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More "Apposition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of great importance also exists in the spontaneous collapse and automatic apposition of the walls of the track. This closure is rendered additionally effective in many cases by the interruption of the continuous line in the wounded tissues consequent on alteration in the position of the parts traversed when an attitude of ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... used as an indefinite pronoun of the third person, and represents our one, but in the present poems it is of all persons, and seems to be placed in apposition with the subject of the sentence corresponding to our use of myself, thyself, ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... of obsidian." As this stone was largely used for arrow heads and other weapons, the expression in this connection seems to mean "master of arms." Ah [c]am, from [c]am, to take, seize. Brasseur construes these words as in apposition to vach: "Whom shall we make our ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton
... form is analyzed, we discover that in, a, u, c, a-ex, u-ob, are personal possessive pronouns, my, thy, his, our, your, their; and that nacal and cah are in fact verbal nouns standing in apposition. Cah, which is the sign of the present tense, means the doing, making, being occupied or busy at something. Hence nacal in cah, I ascend, is literally "the ascent, my being occupied with." The imperfect tense is merely the present ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
... plain, a space was left between the several divisions, but in this case, the plain being too narrow, there were no such spaces. [339] 'From among these who were drawn up as a reserve, he draws, for the purpose of strengthening the van, all centurions, picked men (in apposition), and the volunteers who had not been enlisted, as well as the ablest of the common soldiers who were provided with arms.' The word lectos belonging to centuriones, shows that Catiline had appointed to the office of centurions only chosen men who were personally ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)
... first discover the sad effects of death. But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them unto life again, was a vanity of affection; as not presumably ignorant of the critical tests of death, by apposition of feathers, glasses, and reflection of figures, which dead eyes represent not: which, however not strictly verifiable in fresh and warm cadavers, could hardly elude the test, in corpses of four ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne
... white and colorless, as long as it does not come in contact with matter. When in apposition with any body, it suffers variable degrees of decomposition, resulting in color, as by reflection, dispersion, refraction, ...
— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey
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