declensions

Hobbies: Practicing Latin declensions by day and the black arts by night, depriving innocent boys of their toys and afternoon tea, summoning spirits

Witch of the Day: Sylvia Daisy Pouncer 2008

Hobbies: Practicing Latin declensions by day and the black arts by night, depriving innocent boys of their toys and afternoon tea, summoning spirits

A Different Stripe: 2008

We may have all joked during class about dead languages and the difficulties of learning the declensions from the 9th edition of Sweet's Primer -- but at the end of each class I was certain that however long the language had itself been out of use, these texts were alive.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

To stand up and recite Latin declensions without trembling from hunger was something more of a feat, because I sometimes went to school with little or no breakfast; but even that required no special heroism, – at most it was a matter of self-control.

The Promised Land 1912

He sat by and exercised me in Latin declensions while I dressed.

Lazarre Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

I wonder if you were lucid all those mornings you slept through class, if you were conjugating Greek declensions, parsing Hebrew in your dreams.

Oh, Cardinal Directions! christopher cocca 2011

I remember him as a boy toiling with me over Latin declensions while wearing the same expression.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

A few things, most of them involving effort (she says, remembering Greek noun declensions with a shudder).

2009 November 26 | The Long Write 2009

I remember him as a boy toiling with me over Latin declensions while wearing the same expression.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

Actually, I find the case endings for first and second declensions (masculine, feminine and neuter) easy to remember (even though high school Latin was many moons ago), because they were so consistent, but I could barely remember those irregular third, fourth and fifth declension endings at the best of times.

The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010