Citations:anonymous

English citations of anonymous

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• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  For like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the world; every baby an exotic.

• 1955, Bill Wilson, “Appendix”, in The Big Book‎^[1], →ISBN:

  And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.

• 2003, R. Howard Bloch, The Anonymous Marie de France, University of Chicago Press (→ISBN), page 1:

  ... heard in the oral culture of twelfth-century France and what she might have read in the increasingly learned culture of the same era, whether she knew, or even wrote, the anonymous Breton lais akin to those more certainly attributed to her, ...