"Breve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... example [Greek: tragos]. The original text used a few other characters not found in the Latin-1 character set. These have been represented using bracket notation, as follows: [)a], [)e], [)s] and [)z] represent letters with a breve (curved line) above; [a] and [u] represent letters with a macron (straight line) above. In a few places, a single superscript is shown by a caret, and two superscript letters by carets, as in ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... percipendu{m} qua{m}diu vij^c xxxv^li xviij^s i^d ob. eidem Michaeli per compotu{m} predictu{m} sic debitu{m}, etc. D{omi}n{u}s Rex mandat vt ei satisfactionem vel assignationem competentem (inlocis vbi ei celeriter satisfieri poterit) fieret et haberet, per breve de magno sigillo inter mandata de termino Pasch anno quadragesimo tercio, etc. So that Richarde, Michaell de la Pooles grandfather, (amagistrate of greate welthe in Hull,) was the fyrste that gaue advancemente to that howse: ...
— Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes - 1865 edition • Francis Thynne
... suggestation," continued Jeff, "dat ter a lady ob yer 'finement, dis place am not fit ter breve in. Wha's mo', I doan 'cline ter hab dese yer common niggahs a-whisperin' an' a- pintin' an' a-'jecturin' about us. Lemme yet yer a seat under de lite ob de risin' moon. De dusk'll obscuate yer loveleness so I'se dar' tell all ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe
... the eminent fancier Mr. Brent believes that it was an inferior Barb: C. cretensis, with a short beak and a swelling on the upper mandible, cannot be recognised: C. (falsely called) gutturosa, which from its rostrum, breve, crassum, et tuberosum seems to me to come nearest to the Barb, Mr. Brent believes to be a Carrier; and lastly, the C. persica et turcica, Mr. Brent thinks, and I quite concur with him, was a short-beaked Carrier with very little ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... schernir la primavera Sulla breve durata e passegiera Dei vaghi fiori suoi. Ma la belle stagione a lui rispose Forse i piacere tuoi Vita piu ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various
... (still, yet) Ayer (yesterday) Anteayer (the day before yesterday) Bastante (sufficiently) Bien (well) *Cerca (near) *Debajo (under) *Por debajo (underneath) Demasiado (too, too much) *Dentro (within) *Despues (after, afterwards) *Detras (behind) Donde[160] (where) En breve (shortly) *Encima (upon, above) *Enfrente (opposite) Entonces (then) *Fuera (outside) Hacia (towards) Hacia adelante (forwards) Hacia abajo (downwards) Hasta (till, until) Hoy (to-day) *Junto (next) *Lejos (far) Luego (presently, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... [] Double dagger symbol ['] Open single quote, used within a word [i] i with macron [o] o with macron [s.] s with dot below [u] u with macron [)u] u with breve [alpha] Greek letter ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas
... ladder dar, en Miss Lou kin sit on de do'step. Den a body kin feel tings ain' comin' ter smash 'fo' dey kin breve." ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe
... semper lilia candent Nec longum tenet uva comas nec populus umbras, Donum forma breve est, nec ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... matters there was a constant strife, in which the Kings, as a rule, took part with the University. The University possessed the legal knowledge, which the monarchs liked to have on their side, and was therefore favoured by them. Thus, in 1231 (Wood, Annals, i. 205), "the King sent out his Breve to the Mayor and Burghers commanding them not to overrate their houses"; and thus gradually the University got the command of the police, obtained privileges which enslaved the city, and became masters ...
— Oxford • Andrew Lang
... are the principal Etymological points? Apostrophe, Caret, Dieresis, Macron, Breve, Tilde, Grave Accent, Acute Accent, ...
— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway
... or accented syllable, and the breve indicates a short or unaccented syllable."—Blair's Gram., p. 118. "Whose duty is to help young ministers."—N. E. Discipline, p. 78. "The passage is closely connected with what precedes and follows."—Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 255 "The work is not completed, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown |
