| 1. | She said it wouldn't do and she told me to learn the nineteenth paraphrase for next Sunday. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | The paraphrase which has just been given of it goes beyond the actual words of Plato. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | Hence his whole work is to be looked upon rather as an elegant paraphrase than a translation. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | Do it betimes, his thank is well the more" A paraphrase of the well-known proverb, "Bis dat qui cito dat." "He gives twice who gives promptly. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | The "Tale" is more or less a paraphrase of Boccaccio's "Theseida" but in some points the copy has a distinct dramatic superiority over the original. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Chapman has taken the advantage of an immeasurable length of verse, notwithstanding which, there is scarce any paraphrase more loose and rambling than his. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | The stanzas which follow contain a paraphrase of the matins for Trinity Sunday, allegorically setting forth the doctrine that love is the all-controlling influence in the government of the universe. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8. | It is the story of Genesis, Exodus, and a part of Daniel, told in glowing, poetic language, with a power of insight and imagination which often raises it from paraphrase into the realm of true poetry. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 9. | Orm's _Ormulum_, written soon after the _Brut_, is a paraphrase of the gospel lessons for the year, somewhat after the manner of Cdmon's _Paraphrase_, but without any of Cdmon's poetic fire and originality. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 10. | this Life has been paraphrased in English by my learned young frien. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | Three years later he published his last work, _Fables_, containing poetical paraphrases of the tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer, and the miscellaneous poems of his last years. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 12. | The famous line, "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che entrate" -- "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" -- is evidently paraphrased in Chaucer's words "Th'eschewing is the only remedy" that is, the sole hope consists in the avoidance of that dismal gate. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |