The ologies, arrogant as they are, sometimes are the applicants for matrimony, and the marriage registry of the dictionary so indicates.

Thus by studying two words, conchology and eugenics, you have for the first time placed yourself on an intimate footing with three verbal familiesthe ologies, the eu's, and the gens.

Our girls are acknowledged to be uncommonly pretty, witty and wise, but some of us wish they had more health and less excitement, more domestic accomplishments and fewer ologies and isms, and were contented with simple pleasures and the old-fashioned virtues, and not quite so fond of the fast, frivolous life that makes them old so soon.

" As Lewisham filled up the form with his multitudinous "'ologies" and "'ographies," a youth of ducal appearance entered and greeted the precise young man in a friendly way.

Thus by studying two words, conchology and eugenics, you have for the first time placed yourself on an intimate footing with three verbal familiesthe ologies, the eu's, and the gens.

Why don't you study theology?" "Look a yere, boy, I'se been a preachin' dese thirty years, an' you come yere a tellin' me 'bout studying yore ologies.