Or was it perhaps a memory of the mysterious power of the number seven exemplified in both Hebrew and Hindu writings, which induced the Musulman to build that number of entrances to his hill-citadel?

The obsession of style is well exemplified by a comparison of Dionysius and Longinus in their discussion of Sappho's literary art.

Never has Napoleon's maxim that "an army fights on its stomach" been better exemplified than here.

He was as familiar with Boccaccio's poetic method, as exemplified in the Teseide, as with his prose, as exemplified at much greater length in the Decameron, for he borrowed from them both.

In their instance the old adage of Aristotle, simile gaudet simili, was exemplified to the letter; and the union confirmed in each a mind which, originally impatient of authority, fretted itself against the frame of society, simply because that frame was the result of order.

THE MANNER OF CUTTING UP VEAL for the English market is to divide the carcase into four quarters, with eleven ribs to each fore quarter; which are again subdivided into joints as exemplified on the cut.

While the rhetoricians were exemplifying from the poets their schemes and tropes, their well joined words, "smooth, soft as a maiden's face,"[103] the poets on their part were assiduously practicing all the rhetorical devices of style.

Turning to them, we find that most of the possible forms of variation are exemplified within the bounds of the Canon itself.

"[40] Speaking of Trade Unions, he sums up"In fact the executive committees of all the chief Unions are to a very large extent hostile to strikes, and exercise a restraining influence"a judgment the truth of which has been largely exemplified during the last two or three years.

Such a phase is the coming of the first war-books, exemplified for me by the appearance of From the Fire Step (PUTNAMS).

[150] The Art of Rhetorick concisely and completely handled, exemplified out of Holy Writ, etc.

The truth of the solidarity of the varied interests of a social organism is nowhere so well exemplified as in the history of modern Japan.