Address

əˈdrɛs

noun

the details of the place where someone lives or an organization is situated

The word 'address' can also refer to a formal speech or written statement, such as a speech delivered by someone or the location of a person or organization. It comes from the Latin word 'ad' meaning 'to' and 'directus' meaning 'straight'.

A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved.” “All this she must possess,” added Darcy, “and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.” “I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Hoenikker—the old man.” “What did he say?” “He didn’t show up.” “So you didn’t get a commencement address?” “Oh, we got one.

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

I’m so damn absent-minded, I gave the driver my regular address, just out of habit and all-I mean I completely forgot I was going to shack up in a hotel for a couple of days and not go home till vacation started.

Salinger, J.D.

The Catcher in the Rye

“You have the honor to address Daenerys of the House Targaryen, Daenerys Stormborn, khaleesi of the riding men and princess of the Seven Kingdoms.” The wine merchant dropped to his knees.

George R. R. Martin

A Game Of Thrones

He also acted badly by concerning himself with the active army and disbanding the Semënov regiment.” It would take a dozen pages to enumerate all the reproaches the historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

The very fact that we've spent so much time eating at our own livers on this subject should give a pretty good indication as to where our hearts are.” Sue: “The road to hell is paved with—” Glen: “Good intentions, yes, and since we all seem so worried about our intentions, we must surely be on the highway to heaven.” Glen then said that he had intended to address the committee on the subject of our scouts or spies or whatever you want to call them, but that he wanted to make a motion instead that we meet to discuss that on the nineteenth.

King, Stephen

The Stand

“The kind and blessed gentleman which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own: are a going to ’prentice you: and to set you up in life, and make a man of you: although the expense to the parish is three pound ten!—three pound ten, Oliver!—seventy shillins—one hundred and forty sixpences!—and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can’t love.” As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child’s face, and he sobbed bitterly.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

They address you as ‘Leto the Just’ and promise eternal friendship, but only as long as it doesn’t cost them anything.” “They don’t know yet who’s going to win this exchange,” the Duke said.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

You left no address.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Her first response is joy, to hear her father address a visitor, but when she sees who the visitor is, and how agitated her father has become, she flings herself at him.

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister

It is not well that her very thoughts go into the hands of strangers.” I went on with my part of the work, and in another half hour had found the name and address of Mrs. Westenra’s solicitor and had written to him.

Bram Stoker

Dracula

II Concerning Hereditary Principalities I will leave out all discussion on republics, inasmuch as in another place I have written of them at length, and will address myself only to principalities.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

The new address was a cellar dive, whose proprietor said that he had never heard of Duane; but after he had put Jurgis through a catechism he showed him a back stairs which led to a “fence” in the rear of a pawnbroker’s shop, and thence to a number of assignation-rooms, in one of which Duane was hiding.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Now, sinking underneath a load of grief, From death alone she seeks her last relief; The time and means resolv’d within her breast, She to her mournful sister thus address’d (Dissembling hope, her cloudy front she clears, And a false vigour in her eyes appears): “Rejoice!” she said.

Virgil

The Aeneid

We'll tie your home address around its leg and have it fly down to San Francisco; it'll meet you there when you get off work."

