conjugator

Example Sentences

• "He has here shown that he is not a mere bookworm, a decliner of nouns and conjugator of verbs—not one who, as the old philosopher said, passed his life in anxiety because he could not discover whether the future of the verb βαλλω should be spelt with one λ or with two; […]"
• "“The first question then which he proposed to every one in his order was ‘Quid dubitas?’ What doubts have you met with in your studies to-day? For he supposed that to doubt nothing, and to understand nothing, were nearly the same thing.” (Neale’s “History of the Puritans,” vol. ii. p. 311.) I observed in my limited intercourse with the late statesman, that he was rather a conjugator of this verb."
• "I’ll warrant you the Oleander’s cruise to the Passes was a gay one, though little did those conjugators of the verb, “to love,” on the high seas, dream that the devil had crept into the man left under the red lamp, and he was bearing down on them like a fate in a soggy launch bartered for at Ceiba."
• "We were surely taken here for a pair of unlawful conjugators of the verb “to love,” for we merely came to perch like a bird for a couple of hours, then to fly away."
• "Under the guidance of Messrs. Magel and Schwab, expert conjugators of the new verb “to merchandise,” the future is I think assured."
• "At Washington now we can see that the original conjugators of the irregular verb, to paint, were all painting about something."