Iulii Solini collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Theodor Mommsen (Berlin, 1864), 17. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
In 1500 he published a little book, Adagiorum collectanea, an anthology of proverbs and sayings derived from classical sources, a slim little volume with only 818 items, all taken from Latin sources. From Wordnik.com. [Desiderius Erasmus] Reference
This volume of collectanea is divided into two parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
In the collectanea of Judge J.C. Ruppenthal, of Russell, Kansas, a very careful observer, are many curious specimens. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 1. Surnames] Reference
The completed portions pertain mainly to the first two acts; for the rest we have an immense mass of schemes, arguments, excerpts and collectanea. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Thus I find mazuma in a Word-List from Kansas, from the collectanea of Judge J.C. Ruppenthal, of Russell, Kansas, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, pt. v, 1916, p. 322. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 4. Foreign Influences Today] Reference
Some of the more familiar conjugations of verbs in the American common speech, as recorded by Charters or Lardner or derived from my own collectanea, are here set down. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb] Reference
Many other curious specimens are in my collectanea, among them: one swaller dont make no summer, I never seen nothing I would of rather saw, and once a child gets burnt once it wont never stick its hand in no fire no more, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 8. The Double Negative] Reference
Niphus, A., 1544:” In libris de A.ima collectanea atque Commentaria Præfatio” in Expositio Subtilissima collectanea commentariaque in libros A.istotelis de A.ima nuper accuratissima dilligentia recognita, A. Niphus, Venice: apud Iuntas, f. 2ra - 3rb. From Wordnik.com. [Assorted Moments of Moral Ambiguity from the World of Gay Porn] Reference
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