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... of all the rest,' since no religion brings its gods into more frequent and varied juxtaposition and combination, and that even the mightiest gods of the Veda are made dependent on others. Thus Varu@na and Surya are subordinate to Indra (I. 101), Varu@na and the As'vins submit to the power of Vi@s@nu (I. 156)....Even when a god is spoken of as unique or chief (eka), as is natural enough in laudations, such statements lose their temporarily monotheistic force, through the modifications or corrections supplied by ...
— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... in which our consciousness normally moves. We are conscious of an overruling Mind, but the creatures still seem external to and partially independent of it. Such is the temporal order as we know it. Above this is the intelligible world, the eternal order, "the one-many," das ewige Nu, the world in which God's will is done perfectly and all reflects the divine mind. Highest of all is "the One," the, Absolute, the Godhead, of whom nothing can be predicated, because He is above all distinctions. ...
— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge

... ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... threatened to go in person to Rouen and bring the Parliament to submission, whereat it took fright and enregistered decrees for twenty-two millions. It was, no doubt, this augmentation of imposts that brought about the revolt of the Nu-pieds (Barefoots) in 1639. Before now, in 1624 and in 1637, in Perigord and Rouergue, two popular risings of the same sort, under the name of Croquants (Paupers), had disquieted the authorities, and the governor of the province had found some trouble in putting them down. The Nu-pieds were ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... usual that the literal expression "Let us banquet at the shore" ([Note from Brett: The Greek letters are written out here as there is no way to portray them properly] sigma eta mu epsilon rho omicron nu [next word] alpha kappa tau alpha sigma omega mu epsilon nu [here is a rough transliteration into English letters "semeron aktasomen"]) came often to mean simply "Let us have ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis

... Gron med Phane sin; Som traettede rasken Hjort og Hind. Tak, Bonde, god! den dyre Gud, Nu gaar du ...
— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary

... "Nu, Philip," cried Marcus Polatkin to his partner, Philip Scheikowitz, as they sat in the showroom of their place of business one June morning, "even if the letter does got bad news in it you shouldn't take on so hard. When a feller is making good over here and the Leute im Russland hears ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... marched from their and we had nu teams presed their and we arrived at Landard Hollobuts in Goshen from their to widow Leggets in Cornwell[6] and from their to Coles ...
— The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - With Numerous Illustrative Notes • Abraham Tomlinson

... Cantware and | Of Jutes came the Kent-people, Wihtware, aet is seo maeiaeth, e nu | and the Wiht-people, that is the earde on Wiht, and that cynn on | race which now dwells in Wiht, West-Sexum ethe man gyt haet | and that tribe amongst the Jutnacynn. | West-Saxons which is yet called ...
— The Ethnology of the British Islands • Robert Gordon Latham

... natte sur laquelle il prenait le plus detestable repas. L'apres-midi, un semblable repas lui servait de souper, il s'endormait ensuite pendant quelques heures, passait une partie de la nuit a chanter, et a la pointe du jour il sortait presque nu et se roulait sur l'herbe assurant que cet exercice lui etait necessaire pour le preserver des rhumatismes.... Sa maniere de s'exprimer dans toutes les langues est aussi singuliere que toute sa facon d'etre, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... quite indifferent to winning success at the state examinations!" Then he turned to the small boy and said: "See whether the old gentleman has already fallen asleep. If he has, you may quietly bring in little Hiang-Nu." ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various

... Theta, omega, mu, alpha, sigma. o: omicron. Kulindon: Kappa, upsilon, lambda, iota, nu, delta, omega, nu. ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling

... that the Yueeh Chi, or Indo-Scyths (i.e. the Eptals), 'are said to have been of Tibetan origin.' A long account of this people was given in the Asiatic Quart. Rev. for July, 1902. It seems much more likely that they were a branch of the Hiung-nu or Turks. Albiruni's 'report' that they were of Tibetan origin is probably founded on the Chinese statement that some of their ways were like Tibetan ways, and that polyandry existed amongst them; also that they fled from the Hiung-nu westwards ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... he is Om; while in another passage he qualifies the latter as the supreme spirit. A common designation of the word Om—for instance, in the last-named passages of the Bhagavadgita is the word Pranava, which comes from a so-called radical nu, "praise," with the prefix pra amongst other meanings implying emphasis, and, therefore, literally means "eulogium, emphatic praise." Although Om, in its original sense as a word of solemn or emphatic assent, is, properly speaking, restricted to the ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... young man, an' she alluz sing out ter him, 'Whar is you, whar is you?' an' he'd arnser, 'Oo-goo-coo, Oo-goo-coo.' Dat wuz de on'ies wu'd he uver say, but de gal thought 'twuz all right, fer she done mek up her min' dat he 'longed ter nu'rr tribe er Injuns whar spoke diff'nt f'um her own people. Sidesen dat, she love' him, an' w'en gals is in love dey think ev'ything de man do is jes' 'bout right, an' dese yer co'tin'-couples is no gre't ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various

