"Sclavonian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... construction have been recognised, not only in the more perfect languages, as that of the Incas, the Aymara, the Guarani, the Mexican, and the Cora, but also in languages extremely rude. Idioms, the roots of which do not resemble each other more than the roots of the Sclavonian and Biscayan, have resemblances of internal mechanism similar to those which are found in the Sanscrit, the Persian, the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various
... he captured it, and held in it a grand festival, which lasted four days, at the end of which time he resigned the leadership of the Magyars to his son Arpad. This Arpad and his Magyars utterly subdued Pannonia—that is, Hungary and Transylvania, wresting the government of it from the Sclavonian tribes who inhabited it, and settling down amongst them as conquerors! After giving me this information, the Hungarian exclaimed with much animation: 'A goodly country that which they had entered on, consisting of a plain surrounded by mountains, some of which intersect it here and there, ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow |
