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Example sentences for "tertius"

Lexicographically close words:
tertiam; tertian; tertii; tertio; tertium; tertulia; tertulias; teru; terum; terwards
  1. Wordsworth remarks that these two names, Tertius and Epaphras, are found in the epistles of St. Paul.

  2. The quadriceps group of muscles is assisted by the anterior digital extensor (extensor pedis) peroneus tertius and tibialis anticus (flexor metatarsi) muscles.

  3. De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius hæres=--A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired.

  4. Tertius e cœlo cecidit Cato=--A third Cato has come down from heaven.

  5. M'Coy peered into Marcus Tertius Moses' sombre office, then at O'Neill's clock.

  6. If further confirmation be required apart from the style of the architecture and the arms, Leland writes: "Hugo le Despenser tertius .

  7. But the deacons, Tertius and Pomponius, who assisted us, obtained, by money, that we might pass some hours in a more commodious part of the prison to refresh ourselves.

  8. THESE seven martyrs were citizens of Corinth, and confessed their faith before Tertius the proconsul, in their own country, in 249, in the beginning of the reign of Decius.

  9. He grinned, but neither Tertius nor I could see where the deuce the fun was.

  10. I rootled round the camp, and found Tertius gassing about as a D.

  11. So Tertius took his rifle and smote the others on the head to keep them quiet at the loopholes.

  12. Tertius flung out his chest as he delivered his line.

  13. Turkey elbowed into a cohort of scuffling fags, cut out Thornton tertius (he that had been Harland's bosom friend), and bade him tell his tale.

  14. We weren't," Tertius broke in, "but there was another row between Gul Sher Khan and Rutton Singh.

  15. So Tertius and I had to climb down the tower steps (we didn't want to stay with Everett) and got back to our men.

  16. Tertius and I shook it out of him by instalments.

  17. I turned Tertius out with twenty Pathans, and they bucked about in the snow for a bit till they came on to a sort of camp about eight hundred yards away, with only a few men in charge and half a dozen sheep by the fire.

  18. I'd heard of Tertius as a steady old hack, and I told him he had to shake off his D.

  19. McTurk gazed at Tertius with all an Irishman's contempt for the tongue-tied Saxon.

  20. He then fell upon Brook tertius and punched him until he howled.

  21. For the fraction of a second he hesitated, and in that fraction Brook tertius giggled.

  22. No doubt the world's hate drove more closely together all the disciples in primitive times; but the yearning of Tertius for some little corner in the love of his Roman brethren might well influence us to-day.

  23. All that we know of Tertius who wrote this Epistle is that he wrote it.

  24. So Tertius here gets leave to hold the pen for a moment on his own account, and from Corinth sends his greeting to his unknown brethren in Rome.

  25. My own acquaintance with Silas Tertius Rand extended over a period of more than thirty years.

  26. Servius, who composed a commentary on Virgil at a time when the traditions were still preserved, makes the following comment on this verse: Id est tertius decimus.

  27. Mr. Tertius and Selwood muttered expressions of acquiescence, but Mr. Halfpenny shook his head.

  28. Mr. Tertius was out of town for the day, gone to visit an antiquarian friend in Berkshire: Mr. Halfpenny lived away down amongst the Surrey hills.

  29. Mr. Tertius and Peggie Wynne were still in the study when Barthorpe and Selwood drove up to the house.

  30. Until then he had thought that Peggie had heard the brief exchange of words between Barthorpe and Mr. Tertius at the door.

  31. And as he stood there, and Selwood wound up the little procession, Mr. Tertius rose and also made as if to join the others.

  32. Mr. Tertius stopped sharply and looked at Barthorpe in genuine surprise.

  33. He had got them out of his flat, shaken hands with them, and hurried off before either elderly gentleman could get a word in, and as he flew towards the stairs Mr. Halfpenny looked at Mr. Tertius and shook his head.

  34. Mr. Tertius handed to her the Argus special, which he had carried crumpled up in his hand.

  35. Mr. Tertius bent his spectacled eyes over the supper tray and remained looking at what he saw there for a while.

  36. She, too, was silent, but when she had left the room to make ready for the drive Mr. Tertius turned to Selwood.

  37. Secundus had plucked the apple that held Quinta, and Tertius held Quarta, and so on—and everything was as criss-cross-crooked as it possibly could be.

  38. The above mentioned Thomas Tertius Okey, Professor of Physick, now liveth in London near the Bodys of his deceased relations.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tertius" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.