Lexicographical Neighbors of Quintessences
Literary usage of Quintessences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"And certainly there was verified the saying and opinion of some critics who assert
that Filipinas is composed of quintessences," for many of these are found ..."
2. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"And certainly there was verified the saying and opinion of some critics who assert
that Filipinas is composed of quintessences,87 for many of these are ..."
3. Memoir of Edward Forbes by George Wilson, Archibald Geikie (1861)
"There was here a still more exciting and attractive prospect than that which the
extraction of ready-formed quintessences furnished. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"The same proportions which these quintessences have to their materials, hath the
soul of man to all sensible creatures, of which it is the pure extract or ..."
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