Thus this symbol, borrowed from Mesopotamia, is a transgression of the precepts of the Avesta, and an act of tolerance which only penetrated into the monumental sculpture of palaces and tombs, and into the glyptic art.
Borrowed from the National Miscellany, published by J.
Her costume (same as in Frontispiece) is borrowed from an Abbess or Prioress in a MS.
Notes by the Way The tender pathos in Chaucer's telling of this story (which he borrowed from Petrarch, but which is really much older than his time), cannot be excelled in any story we know of.
Isabella's being deceived by the Chimney Sweeper isborrowed from Mollier's precieuse Ridicules.
The scene Covent-Garden, part of this play isborrowed from Moliere's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.
The plot of this play, and some of the characters, particularly Sir Patient, is borrowed from Moliere's Malades Imaginaires.
This remark also applies to the other poems with names, Sack of Ilion, and so on, and with contents which must be definitely known, if it be known that the Iliad borrowed from them, or seems to have borrowed from them.
There is no book till the Cypria is made, and the Cypria cannot be borrowed from before it is made.
The story of Sinon and taking of Troy is borrowed from Pisander, as Macrobius informs us.
This incident is borrowed from Espinel's romance entitled Vida de Escudero, marcos de Obregon, 1618.
The next couplet is borrowed from Ogylby, I suppose, because less to the purpose than ordinary.
Among his smaller works, the eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Irae are well translated; though the best line in the Dies Irae isborrowed from Dryden.
It is the hypothesis that the Supreme Being is a 'loan-god,' borrowed from Europeans.
This was the God of the Christians, borrowed from them, and adapted under a new designation, meaning 'Lord of the sky.
The optimistic ideal of the Celts reappears in this poem, the subject of which is borrowed from them.
Therefore, as Terence has so well expressed what he borrowed from philosophy, shall not we, from whose fountains he drew it, say the same thing in a better manner, and abide by it with more steadiness?
He has in natural philosophy said nothing but what is borrowed from others, and even then nothing which you approved of.
The title is borrowed from a proverbial saying much older than the time of Shakspeare.
Whatever part Sir Dagonet took in this show would doubtless be borrowed from Mallory's romance of the Mort Arture, which had been compiled in the reign of Henry VII.
The nurse is borrowed from Brooke, the death of Mercutio from the old play.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borrowed from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
