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If any comedy of the period stands out as superior to its fellows, it is Les Contents (1584), by Odet de Turnθbe, a free imitation of Italian models united with something imported from the Spanish Celestina_.— A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
Besides the monosyllable plinth_, we have imported from the Greek colocynth_, hyacinth_, labyrinth_, with the proper names Corinth_, Erymanth_, all terminating in nth In the ending the our language does not rejoice.— Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
For the imported was the high water mark of plenty in Germany as always elsewhere, though she claimed to make the best goods The scene should not be painted in too high colors--colors too fixed.— Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
Of the mythic age I suppose almost every circumstance to have been imported, and adopted; or else to be a fable.— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
Prayer-books and French novels (imported, as wanted, for there is not a book-store in the city) are the alpha and the omega of their literature; Paris is considered the centre of civilization.— The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America

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