Do we say sign or sine

sign 8003 occurrences

All offer incense at my shrine, And I alone the bargain sign.

They prescribed a form of muster-rolls, which they were to see and sign in the presence of the clearing officer.

It would be a sign to him of his own moral degradation.

It seems probable that, in the last resort, classification in literature rests on that least tangible, least definable matter, style; for style is the sign of the poem's spirit, and it is the spirit that we feel.

The tradition of the beggar is still preserved on the sign-posts of several of the public-houses in the neighbourhood.

Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?

Others say as much (as Hospinian observes) of the three kings of Cologne; their names written in parchment, and hung about a patient's neck, with the sign of the cross, will produce like effects.

"Then, just as the first touch of dawn came into the sky, that unnatural wind ceased, in a single moment; and I could see no sign of the hand.

The eighth place was, of course, empty; but ready for me to occupy at any moment; for I had omitted to make the Sealing Sign to that point, until I had finished all my preparations, and could enter the Inner Star.

"And now at last, I went to my place, and, sitting down, made the Eighth sign just beyond my feet.

"Wentworth sat behind the First Sign, and as the numbering went 'round reversed, that put him next to me on my left.

When the last man had vanished, the slab that made the step was shut down, and there was not a sign of the secret door.

Why had not a company been detailed to patrol the cantonment the previous evening, or, at any rate, at the first sign of incendiarism?

The party round the blazing fire that night were despondent, for a week had passed without a single sign of recent moose discovering itself.

A tingling of the wonderful nerves that betrayed itself by no outer sign, ran through him as he tasted the keen air.

She passed these statues without a sign of fear, but when she saw the room itself, steeped in a supra-genteel calm, full of gowns and hats and everything that you read about in the Lady's Pictorial, and the pennoned mast of a barge crossing the windows at the other end, she stopped suddenly.

I don't propose to sign itI seldom did sign my picturesand we shall see what we shall see....

I don't propose to sign itI seldom did sign my picturesand we shall see what we shall see....

She thought it bizarre, but she certainly had not taken it for a sign of lunacy.

And yet it had been a sign of madness.

By and by patches of blue shone between the boughs before us, a sign that the summit was near, and before one o'clock we stood upon the narrow ridge forming the crest of the mountain.

Nor did the latter, nor the ready cafidji, who filled our pipes on the banks of the Meles, attempt to overcharge mea sure sign that the Orient had left its seal on my face.

We had sot proceeded far before a new sign called my attention to the mountain.

In Malta and Sicily, I saw their decaying watch-towers, and recognized their sign-manual in the deep, guttural, masculine words and expressions which they have left behind them.

This soul sublime, This soul lord paramount o'er space and time, This soul of fire, with impious madness sought, Itself to prove of mortal matter wrought; Nay, bred, engendered, on the grub-worm plan, From that vile clay which made his outward man, That shadowy form which dark'ning into birth, But seem'd a sign to mark a soul on earth.

sine 419 occurrences

At all events, I have consulted comfort; and that I would maintain, in the face of Vitruvius himself, is a sine quâ non in domestic architecture.

Two years later Boyse wrote the following verses to Cave from a spunging-house: 'Hodie, teste coelo summo, Sine pane, sine nummo, Sorte positus infeste, Scribo tibi dolens moeste.

Two years later Boyse wrote the following verses to Cave from a spunging-house: 'Hodie, teste coelo summo, Sine pane, sine nummo, Sorte positus infeste, Scribo tibi dolens moeste.

[Greek: Battologein] autem illis dicitur qui voces easdem frequenter iterant sine causa, vel loquacitatis, vel naturae, vel consuetudinis vitio.

This basis was upon that Latin proverb nil de nobis, sine nobis"nothing about us without us."

Then suddenly with astonishing force the mind is flung through and beyond the memories of the awful mutilation by the amazingly condensed phrase: jacet ingens litore truncus avulsumque umeris caput et sine nomine corpus.

In a few cases he can grant very great powers as when he tells Venus: Imperium sine fine dedi (I, 278).

It is forced to view energy of will in knowing as a source merely of corruption, and when it finds that as a psychic fact willing is ineradicable, it must conclude that we are constitutionally incapable of that passive reflection of reality which it regards as the sine qua non of truth.

Possint ut Juvenes visere fervidi Multo non sine risu, Dilapsam in cineres facem.

Faith was the sine qua non of salvation, and by "faith" he meant belief in his own particular view of things"which faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly."

Consider the legacy of hatred and cruelty involved in the doctrines men have built into their creeds where the sine qua non of salvation is absolute acceptance of one particular set of views or else perishing everlastinglyfor only by repudiating history can they disavow it" "You're not quite accurate," I put in.

Confidence would seem to be the sine quâ non for the successful batsman.

The result, as you have seen, is a demand of an official written expression of regrets and a direct explanation addressed to France with a distinct intimation that this is a sine qua non.

Mr. SHERMAN said it was better to let the Southern States import slaves, than to part with them, if they made that a sine qua non.

The Constitution being signed by all the members except Mr. Randolph, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Gerry, who declined giving it the sanction of their names, the Convention dissolved itself by an adjournment sine die.

If we have not been able to write about the Near East under existing circumstances altogether sine ira et studio, we have tried to remember that each of its peoples has a case.

"Yes, sir, adjourned me sine die.

During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a parallel situation seems to have arisen in feudal France and Germany where local love-poetry also treated adultery as a sine qua non of romance.

Legitur sine ferro dextra manu per tunicam, qua sinistra exuitur velut a furante, candida veste vestito, pureque lotis nudis pedibus, saero facto priusquam legatur, pane vinoque.

The Regent considered that he had secured to himself an effective instrument of his views; acceptance of the system had been the condition sine qua non of M. d'Argenson's elevation.

But though I maintain the existence of danger in a Treaty with the Republic of France, unless she previously repeal the decrees to which I have adverted, and abrogate the acts to which they have given birth, I by no means contend that it exists in such a degree as to justify a determination, on the part of the British government, to make its removal the sine qua non of negotiation, or peace.

Indeed, in my apprehension, it would be highly impolitic in any Minister, at the commencement of a war, to advance any specific object, that attainment of which should be declared to be the sine qua non of peace.

Mercy Disbrow tould him yt shee would make him as bare as a birds taile, which he saith was about two or three yrs sine wch was before he lost any of his creatures.

uppon occation sine he went to Hartford while he was gone from home

Then I spoke sumthing whereby I gaue them to understand that she did so becase she knew of ye sword, whereupon Danil made a sine to Thomas Austen to hould ye sword again yt she might not know of it, wch he did & then she did not laugh at all nor chang her countenance.

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