Sentence examples for a compendium of lore from inspiring English sources
That bucolic moment was one that has been repeated on untold occasions since Izaak Walton, a British writer and fisher, composed "The Compleat Angler," a compendium of lore in the 1650's.
In 1938, Jamieson Kooby is fifteen years old — still enough of a boy to roam the Swift River Valley looking for crows to shoot and catfish to behead, and just enough of a young man to fall in love with Hannah, a strange local farm girl who is a compendium of lore about regional historical figures she has known in her previous lives.
Mrs. Miller's writings include "Shaker Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium of History, Lore, and Uses" (1998, Storey in association with Hancock Shaker Village).
An outstanding instance is the Talmud, a compendium of law, lore, and commentary that to many Jews has very nearly the authority of the Mosaic Torah (the Law, or the Pentateuch).
In the Talmud, a compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, the statement is made that "He who does not marry is like a murderer and he mutilates (violates) the image of God".
Mentioned several times in the New Testament (e.g., Matthew, Mark, Luke, and James) as a place in which fire will destroy the wicked, it also is noted in the Talmud, a compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, as a place of purification, after which one is released from further torture.
Richard Schweid, an American journalist living in Barcelona, expounds on this tough, repulsive creature in a delightfully literate little volume, The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore.
A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests.
It is a compendium of allusions.
A compendium of metaphors can help.
