"Penultimate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doubtful whether the Hebrew knows anything at all of the twin-bearing ewes; the penultimate line ought rather to be rendered (as in the margin of the Revised Version) "thy teeth ... which are all of them in pairs." But, however rendered, the Hebrew means this. Theocritus speaks of the richness of the goat's milk, for, after having ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... Penultimate molar, lower jaw, right side, one-third of natural size, Pleistocene and Newer Pliocene. ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell
... becoming lively as the penultimate entree was reached, had turned naturally on the affair of the theatre and the constitutionally sworn rector. In the first fervor of royalty, during the year 1816, those who later were called Jesuits were all for the expulsion of the Abbe Francois from his parish. Du Bousquier, suspected by ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac
... allied to the Notopods (or those crabs which have their posterior legs placed almost on their backs, for the purpose of adhering to the under side of rocks), is very remarkable from the structure of its hind pair of legs. The penultimate joint, instead of terminating in a simple claw, ends in three bristle-like appendages of dissimilar lengths — the longest equalling that of the entire leg. These claws are very thin, and are serrated with the finest teeth, ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin |
