The Khitan in northern China were known as خطا in Arabic ( Khata ) and are mentioned by Muslim chroniclers as having fought against Muslims and founded the Kara-Khitan Khanate.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Later Helion wrote of this phase: `` For years I built for myself a subtle instrument of relationships -- colors and forms without a name.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

These gentlemen are calling for a resumption of testing -- in the atmosphere -- on the greatest possible scale, all in the name of national security.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

He had a mean, unbroken sheer bastard in his outfit, and someone invented the name Trig for him.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

Watson had given his name and asked for a safe-conduct pass.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

Also mistakenly called " gbedu " ( gbedu is the name of a large ceremonial drum ).

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

The central government exercises its broad administrative powers in the name of the President, whose duties are largely ceremonial.

Intact entries give the formal name, including filiation ( forenames of father and grandfather ) of the vir triumphalis, the name of the people ( s ) or command province whence the triumph was awarded, and the date of the actual ceremonial procession into the urbs.

Her name has the same root as Juno ( from Iuu -, " young, youngster "); the ceremonial litter bearing the sacred goose of Juno Moneta stopped before her sacellum on the festival of the goddess.

Her title is largely ceremonial, however, as the government on New Alderaan actually administers the Alderaan system and New Alderaan in her name.

The proper name of the pueblo is " at red willow canyon mouth " ( or " at the red willows " for short ); however, this name is more commonly used in ceremonial contexts and is less common in everyday speech.

Some scholars believe that the name " carnation " comes from " coronation " or " corone " ( flower garlands ), as it was one of the flowers used in Greek ceremonial crowns.

The city's broad central avenue, called " Avenue of the Dead " ( a translation from its Nahuatl name Miccoatli ), is flanked by impressive ceremonial architecture, including the immense Pyramid of the Sun ( third largest in the

The name is in practice a designation of any boat assigned to this duty, rather than the name of a specific vessel, and at present a tender of THV Galatea is used for such ceremonial duties.

The county's name originated from the word calumet, which was a ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans in councils on the east shore of Lake Winnebago.

Soma is still coined as name for an entheogenic brew ( avestic: Haoma ) still in ceremonial use.

As the ceremonial cannon on Lycabettus Hill fired the Royal salute, huge crowds gathered outside the Palace shouting what they thought should rightfully be the newborn prince's name: " Constantine ".

Tzintzuntzan was the ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Tarascan state capital of the same name.

Becoming the seventh member of the order, where he used the magical name of Yihovaeum, it was through doing so that he befriended the occultist Victor Neuburg, but ultimately Spare never became a full member, disliking Crowley's emphasise on strict hierarchy and organisation and becoming heavily critical of the practice of ceremonial magic.

In the United Kingdom, the Civil List is the name given to the annual grant that covers some expenses associated with the Sovereign performing their official duties, including those for staff salaries, State Visits, public engagements, ceremonial functions and the upkeep of the Royal Households.

They gave him the ceremonial name, " Buffalo Child ", which he began to use thereafter.

The Aboriginal word “ Oorin ” meaning “ Belt of manhood ” in which a stone axe was carried on hunting expeditions, and “ Oorinbah ” which is the bora ring or ceremonial ground in which the initiation ceremony of conferring the “ belt of manhood ” was carried out is where the name for Ourimbah originates from.

The Chancellor of the University is the ceremonial head of the University who, in the name of the University, confers all degrees.

Most ceremonial counties correspond to a metropolitan or non-metropolitan county of the same name, but often with reduced boundaries.

The ceremonial counties of England is a collective name which can be applied to areas to which are appointed a Lord Lieutenant.