"Participle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... There is much difficulty in the double participle [Greek: peson-kyresas]. Dindorf would altogether omit [Greek: kyresas], as a gloss. But surely [Greek: peson] was more likely to be added as a gloss, than [Greek: kyresas]. I think that the fault probably lies in ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... by prefixing ba to the root, e.g. ba long, being. The imperfect participle is formed by prefixing such words as ba u, ka da, da kaba, &c. The perfect participle is formed by putting such particles as ba la, haba la, da kaba la before the verb. Verbal nouns of agency are formed by prefixing ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
... passages. The English language, though not so rich as the German in such rhymes, is less deficient than is generally supposed. The difficulty to be overcome is one of construction rather than of the vocabulary. The present participle can only be used to a limited extent, on account of its weak termination, and the want of an accusative form to the noun also restricts the arrangement of words in English verse. I cannot hope to have been always successful; but I have at least labored ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... "Yahudi" which is less polite than "Banu Israil" Children of Israel. So in Christendom "Israelite" when in favour and "Jew" (with an adjective or a participle) when nothing ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... in the tents of the Turcomans. 'In short, I am somebody now,' said I to myself; 'formerly I was one of the beaten, now I am one of the beaters. I should just do for an example of the active and passive participle, with which my old master, the mollah at Ispahan, used to puzzle me, when endeavouring to instil a little Arabic into my mind. Please Heaven that my good dispositions towards my fellow-creatures may soon have ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier
... the consideration of the Verb and Participle, related to Movement. The Great Noun Class of Words, including the Nominative Noun Substantive, not yet brought into action and made to functionate as Subject or Agent, together with the whole Adjective Family of Words as above defined, is without Action. These words, and correspondentially, ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... between the verbal adjective and the present participle; but the Academy lays down one not very ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert |
