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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

It is not with any secret Pleasure, that I so frequently animadvert on Mr. Pope as a Critick; but there are Provocations, which a Man can never quite forget.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.

The censors are privileged to animadvert on the conduct even of the emperor himself; to censure the manner in which all other officials perform or neglect their duties and to denounce them to the throne.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

I was at liberty to animadvert on the visible part of their intercourse.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

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