Citations:low


 * Milton
 * Why but to keep ye low and ignorant?


 * Felton
 * In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull.


 * 1678, John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * What! why, he objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscience was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie up himself from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times.
 * He, moreover, objected the base and low estate and condition of those that were chiefly the pilgrims of the times in which they lived: also their ignorance and want of understanding in all natural science.
 * The shame that attends religion lies also as a block in their way; they are proud and haughty; and religion in their eye is low and contemptible, therefore, when they have lost their sense of hell and wrath to come, they return again to their former course.


 * 1843, Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
 * Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow!"
 * It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.