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There is always plenty of room for severe animadversion, and the harpies of the Courts are always upon the look-out, to pounce upon and make victims of those who venture to animadvert on them.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Hunt, Henry

I presumed to animadvert on his eulogy on Garrick, in his Lives of the Poets.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor

I should not animadvert on him… if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

I might pause here a moment to animadvert on the unreasonableness of the vulgar prejudice which almost everywhere prevails against calomel.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

I shall have occasion further to animadvert on it.

From Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Wollstonecraft, Mary