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  • Peter Mongus - the "Stammerer" - to succeed him; the Catholics, John

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • "Stammerer," who was born in Switzerland about 840 and died in 912.

    Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

  • Leo the Armenian, Michael the Stammerer, and Theophilus, neglected nothing to effect its abolition; and this opposition caused further disturbance in the empire of

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Louis II (the Stammerer), son of Charles the Bald, maintained himself with difficulty, despite the support of the Church.

    h. The West Franks under the Carolingian Kings 2001

  • Speaking as if about another but transparently about himself, he wrote: “I know of one who had been very much a Stammerer, and no words can tell, how much his Infirmity did Encumber and Embitter the first years of his Pilgrimage.”

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Speaking as if about another but transparently about himself, he wrote: “I know of one who had been very much a Stammerer, and no words can tell, how much his Infirmity did Encumber and Embitter the first years of his Pilgrimage.”

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • We had listened to a speech of Michael II, the Stammerer, and we had watched the antics of Michael III, the Drunkard, add we had attended the baptism of the fifth Constantine, who had the misfortune to soil the font and was known for the rest of his life as Constantine Copronymus, Constantino the Pisser.

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

  • The history of the latter is graphically described, the first king being Battus, the Stammerer, who founded it in obedience to the directions of Apollo.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • This fellow is known as the "Synonym Stammerer" and is usually a quick thinker and a ready "substituter-of-words."

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

  • This "Synonym Stammerer" is storing up endless trouble for himself, however, for the mental strain of trying to remember and speak synonyms of hard words entails such a great drain upon his mind as to make it almost impossible to maintain the practice for any great length of tune.

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

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