"Word meaning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... under any other circumstances—now that khaki strides unabashed down Broadway and the skirl of the pipers has been heard on Fifth Avenue. We men "over there" will have to find a new name for America. It won't be exactly Blighty, but a kind of very wealthy first cousin to Blighty—a word meaning something generous and affectionate and steam-heated, waiting for us on the ...
— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson
... England a great many stones arranged as in the preceding cut, though generally not built with such regularity as is there represented. They are named Dolmens, a word meaning stone tables. They were more generally made of rough stones, rudely arranged. This cut represents one found in France. In early times these were supposed to have been rude altars used by the mysterious Druids in celebrating their rites. They are now known to be the tombs ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen
... Oreb) connects with Ghurbahstrangerhood, exile, and "Bayn" with distance, interval, disunion, the desert (between the cultivated spots). There is another and a similar pun anent the Ban-tree; the first word meaning "he ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... old word meaning to sail along the margins or banks of river-ports: thus Shakspeare in "King John" ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... crosses it,* [Whence the name of Bhomsong Samdong, the latter word meaning bridge.] but had been cut away (in feigned distrust of us), and the long canes were streaming from their attachments on either shore down the stream, and a triangular raft of bamboo was plying instead, drawn to and fro by means of ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... From an unpublished trial in the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh. The meaning of the word laif is not clear. The Oxford dictionary gives lop-eared, the Scotch dictionary gives loaf. By analogy with the other accounts one would expect here a word meaning a hen.] ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... two kinds. The Spanish phrase here is seis anos de destierro precisos—the last word meaning that the culprit's residence was prescribed in a certain place. In the other form of exile, read, for precisos, voluntarios ("at will"), which may be translated "unconditioned"—that is, he might ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, V7, 1588-1591 • Emma Helen Blair |