Dick, Philip K.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The mediocre?—This for the chapter: “Morals as Timidity.” 198 All the systems of morals which address themselves with a view to their “happiness,” as it is called—what else are they but suggestions for behaviour adapted to the degree of danger from themselves in which the individuals live; recipes for their passions, their good and bad propensities, insofar as such have the Will to Power and would like to play the master; small and great expediencies and elaborations, permeated with the musty odour of old family medicines and old-wife wisdom; all of them grotesque and absurd in their form—because they address themselves to “all,” because they generalize where generalization is not authorized; all of them speaking unconditionally, and taking themselves unconditionally; all of them flavoured not merely with one grain of salt, but rather endurable only, and sometimes even seductive, when they are over-spiced and begin to smell dangerously, especially of “the other world.” That is all of little value when estimated intellectually, and is far from being “science,” much less “wisdom”; but, repeated once more, and three times repeated, it is expediency, expediency, expediency, mixed with stupidity, stupidity, stupidity—whether it be the indifference and statuesque coldness towards the heated folly of the emotions, which the Stoics advised and fostered; or the no-more-laughing and no-more-weeping of Spinoza, the destruction of the emotions by their analysis and vivisection, which he recommended so naively; or the lowering of the emotions to an innocent mean at which they may be satisfied, the Aristotelianism of morals; or even morality as the enjoyment of the emotions in a voluntary attenuation and spiritualization by the symbolism of art, perhaps as music, or as love of God, and of mankind for God’s sake—for in religion the passions are once more enfranchised, provided that … ; or, finally, even the complaisant and wanton surrender to the emotions, as has been taught by Hafis and Goethe, the bold letting-go of the reins, the spiritual and corporeal licentia morum in the exceptional cases of wise old codgers and drunkards, with whom it “no longer has much danger.”—This also for the chapter: “Morals as Timidity.” 199 Inasmuch as in all ages, as long as mankind has existed, there have also been human herds (family alliances, communities, tribes, peoples, states, churches), and always a great number who obey in proportion to the small number who command—in view, therefore, of the fact that obedience has been most practiced and fostered among mankind hitherto, one may reasonably suppose that, generally speaking, the need thereof is now innate in everyone, as a kind of formal conscience which gives the command “Thou shalt unconditionally do something, unconditionally refrain from something,” in short, “Thou shalt.” This need tries to satisfy itself and to fill its form with a content, according to its strength, impatience, and eagerness, it at once seizes as an omnivorous appetite with little selection, and accepts whatever is shouted into its ear by all sorts of commanders—parents, teachers, laws, class prejudices, or public opinion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

They have also put a sign reading SUNSET COTTAGE on a post at the head of the driveway, and as far as Uncle Sam’s concerned it’s part of their mailing address, but to the local folk, this house at the south end of Keywadin Pond will always be the old John Cullum place.

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

I signed it and asked him for two telegraph forms, and wrote a message to the Hotel Montoya, telling them to forward all mail and telegrams for me to this address.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

While Williams was in prison the orthodox colporteurs were circulating Erskine’s speech on Christianity, but also an anonymous sermon “On the Existence and Attributes of the Deity,” all of which was from Paine’s Age of Reason, except a brief “Address to the Deity” appended.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

Once all of them had names and spears, Ser Eustace emerged from Standfast to address them.

George R.R. Martin

The Tales of Dunk & Egg

He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

She knows just what folks like, and gets paid well for writing it.” Here the lecture began, but Jo heard very little of it, for while Prof. Sands was prosing away about Belzoni, Cheops, scarabei, and hieroglyphics, she was covertly taking down the address of the paper, and boldly resolving to try for the hundred-dollar prize offered in its columns for a sensational story.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

To that address he now set off at full speed.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot

As you have not lied about your name, you will not lie about your address.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

“Second to the right,” said Peter, “and then straight on till morning.” “What a funny address!” Peter had a sinking.

J. M. Barrie

Peter and Wendy

I have his Skype address here somewhere...” “Really, no.” Hazel looked as if several thousand pounds of worry had just been lifted from her shoulders.

Rick Riordan

The Son of Neptune

Clothing and some incidental expenses within the same dates, though little can be inferred from this item, amounted to $8.40¾ Oil and some household utensils 2.00 So that all the pecuniary outgoes, excepting for washing and mending, which for the most part were done out of the house, and their bills have not yet been received—and these are all and more than all the ways by which money necessarily goes out in this part of the world—were House $28.12½ Farm one year 14.72½ Food eight months 8.74 Clothing, etc., eight months 8.40¾ Oil, etc., eight months 2.00 In all $61.99¾ I address myself now to those of my readers who have a living to get.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

On the back of the postcard, next to the address, was written, in Ivor’s bold, large hand, a single quatrain.

Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow

Gale doesn't get off so easily at his old address.

Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay

Elizabeth saw even this last resource, her excellent dispositions and irreproachable conduct, about to fail the accused, when, although violently agitated, she desired permission to address the court.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

As the Deliverator is pulling out of the chute, building up speed, checking the address that is flashed across his windshield, deciding whether to turn right or left, it happens.

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

As much as his bloody life is worth to go down and address his tall talk to the assembled multitude in Shanagolden where he daren’t show his nose with the Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him for grabbing the holding of an evicted tenant.

James Joyce

Ulysses

At the time of his death, he says, he is in Chicago to address a large crowd on the subject of flying saucers and the true nature of time.

Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse Five

A sweat-stained green card gave him permission to travel and to maintain no fixed address.

Dick, Phillip

The Minority Report

I address a pragmatic relationship between belief and what we identify as “real.” All of our judgments carry a heavy burden of ancestral beliefs to which we of the Bene Gesserit tend to be more susceptible than most.

