11) Confucius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...some occupying high positions, although Confucius himself was at most granted an insignificant sinecure, possibly because of his extremely outspoken manner toward...
12) 682. Activity. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...not minding one s own business; tampering with, intrigue. PRESS OF BUSINESS, no sinecure, plenty to do, a great deal doing [colloq.], a lot going on [colloq.], many...
13) 60944. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowance. My accounts, which I can swear to...
14) K'ang Yu-wei. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...established Beijing Univ. as well as western-style provincial schools, abolished many sinecure posts, and revised administrative regulations. Backed by conservative...
15) §7. Influx of foreign words. XV. Changes in the Language since
Shakespeare s Time. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen
Volumes. 1907–21
...otiose, par, pendulum, permeate, preclude, puerile, quadruped, quota, ratio, reluctant, sinecure, spontaneous, tact, tandem, terrific, ulterior, vertigo, veto, viaduct;...
16) Aristocracy. XI. English Traits. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1909-14. Essays and
English Traits. The Harvard Classics
...can read it; and Alfred won it by that title: and I make no doubt that feudal tenure was no sinecure, but baron, knight, and tenant often had their memories refreshed,...
17) §10. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; "Political Justice; Caleb
Williams; St. Leon; Vindication of the Rights of Woman". II. Political
Writers and Speakers. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in
Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...play and divers works in literature, history and economics, he at last obtained a small sinecure, which freed his later years from pecuniary anxiety. He died in 1836....
18) Act III. Shaw, Bernard. 1903. Man and Superman
...ablebodied, ableminded pauper. Were he a gentleman doing his best to get a pension or a sinecure instead of sweeping a crossing, nobody would blame him for deciding...
19) Sequel. Shaw, Bernard. 1916. Pygmalion
...for him. The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort. To his mother it perhaps appeared as a marriage...
20) XIV. Miss Crawley at Home. Thackeray, William Makepeace. 1917. Vanity Fair,
A Novel without a Hero. Vols. V & VI. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...little heed. 55 Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision; and her company was the fat spaniel in the drawing-room,...
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