"Menses" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'l-dami" lit. between faeces and menses, i.e., the foulest part of his mistress's person. It is not often that The Nights are "nasty"; but here is a ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... of Washington State, about Colville, "the customs of the Indians, in relation to the treatment of females, are singular. On the first appearance of the menses, they are furnished with provisions, and sent into the woods, to remain concealed for two days; for they have a superstition, that if a man should be seen or met with during that time, death will ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... memorinda. Memorandum noto. Memorial memorajxo. Memory memoro. Menace minaci. Menacing minaca. Menagery bestejo. Mend fliki. [Error in book: fleki] Mendacity mensogeco. Mendicant almozulo. Menial servulo. Menses monatajxo. Mental spirita. Mention citi, nomi. Menu mangxokarto. Mercantile komerca. Mercenary dungato. Mercenary subacxetebla. Merchandise komercajxo. Merchant negocisto. Merciful kompata—ema. Mercury hidrargo. Mercy kompato—eco. Mere nura. Merely nure. Meridian meridiano. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... students who died here—aetatis flore!—at the University, famous early in the last century; young nobles chiefly, far from the Rhine, from Nuremberg, or Leipsic. Note one in particular! Loving parents and elder brother meant to record [198] carefully the very days of the lad's poor life—annos, menses, dies; sent the order, doubtless, from the distant old castle in the Fatherland, but not quite explicitly; the spaces for the numbers remain still unfilled; and they never came to see. After two centuries the omission is not to be rectified; and the young man's memorial has perhaps ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater |
