"Aliquot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first omitted, thus leaving that part of the scale undamped. This bold act gave the instrument many sympathetic strings free to vibrate from the bridge when the rest of the instrument was played, each string, according to its length, being an aliquot division of a lower string. This gave the instrument a certain brightness or life throughout, an advantage which has secured its universal adoption. The expedients of an untouched octave string and of utilizing those lengths of wire that lie beyond the bridges have been ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various
... Irish missionary St. Columbanus, whose native tongue was, of course, the Irish Gaelic. This was unintelligible to the Northern Picts, as is expressly stated on in Adammanus:—"Alio in tempore quo Sanctus Columba in Pictorum provincia per aliquot demorabatur dies, quidam cum tota plebeius familia, verbum vitae per interpretatorem, Sancto praedicante viro, audiens credidit, credensque baptizatus est."—Adamn. ap. Colganum. ...
— The Ethnology of the British Islands • Robert Gordon Latham |
