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4 examples of plinian in sentences
I never could come into the custom of envelopes,'tis a modern foppery; the Plinian correspondence gives no hint of such.
" While at Edinburgh, Darwin was a member of the Plinian Society, and read a couple of papers on some observations in natural history.
I never could come into the custom of envelopes; 'tis a modern foppery; the Plinian correspondence gives no hint of such.
Your letters, filled with Plinian elegancies (more than becomes a Quaker), are so alien to Pliny's language, that you seem not to have a word (that is, a Roman word) to throw, as the saying is, at a dog.