"Genitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Old English a large number of words had in the genitive case singular the ending -es; in Middle English still more words took this ending: for example, in Chaucer, "From every schires ende," "Full worthi was he in his lordes werre [war]," "at his beddes syde," ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... confidently and state in German that the bird is staying in the blacksmith shop "wegen (on account of) DEN Regen." Then the teacher lets me softly down with the remark that whenever the word "wegen" drops into a sentence, it ALWAYS throws that subject into the GENITIVE case, regardless of consequences—and therefore this bird stayed in the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... height of earth;" "earthes" (an old form of the genitive), or "airthes height," not unnaturally corrupted to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 • Various |
