vade mecum
Example Sentences
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Far from bridging the communications gap between East and West, this vade mecum is sure to cause confusion if not some international incidents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Distributed in more than a billion copies, the so-called Little Red Book remains the fundamental vade mecum of every citizen of the Chinese People's Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully provides in the form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints.
From Time Magazine Archive
Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
He soon became Hawthorne's chief companion and social mainstay in Rome, literally a vade mecum, and we may believe that he exercised more or less influence over Hawthorne's judgment in matters of art.
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston
