Citations:commentaries

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English citations of commentaries

1851
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  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    These are scientific commentaries; but the commentaries of the whalemen themselves sometimes consist in hard words and harder knocks — the Coke-upon-Littleton of the fist.
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