"Aa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two subordinate consequences: 1.aa. If one has being, all other things are. 1.bb. If one is one, all ...
— Parmenides • Plato
... inhabitants have changed much that was characteristic of the genuine West Saxon. Nor, indeed, was there any very pronounced dialect, like a separate language. The speech is slow, and with a tendency to make o like aa, as Titus Oates does in Peveril of the Peak. An Otterbourne man going into Devonshire was told, "My son, you speak French." No one ever showed the true Hampshire south-country speech and turn of expression so well as Lady Verney in her Lettice Lisle, and she has truly ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... "folly," which appears first as a catchword at the bottom of the page in modern spelling, is found in the ancient spelling on the turning of the leaf: "Things that are commonlie knowne it were folly follie to repeate." (Sig. Aa.) English scholars may smile at the citation of passages to establish such a point; but we are writing for those who are too wise to read old books, and who have their English study done, as the Turk would have had his dancing, by ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... one went into the garden, the other would stand on the terrace, and, looking towards the trees, call "Aa—oo, Genya!" or "Mother, where are you?" They always said their prayers together, and had the same faith; and they understood each other perfectly even when they did not speak. And their attitude to people was the same. Ekaterina Pavlovna, too, grew ...
— The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... AA. The lowest one or more sessile spikelets in all racemes, or at least in one or two, differing from ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
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