Acala de Henares (8000) was celebrated in the sixteenth century as a university under the patronage of the Cardinal Ximenes, and here the celebrated Complutensian Polyglot Bible was printed.
Yet she was practically alone in that somewhat polyglot gathering, and she knew that most people there were holding aloof from her.
With the quick subtlety of the polyglot the woman had grasped his scheme and what he wanted.
The house of every substantial farmer had three substantial ornaments, a wooden clock, a tin reflector, and a Polyglot Bible.
I had heard of Yankee clock peddlers, tin peddlers, and bible peddlers, especially of him who sold Polyglot Bibles (all in english) to the amount of sixteen thousand pounds.
The house of every substantial farmer had three substantial ornaments: a wooden clock, a tin reflector, and a Polyglot Bible.
It was the polyglotsteward addressing him, with that deference which is born of tips.
At this Zut, who was surprisingly polyglot of ear, yelped with renewed delight.
He had a volume of Walton's Polyglot open before him, and was reading Job in the original, when she entered.
Complutensian Polyglot were at Alcala in 1821, when were they removed to Madrid, and in what library at Madrid are they now?
The place was like a fair--a jumble of huts and shanties and ragged canvas tents, with narrow, irregular lanes between them, in which the polyglot traders bought and sold.
I remember at a polyglot Parisian table, a Russian girl who spoke seven languages with perfect ease; and she was not in the least a blue-stocking.
The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglotwith bloom and blood, but he could do nothing.
I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd, so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.
Tiraboschi adduces a Psalter, published in four of the ancient tongues, at Genoa, in 1516, as the first essay of a polyglot version.
My companion was of the impression that the distinctly British settlements, like those of Massachusetts and Virginia, were far more powerful and promising than my own polyglot province.
The Ramayana version and Sanskrit polyglot dictionary were never resumed.
Worst of all was the loss of that polyglot dictionary of all the languages derived from the Sanskrit which, if Carey had felt any of this world's ambition, would have perpetuated his name in the first rank of philologists.
In New York the efforts had been made along old lines, but Mr. Gye had ventured on an experiment which suggested the polyglot scheme which became the fixed policy of the Metropolitan Opera House some ten years later.
After the lesson had been still more thoroughly learned a German contingent was added to the Italian and French, and German opera was added to the list, making it as completely polyglot as it has ever been since.
We had been the round of the Greek cafés which flourish in such numbers in Smyrna, where polyglot concerts and the worst features of the café chantant seem never to tire their patrons.
Here the best Christ in Paris grinned satanically as a polyglot howl went up from among the students.
Separate versions in different languages were also brought out, with various other aids to the study of Scripture; a polyglot Book of Common Prayer, in eight languages; &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polyglot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: calendar; catalog; concordance; directory; harmony; index; linguist; polyglot