Frank Herbert

Heretics of Dune

‘It’s addressed plain enough,’ said Mr. Butterbur, producing a letter from his pocket, and reading out the address slowly and proudly (he valued his reputation as a lettered man): Mr. FRODO BAGGINS, BAG END, HOBBITON in the SHIRE.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Now I’ll show you how to find my Mummy’s living-address.

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

I’ll call him … O, Laughing Eyes, emerge forth into the, uh, the ultimates and bring hither the spirit of Dante, that we mortals may list to his words of wisdom.” “You forgot to give um the address: 1658 Brimstone Avenue, Fiery Heights, Hell,” Gunch chuckled, but the others felt that this was irreligious.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

She is fond of me, and then, too, she is proud. … My death will be a grief to her, but grief passes. … When I have finished writing, I shall enclose this whole manuscript in an envelope and address it to Poirot.

Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Always, also, it may be well to bear in mind that by the word ‘creation’ the zoologist means ‘a process he knows not what.’ ” He amplifies this idea by adding that when such cases as that of the Red Grouse are “enumerated by the zoologist as evidence of distinct creation of the bird in and for such islands, he chiefly expresses that he knows not how the Red Grouse came to be there, and there exclusively; signifying also, by this mode of expressing such ignorance, his belief that both the bird and the islands owed their origin to a great first Creative Cause.” If we interpret these sentences given in the same address, one by the other, it appears that this eminent philosopher felt in 1858 his confidence shaken that the Apteryx and the Red Grouse first appeared in their respective homes “he knew not how,” or by some process “he knew not what.” This address was delivered after the papers by Mr. Wallace and myself on the Origin of Species, presently to be referred to, had been read before the Linnean Society.

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

They’re going to riot.” “Don’t exaggerate, Clarence.” She was moving around the room like a green silk whirlwind, positioning her serving staff, with their trays of canapes or drinks, in strategic corners of the hall; checking the public-address system, the podium, the curtain, and the pull-rope.

Gaiman, Neil

Neverwhere

The security guy asked my name and address and phone number, and then he asked me what was the difference between a condom and a cockpit.

Palahniuk, Chuck

Fight Club

While this gay friendly troop the king surround, With festival and mirth the roofs resound; A bard amid the joyous circle sings High airs attemper'd to the vocal strings; Whilst warbling to the varied strain, advance Two sprightly youths to form the bounding dance, 'Twas then, that issuing through the palace gate, The splendid car roll'd slow in regal state: On the bright eminence young Nestor shone, And fast beside him great Ulysses' son; Grave Eteoneous saw the pomp appear, And speeding, thus address'd the royal ear; "Two youths approach, whose semblant features prove Their blood devolving from the source of Jove Is due reception deign'd, or must they bend Their doubtful course to seek a distant friend?"

Homer

The Odyssey

“Magnificence,” said Reznak, consulting his list, “the noble Grazdan zo Galare would address you.

Martin, George, R. R.

A Dance With Dragons

He gave his name and address as a witness, but declined their offer of a boat to the shore, and remained alone in the island garden, gazing at the broken rose bush and the whole green theatre of that swift and inexplicable tragedy.

G. K. Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to someone before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passersby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

She forbade her wearing cotton caps, taught her to address her in the third person, to bring a glass of water on a plate, to knock before coming into a room, to iron, starch, and to dress her—wanted to make a lady’s-maid of her.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Our puissance is our own; our own right hand Shall teach us highest deeds, by proof to try Who is our equal: then thou shalt behold Whether by supplication we intend Address, and to begirt the Almighty throne Beseeching or besieging.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

And then without waiting for any answer she left the window, though not before she saw me take the letter and the handkerchief, and I had by signs let her know that I would do as she bade me; and so, seeing myself so well paid for the trouble I would have in bringing it to you, and knowing by the address that it was to you it was sent (for, señor, I know you very well), and also unable to resist that beautiful lady’s tears, I resolved to trust no one else, but to come myself and give it to you, and in sixteen hours from the time when it was given me I have made the journey, which, as you know, is eighteen leagues.’ “All the while the good-natured improvised courier was telling me this, I hung upon his words, my legs trembling under me so that I could scarcely stand.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote

Colonel Korn was proceeding up the stairs without slackening his pace, and the chaplain resisted the temptation to remind him again that he was not a Catholic but an Anabaptist, and that it was therefore neither necessary nor correct to address him as Father.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22

These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.” Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations