Citations:O

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English citations of O

vocative particle, not reverential edit

At the beginning of a sentence

1611, King James Bible, Galatians 3:1:
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
circa 1690, someone quoted in 1764 by Joseph Grove in The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire, page 209:
His Lordship was so great an enemy to all arbitrary proceedings, that he expressed his abhorrence of them in the following lines:

"O despicable state of all that groan

Under a blind dependency on one! […] "

Inside a sentence

1823, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, page 157:
[…] whom sir Thomas Pope took by the bosom, saying, O traitor! how couldst thou find in thy heart to work such a villany as to take wages, and being trusted over a band of men, to fall to her enemies, returning against her in battle?
1946, Otis Adelbert Kline, The man who limped: and other stories, page 64:
"So, O consort of a flea-bitten camel," she snarled, "you thought to play a trick on your little Moorish cousin. For this, O mangy dog, shall your head and shoulders part company this day."

"I but carried out your wishes, ya sitt," I said.

Ancient Chinese Kingdom edit

[1906, Frederick D. Cloud, Hangchow, the "City of Heaven"‎^[1], Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:
ACCORDING to various inscriptions about this famous temple we are told that it was erected to the memory of Ya Fei, "An Unswerving Guardian to the Heir-Apparent," of the Sung dynasty; "A Loyal-to-the-end Minister," who came from the ancient state of O-Kuo, the present Wu Ch'ang-fu of Hupei; and that it was erected by the Emperor Hsiao Tsung as an atonement for the weakness and follies of his father, Kao Tsung, toward a faithful servant of the empire who came to his untimely death through the diabolical schemes of men in high estate. Moreover, that after his death and burial, when the empire came to appreciate his great services to the people, the posthumous title of " Prince of O-Kuo" was bestowed upon his sacred memory.]
1944, Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury, China, My China‎^[2], →OCLC, page 51:
In ancient times Wuchang was the capital city of the Kingdom of O. In Manchu times it was the residence of the Viceroy of the two provinces of Hupeh and Hunan. Since then its fortunes have changed with changing politics.
1976, Noel Barnard, The Proceedings of a Symposium on Scientific Methods of Research in the Study of Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Southeast Asian Metal and Other Archaeological Artifacts, October 6-10, 1975, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:
⁶There are actually several geographical identifications proposed for the State of O: Wu-ch'ang in Hupei, Huai-ch'ing in Honan, and Fu-fang, Shensi (in the south-east thereof). As two inscriptions connected with the State of O refer to invasions....
2006, Ch'ien Ssu-ma, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records,‎^[4], volume V.1, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 385:
[…] Yang-yüeh 楊粵,⁴⁰ reaching as far as O 鄂.⁴¹ […] He then enthroned his elder son K'ang 康⁴³ as King of Kou Tan 句亶,⁴⁴ his middle song Hung 紅 as King of O 鄂,⁴⁵ and his younger son Chih-tz'u 執疵 as King of Yüeh-chang 越章.⁴⁶