53 examples of colophon in sentences

The colophon of this states that it was printed in the Abbey of Westminster in 1477.

One lesson learn, one sentence scan, One title and one colophon Virtue is that becrowns a Man! High Virtue's best is eloquent With spur and not with martingall: Swear not to her thou'rt continent: BE COURTEOUS, BRAVE, AND LIBERAL.

We were very ignorant indeed, he said, for some had made him a Chian, others a native of Smyrna, others of Colophon, but that after all he was a Babylonian, and amongst them was called Tigranes, though, after being a hostage in Greece, they had changed his name to Homer.

Mr. Tutt and Mr. McKeever belonged to the same Saturday evening poker game at the Colophon Club, familiarly known as The Bible Class.

Sequel N. sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela^; appendage; tail piece [Fr.], heelpiece^; tag, more last words; colophon. aftercome^, aftergrowth^, afterpart^, afterpiece^, aftercourse^, afterthought, aftergame^;

Don't you think, that, if the cities of Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodes, Argos, and Athens had given over disputing about the birthplace of the author of the "Iliad" and other poems, and had "pooled in" a handsome sum to send him to a blind asylum, it would have been a sensible proceeding?

On December 23 of the uncorrected calendar, according to the corrected calendar about the end of August, in 564, a battle took place at the promontory of Myonnesus between Teos and Colophon; the Romans broke through the line of the enemy, and totally surrounded the left wing, so that they took or sank 42 ships.

In this way the towns of Dardanus and Ilium, whose ancient affinity with the Romans was traced to the times of Aeneas, became free, along with Cyme, Smyrna, Clazomenae, Erythrae, Chios, Colophon, Miletus, and other names of old renown.

His Colophon is how to resist and repress atheism, and to that purpose he adds four especial means or ways, which who so will may profitably peruse.

But he had procured ships from Syria and Rhodes, induced Cos and Cnidus to revolt, and driven out the Pontic partisans from Chios and Colophon.

26 (The tablet) beginning: ... Colophon.

32 (Colophon) Like its old (copy) engraved and written.

He wrote satirical pieces, which are lost; some said that they were the joint work of two friends, Dionysius and Zopyrus of Colophon, in whom it was one jest the more to ascribe their jesting to Menippus.

His verse certainly infringed none of the superstitions of the sect; for from title-page to colophon, there was no sin either in the way of music or color.

S(v) in sixes, on the reverse of which is the colophon, with Pynson's device underneath.

The Colophon of the Printer is one of great interest, filling the two last pages.

THE PASSING OF MANUEL XL COLOPHON:

The colophon is 'Imprynted at London in Foster Lane, by me John Waley.

(In The Colophon, spring 1936) © 17Jun36; A101077.

(In The New colophon, Jan. 1948) © 2Jan48; B113183.

(In The Colophon, pt.13, Spring 1930)

(In The Colophon, spring 1936) © 17Jun36; A101077.

(In The New colophon, Jan. 1948) © 2Jan48; B113183.

I have transcribed from the following edition, which is thus described in the Colophon: "The legende named in latyn Legenda Aurea, that is to say in englyshe the golden legende, For lyke as golde passeth all other metalles, so this boke excedeth all other bokes".

COLOPHON, an Ionian city in Asia Minor, N. of Ephesus, is supposed to give name to the device at the end of books, the cavalry of the place being famous for giving the finishing stroke to a battle.

53 examples of  colophon  in sentences