Example Sentences

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Custom has Latinised the appellations, and as he has rejected obsolete terms in conversation, he has felt it more consistent to reject these more correct, but less familiar, orthographies.

From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

Edward I., it is very common under the orthographies of fil.

From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

A large number of their misprints could only have been perpetrated in the midst of the old orthographies.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

It was Pippa and Bishop Blougram with a few pomegranate seeds and unexpected orthographies thrown in.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

This explains the perhaps alarming mixture of old and modern orthographies which appear in my pages.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.