The Idiot vocabulary

I may add that my client's lavish patronage of Art is already one of the main planks in the platform of the parties already referred to. They adduce his extremely generous expenditure in this direction as evidence that he is incapable of a proper handling of his money.

P. G. Wodehouse. Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories

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We could adduce a thousand examples of these Tolstóyan touches of nature. We think perhaps of the hospital scene toward the end of Book 5 in which the wounded men cast “envious, jealous” eyes at the healthy visitors.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster