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Example sentences for "extant"

Lexicographically close words:
exquisitely; exquisiteness; exquisites; exserted; extacy; extasy; extat; extatic; extemporal; extemporaneous
  1. An organization, as we have already said, took place under this grant, and a few records are extant in manuscript.

  2. But it is very singular, that of the many original grants of the Council extant no one of them has the wax impression of the seal intact or unbroken; usually it is wholly wanting.

  3. In March, 1867, he contributed to the Sabbath at Home magazine an illustrated article on the “Footprints of the Pilgrims in England,” which is still the most vivid and the fullest description extant of the Scrooby neighborhood.

  4. The history of the transactions of the Council may be largely gathered from their extant records as published in Amer.

  5. This view is strengthened by the fact that of the few extant coins of Gustavus, dated 1522, not one contains enough silver to have been worth an öre and a half, and most of them fall considerably below the value of an öre.

  6. One of the few early illustrations of Irish history extant represents him as charging at breakneck pace down a hill.

  7. The door, with the hole still in it, was extant up to the other day.

  8. In one of the earliest extant annals a Cruit, or stringed harp, is described as belonging to the Dashda, or Druid chieftain.

  9. Mr. Sala, as is now well known by means of his autobiography, was once an artist and book-illustrator, and Foxwold is the proud possessor of the only picture in oil extant from his brush.

  10. At all events, you possess the only picture in oil extant from the brush of Yours very faithfully, George Augustus Sala.

  11. Such a book was still extant in the ninth century; for Photius, the celebrated patriarch of Constantinople, has given us an account of its contents in the journal and epitome of his studies which he has left us.

  12. That edition has now been extant for many centuries; and is variously legible in the literature, the institutions, the private manners of Christendom.

  13. In this highest faculty the Hebrew seers belong to a class scattered over every nation and every period; which Providence keeps ever extant for human good, and especially to furnish an administration of religion quite anti-sacerdotal.

  14. There are two standards of judgment extant for the estimate of character and life; one set up in the pulpit, the other recognized in the forum and the street.

  15. There are still extant gold staters, with the head of Flamininus and the inscription "-T.

  16. But this view is confirmed by nothing in the prelate's extant correspondence.

  17. But Sleidan's statement is fully substantiated by an extant memorandum by Spalatin, who was present on the occasion (printed in Seckendorff, Gerdes, iv.

  18. The number of extant poems on the death of Louis de Berquin attests very clearly the estimate placed upon him by the Roman Catholics as the most dangerous heretic--in fact, the heresiarch of the day.

  19. The earliest edition known to be extant is that of which a single copy exists in the collection of M.

  20. In an extant portrait, taken five years later, he is delineated with long hair and scanty beard.

  21. Footnote 273: Margaret's gratitude to Montmorency for his kind offices is very fully attested by a passage in an extant letter (Génin, Lettres de Marg.

  22. The extant letters of Calvin to Renée are full of manly and Christian frankness, and affectionate loyalty.

  23. From a passage of Photius it appears that at least[6] the fifty speeches of recognized authenticity were extant as late as A.

  24. The extant works of Isocrates consist of twenty-one speeches or discourses and nine letters.

  25. It is, however, to say the least, doubtful whether any of the extant prophecies are as early as the reign of Uzziah.

  26. Six of the twelve extant speeches are directly concerned with claims to an estate; five others are connected with legal proceedings arising out of such a claim.

  27. The treaty is probably extant in the Archives of Pistoia.

  28. The earliest chronicler of whom any remains are extant is the judge and notary Sanzanome, who, as already noted by us, wrote his "Gesta Florentinorum" at the beginning of the thirteenth century.

  29. Messer Cante dei Gabrielli had already begun to pronounce sentences on the Bianchi, which were subsequently transcribed on the first pages of the still extant "Libro del Chiodo.

  30. It is known that Compagni's Chronicle is only extant in copies dated after his time, and therefore probably containing blunders, alterations, and additions made by its transcribers.

  31. There is still extant a ballad, entitled "John Rimaardson's Confession.

  32. And, as was said above, and will be discussed again, it is even possible on the basis of the evidence extant to give an account of the emotional character of this relation.

