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Example sentences for "apothegm"

Lexicographically close words:
apostrophizing; apothecaries; apothecary; apothecia; apothecium; apothegms; apotheosis; apotheosized; apout; apoynted
  1. To this I shall add the famous apothegm at the close of the following stanzas, in his Ode On a Prospect of Eton College: "Yet, ah!

  2. But the source of Gray's apothegm is still more obviously traceable to these lines in Prior: "Seeing aright we see our woes; Then what avails us to have eyes?

  3. This apothegm contains in it the whole of what I would say on the subject of amusements.

  4. These words arrested my thoughts at once, as, by a singular chance, they seemed to fit my mood; was it or was it not some conscious invisible intelligence that caused me to select that page, and brought the apothegm to my notice?


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    Other words:
    adage; aphorism; apothegm; axiom; byword; catchword; conceit; crack; dictate; dictum; epigram; expression; gibe; gnome; maxim; moral; mot; motto; oracle; persiflage; phrase; pleasantry; precept; prescript; proverb; quip; repartee; retort; riposte; rule; saw; saying; scintillation; sentence; sutra; teaching; text; truism; verse; wisdom; witticism; word