Careful Words

observation (n.)

observation (adv.)

  The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Dombey and Son. Chap. xxiii.

By my penny of observation.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

For he is but a bastard to the time

That doth not smack of observation.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act i. Sc. 1.

If ladies be but young and fair,

They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit

After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd

With observation, the which he vents

In mangled forms.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Let observation with extensive view

Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1.