... the following anecdote of Kao Tsu, the first Han Emperor: "Wishing to crush the Hsiung-nu, he sent out spies to report on their condition. But the Hsiung-nu, forewarned, carefully concealed all their able-bodied men and well-fed horses, and only allowed infirm soldiers and emaciated cattle to be seen. The result was that spies one and all recommended ...
— The Art of War • Sun Tzu

... to his mother: 'Rest gently, my mother, for I go to make a home for myself and become a hero.' Then, entering his hut he took Nu-endo, his iron hammer, and throwing the sack over ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... of Amiens one day I saw a crowd gathered round an Australian, so tall that he towered over all other heads. It was at the corner of the rue de Corps Nu sans Teste, the Street of the Naked Body without a Head, and I suspected trouble. As I pressed on the edge of the crowd I heard the Australian ask, in a loud, slow drawl, whether there was any officer about who could speak French. He asked the question ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... a bowlful of the brew is set out with the usual viands, such as meat and rice, for the di-u-a-ia, tag-la-nu-a (lords of the hills and the valleys), and for other spirits, for they, too, like to be regaled with the good ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... maeren wunders vil geseit von heleden lobebaeron, von grozer arebeit, von froude und hochgeziten, von weinen und von klagen, von kuener recken striten muget ir nu wunder hoeren sagen. ...
— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown

... how is it, old man?" [Footnote: Nu chto, batenka,] said S., still smiling good-naturedly, under the ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian • Various

... dans le palatinat de Podolie: il avait ete eleve page de Jean Casimir, et avait pris a sa cour quelque teinture des belles-lettres. Une intrigue qu'il eut dans sa jeunesse avec la femme d'un gentilhomme Polonais ayant ete decouverte, le mari le fit lier tout nu sur un cheval farouche, et le laissa aller en cet etat. Le cheval, qui etait du pays de l'Ukraine, y retourna, et y porta Mazeppa, demi-mort de fatigue et de faim. Quelques paysans le secoururent: il resta longtems parmi ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... wedding-feast. O-ta'va. The Great Bear of the heavens. Ot'so. The bear of Finland. Poe'ivoe. The Sun, and the Sun god. Pai'va-tar. The goddess of the summer. Pak'ka-nen. A synonym of Kura. Pal-woi'nen. A synonym of Turi, and also of Wirokannas. Pa'nu. The Fire-Child, born from the sword of Ukko. Pa'ra. A tripod-deity, presiding over milk and cheese. Pel'ler-woi'nen. The sower of the forests. Pen'i-tar. A blind witch of Pohyola; and the mother of the dog. Pik'ku Mies. The water-pigmy that felled the over-spreading oak-tree for ...
— The Kalevala (complete) • John Martin Crawford, trans.

... made himself nearly quite tipsy. Hsiang-lien then got up and quitted the room, and perceiving every one off his guard, he egressed out of the main entrance. "Go home ahead," he directed his page Hsing Nu. "I'm going out of town, but I'll be ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... hyat ky kooree! Gur nu moodum, mi kooree! Badu bi koor bu yadi o, Tazu bu tazu, nou ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... give very easily the word 'fidelta' (phi, delta), which combines naturally with the nella. The second part is more difficult, but perhaps not hopeless. [Greek: fnr] may, perhaps be read phi ny (as Latinised spelling of [Greek: nu]), ro, or finiro. Then, for the 'La B.,' suppose that the words form, as emblems often do, a rhymed couplet; then 'B.' would stand for Belta, and naturally fall in with 'la.' The ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various

... quatenus Fallacem, Defectivam, Extrariam cum Apodictica refutatione Atomorum Somnij, pr cteris Novatorum portentis corripiendi Ana- thematizandiq Ex Collegio Sion Londinenfi perfuncti Senis Artemq reponentis NT Extremu hoc munus morientis habetor : Σĸηρον προς κ 41;ντρονλ α κτρον λακτ 43;ζειν [Greek Text] nee bene Rip Creditur ipse Aries etia ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens

... fit dif'fer ent ad'a mant brev'i ty dif'fi cult am'i ty clem'en cy fil'a ment an'i mal des'ti ny in'cre ment an'nu al neg'li gent in'do lent can'is ter pend'u lum his'to ry flat'ter y rem'e dy in'ju ry fam'i ly reg'u lar pil'lo ry lax'i ty rel'e vant sim'i lar man'i fest pen'i tence tit'u lar man'i fold ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

