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  • Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar emendations of his own— God's NOT in his heaven: All's WRONG with the world!†  (source)
  • [1] S. emends, suggesting 'deop' for 'deog,' and removing semicolon after 'weol.'†  (source)
  • Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.†  (source)
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  • Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied—'See Rome and die:' but in your case I would propose an emendation and say, See Rome as a bride, and live henceforth as a happy wife.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • B. accepts B.'s "brilliant" 'fifelgeban,' omits 'on,' emends 'cyn' to 'ham,' arranging: Þaer ic fifelgeban yethde, eotena ham = _where I desolated the ocean, the home of the eotens_.†  (source)
  • Little Cackleby himself went to seven evening parties and told the story with comments and emendations at each place.†  (source)
  • [2] S. and B. emend so as to negative the verb 'meet.†  (source)
  • emended to 'Geatum.'†  (source)
  • By emending 'is' instead of 'waes' (2025), the tenses will be brought into perfect harmony.†  (source)
  • Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance.†  (source)
  • emends 'wael-sweord.'†  (source)
  • You don't know what it is to want spiritual tobacco—bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the 'Twaddler's Magazine;' or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research.†  (source)
  • [1] Several eminent authorities either read or emend the MS. so as to make this verse read, _While Grendel was wasting the gold-bedecked palace_.†  (source)
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