"Delectus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rutty lane by this time, a lane with banks rich in ferns and floral growth, and here came Blanche and Eva and the youngest boy, released from Latin grammar and Greek delectus at an earlier hour than usual. The car was sent on to the wood, and Bessie and her two sisters produced their fern trowels, and began digging and delving for rare specimens—real or imaginary—assisted by Mr. Jardine, who had ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... she then was entitled to take place of them. With her interest, Chaucer's also returned, and after a long and bitter storm, the sun began to shine upon him with an evening ray; for at the sixty-fifth year of his age, the king granted to him, by the title of Delectus Armiger Noster, an annuity of twenty marks per annum during his life, as a compensation for the former pension his needy circumstances obliged him to part with; but however sufficient that might be for present support, yet as he was encumbered with debts, ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber
... non diutius Roma, rediit respublica ad vitia pristina. Patres luxuria solum populis praestiterunt, et vestigia eorum populi secuti sunt. Senatus auctoritatem, ex illo ipso tempore, annus unusquisque diminuit, donce in aerate Angasti interitus nobilium humiliumque delectus omnino fere dignitatem conficerunt. Augustus equidem antiquam magnificentiam patribus reddidit, sed fulgor tantum liut sine fervore. Nunquam in republica senatoribus potestates recuperatae. ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop
... am preparing a fable in the Latin Delectus for her, and she gave me this French book. She does tell me such interesting facts about words, and about what she has seen abroad, sir! And she brought me this ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... perfringere perfregi perfractus break down lego legere legi lectus gather, read perlego perlegere perlegi perlectus read through colligo colligere collegi collectus collect deligo deligere delegi delectus choose diligo diligere dilexi dilectus love intellego intellegere intellexi intellectus understand neglego neglegere neglexi neglectus neglect emo emere emi emptus buy coemo coemere coemi coemptus ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett |
