KING: But you were -- I mean, you were a terrific chronologist (ph)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2002] Reference

"He was a keen chronologist, and possessed a valuable collection of shells.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920] Reference

A learned chronologist is about proving what wood this staff was made of, whether oak, ash, or crab-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

Arabic chronologist (A.D. 1000), in his Chronology of Eastern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

And therefore all that learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 181-190] Reference

With apologies to Billy Joel, who's more of a chronologist, and in tribute to a president.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

It is not, however, the business of the chronologist to enter into a discussion of that matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The German chronologist, Ideler, was acquainted with this work, and in a paper of his own, presented to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Eclipses] Reference

Johannes Brandis, the Assyrian chronologist, arranges for me the synchronistic tables from Menes to Alexander.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

Thus, says James B. Lindsay, an English chronologist, "a foundation is laid for chronology sure as the stars.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Day In the Light of Prophecy] Reference

In 1679 he was definitor-general and chronologist of the order in Germany, and in 1698 was proclaimed scriptor ordinis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Master Heriot removed something unceremoniously, and gave to view the detected daughter of the old chronologist, his own fair god-daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

So much was not difficult to accomplish; for barely to enunciate the leading doctrine of the fathers is, in the ear of any chronologist, to overthrow it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference

Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

It is, again, a subject full of interest to the chronologist to inquire in what era of the world's history exact astronomy began, the moon was assigned her twenty-eight zodiacal mansions, the sun his twelve zodiacal signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference

Nevertheless, in a work like this, they ought not to be passed over without some notice; but the notice we shall bestow upon them will not be that either of the chronologist or antiquarian, but of a more popular, appropriate, and useful description.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference

A chronologist in the fourth century records that some persons, whom he does not name, not even stating when they lived, had written down, not what they had heard as matter of fact, or received by tradition, but that a revelation had been made to them of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

As this alliance of two events, actually so distant, can only be detected by one somewhat of a chronologist, I perhaps should do better not to mention it: but, in case one so qualified should peruse this work, I feel it satisfactory to prevent his depreciating me as less knowing than I am.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference

It was the French chronologist, Scaliger, who in the sixteenth century asserted, "nulli melius piraticam exercent quam Angli"; and although he had no need to cross the Channel to find men proficient in this primitive calling, the remark applies to the England of his time with a force which we to-day scarcely realise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century] Reference

It cannot be rejected, because it contains historical matter which is consonant with and illuminates the dry lists of the chronologist, and it cannot be retained, for popular poetry is not history; and the task of distinguishing In such literature the fact from the fiction -- where there is certainly fact and certainly fiction -- is one of the most difficult to which the intellect can apply itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.] Reference

A very interesting study for the chronologist and phrenologist; but I apprehend that it would be a matter of great difficulty (if not of impossibility) to procure them at this time, for the use and benefit of the scientific world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference

1 An ancient chronologist, quoted by Valleius Paterculus, (l.i. c. 6,) observes, that the Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians, and the Macedonians, reigned over Asia one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five years, from the accession of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

You are not a good chronologist, friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Irish scholar and chronologist, b. at Conna, Ballynoe, Co. Cork, 12.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference

We have found him even more agreeable as a private talker than as a lecturer; he is rich in the old lore of England -- he will hunt a phrase through several reigns -- propose derivations for words which are equally ingenious and learned -- follow a proverb for generations back, and discuss on the origin of language as though he had never studied aught beside: he knows more than any other person we ever met with of the biography of talented individuals -- in the philosophy of common life he is quite an adept -- a capital chronologist -- a man of fine mind and most excellent memory: his experience has, of course, been very great, and he has taken good advantage of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827] Reference