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Example sentences for "quoting from"

  • This is followed by a rather pretty poem, in 15 8-line stanzas, which is interesting as quoting from Chaucer's Parliament of Foules.

  • A commentator on Homer, quoting from Pherecydes, calls them ‘Dodonides.

  • Eusebius, quoting from Apollodorus, says that Epaphus was the son of Io, by Telegonus, who married her.

  • Tambal's affairs, allows the inference that Babur was quoting from perhaps a news-writer's, contemporary records.

  • Delort, quoting from an Italian manuscript, in the records of the office of the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which appears to have been written by Giuliani.

  • Bloch, (The Sexual Life of Our Time), quoting from a work by Oscar A.

  • Havelock Ellis is quoting from The Perfumed Garden of The Cheikh Nefzaoui: Cosmopoli, 1886, printed for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares.

  • Thus, quoting from reference to the military discussion before the main committee of the Reichstag.

  • In this very place, however, he shows that he is quoting from memory, as he speaks of a parallel passage in St. Mark which does not exist.

  • The text of these Gospels is so comparatively fixed, and we have such abundant materials for its reconstruction, that we can generally say at once whether the writer is quoting from it freely or not.

  • It certainly seems upon the face of it the more probable supposition that he has here been influenced by the form of the text in St. Matthew, but he may be quoting from a Targum or from a peculiar text.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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