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Definition of Chapters
1. chapter [v] - See also: chapter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapters
Literary usage of Chapters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1901)
"The First Book shall treat how Uther Pendragon gat the noble conqueror king
Arthur, and containeth xxviii chapters. The Second Book treateth of Balin the ..."
2. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (1908)
"A much longer time will be required for the introductory chapters than for the
... What incident or condition in these first chapters is really the ..."
3. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"In ten short sections or ' chapters,' the errors of the Arians, ... 258) points
out that, according to the original and proper usage, the Three chapters ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The eighth book treateth of the birth of Sir Tristram the noble knight, and of
his acts, and containeth 41 chapters. The ninth book treateth of a knight ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Christian division into chapters, invented by Archbishop Stephen ... AD 1330)
placed the numerals of these chapters in the margin of the Hebrew text. ..."
6. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... chapters,94 wild] has filled more volumes than it d» serves lines, is deeply
marked with this subtile and disingenuous spirit. ..."
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