"Dative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on; and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... German gipsy dialect. Eh! in third line of second verse, is the German word ehe, "ere," or before. Kuribente ("in war,") is in the Slavonic and gipsy local case, or as Pott calls it (Die Zigeuner in Europa und Asien) the Second Dative. Ik leven,(Flem.) - I live. Il diavolo in carnato,(Ital.) - The devil incarnate or in carnation. Immer - Ever. In geburst - Burst. In Sang und Klang dein Leben lang,(Ger.) - In music and song all thy life long. Ita dixit,(Latin) ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... enactment. Without enlarging further, it may be added, that she acquired the lands of Blair, in the lordship of Culross, and was sometimes called "Lady Blair." She died in October 1575, and in the Confirmation of her Testament Dative, she is styled "ane honorabill Lady Gryssell ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... PARTLET sits and broods, Blandly anticipative. As for the Public, well, of all the moods They clearly love the dative; And, so the brood be good, won't greatly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 • Various |
