"Im-" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men rose to play, to wrestle and to jump, for on the following day was the annual festival of the Rifle Club, and there would be trials of strength, and competitions; it was im-portant therefore that their limbs ...
— In Midsummer Days and Other Tales • August Strindberg
... if we should write in English impious, impotent, without a hyphen; but im-penitent, im-probable, ...
— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart
... source material: See A. Bruckner, Quellen zur Geschichte des pelagianischen Streites (in Latin), in Krueger's Quellenschriften, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1906. The principal works of Augustine bearing on the Pelagian controversy may be found in ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.
... examples some descriptive compounds, which call to mind the infancy of nations, and strike us equally in the American and Biscayan languages, by a certain ingenuousness of expression. In Tamanac, the wasp (uane-imu), father (im-de) of honey (uane);* (* It may not be unnecessary here to acquaint the reader that honey is produced by an insect of South America, belonging to, or nearly allied, to the wasp genus. This honey, however, possesses noxious qualities which are by some ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... king's crown on Tamun the fool; Ailill dare not have it on himself. Cuchulainn threw a stone at him at Ath Tamuin, so that his head broke thereby. Hence is Ath Tamuin and Tuga-im-Tamun. [Note: ...
— The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) • Unknown |
