"Taur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... night a did not come back; All night tha dogs did raur; In tha mornin thAc look'd on tha kannel stwons An zeed 'em cover'd wi' gaur an bwons, The vlesh Acll vrom 'em a taur. ...
— The Dialect of the West of England Particularly Somersetshire • James Jennings
... latter restriction suggests that binding may have been originally the object of the taboo (cp. Ovid, Fasti, v. 432), and that the iron taboo came in with the iron age. Appel, de Romanorum precationibus, p. 82, note 2, seems so to understand it. Cp. Eurip. Iph. Taur. 468, where Orestes and Pylades are unbound before ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler
... etc., the bull takes the place of the Western ox. The Arab. word is "Taur" (Thaur, Saur); in old Persian "Tore" and Lat. "Taurus," a venerable remnant of the days before the "Semitic" and "Aryan" families of speech had split into two distinct growths. "Taur" ends in the Saxon "Steor" and the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |
