"Cl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grew grave again. "I'd hev—I'd—hev cl'ared out! Out er 'Frisco! out er Californy! out er Ameriky! I couldn't have stud it! Don't think I would hev begrudged ye yer luck! No man would have been gladder than me." He leaned forward again, and laid his hand caressingly upon his partner's arm—"Don't think I'd hev ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte
... us. Gif thonne gebyrige, tht for neode heora hwilc with ure bige habban wille, oththe we with heora, mid yrfe and mid htum, tht is to thafianne on tha wisan, tht man gislas sylle frithe to wedde, and to swutelunge, tht man wite tht man clne bc hbbe. ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... or a mixture of elements, chemists have found it very convenient to make abbreviations for the names of the elements so that they can quickly write what a thing is made of. They indicate hydrogen by the letter H. O always means oxygen to the chemist; C means carbon; and Cl means chlorine, the poison gas so much used in the World War. The abbreviation stands for the Latin name of the element instead of for the English name, but they are often almost alike. The Latin name for the metal sodium, however, is natrum, and chemists always ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... be compared Shakespeare's sonnets cxxxvii., cxlviii., and cl. Jodelle's feigned remorse for having lauded the black hair and complexion of his mistress is one of the most singular of several strange coincidences. In No. vi. of his Contr' Amours Jodelle, after reproaching his 'traitres vers' with having untruthfully ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... remembraunce. And vna voce, all sayde that no such man dwelte in their streate, neither in the parish that they knewe of, but some did wel remember that suche a one they sawe there lyrkinge and huggeringe[CL] two houres before the gentleman came thether and a straunger to them. J had thought, quoth this gentleman, he had here dwelled, and marched home mannerly in his botes: farre from the place he dwelt not. ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle |
