I might come home with a new gadget that you don't have and you'll decide its time to "excursus" your right to take my money. From Wordnik.com. [Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
"excursus" on Sordello's presumed effort to strike out a new form and method in poetic language. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
Benedicti "but Mabillon added so much to it in the way of prefaces, notes, and" excursus "that it is justly accounted as his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
He also has a separate excursus on Josephus' material on pp.56-62. From Wordnik.com. [Mythicism and John the Baptist] Reference
In the amplitude of 9,000 words he presented full details and occasional excursus. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
C.S. Lewis concludes an excursus on love of country with this utilitarian observation. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
If so, could you please give a more detailed excursus into the meaning of the letter hay as a prefix?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The lengthy excursus on the structure of the human soul in his commentary to Ecclesiastes 7: 9 offers such an opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
In an excursus which must have given the reporters migraines, he started talking about the enlightenment concept of reason. From Wordnik.com. [The pope wrestles with enlightenment] Reference
Through Beruria, I had been led back into Scripture itself, into (and here the reader will begin to see the point of this excursus) the feminine aspects of the Divine. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
But that is an excursus, and would lead us too far afield. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
An an excursus in the subject of Pedagogy, I have treated in my. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution An Investigation and a Critique] Reference
I would here crave leave to make a short excursus to the ancient. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
Commentary on Exod. 33, 21, towards the end of the long excursus. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
(Supplement 3 and excursus on "Catholic and Romish"), the Fifth Chapter. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
Ukridge was in the middle of a very eloquent excursus on the feeding of fowls. From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm] Reference
Be not I, but they, blamed for any error, obscurity or omission in my brief excursus. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Max Beerbohm] Reference
"A poem needs understanding through the senses," Keats replies in a memorable excursus. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Register] Reference
But this is an excursus: I would that my hand were wielding a stout horsewhip rather than a pen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning] Reference
That would involve an excursus on Irish topography, which would be, to say the least, out of place. From Wordnik.com. [St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh] Reference
It is needless to extend further the present excursus on the origin and history of modern pseudo-science. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
Toward the End of Time (1997), Updike's major excursus into science fiction, and one of his most maligned books. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
Write down the chorus to each verse of Mr.S. Weller's song, and a sketch of the mottle-faced man's excursus on it. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Leaves] Reference
The construction is almost as severe; and the movement is unbroken from beginning to end, without excursus or digression. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
With respect to the polemic excursus, of course, I chuckle over them most sympathetically, and then say how naughty they are!. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
He improved the shining hour with an excursus on the subject of bullying, dispensed a few general threats, and left the room. From Wordnik.com. [A Prefect's Uncle] Reference
The work contains what we may call prolegomena on each of the Four Books, and then excursus on the most difficult and disputed passages. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1] Reference
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