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"Tiro" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... points essentially, and always so as to demand separate rules—or rather (since I am shy of the word 'rules') a different concept of what the writer should aim at and what avoid. But you must, pray, understand that what follows will be more useful to the tiro in prose than to the tiro in verse; for while even a lecturer may help you to avoid writing prose in the manner of Milton, only the gods—and they hardly—can cure a versifier of ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... the disturbance among your slaves, and of the severity with which you have thought it necessary to proceed against them. You will bear me witness that I have often warned you that the cruelty with which Tiro exercised his authority would lead to difficulties, if not to violence and murder. I am not surprised to learn his fate: I am indeed very free to say that I rejoice at it. I rejoice not that you are troubled in your affairs, but that such an inhuman overseer as Tiro, a man wholly unworthy ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware |
Words linked to "Tiro" : entrant, lubber, freshman, cub, fledgling, greenhorn, learner, newbie, neophyte, trainee, tenderfoot, landlubber, abecedarian, starter, prentice, newcomer, apprentice, unskilled person, rookie, fledgeling, landsman, novice |
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