... Ticeum and B. Phoolum's 'Great Moral Show,' with 'six tigers, five elephants, a giraffe, hippopotamus, kangaroo, in-nu-mer-a-ble monkeys, wild men of Borneo, living skeleton, educated bull, and a ship of the desert,' would come to a mean little village like this? Skowhegan's the town it's going to move through, and it will pass Tucker's ...
— Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... singes thu cuccu, Ne swike thu naver nu. Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu, Sing cuccu, sing ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... reply to those who accused him of not being the real author of The Pilgrim's Progress. He wound up a fervent defence of his claims to originality by pointing out the fact that his name, if "anagrammed," made the words: "NU HONY IN A B." Many worse arguments have been used in ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd

... lake, nearly as large as the Victoria Nyanza, once covered the marshy plain where the Bahr el-Abiad unites with the Sobat, and with the Bahr el-Ghazal. Alluvial deposits have filled up all but its deepest depression, which is known as Birket Nu; but, in ages preceding our era, it must still have been vast enough to suggest to Egyptian soldiers and boatmen the idea of an actual sea, opening into the Indian Ocean. The mountains, whose outline was vaguely seen far to southward ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... Tu Shih-niang nu ch'en pai pao hsiang. (Tu Shih-niang, being put to shame drowns herself with her casket of a hundred treasures.) Chin ku chi'i kuan ...
— Eastern Shame Girl • Charles Georges Souli

... doch, min lutt, lewes Dochting. Ick schenk Di ock'n bubschen Mann! Ach ja, min lewes, lewes Mutting, Schenk min lewsten, besten Mann. Kann danzen nu, un kann ock spinnen, Denn alle mine teigen Finger, De dohn nich mihr weh, De dohn ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach

... There I shall visit a real barber; pass the time of day with my friend Henriette, whose black eyes and ready tongue grace a book shop of the Rue des Trois Cailloux; dine greatly at a little restaurant in the Rue du Corps Nu Sans Tete; and return with reinforcements of Anatole France, collar-studs, ...
— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott

... cum 'ere, suh, dis minute. Wut dat you got under dat box? I don't want no foolin'—you hear me? Wut you say? Ain't nu'h'n but rocks? 'Peahs ter me you's owdashus perticler. S'posin' dey's uv a new kine. I'll des take a look at dem rocks. Hi yi! der you think ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... mrost? Forthy ic cwth ths wisan Welandes ban, forthy ngum ne mg eorthbuendra, se craft losian the him Crist onlnth. Ne mg mon fre thy eth nne wrccan his craftes beniman the mon oncerran mg sunnan on swifan and thisne swiftan rodor of his riht ryne rinca nig. Hwa wat nu ths wisan Welandes ban, on hwelcum hi ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle

... in 1886. The first professional fraternity to be established was Phi Delta Phi, a law fraternity, which organized its parent chapter in the University in 1869. It was not until 1882 that the medical fraternity, Nu Sigma Nu, and the dental fraternity, Delta Sigma Delta, established their Alpha chapters at Michigan. Since that time fourteen ...
— The University of Michigan • Wilfred Shaw

... could give it to them," retorted the emigre, with the rising animation of a man who has got hold of a hopeful argument. "Those people don't exist—all these Ferauds. Feraud! What is Feraud? A va-nu-pieds disguised into a general by a Corsican adventurer masquerading as an emperor. There is no earthly reason for a D'Hubert to s'encanailler by a duel with a person of that sort. You can make your excuses ...
— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad

... difficult to find this object. The stars [epsilon] and [delta] Cassiopeiae (Map 3, Frontispiece) point to the star [beta] Andromedae. Almost in a vertical line above this star are two fourth-magnitude stars [mu] and [gamma], and close above [nu], a little to the right, is the object we seek—visible to the naked eye as a faint misty spot. To tell the truth, the transcendantly beautiful queen of the nebulae is rather a disappointing object in an ordinary telescope. There is seen a long oval or lenticular spot ...
— Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction. • Richard A. Proctor

... called the Nu Gariep, and sometimes the Yellow River—is the principal tributary of the Orange River; indeed, it is so large an affluent, that some geographers have doubted, as in the case of the Mississippi and the Missouri, which should properly be considered the main stream. These rivers, the ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 - Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 • Various

