[Footnote 1: The earliest products of the modern technique were called 'city' verses, because they originated in Constantinople, which has remained 'the city' par excellence for the Romaic Greek ever since the Dark Age made it the asylum of his civilization.

It may readily be distinguished by the shaggy bark of its trunk, the excellence of its globular fruit, its leaves, which are large and have five leaflets, and by its ovate, half-covered buds.

105; Boswell apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3; defends him, v. 339, n. 5; relishes his excellence, in.

'Compared with excellence, nothing,' iii. 320; 'Is getting £100,000 a proof of excellence?' iii.

'Compared with excellence, nothing,' iii. 320; 'Is getting £100,000 a proof of excellence?' iii.

QUALITÉ, f., propriété; excellence en quelque chose; talent, disposition heureuse.

VERNET (HORACE), célèbre peintre français, le peintre de batailles par excellence (1789-1863).

It was narrowing down to a question of the skill of the driver on one side, pitted against the excellence of the dogs on the other.

The colt born in April is often sold six months afterwards, in September, for 20l. or 25l., and even up to 30l., according to excellence.

No pinnacle in station, no supremacy in excellence or intellect, can exempt man from this portion of his lot.

Meres, in all probability, had no list to refer to, nor was he making one: he simply adduced, in evidence of his assertion of Shakspeare's excellence, both in tragedy and comedy, such plays of both kinds as he could recollect, or the best of those which he did recollect.

The one great burden of the harangues delivered by the venerable peace-chief on solemn occasions is the necessity and excellence of female virtue; all the terrors of superstitious sanction and the direst threats of the great prophet are levelled at unchastity, and all the most dreadful calamities and pains of a future state are hung suspended over the heads of those who are persistently lascivious.

Without knowing whence they came, she afterward sends the pearls to her lover's wife with these words addressed to her servants: "Take these pearls and give them to my sister, Tscharudatta's wife, the honorable woman, and say to her: 'Conquered by Tscharudatta's excellence, I have become also your slave.

Every municipality has its own arbitrary codeevery battalion, every private soldier, exercises a sovereignty, a most absolute despotism; and yet the Gazettes do not cease to boast the excellence of such a government.

Yet Rolland is the hero of a party who call him, par excellence, the virtuous Rolland!

["It's unlucky, but what can be said in such cases?"] and in the same instant they ill recount some good fortune at a card party, or expatiate on the excellence of a ragout.

I doubt if there are ten consecutive miles of carriage-road in America that could compare for excellence with that over the desert of Old Ord.

The works of all painters are weekly laid before his Majesty by the Daroghas and the clerks; he confers rewards according to the excellence of workmanship, or increases their monthly salaries.

Its directors know that its profits depend on the excellence of its service.

The explanation, perhaps, is that the Dean chiefly moved in clerical circles where excellence is more frequently to be met with than goodness.

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That a considerable number of these have appeared in Mr. Punch's pages, by whose kind permission they are reprinted, is quite sufficient guarantee for their excellence.

Therefore, despite his technical excellence and superb courage, he is an uncomfortable neighbour for establishments like Hush Hall.

" Like as an adjective means "similar," as, "Men of like excellence;" "He looks like his grandfather;" "He was a man of like passions as we are."