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Use in Literature

Declensions

Moreover, the openings cut in the capricious rock by roads which follow its declensions and make the ampitheatre habitable, give vistas through which some estates can see the city, or the river, or the sea.–Honoré de Balzac in Modeste Mignon (tr Katharine Prescott Wormeley).

We were at the Grammar School there together; but he read AEschylus and Tacitus whilst I was grubbing over Eutropius and the Greek declensions.–George Gissing in Denzil Quarrier.

Over the forge also appeared a Latin grammar and a Greek lexicon; and, while with sturdy blows the ambitious youth of sixteen shaped the iron on the anvil, he fixed in his mind conjugations and declensions.–Orison Swett Marden in Stories from Life.

In Greek there are three declensions of nouns; the forms of cases in one of them may intrude upon another.–Plato in Cratylus (tr B. Jowett).

Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.–William Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

These bits of wood were covered, on every square, with paper pasted on them; and on these papers were written all the words of their language, in their several moods, tenses, and declensions; but without any order.–Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

Nonfiction Usage

Bibliographic Usage

Adam, Alexander. Born in 1741 and died in 1809, authored "Adam's Latin grammar: simplified, by means of an introduction: designed to facilitate the study of Latin grammar with appropriate exercises, to impress on the memory the declensions and inflections of the parts of speech, and to exemplify and illustrate the rules of syntax." Publisher: White, Gallaher, & White (New York). Published in 1827.

Andrzejewski, B. W. Author of "The declensions of Somali nouns (by) B.W Andrzejewski." Publisher: School of Oriental African Studies, University of London; sole agents: Luzac (London). Published in 1964.

Backus, Isaac. Born in 1724 and died in 1806, authored "Abridgment of the church history of New-England from 1602 to 1804 : containing a view of their principles and practice, declensions and revivals, oppression and liberty, with a concise account of the Baptists in the southern parts of America and a chronological table of the whole." Publisher: printed for the author by E. Lincoln (Boston). Published in 1804.

Barker, John. Born in 1682 and died in 1762, authored "Sermons on the following subjects;: viz. Of the worth of the soul and the folly of losing it. On divine providence. Of the connection between faith and salvation. The wisdom of worldly men, a reproof to that of good men. Of the government of the spirit. Of the prevailing love of pleasure. Of declensions in religion. Of the abuse of national privileges." By the late reverend and learned Mr. John Barker. Publisher: printed for James Buckland. (London). Published in 1764.

Bourke, Ulick Joseph. Author of "The college Irish grammar, containing, besides the usual subject of grammar, some remarks in the form of dissertation on the orthography of the language; how it can become fixed; on the number of declensions, and number of conjugations, etc.. Compiled chiefly with a view to aid the students of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and of the Catholic University of Ireland, in the study of the national language." Published in 1856.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Declensions 1
• Nonfiction Usage 2
• Bibliographic Usage 2
• Index 12