"Definite article" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... new-born thoughts, and from which I am to lift them carefully and show them to callers, namely, to the whole family of readers belonging to my list of intimates, and such other friends as may drop in by accident. And so it shall have the definite article, and not be lost in the mob of ...
— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... used by Moslems of all nationalities for the one true God. It is compounded of al, the definite article, and ilah, meaning a god. The same word is found in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as in ancient Arabic (Sabaean). The meaning of the root from which it is derived is very doubtful; cf. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, p. 82, and the Oxford Hebrew and ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... that being borrowed from the forms of the definite article, which was fully inflected in Old English. The article that was used with ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... same purpose, perhaps for another. Anyhow, it seems it was high time for Railton to go somewhere, for besides the references to liquor, which tally with Simon's words upon Dead Man's Rock, we also meet with the ominous words 'the fuss,' wherein, Jasper, I find the definite article not without meaning." ...
— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... various etymologies of this name, only one is given in the text; but most of the others in some way identify him with Vulcan. Wellsford (Mithridates Minor p. 4) gives a singular etymology, deriving the name of the Hebrew patriarch from the definite article [Hebrew: heh] converted into T and Baal, "Lord," with the Arabic kayn, "a blacksmith," so that the word would then signify "the lord of the blacksmiths." Masonic writers have, however, generally adopted the more usual ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey |
