"Vocative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... address, frequently used with the imperative, should not be confused with the subject. In, "John, hold my books," the subject is you, understood. Were John the subject, the verb must be holds. John is, here, a compellative, or vocative. ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... there are owing. Dominie is the Latin vocative domine, formerly used by schoolboys in addressing their master, while pandy, a stroke on the hand with a cane, is from pande palmam, hold out your hand. Parse is the Lat. pars, occurring in ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... scarcely knew what to call him, but adopted this vocative for want of any better. "I have never heard of any such plan, and no one would think of packing up, until ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... printed in Ramusio Pacauca, but no doubt Pacauta is the true reading. Dr. Caldwell has favoured me with a note on this: "The word ... was probably Bagava or Pagava, the Tamil form of the vocative of Bhagavata, 'Lord,' pronounced in the Tamil manner. This word is frequently repeated by Hindus of all sects in the utterance of their sacred formulae, especially by Vaishnava devotees, some of whom go about repeating this one word alone. ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
