"Lingua" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... English," he said, in the lingua-franca which was the medium of communication between the Eastern and Western peoples in those days. "You are brave warriors, and I hear that before you were taken you slaughtered numbers of my people. They did wrong to capture you and bring you here to be killed. Your cruel king gives no mercy to ...
— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty
... nescio quo motu superiore impulsus, aut qua captus dulcedine operis, ad eum implendum (Curtius alter) me solemniter devovi. Nec ab isto labore, {daimonios} imposito, abstinui antequam tractatulum sufficienter inconcinnum lingua vernacula perfeceram. Inde, juveniliter tumefactus, et barathro ineptiae {ton bibliopolon} (necnon "Publici Legentis") nusquam explorato, me composuisse quod quasi placentas praefervidas (ut sic dicam) homines ingurgitarent credidi. Sed, ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... from Gray's Elegy will be remarked. Mr. Tyrwhit says he should certainly have considered the latter as an "imitation" (of Chaucer), "if Mr. Gray himself had not referred us to the 169 Sonnet of Petrarch as his original:- Ch' i' veggio nel pensier, dolce mio foco, Fredda una lingua, e duo begli occhi chiusi Rimaner dopo noi pien' di faville. The sentiment is different in all three; but the form of expression here adopted by Gray closely resembles that of the Father of English Poetry, although in Gray's time it was no doubt far more ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley
... of a Florentine family famous for the extraordinary ugliness of its men: whereby it came to pass that any grotesque or extremely ugly man was called a Baroncio. Fanfani, Vocab. della Lingua Italiana, 1891. ...
— The Decameron, Vol. II. • Giovanni Boccaccio
... and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... fas fiere, Flerent divae Camenae Naevium poetam; Itaque, postquam est Orci traditus thesauro, Obliti sunt Romae loquier lingua Latina.- ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill. Would it not tax a man's invention,—no one to be named after a man, and all in the lingua vernacula?[13] Who shall stand god-father at the christening of the wild apples? It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should have to call in the sunrise ...
— Wild Apples • Henry David Thoreau |
