| 单词 | sesquipedalia |
| 例句 | The result often is certain sesquipedalia verba comparable in length to those of the American polysynthetic languages. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z We label him with two or three sesquipedalia verba, give his territorial range, describe his notes and his habits of nidification, and fancy we have rendered an account of the bird. Birds in the Bush O'Connell knew well the use of sound in the vituperation, and having to deal with an ignorant scold, determined to overcome her in volubility, by using all the sesquipedalia verba which occur in Euclid. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Thank Heaven, we have not yet come to think that the highest form of wisdom is enshrined in the sesquipedalia monstra of chemical formulae, still less in the extreme abstractions of mathematics. Nature Mysticism How soberly side by side they solved problems and looked up sesquipedalia verba in big lexicons! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Hercules speaks in blank verse and in a phrase, full of sesquipedalia verba, demands his country and lineage. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 |
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