the following extract of many conversations I had with my master, contains a summary of the most material points which were discoursed at several times for above two years; his honour often desiring fuller satisfaction, as I farther improved in the HOUYHNHNM tongue.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
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