"Preparer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tree, growing in the lake Vourukasha: the fish Khar-mahi circles protectingly around it and defends it against the toad Ahriman. It gives eternal life, children to women, husbands to girls, and horses to men. In the Minokhired the tree is called 'the preparer of the corpse'" (Spiegel, "Eran. Altertumskunde," II, 115—quoted by Jung, "Psychology of the Unconscious," p. 532). The idea of guarding the divine tree[276] by dragons was probably the result ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... Preparer's note: In this chapter, the rhythms of the sample poetry lines were indicated with musical notes and rests. In this text version, an eighth note is indicated by e, a quarter note by q, and an eighth ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
... for one of the great functionaries of the Empire. It is true that a cook in an establishment where the table is set every morning for thirty persons, in addition to madame's special meal, and all eating only the very finest and most delicate of food, is not the same as the ordinary preparer of a ragout. He is paid the salary of a colonel, lodged, boarded, and then the perquisites! One has hardly a notion of the extent of the perquisites in a berth like this. Every one consequently addressed him respectfully, ...
— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet
... of accusation, which lays down all the suppositions against Peytel as facts, which will not admit the truth of one of the prisoner's allegations in his own defence, comes the trial. The judge is quite as impartial as the preparer of the indictment, as will be seen by the following specimens ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray |
