He proposed that " it was painted for a bagnio, and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong ", adding humorously that " in truth, it is a trifle too strong for any place but a public art gallery ".

The same day, Thomas Howard, a porter at the bagnio, confessed to Justice of the Peace Sir Thomas Clarges that he had been bribed by Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret, to sneak a rabbit into Toft's chamber.

in the bagnio of Algiers, and reflected his experience in some of his fictional ( but not directly autobiographical ) writings, including the Captive's tale in Don Quixote, his two plays set in Algiers, El Trato de Argel ( The Treaty of Algiers ) and Los Baños de Argel ( The Baths of Algiers ), and episodes in a number of other works.

Manningham examined Toft and thought something remained in the cavity of her uterus, and so he successfully persuaded Clarges to allow her to remain at the bagnio.

Before leaving, Dartmouth was able to purchase the release of many English prisoners from Ismail's bagnio, including several officers and about 40 men, some of whom had spent 10 years in the hands of the Moroccans.

In The Day of the Locust, ( Nathanael West, 1939 ), Claude Estee's wife, Alice, says " Nothing like a good bagnio to set a fellow up.

" She gives the example of Hamlet's advice to Ophelia, " get thee to a nunnery ", which is simultaneously a reference to a place of chastity and a slang term for a brothel, reflecting Hamlet's confused feelings about female sexuality.

* No. 100 Squadron RAF ( Royal Air Force ) continue to use a flag depicting a skull and crossbones supposedly in reference to a flag stolen from a French brothel in 1918.

In Thailand, at Vajiravudh College considered to be the country's best boarding school built by King Rama VI ( King Vajiravudh ) in 1910, the " tramp of twenty two men " became " The Might of Thirty Best Men " in reference to the school's supremacy in Rugby.

Griffin is given the first name " Hawley " in the title ( as a reference to Hawley Crippen ), and it is explained that the Invisible Man killed at the end of the book was actually a half-wit albino that Griffin made invisible as a guinea pig, allowing him to escape to Rosa Coote's boarding school.

The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe, a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century AD: " Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey ; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.

With Hulsius, Jacob entered into a polemical discussion of the verse in the Book of Haggai: " The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former " ( 2: 9 ), which Hulsius attempted to prove was a reference to the Church.

The nationalists in the freedom struggle of India dubbed Calcutta University, another pillar of India ’ s education movement, as “ Goldighir Ghulamkhana ”, or the slave house of Goldighi, with reference to the lake adjacent to Calcutta University, and the number of graduates it churned out who were used in British merchant offices as clerks.

In a capability-based model, holding an unforgettable reference or capability to an object provides access to the object ( roughly analogous to how possession of your house key grants you access to your house ); access is conveyed to another party by transmitting such a capability over a secure channel.

A genlock signal is required to provide a means for video synchronizing with the house reference.

Hence, house and man have quantized reference.

Its first application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846 under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house.

At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.

* A novelty version of " The Twelve Days of Christmas " made reference to the 1985 incident with reference to " a new row house on Osage Avenue ".

Since Homer, in the Iliad, makes no reference to his ancestry ( except to note that he is the son of Panthous ( Πάνθοος ) and Phrontis ( Φροντίς ), he is apparently a commoner, or in any event not a member of the royal house of Troy.

The Palmers Green reference was prompted by the fact that Trouble had just split up with his girlfriend and was at a party thrown by his friend, Charles " Charlie Farley " Hallinan, near The Fox public house in Palmers Green.

The Clewiston Library has a Florida room to house historical reference material and books pertinent to local and state history.

An early reference to a tollbooth in Wigtown occurs in 1591, and it is possible that this structure was blown up by gunpowder in the 18th century to make way for the Market ( or Court ) house mentioned by Bishop Pococke in 1760 and another 18th-century writer, Samuel Robinson.

Many have made reference to Webber's Cottage on Samson as Armorel's house.

Although this is sometimes taken as a reference to the three kings — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar — it may originally have represented the words " Christus mansionem benedicat " ( Christ bless this house ).

The earliest documentary reference is the granting of a licence for the administration of a chapel within the house in 1365.

Records show that in 1464, provision was made for a library to be erected in the house of the Kalendars, and reference is made to a deed of that date by which it was " appointed that all who wish to enter for the sake of instruction shall have ' free access and recess ' at certain times ".

The genus name Hypericum is derived from the Greek words hyper ( above ) and eikon ( picture ), in reference to the traditional use of the plant to ward off evil, by hanging plants over a religious icon in the house during St John's day.

In reference to Poetsch, Hitler wrote: " For who could have studied German history under such a teacher without becoming an enemy of the state which, through its ruling house, exerted so disastrous an influence on the destinies of the nation.

Akiva was the shepherd of a rich man nicknamed Kalba Savua because anyone who entered his house hungry like a dog ( kalba ) went out satiated ( savua ) ( a reference to his hospitality toward guests ).

The dwarf rabbit reference was an inside joke among WebTV's hard-working engineers — Phil Goldman's pet house rabbit Bowser ( inspiration for the General Magic logo ) was often found roaming the WebTV building late into the night while the engineers were working — although WebTV actually received inquiries from real research groups conducting similar studies and seeking to exchange data.

In October 2006, Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook, a reference book about looking after your house, was published by Clarkson Potter.

The Latin word domesticus means " belonging to the house ", like the common name a reference to its association with humans.

it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

Af is the work necessary to fill the manometer column from the reference height to H.

The total volume of the system above the reference height is Af, and H can be eliminated to obtain an equation for the total potential energy of the system in terms of H.

A drawing of the structure is to be found in reference 6.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

There is also the problem of the respondent's frame of reference.

That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

During the assignment pass, each instruction is examined for reference to the symbolic name of an index word or electronic switch.

When such a reference is found, an actual address is assigned and the availability table is changed so that the assigned index word or switch is no longer available for later assignment.

Essentially, the stator or reference portion of the pickoff is established with respect to the true heading direction, and the platform is turned either manually or automatically until the angular electrical pickoff signal is reduced to zero.