The Eddic poems and the "Voelsunga Saga" give us even much more fully in detail than does this epitome the deeds of Sigurd's youth of which the "Nibelungenlied" knows so little.
The epitome is supplemented by a chronicle compiled from several sources.
It is the focus and epitome of Spanish dominion in those seas, and I was forced to conclude that it was well for Cuba that the English attempts to take possession of it had failed.
The parish churchyard is an emblem and epitome of English country life; London reflects itself in Brompton and Kensal Green, and Paris in Pere la Chaise.
The epitome of this discourse is that it is possible that one thing in relation to another may be evil, and at the same time within the limits of its proper being it may not be evil.
The epitome of the discourse is that the Reality of Christ was a clear mirror, and the Sun of Reality—that is to say, the Essence of Oneness, with its infinite perfections and attributes—became visible in the mirror.
We thus see that the building up of the human body from a single cell is a substantial epitome of the long story of evolution, which occupied many millions of years.
Was this game, so much in her favour already, to be regarded as an epitome of the greater game to be played to a finish between herself and Joyce?
And perhaps you regard golf as a sort of epitome of life?
It is as if a fragment of England floated forward to greet the foreigner--chalk of our chalk, turf of our turf, epitome of what will follow.
The "Letters to Zelter" were published in Berlin in 1833, and the following epitome is prepared from the German text.
The wholeness of the supernatural world can only express itself in personal form, because it has no epitome but man, nor can The Hound of Heaven fling itself into any but an empty heart.
He would be, and have all poets be, a true epitomeof the whole mass, a Herrick and Dr.
An epitome of the great work of Herodian on general prosody in twenty books, wrongly attributed to Arcadius, is probably the work of Theodosius of Alexandria or a grammarian named Aristodemus.
These big hotels are an epitome of expansive, gorgeous American life.
The boy was a product which it is the despair of all Europe to produce, and our travelers had great delight in him as an epitome of American "smartness.
Indeed this interesting wall-painting furnishes an epitome of Florentine art, in its intentions and achievements, during the first half of the fifteenth century.
Cherubino is the epitome of all that belongs to the amorous temperament in a state of still ascendant adolescence.
Even the Shorter Catechism, not the merriest epitome of religion, and a work exactly as pious although not quite so true as the multiplication table - even that dry-as-dust epitome begins with a heroic note.
According to the researches of Humboldt, this story first appears in print in the history of Portugal by Faria y Sousa (Epitome de las historias Portuguezas, Madrid, 1628.
The high character of the man gave unusual force to his opinions, and his epitome of the sagas in his second chapter contributed much to increase the interest in the Northmen story.
I have seen only the epitome in Bolletino della Società Geografica Italiana, xvi.
The Islendingabók, a sort of epitome of a lost historical narrative, is considered an introduction to the Landnámabók.
It would be interesting to deal more fully with this hall that contains an epitome of the history and literature of Bohemia, but want of space renders this impossible.
The reason for the division is plain: down to the end of the exile the work was no more than an epitome of the Pentateuch and Historical Books; but from the time of Cyrus to Alexander it was the only history the Jews possessed.
A delightful and instructive epitome of animal (and vegetable) life.
The letter-press matter consists of flash songs, and a poetical epitome of the plot and design of the original work of "Life in London.
I have discovered in the Norfolk Epitome of the Times, for Oct.
In this, as in other respects, the shores of Fife offer an epitome of Scottish history, and the quintessence of Scottish character.
He who has seen the banks of Dee has seen, as in an epitome or abridgment, all that the north of Scotland has to show.
Its course forms no inapt emblem and epitome of the fortunes of Scotland and of the Scottish nation.
He left lengthy writings, one of them a bulky epitome of the famous Moralia of Gregory the Great.
The author of a bastardepitome on the Trojan War, see post, Chapter XXXII.
From the first, the Novellae were chiefly known and used in the condensed form given them in the excellent Epitome of Julianus, apparently a Byzantine of the last part of Justinian's reign.
It was also part of his plan to equip his manuscripts of the Codex with extracts taken from the text of the Novels, and not from the Epitome of Julian.
One was the Institutes of Gaius, or rather an old epitomewhich had been made from it.
An interesting feature of the Breviarium, and destined to be of great importance, was the Interpretatio accompanying all its texts, except those drawn from the epitome of Gaius.
Such a work as the Epitome Juliani, in which a good Byzantine lawyer of Justinian's time presented the substance of the Novellae, was an excellent compendium, and deserved the fame it won.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epitome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
