The Quarterly Review, Volumes 263-264William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1934 |
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... words of this character have such a deep , strong , resonant sound , while their German equivalents seem so thin and mild . Boom , burst , crash , roar , storm , bellow , blow , thunder , explosion ; howl , cry , shout , yell , groan ...
... words of this character have such a deep , strong , resonant sound , while their German equivalents seem so thin and mild . Boom , burst , crash , roar , storm , bellow , blow , thunder , explosion ; howl , cry , shout , yell , groan ...
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... words , even for ordinary household things , which his tongue has never been known to utter . Thus , he would like to persuade the stranger that a tramway is tρoxιódpoμos when no Greek in his senses calls it anything but rò τpáμ ; that ...
... words , even for ordinary household things , which his tongue has never been known to utter . Thus , he would like to persuade the stranger that a tramway is tρoxιódpoμos when no Greek in his senses calls it anything but rò τpáμ ; that ...
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... words of Turkish origin have evolved to a much smaller extent , so that the early Turkish vocabulary wherewith the Ghazi is systematically replacing the Persian and Arabic accretions will not sound unduly archaic in the ears of his ...
... words of Turkish origin have evolved to a much smaller extent , so that the early Turkish vocabulary wherewith the Ghazi is systematically replacing the Persian and Arabic accretions will not sound unduly archaic in the ears of his ...
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