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Each verse is linked like
Stopford Brooke says of this poem: "Each verse is linked like bell to bell in a chime to the verse before it, swelling as they go from thought to thought, and finally rising from the landscape of earth to the landscape of infinite space.
— from Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

English Version it loses little
This preface is a perfect gem of Greek art; even in the English Version it loses little, if anything, of its literary charm.
— from The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman

Ecclesiasten vocant in Latinam linguam
Latini Ecclesiasten vocant, in Latinam linguam ab Antonio Corrano ...
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

elsewhere v inf looks like
However, the bitter remark quoted elsewhere ( v. inf. ) looks like a lasting wound.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

English version in large letters
'I have printed the English version in large letters,' he said, 'so that any would-be despoiler must see it and read it at once by the dimmest lantern light.'
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton


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