"Suffix" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... drop that letter on taking a suffix beginning with a vowel. Exceptions—words ending in ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... little from the printed page. Each is instinct, perhaps, with a separate suggestion. Some are martial and historic, and by your side the hurrying feet of the dead raise a ghostly dust. The name of yon town — with its Roman or Saxon suffix to British root — hints at much. Many a strong man, wanting his vates sacer, passed silently to Hades for that suffix to obtain. The little rise up yonder on the Downs that breaks their straight green line against the sky showed ...
— Pagan Papers • Kenneth Grahame
... "Al-fil," the elephantthe French fol or fou and our bishop. I have derived "elephant" from Pil (old Persian, Sansk. Pilu) and Arab. Fil, with the article Al-Fil, whence the Greek {Greek letters} the suffix—as being devoted to barbarous words as Obod-as (Al Ubayd), Aretas (Al-Haris), etc. Mr. Isaac Taylor (The Alphabet i. 169), preserves the old absurdity of "eleph-ant or ox-like (!) beast of Africa." Prof. Sayce finds the word al-ab (two distinct characters) in line 3, above ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... banks of the Seine, is Maisons-Laffitte. Maisons is scarcely ever mentioned by Parisians save as they comment on the sporting columns of the newspapers, for horse-racing now gives its distinction to the neighbourhood, and the old Chateau de Maisons (with its later suffix of Laffitte) ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield |
