"Xc" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Scriptures? Does an aeon, though a Grecian word, bear scripturally (either in Daniel or in St. John) any sense known to Grecian ears? Do the seventy weeks of the prophet mean weeks in the sense of human calendars? Already the Psalms (xc.), already St. Peter (2d Epist.), warn us of a peculiar sense attached to the word day in divine ears. And who of the innumerable interpreters understands the twelve hundred and sixty days in Daniel, or his two thousand and odd days, to mean, by possibility, periods ...
— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey
... English or from Tudor English times. Examples are aigre, sour, tart, which is Shakespeare's eagre, Hamlet, I, v 69; ambry, aumbry, cupboard, spelt almarie in Piers the Plowman, B XIV 246; arain, a spider, spelt yreyn in Wyclif's translation of Psalm XC 10, which, after all, is less correct; arles, money paid on striking a bargain, a highly interesting word, spelt erles in the former half of the thirteenth century; arris, the angular edge of a cut block of stone, ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... Pl. XC, No. 6. The niches themselves are surrounded by smaller niches (see also No. 1 on the ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... XI, and it becomes eleven. So L stands for fifty; put X before it, thus XL, and it stands for forty, but put the X on the other side, thus LX, and it is sixty. So C stands for one hundred, place X before it, thus XC, and it is but ninety; again, put the X on the other side, thus CX, and it is one hundred and ten. So in all ...
— A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies - A Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses • Unknown
... the sun. These trees might be compared to holy men, grown old in the service of God: for this is God's promise to his servants,—"The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon."—Psalm xc. 11, 12. ...
— Far Off • Favell Lee Mortimer |
