...So abundant was thegrowth of grain on this rich soil that Herodotus did not dare state theamount for fear that he would be thought guilty of exaggeration...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Timid people were speaking of Zeppelins, attributing to them irresistible powers, with all the exaggeration that accompanies mysterious dangers...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...He told his story well, without exaggeration, yet with a force of simple appeal that was irresistible...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... She mimicked Armand’s diction so quaintly, imitating his stride, his awkward gesture, and his faulty phraseology with such funny exaggeration that Heron laughed in spite of himself...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...254) says by force of arms, but that is probably an exaggeration...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...So that even what has been considered as fabulous has arisen from exaggeration or mistake...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...French drew out her chair with that slight exaggeration of courtesy that lent a charm to all he did...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...It is no exaggeration to say that since the tremendous enlargement of the American colony, the whole pace of London drawing-room talk has enormously improved...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...They found out all about it, and in telling it to theirneighbors added their own versions of the story, with the usual exaggeration...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...It is no exaggeration to say that Comstockery is the arch enemy ofsociety...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906」
...But from time immemorial it has been surrounded by a haloof romance and exaggeration...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...It is no exaggeration to assertthat some pairs of doves rear up seven or eight broods in thecourse of the year...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Its general appearance is the same: there is the same exaggeration of the belly; the same hook-like curve; the same incapacity for standing on its legs...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...Many stories of the excellent but eccentric Rowland Hill are told, butoften with considerable exaggeration...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...This is no exaggeration...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The greater portion of the city was absolutelyoverthrown; and it is said, probably with exaggeration, that onlyfive houses wholly escaped disaster from the shock...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
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