-
“
Here
was
Jay’s
Polyglot
and
the
matrimonial
Sanctius
again!
”
– A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Attractive Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
-
“
A
polyglot
combination
of
States,
getting
little
in
common
and
apparently
held
together
only
by
the
decaying
genius
of
the
aged
Emperor
Franz
Frederick,
the
dual
monarchy
was
considered
everywhere
as
on
the
verge
of
dissolution.
”
– Kelly Miller’s History around the globe War for Human Legal rights by Kelly Miller
-
“
He
had
a
volume
of
Walton’s
Polyglot
open
before
him,
and
was
studying
Job
in
the
original,
when
she
joined.
”
– The Entire PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Doctor and Poet and not the Jurist)
-
“
To
classify
faces
according
to
nationality
was
not
easy
in
the
polyglot
crowds
of
this
East
Side
line.
”
– The Very Best Short Tales of 1921 and also the Yearbook from the American Short Story by Various
-
“
Here
we
help
instruct
one
another,
as
we
stand
about
or
sit
about
in
twos
and
threes
or
bigger
groups,
studying
aloud
from
our
polyglot
Baedekers
while
we
join
in
identifying
the
different
details.
”
– Roman Holidays yet others by W. D. Howells
-
“
There
was
no
army
to
meet
the
blow-
nothing
but
a
polyglot
rabble
without
staff
or
even
officials.
”
– Some Concepts of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett
-
“
They
joined
lower
Broadway,
random
flowers
on
the
foul
truck-
thrown
ton,
evolving
by
inches,
encircled
by
polyglot
sounds,
traversing
revolted
Europe
in
a
block,
closing
their
ears
against
the
shrieking
cries
of
imprisoned
industries,
the
sordid
struggle
in
the
roads,
the
conflict
in
the
air,
where
stone
flights
strove
for
supremacy.
”
– The Salamander by Owen Manley
-
“
In
the
affair
of
public
feeding,
of
the
costliest,
as
well
as
the
least expensive
sorts,
we
may,
with
our
polyglot
menus,
securely
challenge
the
competition
of
any
metropolis
in
the
world,
not
to
say
the
world.
”
– London Films by W.D. Howells
-
“
It
was
an
oriental
polyglot
scene
lower
there
on
the
hospital
quay
in
the
comparative
awesome
of
evening,
when
the
big
white-colored
hospital
ship
lay
off
the
bank
and
crowds
of
ticketed
patients
sitting
under
the
shelters
waiting
their
turn
to
embark.
”
– In Mesopotamia by Martin Swayne
-
“
It
is
equally
hard
to
police
a
city
of
a
million
or
so
polyglot
occupants
with
a
due
regard
to
their
theoretic
constitutional
legal rights.
”
– Courts and Crooks by Arthur Train
-
“
But
the
part
I
have
selected
for
myself
don’t
require
the
polyglot
”
– Greenmantle by John Buchan
-
“
There
hovers
even
Count
Adam
Gurowski,
Polish,
loyal,
exiled,
temporarily
famous,
with
the
vision
of
his
being
invoked
for
facility
and
then
relinquished
for
difficulty
though
I
scarce
guess
on
which
of
his
fight-
grounds-
he
was
so
polyglot
that
he
even
had
a
wealthy
command
of
New
Yorkese.
”
– A Little Boy yet others by Henry James
-
“
When
cautioned
that
he
would
soon
have
a
polyglot
lot
of
chicken,
Alfred,
for
the
first
time,
weakened
on
the
chicken
proposition
more
for
the
reason
that
he
was
disgusted
with
their
polygamous
propensities.
”
– Watch Yourself Pass by Al. G. Field
-
“
These
consisted
of
whimsical
narratives,
each
serving
as
a
vehicle
for
the
display
of
his
wonderful
polyglot
learning,
and
that contains
translations
of
well-
known
British
songs
into
Latin,
Greek,
French,
and
Italian
verse,
which
later
he
seriously
symbolized
as
the
true
originals
from
which
the
British
authors
had
strongly
plagiarized.
”
– Eugene Field, Research In Genetics And Contradictions by Slason Thompson
-
“
The
Polyglot
three
parts-
my
text
Howbeit-
likewise-
now
to
my
next.
”
– Tobacco Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
-
“
With
the
peak
of
their
shingled
roofs
they
are
pathetic
survivals
of
a
time
when
New
You are able to
still
appreciated
that
it
had
been
New
Amsterdam,
and
when
it
did
not
build
its
dwellings
in
imitation
of
the
polyglot
loftiness
of
the
Tower
of
Babel.
”
– Vignettes of Manhattan Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
-
“
"
Bring
her
to
me,
and
save
me
from
the
polyglot
stated
Mrs
Mountstuart,
in
afright
at
Dr.
Middleton’s
manner
of
flowing
forth
into
the
ears
of
the
downcast
girl.
”
– The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
-
“
I
don’t
pretend
to
know
New
You are able to
inside-
out
and
upsidedown,
he
was
saying
but
it
is
a
most
fascinating
study,
this
polyglot
city
of
ours,
and
the
more
you
push
your
investigations
the
more
likely
you
are
to
make
surprising
breakthroughs.
”
– Vignettes of Manhattan Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
-
“
The
men
of
a
whaler’s
crew
are
a
polyglot
lot,
selected
up
from
the
gutters
and
the
depths.
”
– The Ocean Bride by Ben Ames Johnson
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