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Speaking afterwards, Swayne told the BBC, Hilaire Belloc's cautionary tales were his "favourite reading and a compendium of wisdom".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Our critic said that most of the show “is devoted to works made between 1951 and 1966, offering a compendium of wide-ranging approaches and occasional surprises.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
The release of “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” is accompanied by a new compendium of standout tracks by McCartney and Wings.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2025
Those writings, discovered in her New York City apartment after she died in her Alabama hometown nine years ago, have been gathered into the welcome hybrid compendium “The Land of Sweet Forever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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The sequel is tentatively titled “Filthy Healthy Cravings”: a compromise, perhaps, between recent salad-centric compendia and the permissive indulgence of Chrissy Teigen’s cookbooks.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018
“Legal compendia are among the foundational reference works in every civilization.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016
They should have, he argues, and to demonstrate that he is perfectly serious, Fussell goes through the Handbook, with meticulous care before concluding that it is a "compendia of good sense".
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012
Thank Naxos Records for its compendia of Barber’s orchestral music and of Schuman’s symphonies, both timed to coincide with the centenaries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2011
There is a large number of small treatises and compendia of Florentine history of the guide-book description.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Popular Bachardy books like “Hollywood” and “Stars in My Eyes” are compendiums of many of those movie star drawings, and lots of them are very good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023
Indeed, American cookbook authors focusing on non-Eurocentric recipes no longer have to be compendiums that represent the cuisine of their heritage as a whole; instead they can have diasporic nuances.
From Salon ● May 26, 2022
Its probable origin is Indian; Indian story compendiums too have a fondness for frame stories, for Russian doll-style stories within stories, and for animal fables.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2021
These are all counted in later Vais'e@sika commentaries and compendiums.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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