... marked with whitish stripes, and is shaded in parts with black, but the colours appear to be variable. On the forehead there is a crest of hair, and on the chin a yellow beard. "Toutes les parties superieures de leurs cuisses et le grand espace nu de leurs fesses sont egalement colores du rouge le plus vif, avec un melange de bleu qui ne manque reellement pas d'elegance." (31. Gervais, 'Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes,' 1854, p. 103. Figures are given ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... because there's no power on earth that could give it to them," retorted the emigre, with the rising animation of a man who has got hold of a hopeful argument. "Those people don't exist—all these Ferauds. Feraud! What is Feraud? A va-nu-pieds disguised into a general by a Corsican adventurer masquerading as an emperor. There is no earthly reason for a D'Hubert to s'encanailler by a duel with a person of that sort. You can make your excuses to him perfectly well. And if the manant takes into his head to decline them, ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad

... lord. Every day I stood in E-SAG-GIL (the temple of Marduk at Babylon). Descendant of kings whom Sin had begotten, I enriched the city of Ur, and humbly adoring, was a source of abundance to E-NER-NU-GAL (the temple of Sin at Ur). A king of knowledge, instructed by Shamash the judge, I strongly established Sippara, reclothed the rear of the shrine of Aya (the consort of Shamash), and planned out E-BAB-BAR (temple ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns

... the original book, the two characters preceding the exclamation mark are the Greek "Alpha" and "nu". They appear to be preceded by the Greek rough-breathing diacritical, making the three characters together rhyme with "Maine", two ...
— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley

... avant la piece intitulee Les Raisons du Momotombo; lignes d'ou cette piece est sortie. L'auteur en convient, un rudiment imperceptible, perdu dans la chronique ou dans la tradition, a peine visible a l'oeil nu, lui a souvent suffi. Il n'est pas defendu au poete et au philosophe d'essayer sur les faits sociaux ce que le naturaliste essaie sur les faits zoologiques, la reconstruction du monstre d'apres l'empreinte de l'ongle ou ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo

... of giraffes, stretch away to the remote horizon. Elephants wander freely in the fertile uplands, coming down to the river at evening-time to drink. For weeks the voyagers lingered among the fair scenery of this happy valley; and then they resumed their ascent of the Nile as far as Lake Nu, where it receives the majestic volume of the Bahr-el-Ghazal before striking ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

... think not; they have probably travelled on this side of the Nu Gareip or Black River. We shall have neither water nor food for the cattle to-night, and therefore I think we had better go on as we are going, so as to make sure of water for them to-morrow, at all events. It's useless now stopping to feed the cattle, we had better continue right ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Ex. naga kuku nu inde, I tobacco to thee gave; Baiv' u mega nembe u fod' al' ema, Baiva's child bird his bow-with killed; nuni ake mu letsi gatsi, ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson

... ["Was nu us geflossen ist, das ist nicht war wesen, und hat kein wesen anders dan in dem volkomen, sunder es ist ein zufal oder ein glast und ein schin, der nicht wesen ist oder nicht wesen hat anders, dan in dem sewer, da der glast us flusset, als in der ...
— Memories • Max Muller

... Nu scylun hergan hefaenricaes uard, metud{ae}s maecti end his modgidanc, uerc uuldurfadur; sue he uundra gihuaes, eci Dryctin, or astelid{ae}. He aerist scop aelda barnum heben til hrofe, haleg scepen[d]. Tha middungeard moncynn{ae}s uard, eci ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat

... suzerain protector, not as direct administrator—but had extended her power down to the south-west towards Yiin Nan and Tibet, and also far away to the north-west in Tartarland, but not farther than to where the Great Wall now extends. It is in the year 318 B.C. that we first hear the name Hiung-nu (ancestors of the Huns and Turks), a body of whom allied themselves in that year with the five other Chinese powers then in arms against the menacing attitude of Ts'in; something remarkable must have taken place in Tartarland to account for this sudden change ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker

... other boats than the flat-bottomed rafts; the four canoes being all of the kind in their possession, and, these having been obtained, by mere accident, from some large island in the southwest-that his own name was Nu-Nu-that he had no knowledge of Bennet's Islet-and that the appellation of the island he had left was Tsalal. The commencement of the words Tsalemon and Tsalal was given with a prolonged hissing sound, which 'we found it impossible to imitate, even after ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... been distributed to various persons throughout a large area of the state. The trees do not seem as susceptible to insect and disease damage as the native black walnut, and growing well in sod should make good lawn trees. Some of the nut trees were sprayed with "Nu Green"—five pounds per 100 gallons of spray material was used on the orchard crops, and great growth response was noted for the sprayed over unsprayed trees. As the home owner is forever looking for new trees ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... vero p^{i}sionar' meo sup' quo d'n'm n'r'm Rege' eius Ai'am et conscientia' onero, volo q' deductis expen' illi' qui p'seq't' si bellu' subseq^{a}tur exinde bellu' faciens Ecia' p'te, habeat duas alias p'tes inter hered' meos, peleg^{i}nu' deu canse, et socios qui in Armis erant socij mei d'ca die, Rat'onab'l'r diuidant' sicut ordinaret' Rat'onab'l'r et Reperiretur ip'os Jus habere. si aute' bellu' non subseq^{a}tur ex querela p'd'ca qd' absit. volo q' de comodo ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous

