philologer
Example Sentences
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A curious book on it has lately been published in Trinidad by Mr. Thomas, a coloured gentleman, who seems to be at once no mean philologer and no mean humorist.
From At Last by Charles Kingsley
Hauptmann was not merely a philologer, which is a formidable thing in itself, but he belonged to the esoteric group that deals with languages which have no literature.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
Its king is a brother of Zeus, one Pluto; whose name—so an able philologer assures me—contains a complimentary allusion to his ghostly wealth.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Commend a good divine, he cries postilling; a philologer, pedantry; a poet, rhiming; a school-man, dull wrangling; a sharp conceit, boyishness; an honest man, plausibility.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Why should he not make a philologer and a professor the author of the Homeric poems?
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
