The earliest and one of the ablest essays on the geological system and mineralogy of Ceylon will be found in DAVY'S Account of the Interior of Ceylon, London, 1821.
Two crops of grain, however, are the utmost that is taken from the land, and in many instances only one.
In the early part of the month the wind visits nearly every point of the compass, but shows a marked predilection for the north, generally veering from N.
Some of the Mappe-mondes of the Middle Ages place a lake in the middle of the island, with a city inhabited by astrologers; but they have merely reproduced the error of earlier geographers.
Seylan is given, but Taprobane is added over Sumatra.
Every bold elevation is crowned by battlemented cliffs, and flanked by chasms in which the shattered strata are seen as sharp and as rugged as if they had but recently undergone the grand convulsion that displaced them.
These it is to be hoped will be carefully kept from decay, as they may again be called into requisition.
The plutonic rocks of Ceylon are but slightly metalliferous, and hitherto their veins and deposits have been but imperfectly examined.
A piece which was dug out of the alluvium within a few miles of Ratnapoora in 1853, was purchased by a Moor at Colombo, in whose hands it was valued at upwards of four thousand pounds.
In the country of Evreux, about 1100, Orderic says that "a worse than civil war was waged between two powerful brothers, and the mischief was fomented by the spiteful jealousy of their haughty wives.
Without pretending to know what special crown she bears, we can assume, till corrected, that it is the Carlovingian imperial, not the Byzantine.
Man's business was to fight or hunt or feast or make love.
It was in this line old seventeenth-century Scottish mansion that Alison Rutherfurd wrote her exquisite version of the "Flowers of the Forest.
According to Godscroft, the English alone lost one thousand eight hundred and forty killed, and over a thousand wounded.
A Alija na noge skočio i carevu podignuo vojsku pa on pogje ot Stambola grada; od Alija u Ercegovinu.
I on piše kako je njemu drago, a ne piše kako ferman kaže; vet ot sela po sedam sejmena a ot Kasabe po sedam bajraka.
My i, how his i's shone, as he skipt across the room, and seated himself by my lady!
Then I wraps myself up in his dressing-gown, and lolling down on the sofa, bids him open the dor.
There wasn't a bottle of wine that we didn't get a glass out of, nor a pound of sugar that we didn't have some lumps of it.
Found at Warwick House the harp-player, Dizzi; was asked to remain and listen to his performance, but was talked to during the whole time, which completely prevented all possibility of listening to the music.
It seemed as though his brain ground and mulled around in a sort of ghastly cycle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
