philologer
Example Sentences
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A very learned English professor crushed an argument in a political discussion, by asking his adversary angrily: ‘Are you aware, sir, that I am a philologer?’
From An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit by George Meredith
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
No sane ethnologist or philologer will insist that all these conceptions are related genetically, that there is nothing accidental in the repetition of the idea.
From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Maurice Bloomfield
He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic.
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
