His almanacks were spelled over in the tavern, and quoted in the Senate; they nerved the arm of the soldier, and rounded the period of the orator.
The Stationers' Company's almanacks are now by no means the best of the day.
Tycho was the son of Vincent Wing, the first author of the almanacks still published under his name, and who died in 1668.
As for the few following predictions I now offer the world, I forbore to publish them till I had perused the several almanacks for the year we are now enter'd on.
Which an Astrologer might use, Either for Almanacks or Shoes.
In the first instance her Christmas cards spread abroad her dainty fancy; then her books, and finally her almanacks over a period of fifteen years, carried her designs into many countries and made converts wherever they were seen.
In such measure as it is true, this was mainly due to the fact that her almanacks found a regular sale in France, from which America and Europe so largely take their cue in feminine matters sartorial.
In old almanacks we find the supremacy of the Moon over the plant kingdom fully admitted, albeit in a jargon which is rather puzzling.
From Stationers' Hall once issued all the almanacks that were published, with all the trash and superstition they kept alive.
The monopoly is now gone; almanacks have been forced into improvement by emulation; and the Stationers (naturally enough at the moment) are angry about it.
At even also we have a hower of sun after that he get to them on our longest day, for by their Almanacks he sets on that day in France, or at least at Poictiers, at 7 acloack wt some minuts, wt us not til after 8.
By what I can gather from you," said I, "the observations and predictions you printed with your almanacks were mere impositions on the people.
As for the few following predictions I now offer the world, I forbore to publish them till I had perused the several almanacks for the year we are now entered on.
Read Dr Watts and Pinnock, dears; and when you learn to spell, Shun Railway Guides, Directories, and Almanacks as well!
OUR old English Almanackshave a Maxim to this Purpose.
THE old English Rule published in our first Almanacks agrees exactly with our Author's Observation.
IN the old Almanacks we have this Sign of the Weather thus expressed.
The almanacks are an interesting feature of Cambridge printing at this period.
Thus in 1631 he entered into a contract with Edmund Weaver to supply him with certain quantities of books and almanacks for three years.
They have now let their Right of printing Bibles, Almanacks etc.
These almanacks were largely reprinted in Great Britain and France, and very freely quoted from, so that the area of their influence was very extensive.
The first printer to introduce the art of lithography into Birmingham, and he is also credited with being the discoverer of chromo-litho, and the first to publish coloured almanacks and calendars.
The laws also took cognisance of what to us are strange crimes, a woman in 1790 being imprisoned here for selling almanacks without the Government stamp on them; sundry tradesmen also being heavily fined for dealing in covered buttons.
Such were the popular dietetics, and the almanacks were made the vehicle of communicating them.
I presume that the rules for bloodletting which accompany the old almanacks are chiefly derived from this Regimen Sanitatis, which is founded upon that of the school of Salerno, as they form a principal feature in its precepts.
My Almanacks aim at no learning at all, But only to show when the holidays fall: And tell, as by study we easily may, How many eclipses the year will display.
My fame as a pieman led to my selling almanacks on the market days at Christmas.
It is issued by the Government, and the sale of all almanacksbut the authorized one is prohibited.
The Almanacks are nicely got up, and will be found useful to put on walls in bed-rooms, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "almanacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