... xq yq zq I ar br cr dr er fr gr hr ir jr kr lr mr nr or pr qr rr sr tr ur vr wr xr yr zr J as bs cs ds es fs gs hs is js ks ls ms ns os ps qs rs ss ts us vs ws xs ys zs K at bt ct dt et ft gt ht it jt kt lt mt nt ot pt qt rt st tt ut vt wt xt yt zt L au bu cu du eu fu gu hu iu ju ku lu mu nu ou pu qu ru su tu uu vu wu xu yu zu M av bv cv dv ev fv gv hv iv jv kv lv mv nv ov pv qv rv sv tv uv vv wv xv yv zv N aw bw cw dw ew fw gw hw iw jw kw lw mw nw ow pw qw rw sw tw uw vw ww xw yw zw ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... hundred thousand dinars and Cufa and Anbar[FN213] and twenty chests full of stuffs and twenty storehouses for victuals and Gaza and Askalon and from Damietta to Al-Sawan[FN214]; and the palace of Kisra Anushirwan and the kingdom of Solomon and from Wadi Nu'uman to the land of Khorasan and Balkh and Ispahan and from India to the Sudan. Therein also (may Allah prolong the life of our lord the Kazi!) are doublets and cloths and a thousand sharp razors ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... roet unde bla, grueen, in dem walde und anderswa kleine vogele sungen da. nu schriet aber den nebelkra. pfligt s'iht ander varwe? ja, s'ist worden bleich und uebergra: des rimpfet sich ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury

... dry catalogue of the kings that followed, of whom we know little more than the names; it will be sufficient to say, that the succession continued for nearly four hundred years in the same family, and that Nu'mitor, the fifteenth from AEne'as, was the last king ...
— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith

... quela persona, 'Co' no ve piase questo gran Pitor, In Italia nissun ve da in l' umor, Perche nu ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... [Kurfursts, Great Elector] was young, he studied in Utrecht; and there the King of Sweden happened to be too. And now the two young lords picked some quarrel, got to pulling caps [fell into one another's hair], AND DIT IS NU DE PICKE DAVON, and this now was the upshot of it.'—His Majesty spoke this in Platt-Deutsch, as here given;—but grew at table so weary that he (they) fell asleep." So far Backhof;—and now again ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Appendix - Frederick The Great—A Day with Friedrich.—(23d July, 1779.) • Thomas Carlyle

... be noticed that in the case of the [nu] proposition immediate inferences are possible ...
— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock

... of the soldier's soul! First in fight, but mightiest now;[nu] Many could a world control; Thee alone no doom can bow. By thy side for years I dared Death; and envied those who fell, When their dying shout was heard, Blessing him ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... by the god Nu, when there was no heaven, when there was no earth, when nothing had been established, when there was no fighting, and when the fear of the Eye of Horus did not exist. This Pepi is one of the Great Offspring who were brought forth in Anu (Heliopolis), ...
— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... Bourgeois, has translated "The Playboy of the Western World." You can imagine with what success. "God help me, where'll I hide myself away and my long neck naked to the world?" becomes "Dieu m'aide, ou vais-je me cacher et mon long cou tout nu?" ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... beams be told. The lands of the gods, and the eastern lands of Punt(7) must be seen, ere that which is hidden [in thee] may be measured. Alone and by thyself thou dost manifest thyself [when] thou comest into being above Nu (i.e., the sky). May Ani advance, even as thou dost advance; may he never cease [to go forward], even as thy Majesty ceaseth not [to go forward], even though it be for a moment; for with strides ...
— Egyptian Literature

... of the country was now greatly varied, with numerous streams of water, bearing toward the east. The latter, undoubtedly, ran into those affluents of Lake Nu, or of the River of the Gazelles, concerning which M. Guillaume Lejean has given ...
— Five Weeks in a Balloon • Jules Verne

... passe? Quel est cet equipage? J'arrive, et je vous trouve en veste, comme un page, Dehors, bras nus, nu-tete, et si petit garcon Que vous avez en main l'auge et le cavecon, Et faisant ce qu'il sied aux ecuyers de faire, —Cheick, dit le Cid, je suis maintenant chez ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux

... who laffed altogether too mutch for their own good or for ennyboddy else's; they laft like a barrell ov nu sider with the tap pulled out, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... five separate totems or crests among these people, established, apparently, to avoid too close blood relationships. These are Koot, (eagle), Kooji, (wolf), Kit-si-naka, (crow), and Sxa-nu-xa, (black bear and fin-whale united). The several tribes are supposed to have been originally about equally divided under these different totems. Marriage between those of the same totem is forbidden, and the system is perpetuated by the children adopting the ...
— Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands - for the government of British Columbia • Newton H. Chittenden

... Burgundy, made his way towards Guienne with the royal army. The Bordelais showed an intrepid front, though somewhat disquieted to see the soldiery about to gather the fruits of the vintage instead of themselves. The Princess only maintained herself in the place through the aid of the rabble va-nu-pieds, who feasted and danced all night at her expense, and who shouted in her ears a hundred ribald jests against Mazarin, compelling both herself and her son to repeat them. This abasement into which she had fallen made her desire peace for herself, and permission to leave the city, ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... ring with gold, for 'tis worth five hundred dinars." She enquired, "For whom?"; and he answered, "For a young merchant, who is fair of face, with eyes that wound with desire, and cheeks that strike fire and mouth like the seal of Sulaymn and cheeks like the bloom of Nu'mn and lips red as coralline and neck like the antelope's long and fine. His complexion is white dashed with red and he is well-bred, pleasant and generous and doth thus and thus." And he went on to describe to her now his beauty and loveliness and then ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

... "I sho nu'sed Marse George's chilluns fer him, when I was a little gal. Jimmie, Willie, Conquest, Jack, Katie and Annie was Marse's chilluns. Conquest dead now. Marse George had a great big house. He was a jes'tice of de peace or something or 'nother den. ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration

... related Al-Mutalammis[FN105] once fled from Al-Nu'uman bin Munzir[FN106] and was absent so long that folk deemed him dead. Now he had a beautiful wife, Umaymah by name, and her family urged her to marry again; but she refused, for that she loved her husband ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... audientie te admitteren en als dan de propositien, welke door denzelven tot het aangaan van een tractaat van koophandel of eenige andere dergelijke, mogten worden gedaan, ter deliberatie van Hun Ed. Mog' overteneemen. Het welk gehoord, heeft de raadpensionaris verzogt dat den heer van Lijnden zig nu ook geliefde te expliceeren, die daar op gezegd heeft dat, ziende de inclinatie van alle deszelfs medeleden in de admissie van den heer Adams zeer wel konde toekomen, doch dat eenige bedenkingen hebbende op een te neemen resolutie, conform het dispositif ...
— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

... his head. Once he had even written a dissertation in which, with astonishing profundity and ingenuity, he had demonstrated the striking resemblance and the identical significance of the Greek {GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON} {GREEK SMALL LETTER NU} and the Slavonic tiszi, which dissertation was received with general applause in the local mutual improvement society where ...
— The Day of Wrath • Maurus Jokai

... taata e tia i te hiti ote umu nei, pirae uri e pirae tea. E tu'u atu i te nu'u Atua ia ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... frets on t[h]e great Fidle, and wit[h]out Gammut, can pric down proper sounds to words in visible shapes, according to t[h]e nu fashion; pra take not awa the falals the old Fat[h]ers put to t[h]eir words, lest posterity serve you no better, as Hierom, Hierusalem, ripe, snite, knight, ...
— Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) • G. W.

... none in all the world, without a lie, Can say that this is mine, excepting I I write not this of my ostentation, Nor 'cause I seek of men their commendation; I do it to keep them from such surmise, As tempt them will my name to scandalize. Witness my name, if anagram'd to thee, The letters make—'Nu hony in ...
— The Holy War • John Bunyan

... (importance) graveco. Weighty peza. Weigh-bridge pesilego. Weir akvosxtopilo. [Error in book: akvostopilo] Welcome, to bonveni, bonvoli. Welcome bonveno. Welcome! bonvenu! Welcome bonvena. Weld kunforgxi. Welfare bonstato. Well nu. Well (pit) puto. Well, to be sani. Well (adv.) bone. Well-mannered bonmaniera. Well-nigh preskaux. Well-spring fonto, akvoputo. Well-wishing bonvola, bonvolanta. Welter ensxlimigxi. Wen tubero. Wench knabulino. West okcidento. Westerly okcidenta. Westward ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... the seat of the Turkic tribes to the north of China, known from the earliest times by various names-'The hill Zung,' 'the northern Li,' 'the Hsien-yun,' &c. Towards the beginning of our era, they were called Hsiung-nu, from which, perhaps, came the name Huns; and some centuries later, Thu-kueeh (Thuh-kueeh), from which came Turk. We are told in the Yi, under the diagram Ki-ki, that Kao Zung (B.C. 1324-1266) conducted an expedition against the demon regions, ...
— The Shih King • James Legge

