delectus
Example Sentences
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"I caught Lucy pasting the leaves of my Delectus together," murmured Grey, looking at the ceiling.
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.
Their position, as the Latin Delectus p. 214says concerning the passion of love in general, was ‘a strange thing, and full of anxious fears.’
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
Of the seventeenth-century school at Manchester we gain an accidental glimpse and notion from the Delectus of Latin Phrases which was prepared for use there by a former scholar, Thomas Bracebridge.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
It is quite possible that no pupil ever went over that Delectus, with its world-weary fragments of trite morality, without a feeling of pleasure at the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
Fate was powerless against one who had mastered the Delectus.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
