23.] I would have my pupil to be such an one, “Quem duplici panno patentia velat, Mirabor, vitae via si conversa decebit, Personamque feret non inconcinnus utramque.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
SYN: Union, connection, conjunction, contortment, companionship, alliance, familiarity, community, membership, society, company, denomination, partnership, fellowship, fraternity, friendship.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Ridenda poemata malo 125 Quam te, conspicuae divina Philippica famae, Volveris a prima quae proxima.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
He did not even introduce me to his wife—this courtesy devolving, per force, upon his sister Marian—a very sweet and intelligent girl, who, in a few hurried words, made us acquainted.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe
Vedendo queſto Lo cap o gñale mando alguni abruſare le ſue caſe per ſpauentarli Quando queſti viſtenno bruzare le ſue caze deuentorono piu fero ci apreſſo de le caſe forenno amazati dui deli nrj et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
The old gentleman, according to the laudable custom of the primitive Christians, devoutly prayed for the happy voyage of his son and his whole company, and then they took shipping at the port of Thalassa.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
cesser , discontinuer, prendre fin. chacun, e , pron.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
Poems And Romances: Cleomedes, Blancandin, Gerart de Nevers, le Comte de Poitiers, Flore et Blanche-fleur, Gautier d'Aupais, Gui de Warwick, Meraugia, la Manckine, Robert le Diable.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various
5 Meaning Cromwell , who, it seems, had a design of setting up “a council for the Protestant religion, in opposition to the congregation de propagandâ fide at Rome .” See the Bishop’s own account in his Hist.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd
All that Vernon knew of the struggles of the lower middle classes was derived from that great panorama of life which Charles Dickens painted for us.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
He continued: "Dismal pleasures for me.
— from A Virgin Heart: A Novel by Remy de Gourmont
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