"Breve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus Omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis, Hoc ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... e-text is taken had vowels with breves or macrons over them, diacritical marks that cannot be reproduced in this e-text. The first time such a word appears within a story the marks are represented using [x] for a vowel with a macron and [)x] for a vowel with a breve (example: M[a]-m[)i]n'). Subsequent appearances of the word do not have the vowels ...
— Blackfeet Indian Stories • George Bird Grinnell
... the stress markers and ' are intended to display above the macron () or breve (u or [)]). In this simplified Latin-1 text, they are shown before (to the left of) ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith
... caron ^{u} superscript u (circumflex accent is not used in this text) Vowels with diacritics are "unpacked" and shown from top to bottom. Some examples: ['ae] ae with acute accent [-e] e with macron (long e) [)e] e with breve (short e) [e,] e with ogonek (hook open ...
— Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch • George Tobias Flom
... common song of praise! Some will sing a little loud, perhaps,—and now and then an impatient chorister will get a syllable or two in advance, or an enchanted singer so lose all thought of time and place in the luxury of a closing cadence that he holds on to the last semi-breve upon his private responsibility; but how much more of the spirit of the old Psalmist in the music of these imperfectly trained voices than in the academic niceties of the paid performers who take our musical ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... urna encierra This fatal urn encloses a fallida vna Magestad: ayer dead majesty, but yestreen temida Deidad, oy breve a reverenced deity, now a mere monton de tierra. heap of earth. Little gains he, and much he errs, who, Poco alcanca, y mucho hierra cautious, does not note the quien prevenido, no advierte mutability of his lot; for lo inconstante de su suerte; Fate does not exempt the pues no reserva ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
... I was alone in my chamber sewing, having sent Maria forth to buy certain gear I lacked. And being so alone, I began to sing lowly that hymn of Saint Bernard—'Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur,' [Note 1] when of a sudden I was aroused from my singing by a sound like a groaning, and that very near. I hearkened, and heard it again. One was surely moaning in ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... transliterated and shown between marks. Vowels with macron ("long" mark) have a circumflex accent instead. Vowels with breve ("short" mark, not common) have been unpacked and shown in brackets, as is ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... words crossed out. ^ Insert at the place indicated. [. in circle] Insert a period. /, Insert a comma. "/ Insert quotation-marks. / Insert a hyphen. X Imperfect letter. 9 Letter inverted; turn over. Make a new paragraph. No No paragraph. Put a space between. [Breve] Smaller space. [Horizontal parentheses] Close up; no space needed. / / Badly spaced; space more evenly. [Breve] Quad shows between the words; shove down. wf Wrong font. tr Transpose. | Carry to the left. || Lower. | | Elevate. ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... breve y cuan caduca resplandece Nuestra gloria! Cuan subito, en el punto Que deleita ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio
... in assai buona e bella Stanza, nel bosco infra duo monti piatta, Con la moglie e co i figli; et avea quella Tutta di nuovo e poco inanzi fatta. Quivi a Medoro fu per la donzella La piaga in breve a sanita ritratta; Ma in minor tempo si senti maggiore Piaga di questa avere ella ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... Germanicus is represented consulting whether he will take a short and well known road, or one untried and difficult, though the reason is, that by going the longer, he would go the unguarded way, and really do things quicker: "consultatque, ex duobus itineribus breve et solitum sequatur, an impeditius et intentatum, eoque hostibus incautum. Delecta longiore via, cetera adcelerantur" (I. 50). Were it not for this passage, one would have thought that, in the days of Tiberius, Germany was almost as bare of roads as the present interior ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross |
