"Pronominal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... having conjured up a soul-phantom? Call it a phantom if you will, but even as a phantom it has a right to exist. Call it mind, breath, breathing, willing, or (with Schopenhauer) will, there is always a He or It to be reckoned with. Of this He or It, this pronominal soul-phantom, ...
— The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour • Friedrich Max Mueller
... a la beaute would convey the idea, better to the modern ear. The construction is the genitive after dispenser. The pronominal ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... must have come into general use at some very early period; but under subsequent Chinese influence these forms of propitiatory speech multiplied exceedingly. From the Mikado himself—who still makes use of personal pronouns, or at least pronominal expressions, forbidden to any other mortal—down through all the grades of society, each class had an "I" peculiarly its own. Of terms corresponding to "you" or "thou" there are still sixteen in use; but formerly there were many ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn |
