"Tera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... points the right part of a tyrant, and shewed himselfe such a one in all respects as mainteined his title, [Sidenote: Pal. in suo cap.] Non disceptando aut subtilibus argumentis Vincere, sed ferro mauult sua iura tueri, Pontifices nunc bella iuuant, sunt ctera nuga, Nec prcepta patrum nec Christi dogmata curant, Iactant se dominos rerum & ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) - Richard the First • Raphael Holinshed
... ce cheveu rouge. La jeune fille vous poursuivra. Jetez le mouchoir, le corail et le miroir, l'un aprs l'autre, et elle s'arrtera pour les regarder. Continuez votre route, vous arriverez la ville, vous vendrez le cheveu un homme riche pour une grande somme d'argent, et vous serez assez riche pour lever ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... [formed from {giga-} by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] 10^9. Same as an American billion or a British 'milliard'. How one pronounces this depends on whether one speaks {giga-} with a ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... evidently only too well known to both the sender and the receiver of the epistle. Having compiled a list of scurrilities worthy of Falstaff, and attacked another matter which was an abomination to him, Harvey vents his wrath in sundry Latin charges, one of which runs: 'C{ae}tera fer{e}, ut olim: Bellum inter capita et membra continuatum.' 'Other matters are much as they were: war kept up between the heads [the dons] and the members [the men].' Spenser was not elected to a fellowship; he quitted his college, ...
— A Biography of Edmund Spenser • John W. Hales |
