[specific coverings: list] veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe[obs3]; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish &c. (resin) 356a; plating, barrel plating, anointing &c. v.; enamel; epitaxial deposition[Engin], vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment &c. (grease)
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
The Tottiyans have attached to them a class of beggars called Pichiga vādu, concerning whose origin the following legend is narrated.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
Inevitably Jupiter would be deflected from its orbit into an elliptical path, and the burning star, swung by his attraction wide of its sunward rush, would "describe a curved path," and perhaps collide with, and certainly pass very close to, our earth.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
; (4) the application of the “Rice-Paste” ( tĕpong-tawar ) ceremony ( vide Marriage, Fishing, etc.); (5) the sound of water struck by a canoe paddle ( vide Crocodile-catching); (6) the manner of falling of the filed-off portion of a tooth ( vide Adolescence); (7) the whisper of the sap in the bark of a gharu -tree, when the latter is struck by a cutlass ( vide Vegetation Charms), and a host of others. ↑ 213 My informant did not make it plain whether the same charm was repeated on each of these three occasions, or whether a different charm was used in each case.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat
el sacerdote que V. encontró con Pío VII), corrió al lado de 20 Su Santidad; y, al verse los dos ancianos, exclamaron: Consummatum est!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Oh potenza di Dio, quant'e` severa, che cotai colpi per vendetta croscia!
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
HIGHWAY SYSTEM The Blackfeet Highway, lying along the east side of the park, is an improved highway, leading from Glacier Park Station to the Canadian [pg 23] line via Babb, Mont., and from the line to Waterton Lakes Park and other Canadian points via Cardston, Alberta.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
( c. ) istō immēnsō spatiō quaerō, Balbe, cūr Pronoea vestra cessāverit.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
In a descending scale or figure I must, on the contrary, preserve very carefully the form taken for the highest tone.
— from How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Lilli Lehmann
It fared worse with John's study of æsthetics as expounded by Ljunggren in two closely printed volumes, containing the views of all philosophers on the Beautiful, but giving no satisfactory definition of it.
— from The Growth of a Soul by August Strindberg
It will take more than Art Galleries, Symphony Concerts, Parks, Vice Commissions and Grand Jury reports to make the streets of city life clean and its boys and girls good citizens.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various
This writer also concludes from similar facts that external influences have wrought in the idioplasm, changes which were at first ineffectual, and which only increased during the course of generations up to a point at which they could produce visible changes in the plant.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann
ditiones idem noster famulus gratia potissimè experiundi peregrina, commercia, proficisci vnà cum suis constituit.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
2. Occupation ( especially a mechanical one ), employment, business, calling, pursuit, vocation, craft.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule
Their coasts present volcanic conglomerates, basalt, and in some places a foundation of stratified rocks, with patches of upraised coral.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
Come, Cnidian, Paphian Venus, come, Thy well-beloved Cyprus spurn, Haste, where for thee in Glycera's home Sweet odours burn.
— from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Horace
14% head of government: Prime Minister Vyacheslav F. KEBICH (since NA April 1990; offered his resignation on the election of LUCHASHENKO), First Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail MYASNIKOVICH (since NA 1991) cabinet: Council of Ministers note: first presidential elections took place in June-July 1994 Legislative branch: unicameral Supreme Soviet: elections last held 4 April 1990 (next to be held NA); results - Communists 87%; seats - (360 total) number of seats by party NA; note - 50 seats are for public bodies; the Communist Party obtained an overwhelming majority Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Belarusian Popular Front (BPF), Zenon PAZNYAK, chairman; United Democratic Party of Belarus (UDPB), Aleksandr DOBROVOLSKIY, chairman; Social Democratic Party of Belarus (SDBP), Mikhail TKACHEV, chairman; Belarus Workers Union, Mikhail SOBOL, Chairman; Belarus Peasants Party; Party of People's Unity, Gennadiy KARPENKO; Movement for Democracy, Social Progress, and Justice (DSPS; includes the Communist Party), Viktor CHIKIN, chairman Member of:
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
449 Of Brute and his descent, how he slue his father in hunting, his banishment, his letter to king Pandrasus, against whom he wageth battell, taketh him prisoner, and concludeth peace vpon conditions.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) The Second Booke Of The Historie Of England by Raphael Holinshed
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