... Pueblo de nu. S.^a de Guadalupe del Paso del Rio del Norte en veinte y cinco dias del mes de Sep.^te de mil seiscientos y ochenta y nueve anos el Senor Gov.^or y Cap.^n Gen.^l D.^a Domingo Jironza Petroz de Cruzate ...
— Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos • Adolphus Bandelier

... other. "Young Nu-gent trusts you, and, of course, he'll take anything from your 'ouse. That's the beauty of 'aving a character, Mr. Wilks; a good character and a face like a baby ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... puberty, the penis being often raised and placed beneath it to lengthen the prepuce. The women also use a little strip of bast that goes down the groin and passes between the thighs. Among some tribes (Karibs, Tupis, Nu-Arwaks) a little, triangular, coquettishly-made piece of bark-bast comes just below the mons veneris; it is only a few centimetres in width, and is called the uluri. In both sexes concealment of the sexual mucous membrane is attained. These articles cannot be ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... sortions, nous avions toujours nos trousses une nue de polissons qui faisaient la roue sur nos derrires, appelaient Bamban par son nom, le montraient du doigt, lui jetaient des peaux de chtaignes, et mille autres bonnes singeries. Mes petits s'en amusaient ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet

... face lighted with faint recognition. Watterman repeated the charm, and like a spell the man changed from a cowering, trembling savage. A furtive smile came across his face. He said in his language, I nu ma Yaki—"Are you an Indian?" Watterman assured him ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... answered Toby, "and 'tis the best team on The Labrador, I thinks. They's the real nu'thern dogs. Dad says the nu'thern dogs has more wolf in they than ...
— Left on the Labrador - A Tale of Adventure Down North • Dillon Wallace

... der Franzoys heizet flo'ri' Der glast kom sinem velle bi, Parzival's schoen' was nu ein wint; Und Absalon Davides kint, Von Askalun Vergulaht Und al den schoene was geslaht, Und des man Gahmurete jach Do man'n in zogen sach Ze Kanvoleis so wunneclich, Ir decheines schoen' was der gelich, Die Anfortas uz siecheit truoc. Got ...
— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston

... 'O, but that is very different!' And then I wish I were dead. Millais (I hear) was painting Gladstone when the news came of Gordon's death; Millais was much affected, and Gladstone said, 'Why? IT IS THE MAN'S OWN TEMERITY!' Voila le Bourgeois! le voila nu! But why should I blame Gladstone, when I too am a Bourgeois? when I have held my peace? Why did I hold my peace? Because I am a sceptic: I.E. a Bourgeois. We believe in nothing, Symonds; you don't, and I don't; and these are two reasons, out of a handful of millions, why England stands before ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... was Yin Ting-nu, his ordinary name Yin No-cha, but during his boyhood he was known as Yin Chiao, i.e. 'Yin the Deserted of the Suburb,' When he had reached an age when he was sufficiently intelligent, his nurse informed him that he was not her ...
— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner

... in Greek] Melius est nomen bonum q[uam] diuitie mnlte. Prou. xxu. [error "mnlte" for "multe" in original text seems to say "xxu" (xxv, 25) but passage is at 22] Ereunate tas graphas, oti em autais zm ainiom echete. [All errors, including the use of mu for nu, are in the original.] H agap panta degei. [There is no such word as degei or segei, but the intended form could not be deduced; it might be a variant of thigei.] ' Galle premes tecum mox Leo uictus erit [unambiguous apostrophe ' neither flyspeck nor ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts

... is produced, and into it are thrown little lots about the size of a bean, with letters on them. Two are marked alpha [Footnote: The Greek alphabet runs: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.], two beta, two more gamma, and so on, if the competitors run to more than that—two lots always to each letter. A competitor comes up, makes a prayer to Zeus, dips his hand into the urn, and pulls out ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata

... Highland costume which he had seen for the first time. Having thus got the word "Ecossais" into his head, and afterwards seeing Beust with his legs in pink silk stockings, he again clutched her, and exclaimed: "Trop nu—plus nu qu'Ecossais."' ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... name indicates is a great English dish, and to be used as vegetables are, with roast beef only. When vegetables are scarce, it adds a change to the mnu, which everybody likes but few know how to make successfully, because it ...
— Favorite Dishes • Carrie V. Shuman

