An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction: Including Also Familiar Pseudonums, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and ConversationHoughton Mifflin, 1893 - 440 من الصفحات |
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... giant , elegy . [ Sp . ] Jorge ( hor / ha ) , hijo ( ee / ho ) . [ See § 60. ] [ Ger . ] ach ( ak ) , buch ( book ) . [ See § 71. ] [ Ger . ] ich ( ik ) , durch ( doork ) . [ See § 71. ] [ Sp . ] llano , ( la / no ) , [ It . ] gli ( Ïee ) ...
... giant , elegy . [ Sp . ] Jorge ( hor / ha ) , hijo ( ee / ho ) . [ See § 60. ] [ Ger . ] ach ( ak ) , buch ( book ) . [ See § 71. ] [ Ger . ] ich ( ik ) , durch ( doork ) . [ See § 71. ] [ Sp . ] llano , ( la / no ) , [ It . ] gli ( Ïee ) ...
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... Giant - killer ] . Willmott . Ab'di - el . [ Heb . , servant of God . ] The name of an angel mentioned by the Jewish Cabalists . He is represented , in Milton's " Paradise Lost , " as one of the seraphim , who , when Satan tried to stir ...
... Giant - killer ] . Willmott . Ab'di - el . [ Heb . , servant of God . ] The name of an angel mentioned by the Jewish Cabalists . He is represented , in Milton's " Paradise Lost , " as one of the seraphim , who , when Satan tried to stir ...
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... Giants who made an attack on heaven , and were killed by the gods or buried under various mountains . Were Adamastor to appear to him [ the " gamin " of Paris ] , he would shout out , " Hal- lo there , old Bug - a - boo ! " V. Hugo ...
... Giants who made an attack on heaven , and were killed by the gods or buried under various mountains . Were Adamastor to appear to him [ the " gamin " of Paris ] , he would shout out , " Hal- lo there , old Bug - a - boo ! " V. Hugo ...
الصفحة 9
... giant and a son of Neptune , who called the island after his own name , and ruled it forty - four years . Another legend derives the name from a certain Albina , the eldest of fifty daughters of " a strange Dioclesian king of Syria ...
... giant and a son of Neptune , who called the island after his own name , and ruled it forty - four years . Another legend derives the name from a certain Albina , the eldest of fifty daughters of " a strange Dioclesian king of Syria ...
الصفحة 17
... giant and wrestler , whose strength was invinci- ble so long as he remained in contact with his mother earth . Hercules dis- covered the source of his might , lifted him up from the eartn , and crushed him in the air . As when Earth's ...
... giant and wrestler , whose strength was invinci- ble so long as he remained in contact with his mother earth . Hercules dis- covered the source of his might , lifted him up from the eartn , and crushed him in the air . As when Earth's ...
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الصفحة 270 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
الصفحة 207 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights ; and thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
الصفحة 26 - Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
الصفحة 391 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
الصفحة 240 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
الصفحة 379 - City, as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving, by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair ; a fair, wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity ; and that it should last all the year long...
الصفحة 332 - French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants.
الصفحة 406 - Last May we made a crown of flowers: we had a merry day; Beneath the hawthorn on the green they made me Queen of May; And we danced about the may-pole and in the hazel copse, Till Charles's Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops.
الصفحة 214 - Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
الصفحة 193 - successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their ' brethren of England, but the romance of Tom Jones, ' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive ' the Palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of 'the House of Austria.