SYN: Knowledge, erudition, literature, lore, letters, acquirements, attainments, scholarship, education, tuition, culture.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
I'll read them: When your kind eyes looked languishing on mine, And wreathing arms did soft embraces join, A doubtful trembling seized me first all o'er, Then wishes, and a warmth unknown before; What followed was all extasy and trance, Immortal pleasures round my swimming eyes did dance, And speechless joys, in whose sweet tumults tost, I thought my breath and my new being lost.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir
"We, and the others who have been to the Institute, don't think we know every little League thing," said he, "and we don't think we are the whole League either.
— from John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Dan B. (Dan Brearley) Brummitt
Revue égyptologique, tome x. Paris, 1902. Contains translation and text of Ph. Virey, P. Études sur le papyrus Prisse, le livre de Kagimna et les leçons de Ptah-hotep .
— from The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World by Ptahhotep
And I know 'em, Lord love you! —like a feyther!
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
It was a pretty, soft, kindly English landscape, like a good and gentle life, very reposeful and pleasant to {25} see, but not dramatic or exciting.
— from Two Strangers by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
See Theocritus, Idyl 7 ; Virgil, Bucolics 9 ; Milton's Elegy on Edward King , etc. Lycius (lish´ĭ-us), Apollo, C. 30 Lycomedes (lik-o-me´dēs̟), 260 ,
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch
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