... "Nu!" exclaimed the melamed, "and where today could there be sadness. To-day is Sabbath. Everywhere it is bright and joyful. . . . Where, ...
— An Obscure Apostle - A Dramatic Story • Eliza Orzeszko

... paradis ne vont fors tex gens con je vous dirai. Il i vont ci viel prestre et cil vieil clop et cil manke, qui tote jour et tote nuit cropent devant ces autex et en ces vies cruutes, et ci a ces vies capes ereses et a ces vies tatereles vestues, qui sont nu et decauc et estrumele, qui moeurent de faim et d'esci et de froid et de mesaises. Icil vont en paradis; aveuc ciax n'ai jou que faire; mais en infer voil jou aler. Car en infer vont li bel clerc et li bel cevalier qui ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... the river between Dongola and Khartoum, those vast plains intersected by the windings of the White and Blue Niles, known as the regions of Kordofan and Darfur; it was bounded by the mountains of Abyssinia, the marshes of Lake Nu, and all those semi-fabulous countries to which were relegated the "Isles of the Manes" and the "Lands of Spirits." It was separated from the Red Sea by the land of Puanit; and to the west, between it and the confines ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... fondly placed Till she reclined upon his breast, embraced, Their lips in one long thrilling rapture meet. But hark! what are these strains above so sweet That float around, above, their love surround? An-nu-na-ci[6] from forests, mounts around, And from the streams and lakes, and ocean, trees, And all that haunt the godly place, to please The lovers, softly chant and dance around To cymbals, lyres until the rocks ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous

... popoi a ee i te au marere i hiti tovau. Ia tari a oe. Tari a rutu mai i hea? A rutu mai i toerau i hitia! O te au marere i hiti atu a Vaua a ratu i reira A rutu i toerau roa! Areare te hai o Nu'u-hiva roa. I te are e huti ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... impossible on account of the holiness of God and the irreverence of questioning Him. One question was, "Who has handed down to us an account of the beginning of all things, and how do we know anything about the time when heaven and earth were without form?" Another question was, "As Nu-ch'i had no husband, how could she bear nine sons?" The Commentary tells us that Nu-ch'i was a "divine maiden," but nothing more seems ...
— Religions of Ancient China • Herbert A. Giles

... Princess de Bourbon (daughter of the Duke de Breze, and wife of the Great Conde), shut up in Bordeaux with the Dukes de Bouillon and de Rochefoucauld during "the Women's War," 200, 204; only maintains herself in Bordeaux through the aid of the rabble va-nu-pieds, 205; forced to take refuge hastily in ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... lake, nearly as large as the Victoria Nyanza, once covered the marshy plain where the Bahr-el-Abiad unites with the Sobat and with the Bahr-el-Ghazal. Alluvial deposits have filled up all but its deepest depression, which is known as Birket Nu; but in ages preceding our era it must still have been vast enough to suggest to Egyptian soldiers and boatmen the idea of an actual sea opening into the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... the breasts," and not "removed the breasts." He tells us that he made a considerable number of experiments of the kind upon female guinea-pigs. In one of them, for example, he laid bare the nerve and isolated it with a thread,—"le nerf mammaire d'un co^te est mis a' nu, et isole," and that when the electric current was used, extreme pain,—"un douleur tre's vivre" was excited, notwithstanding which the excitation was continued for ten minutes. (Gazette Me'd. de Paris, for 1879, p. 593). [2] Comptes Rendus de ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell

... another foreign religion, how tempting would it be to see in Nutar the 'abstract power' of the Egyptian, an analogue of brahma and the other 'power' abstractions of India; to recognize Brahm[a] in El; and in Nu, sky, and expanse of waters, to see Varuna; especially when one compares the boat-journey of the Vedic seer with R[a]'s boat in Egypt. Or, again, in the twin children of R[a] to see the Acvins; and to associate the mundane egg of the Egyptians with that of the Brahmans.[18] Certainly, had ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... drink may be compared Fig. 138, the Egyptian Goddess Nu in the sacred sycamore tree, pouring out the water of life to the Osirian and his soul, represented as a bird, in Amenti (Sharpe, from a funereal stele in the British Museum, in Cooper's ...
— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery

... it. The request was refused, "because," they wrote, "our missionaries may require it again." And a few months afterwards, when Mr. Hall was beginning to feel his way among the people, a priest appeared at Nu-wit-ty, the northern point of Vancouver's Island, thirty miles from Fort Rupert, just when Mr. Hall was visiting the tribe residing there. He (the priest) called a meeting of the Indians, concerning which Mr. Hall ...
— Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission • Eugene Stock



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