  33. It is a vast subject, and I think the most profoundly occult mystery extant and undeciphered.

  34. I doubt if any religion extant has claimed such a wide diversity in its adherents as Christianity.

  35. There is extant a prose letter from Milton to Holstentius, the librarian of the Vatican, in which he accounts as one of his greatest pleasures at Rome, that of having known and heard Leonora.

  36. It is a curious fact, that the earliest blank verse extant was written by Saint Francis.

  37. The finest specimens extant of this old English work (opus Anglicanum) are the cope and maniple of S.

  38. One of the earliest accounts of her is Pasquill's Jests with the Merriments of Mother Bunch, extant in several editions, which was reprinted by Hazlitt in Old English Jestbooks, 1864, Vol.

  39. Her last extant letter to Urban himself is to urge him to adopt a mild and generous policy towards the Roman People.

  40. Some vestiges of this small house (veteris coenobioli vestigia) were still extant in Leland's time.

  41. The earliest extant statutes appear to be those of the second foundress, the Queen Consort of Edward IV.

  42. Nothing is extant to show that at so early a date as this, or even for some considerable while after, any of Keats's immediate friends shared the ominous prevision of Coleridge.

  43. Lastly, though the list of extant portraits is not even thus exhausted, I mention the medallion by Girometti, which is to all appearance a posthumous performance.

  44. Another remarkable production of the fourteenth century is Tkadleczek, the Little Weaver, the manuscript of which is extant in several copies; but it has been printed only in an ancient German translation; see Dobrovsky, ibid.

  45. Two interesting collections of the popular poetry extant among the inhabitants of Montenegro and Herzegovina were published in the course of a few years by Tshubar Tshoikovitch; one of them edited by J.

  46. Several narrative ballads of some length are still extant among them, similar to the Servian, but rhymed.

  47. All that is extant from this period is written in Latin.

  48. Several vocabularies of this dialect are extant in manuscript; see Schaffarik's Geschichte, p.

  49. Many of the more ancient ballads extant among the Poles we find also in one or other of the Western Slavic languages.

  50. Footnote 12: Most of these dramas are extant in manuscript in the synodal library at Moscow.

  51. Collections of statutes, of the decrees of diets, of judicial decisions, and of other documents, were made by patriotic and sometimes eminent men; and those merely extant in Latin were carefully translated into Bohemian.

  52. The first is extant in a great many versions, differing somewhat from each other.

  53. Footnote 19: The Bohemian writings of Huss are extant partly in manuscript, partly in single printed pamphlets, but have never been collected.

  54. We find also that a great part of the Bible was already extant in the Bohemian language in the second half of the fourteenth century;[17] although not yet collected together.

  55. Hence the Old Slavic language, and the noble translation of the Bible extant in it, have exercised only an inconsiderable influence on the Bohemian idiom.

  56. The popular ballads, published by Woicicki and Zegota Pauli, are not distinguished in any way from those still extant among the Slovakians, Bohemians, and Lusatian Sorabians.

  57. It has been long known that in these Records may be found the largest and most authentic enumerations now extant of the Nobility, Barons, Landholders and Burgesses, as well as of the Clergy of Scotland, prior to the fourteenth century.

  58. It has been hitherto supposed that no likeness is extant of this first promoter of fine printing, and author of various improvements in the Typographic Art, as well as in the arts connected with it.

  59. Michael Psellus on twenty-four plays of Menander, still extant in Ms.

  60. If this identification be correct, we must regard the brief notice in the Shu Ching as the oldest reference in extant literature to Mount Omei.

  61. Something of the grandeur of Ch'êng-tu in its most palmy days may be realised by a reference to extant Chinese books, as well as from the eulogies of Marco Polo.

  62. On the contrary, among the earliest extant drawings, of a definitely botanical intention, we meet with wonderfully good figures, free from such features as would be now generally regarded as archaic.

  63. The earliest extant European work dealing with medicinal plants is the famous Materia Medica of Dioscorides, which was accepted as an almost infallible authority as late as the Renaissance period.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.