Example Sentences

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The Arabic baraka also signifies to rain violently; and from this we get the Saxon rœgn, to rain, Dutch regen, to rain, Cimbric rœkia, rain, Welsh rheg, rain.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius

Ever since we know anything of the history of Northern Europe, we find Saxon races established as the inhabitants of that northern peninsula which was then called the Cimbric Chersonese.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

What say you to Cicero's, in the Carinæ? or the grand portico of Quintus Catulus, rich with the Cimbric spoils? or, better yet, that of Crassus, with its Hymettian columns, on the Palatine?

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William

We know, moreover, that the trophies erected to Marius for his Cimbric and Teutonic victories were overthrown by Sulla, and that they were re-erected by Julius Cæsar in A.D.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Shakespeare was of Welsh descent, but whether of Celtic or Cimbric stock it were difficult to determine.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper