Hampstead; an innocent, though pragmatical rustic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Perhaps Pelosi will also be pragmatical in that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Democrats’ advantage in the House of Delegates, 1990-2007.] Reference

What a plague of a pragmatical sea-lawyer have we here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

But how was the proud pragmatical old father reconciled to the match?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

There can be at most pragmatical reasons for preferring one system over another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Thus pragmatical belief has degrees, varying in proportion to the interests at stake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The LHC Will Discover the Higgs. Wanna Bet? | Universe Today] Reference

But the pragmatical daughter, by the fatal meeting, precipitated all, and frustrated her indulgent designs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Company laugh: But if any of the Freshmen came off dull or not cleverly, some of the forward or pragmatical Seniors would.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850] Reference

Nigel; “am I to be insulted and dishonoured by your pragmatical insolence, in blending your base concerns with mine?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

We need do no more than mention the world-famous stories of the unfortunate Hunchback and the pragmatical but charitable Barber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

But man is a pragmatical, foolish creature; and the more we look into him, the more we must despise him — Lords of the creation! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

This hath given the former such an air of superiority, and made the latter so pragmatical, that neither of them are well to be endured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints towards an essay on conversation] Reference

Is it a necessary consequence, Sir, said Miss Cle-ments, that knowledge, which makes a man shine, should make a woman vain and pragmatical?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

But the personage that most struck my attention was a pragmatical old gentleman, in clerical robes, with a remarkably large and square, but bald head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

I have since been told, that this pragmatical man has very few admirers in the uni-versity to which, out of it, he is so fond of boast — ing a relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

And his voice — that matter-of-fact and slightly nasal voice, with its thin, pragmatical tone — was like a wraith of optimism, issuing between pale lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference

In a less pragmatical scenery, this would be the case if one is interested, for instance, in adding a modal dimension to an intuitionistic or a paraconsistent logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combining Logics] Reference

I think I need not say much to convince all the world, that this Mr. Powell (for that is his name) is a pragmatical and vain person to pretend to argue with me on any subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study in Scarlet] Reference

A very circumspect and pragmatical old lord, believe me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panchronicon] Reference

Do you side with Wolfe and Heyne and that pragmatical fellow Vico?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

Scripture, nor by pragmatical dissertations from the lips of foreign ambassadors.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Moreover the traditions of pragmatical historiography had by no means disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

He simply regards it as a desire to meddle, a priggish and pragmatical act, and even as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where No Fear Was] Reference

A pragmatical seventeenth-century lawyer, I should judge, by that hard, angular writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Magic Door] Reference

The historians of the Renaissance period simply reverted to the ancient pragmatical view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

"It's preaching rather -- pragmatical prosing, the death of useful Parliamentary discussion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893] Reference

I do not mean a petted, wrong-headed, pragmatical determination to let him see that you can think for yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

The problem with Arsene, is he's a bit of an idealist, id like from time to time to see some pragmatical football.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Both of these things tend to become, under the pressure of the play of circumstance, pragmatical, time-serving, and opportunist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complex Vision] Reference

Preferring to consider Vernon a pragmatical moralist played upon by a sententious drone, he thought it politic to detach them, and vanquish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

The man who had recalled the Dieppe boat accident could be heard, self-assertive, pragmatical, his voice raised above the voices around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in love and in terror] Reference

And his voice -- that matter-of-fact and slightly nasal voice, with its thin, pragmatical tone -- was like a wraith of optimism, issuing between pale lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference

He had felt no love for her whatever, and practically none for her two children -- they were in his view colourless, pragmatical, very unexpected characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Tales] Reference

Here a good organ; but a vain, pragmatical fellow preached a ridiculous, affected sermon, that made me angry, and some gentlemen that sat next me, and sang well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference