"Suffix" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... editing of the "Library." We should be inclined to surmise that the works to be reprinted had been commonly suggested by gentlemen with whom they were especial favorites, or who were ambitious that their own names should be signalized on the title-pages with the suffix of EDITOR. The volumes already published are: Increase Mather's "Remarkable Providences"; the poems of Drummond of Hawthornden; the "Visions" of Piers Ploughman; the works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury; the "Hymns and Songs" and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... suffix -ium appended to nouns denoting persons designates either a collection of such persons or their ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... as in French 'tort,' from 'torqueo,' is the twisted. The 'brunt' of the battle is its heat, where it 'burns' the most fiercely; [Footnote: The word brunt is a somewhat difficult form to explain. It is probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish brynde, heat. For the dental suffix -t, see Douse, Gothic, p. 101. The suffix is not participial.] the 'haft' of a knife, that whereby you 'have' ...
— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench
... country-side: something of the old tale whereof you learn so little from the printed page. Each is instinct, perhaps, with a separate suggestion. Some are martial and historic, and by your side the hurrying feet of the dead raise a ghostly dust. The name of yon town — with its Roman or Saxon suffix to British root — hints at much. Many a strong man, wanting his vates sacer, passed silently to Hades for that suffix to obtain. The little rise up yonder on the Downs that breaks their straight green ...
— Pagan Papers • Kenneth Grahame
... words, ending in double e, drop one e on taking an additional syllable? When the suffix begins ...
— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway
... also the phonetic value assigned it holds good. On Tro. 17b the same glyph stands above an individual who is in the act of striking a snake which is biting his foot. In this case it has a suffix like that to LXVI, 3, which, as we have stated, probably represents the sound ah, ha, or hal, and indicates that the word is a verb. There are several words containing the phonetic value assigned the character, which ...
— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas
... inserted into this etext in square brackets ("[]") close to the place where they were indicated by a suffix in the original text. ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy |
