"Dur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chiefly contributed to make his wide-spread fame as a wizard. The telescope was popularised by Galileo who (as mostly happens) carried off and still keeps, amongst the vulgar, all the honours of invention. Some "Illustrators" of The Nights confound this "Nazzarah," the Pers. "Dur-bin," or far-seer, with the "Magic Mirror," a speculum which according to Gower was set up in Rome by Virgilius the Magician hence the Mirror of Glass in the Squire's tale; Merlin's glassie Mirror of Spenser (F. Q. ii. 24); the mirror in the head of the monstrous ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... chez vous Avoir jadis verds les genous, Le corps habile et la main bonne: Mais ores j'ai le corps plus dur Et les genous, que n'est le ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... says, (Vol. II. p. 214, note,) "In one of the Conversation-Books Schindler remarks, 'Ich bin sehr gespannt auf die Characterizirung [der Saetze] der B dur Trio......Der erste Satz traeumt von lauter Glueckseligheit [Glueck und Zufriedenheit]. Auch Muthwille, heiteres Taendeln und Eigensinn (mit Permission—Beethovenscher) ist darin.'" [Should be "und Eigensinn (Beethovenische) ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... and Sagarta-Suria, for instance, being written for Kasbeias and Sagarakti-Suryas, the latter of which even appears as Sakti-Surias, while Nazi-Murudas itself is found under the form of Nazi-Rattas. Similarly Duri-galzu and Kurigalzu take the place of Dur-Kurigalzi. There is no reason, therefore, why Nazi-Murudas should not have been familiarly known as Na-Muruda, more especially ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce |
