"Chaldee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... also are primitive words, and may be considered as a part of our vernacular language. They are of equal antiquity with the Chaldee and Syriac." ...
— The Philosophy of Teaching - The Teacher, The Pupil, The School • Nathaniel Sands
... hostess; and after some slight hesitation, commenced talking to her of theatres, and balls, and assemblies, and fashionable intelligence in general; but Balaam's ass, if she had marched into the room and commenced an oration in the original Hebrew, or Chaldee, or Syro-Phoenician, or whatever might have been its vernacular tongue in which she formerly addressed her master, could not have been more unintelligible. The old gentleman made an attempt to drive a conversation, and asked a few questions ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames |
