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of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

he Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. Gibbon.

Fanaticism. [R.] Gibbon.

sorrow. Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon.

hen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

Having fortitude; courageous. [R.] Gibbon.

Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.

tle busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.

o consider; to regard. [R.] If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. Gibbon.

sun sets weeping in the lowly west. Shak. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude. Gibbon. Matter for censure in every page. Macaulay.

; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. Shak.

A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.

A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.

Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.

urke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. Gibbon.

ent sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite. Gibbon.

nople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.

lace. "Profane authors." I. Disraeli. The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. Gibbon.