"OE" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [OE]dipuses to read the riddle of another man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves a man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. We guess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou
... the names of the witnesses he wished subp[oe]ned. "And now, Squire," he added, "that this matter is concluded between us, how comes on my ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams
... Lorenzo and Jessica in the moonlight at Belmont, or the dialogues of Fenton and Anne Page, which contrast with the realistic prose of the rest of the Merry Wives and also the artificial pastoralism of Silvius and Ph[oe]be in As You Like It. Few absolute rules can be laid down in the matter, but study of Shakespeare's practice reveals an admirable tact in his choice ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson
... originally accented. They appear more or less in the order in which they first appeared with the accent—often the accents were dropped in the original. In each case, the accent follows the appropriate letter, the "ae" and "oe" combinations are represented as (ae) and (oe), [], [/], [], [^] and [-] represent the accent that looks like them which would appear above the preceding letter. [] represents an accent that looks like the bottom half of a circle, also appearing above ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone |
