adsum
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of adsum
Latin
Example Sentences
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It had been nothing at school—all the girls standing in the drill-room, rows of voices saying "adsum," then a Collect and the Lord's Prayer.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
En, adsum qui feci, Qui telum conjeci; Jaculis et arcu Passer interfeci.
From Chenodia Or, the Classical Mother Goose by Bigelow, Jacob
All which was declared excellently well in the six verses that were written in a suitable place, saying: August� en adsum spons� comes Austria; magni C�saris h�c nata est, C�saris atque soror.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Vasari, Giorgio
En! ego quæ vindex 'mutis quoque piscibus' adsum, Donatura cycni, si ferat hora, sonos, Ipsa loquor vates: Patriæ decus addere linguæ Hic sciet, ut titulis laus eat aucta tuis.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine
In the eight months that the class continued, the only words that passed between them were his name read from the roll and the daily adsum with which the student responded.
From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.
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