Linguistics Reference
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus
Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category:
Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-06-30 | Author:Homer
But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-03-26 | Author:Virgil
BOOK 7 War in Latium You too, Caieta, nurse of Aeneas, have given by your death eternal fame to our shores; the honour paid you there even now protects your ...
( Category:
Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan
CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category:
Epic
April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-24 | Author:Aristophanes
[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category:
Medieval
April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Unknown
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO How Dancwart slew Bloedelin BLOEDELIN’s stalwarts were all in readiness and they set out with a thousand hauberks and came to where Dancwart sat at table with the ...
( Category:
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Conrad Russell [Conrad Russell]
He spoke too soon: not for the first time, the insistence that religious dissent was disloyal proved a self-fulfilling prophecy, and this officer, John Barry, became within the year a ...
( Category:
Great Britain
April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walker H. Land Jr. & J. David Schaffer
frac_len_p_gt_2s Fraction of utterance length that is pauses greater than 2 s frac_len_p_gt_5s Fraction of utterance length that is pauses greater than 5 s frac_len_p_gt_10s Fraction of utterance length that ...
( Category:
Intelligence & Semantics
April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-28 | Author:H. Beam Piper,John McGuire
* * * “Top emergency! Top emergency! “ a voice brayed out of the alarm box on the wall. “Serious disorder in Department Thirty-two! Serious disorder in Department Thirty-two! “ ...
( Category:
Linguistics Reference
April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Fanny Burney
Permit me now to go back to Joigny, for the purpose of giving some account of two very interesting acquaintances we made there. The first was Colonel Louis Bonaparte,(194) youngest ...
( Category:
British & Irish
April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Younger Pliny [Younger Pliny]
LXXX — To PRISCUS THE illness of my friend Fannia gives me great concern. She contracted it during her attendance on Junia, one of the Vestal virgins, engaging in this ...
( Category:
Rome
April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. Terrence Gordon
Here there has been no PHONETIC CHANGE to obscure the link between two words from the same root, but most speakers would not associate them. You don't have to know ...
( Category:
Authors
April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Allan Morrison [Morrison, Allan]
Food ‘Ne’er trust a skinny cook.’ They clearly don’t eat their own meals. ‘Watch ye don’t slitter.’ Don’t make a mess. ‘Ah’m that hungry ah could eat a scabby heided ...
( Category:
Satire
April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras [Petras, Ross & Petras, Kathryn]
PANEGYRIC “What is most unexpected and fascinating about Lipchitz [Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont] is that at times the book becomes a panegyric to the virtues of living in ...
( Category:
Dictionaries & Thesauruses
April 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-25 | Author:Whorf, Benjamin Lee,Lee, Penny.,Levinson, Stephen C.,Carroll, John B. [Whorf, Benjamin Lee]
Reprinted from pp. 75–93, Language, culture, and personality: Essays in memory of Edward Sapir, edited by Leslie Spier (Menasha, Wis.: Sapir Memorial Publication Fund, 1941). The article was written in ...
( Category:
Semantics
April 5,2020 )
Categories
Popular ebooks
Spell It Out by David Crystal(35846)The Code Book by Simon Singh(2856)
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides(1354)
The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment by Thurman Susan(1273)
Social Linguistics and Literacies by Gee James;(1090)
The Bostonians, Vol. II (Of II) by Henry James(1074)
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose(977)
The Satyricon by Petronius(925)
Words Fail Me by Patricia T. O'Conner(885)
Idylls of the King by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson(874)
Essential Words for the TOEFL by Steven J. Matthiesen(858)
The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge(829)
The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language by Pinker Steven(820)
The Fasti (Verse) by Ovid(808)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker(784)
The Great Book of American Idioms: A Dictionary of American Idioms, Sayings, Expressions & Phrases by Lingo Mastery(764)
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker(744)
The Riddle of the Labyrinth(739)
Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari(729)
Rick Steves Germany 2017 by Rick Steves(712)
