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Example sentences for "four books"

  • Though the twenty-four books of the Old Testament cannot be attributed to him, the fact that he copied and wrote portions need not be questioned.

  • He published, for the Violoncello, thirty Duos in four books, as Op.

  • They consist of four books of Sonatas with bass accompaniment, three Duets for two violoncellos, and eight "Airs Varies" with orchestra or quartet accompaniment.

  • Thus we pass to the palace, and out of the first series of four Books, which we are next to consider separately.

  • This Return, narrated in the twenty-four Books of the poem, divides itself into two equal halves, each containing twelve Books.

  • It consists of twenty-four books, the first four of which are sometimes known as the Telemachia, because Telemachus is the principal figure.

  • The Iliad is divided into twenty-four books, and contains nineteen thousand four hundred and sixty-five lines.

  • It is one of the most difficult of the "Four Books" to understand, but its main drift is that which has been indicated above.

  • Following on the "Four Books" there come in quick succession the "Five Classics," which are given to the boys to read.

  • The first in order of the "Four Books" that is put into the hands of the pupils is The Great Learning.

  • Four books of elegies are ascribed to Tibullus, but not all of these are really his work.

  • The elegies of Gallus, in four books, were addressed to Lycoris, an actress of low birth and loose morals, whose stage name was Cytheris.

  • The poems are handed down to us in four books, the second of which is, however, made up of two incomplete books.

  • Pompeius Trogus himself is mentioned as a writer on zoology, but his most important work was his universal history entitled Historiae Philippicae, in forty-four books.

  • A vicar of Cookfield owned twenty-four books, some of them priced cheaply (1451).

  • That the language of the Odyssey, and of four Books of the Iliad (IX.

  • The main division, that of Iliad and Odyssey, shows a distinct advance along this line; and the distinction is still more marked if we group with the Odyssey four Books of the Iliad whose Odyssean physiognomy is well marked.

  • The sequel, somewhat longer than the twenty-four books of Homer’s Iliad, takes up the tale from this point.

  • The romance is in two parts, of four books each.

  • Hoole, in his translation, has compressed the forty-six cantos into twenty-four books; but Rose has retained the original number.

  • A biography: in four books [portrait] By John Forster, .

  • Consisting of his Discourses, in four books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments.

  • Of this second edition in four Books we possess only Book i.

  • Argonautae, a translation from Apollonius Rhodius in four Books.

  • Four Books of elegiac poems are attributed to Tibullus, who ranks first among Roman elegists in the view of Quintilian, x.

  • This treatise on rhetoric in four Books, addressed to the author's relative C.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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