Littré
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She lived in the neighbourhood, because she went to the rue Littré post-office for her mail.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Littré must have known what he was talking about.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
The same passage is, however, repeated twice in the Hippocratic writings, viz. in the περι φυσιος ανθρωπου, On the nature of man, Littré, vi.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
Like the rest of us, who are so far beneath M. Littré in grasp and in weight of authority, he was subject to the idola fori, the illusions of the market-place.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
This fact, as is judiciously remarked by M. Littré, is not valid against the plan of M. Comte's classification, but discloses a slight error in the detail.
From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill
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