Join YourDictionary
Sign up to make the most of YourDictionary
Success!
We'll see you in your inbox soon.
The stranger, Isaac Beeckman, principal of the college of Dort, offered to do so into Latin, if the inquirer would bring him a solution of the problem, - for the advertisement was one of those challenges which the mathematicians of the age were accustomed to throw down to all corners, daring them to discover a geometrical mystery known as they fancied to themselves alone.
The Magyars fancied they were safe from attack, because the final assault was suspended; and everything went on in the old haphazard way.
Long afterwards, at the battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), many of the Athenians fancied they saw the phantom of Theseus, in full armour, charging at their head against the Persians.
I fancied the position of master sculptor of people 's voices.