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I disdained to animadvert on these defects, naturally supposing that his house could furnish no better.

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

But what occasion is there to animadvert on the opinions of individuals, when we may observe whole nations to fall into all sorts of errors?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

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

I should not animadvert on him… if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

It is with concern that I find myself obliged to animadvert on the inaccuracies of Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, and perhaps I may be thought to have dwelt too long upon her little collection.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James