"DIA" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ano, a year aquel, ese (m.), that aquella, esa (f.), that bayeta, baize celebre, celebrated cima, top criados, men-servants criadas, maid-servants el dia, the day ejercito, army encuadernado, bound, (of books) escritorio, writing-desk los fosforos, the matches Gales, Wales juventud, youth, young age. el lacre, the sealing-wax lectura, reading limpiar, to clean limpio, clean mayormente, especially medico, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... strain as that raised over Hector, [Greek: helkomeno, dia tou harmatos]. See two other explanations in ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
... bestrewn is the genial bedstead, Hidden in midmost stead, and its polisht framework of Indian Tusk underlies its cloth empurpled by juice of the dye-shell. This be a figured cloth with forms of manhood primeval 50 Showing by marvel-art the gifts and graces of heroes. Here upon Dia's strand wave-resonant, ever-regarding Theseus borne from sight outside by fleet of the fleetest, Stands Ariadne with heart full-filled with furies unbated, Nor can her sense as yet believe she 'spies the espied, 55 When like one that awakes ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... begun to care for the stock, and to replenish the store of wood for the house with the aid of his little sled. Somewhat later he had learned to call Heulle! Heulle! very loudly behind the thin-flanked cows, and Hue! Dia! Harrie! when the horses were ploughing; to manage a hay-fork and to build a rail-fence. These two years he had taken turn beside his father with ax and scythe, driven the big wood-sleigh over the hard snow, sown and reaped on his own responsibility; and thus it was ...
— Maria Chapdelaine - A Tale of the Lake St. John Country • Louis Hemon
... to write on Easter, I took out a volume of The Encyclopdia Britannica in order to make up the subject of eggs, and the first entry under "Egg" that met my ...
— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd
... this purpose they have sometimes introduced a quiescent consonant into the middle of compound or of inflected words; as, gneidheil, or rather gnethail kindly, made up of gn['e] and ail; beothail lively, made up of beo and ail; diathan gods, from the singular dia; lathaibh days, from the singular l['a], &c. It may at least bear a question, whether it would not be better to allow the vowels to denote the sound of the word by their own powers, without the intervention of quiescent consonants, as has been done in {35} mnaibh women, d['e]ibh gods, rather ...
— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart
... of a long chain does Maurice de Gu['e]rin lead us! Here is another link—Jos['e] de Her['e]dia, and his jewelled and chiselled sonnets—the "Antique Medal" with its peerless sestette, which combines the essential meanings of Keats's "Ode to a ...
— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan
... tod' emar proton en kakoumeno kai me makran de dia ponon enaustoloun eikos sphadazein en an, hos neozyga polon, chalinon artios dedegmenon nyn d' amblys eimi, kai ...
— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... two agreed and prepared a great web of guile for Apsyrtus, and provided many gifts such as are due to guests, and among them gave a sacred robe of Hypsipyle, of crimson hue. The Graces with their own hands had wrought it for Dionysus in sea-girt Dia, and he gave it to his son Thoas thereafter, and Thoas left it to Hypsipyle, and she gave that fair-wrought guest-gift with many another marvel to Aeson's son to wear. Never couldst thou satisfy thy sweet desire by touching it or gazing on it. And from it a divine fragrance ...
— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius
... sesenta y cinco dias o trescientos sesenta y seis dias. Un ano comun tiene trescientos sesenta y cinco dias, pero un ano bisiesto tiene un dia mas. El ano bisiesto viene cada cuarto ano. Viene una vez en ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... a red cotton handkerchief tied on his head, a blue check shirt, and a shawl wound round his body in place of the chiripa usually worn by native peasants. He jerked out his "Buen dia" to me in a short, quick, barking voice, and invited me ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson |
