GLOSSARY 2. LET ALONE THE THREE KINGDOMS ITSELF.--LET ALONE, in this sentence, means put out of consideration. The phrase, let alone, which is now used as the imperative of a verb, may in time become a conjunction, and may exercise the ingenuity of some future etymologist. The celebrated Horne Tooke has proved most satisfactorily, that the conjunction but comes from the imperative of the Anglo-Saxon verb (BEOUTAN) TO BE OUT; also, that IF comes from GIF, the imperative of the Anglo-Saxon verb which signifies TO GIVE, etc.英文原著 · 《Castle Rackrent》
Now I have done the three other volumes. You will see that all species in the six volumes together go right, and likewise all orders in the three last volumes, except Verbenaceae. Is not Verbenaceae very closely allied to Labiatae? If so, one would think that it was not mere chance, this coincidence. The species in Labiatae and Verbenaceae together are between 1/5 and 1/6 of all the species (15,645), which I have now tabulated.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Hearest thou not how spirit hath here become a verbal game? Loathsome verbal swill doth it vomit forth!--And they make newspapers also out of this verbal swill.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Turin 1885. [20] Havelock Ellis: The Criminal. London 1890. [21] A. Baer: Der Verbrecher Leipzig 1893. [22] Koch. Die Frage nach dem geborenen Verbrecher. Ravensberg 1894.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》