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Among the Harranians dogs were sacred, but this was rather as brothers of the mystae.
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Among others, John Heath has observed, " The unalterable kernel of the tale was a hunter's transformation into a deer and his death in the jaws of his hunting dogs.
Among the species, black-tailed prairie dogs tend to be the least sexually dimorphic, and white-tailed prairie dogs tend to be the most sexually dimorphic.
Among the larger more common species are wild dogs, Antilopine Kangaroos, Black Wallaroos, Agile Wallabys, and Short-eared Rock Wallabys.
Among the kinds of dung commonly used were that of dogs or pigeons.
Among the rodents targeted by raccoon dogs, voles seem to predominate in swampy areas, but are replaced with gerbils in flatland areas such as Astrakhan.
Among other ingredients entering into some of these formulae were the excrements of human beings, dogs, mice, geese and other animals, calculi, human skull and moss growing on it, blind puppies, earthworms, etc.
Among the most prolific to do so are cats and dogs.
Among other things, an animal must categorize if it is to apply learning about one object ( e. g. Rex bit me ) to new instances of that category ( dogs may bite ).
Among these categories further divisions can be made based upon the dogs ' skill sets.
Among the dogs on whom Thomas operated was one named Anna, who became the first long-term survivor of the operation and the only animal to have her portrait hung on the walls of Johns Hopkins.
Among the Bedouin, the saluki dogs are cherished as companions and allowed in the tents.
Among reputable breeders, cross-breeding is an attempt to breed dogs with positive characteristics of two recognized breeds.
Among dogs, an example of an open stud book would be the registries maintained by the American Kennel Club as its Foundation Stock Service.
Among those buried, were servants, dwarfs, women and even dogs.
Among mammals, dogs, cats, lions, and many other carnivores have sagittal crests, as do some leaf eaters, including tapirs and some apes.
Among the wild animals there were the panther, leopard, tiger, hyena, jackal and wild dogs.
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Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.
Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.
Among foreign countries responding were Germany, Canada, Brazil and India.
Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;
Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.
Among them were a number of newsmen, including Henry Raymont, of United Press International, and Robert Berrellez, of Associated Press.
Among his gangland buddies, he said, were Joseph ( Joey ) Glimco, a mob labor racketeer, and four gang gambling chiefs, Gus ( Slim ) Alex, Ralph Pierce, Joe ( Caesar ) DiVarco, and Jimmy ( Monk ) Allegretti.
Among the witnesses were Ed J. Lee, director of McCormick Place ; ;
Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.
Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;
Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.
Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.
Among major industrial centers closed to curtail pollution were the Nairit Chemical Plant, the Alaverdy Metallurgical Plant, and the Vanadzor Chemical Combine.
Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.
Among subsequent possessors were Scott's son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, J. R. Hope Scott, Q. C., and his daughter ( Scott's great-granddaughter ), the Hon.
Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.
Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.
Among Ammonius ' other pupils there were Herennius and Cassius Longinus.
Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result ( from 1942 to 1946, most intensively ).
" Among the Oxford Group practices AA retained were informal gatherings, a " changed-life " developed through " stages ", and working with others for no material gain.
Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.
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Among these sacred works there survives a Mass in C major written without a " Gloria " and in the antique a cappella style ( presumably for one of the church's penitential seasons ) and dated 2 August 1767.
Among the earliest Kurdish religious texts is the Yazidi Black Book, the sacred book of Yazidi faith.
Among the Hebrews, the act of anointing with the Holy anointing oil was significant in consecration to a holy or sacred use: hence the anointing of the high priest (; ) and of the sacred vessels ().
Among the Egyptians several kinds of apes were regarded as sacred animals, but the most revered of all was that which was the companion of Thoth, and which is commonly known as the Dog-headed Ape.
Among the listed alphabets, Bassa Vah is compared to include Armenian, Coptic ( used by Egyptian Coptics and Coptic Church ), Avestan used in Ancient Persia to write sacred hymns of Zoroastrianism, Georgian language in Republic of Georgia, Mongolian, Meroitic alphabet of ancient Sudan and parts of Nile Valley, and many other ancient scripts, Greek-based and Cyrillic alphabets.
Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with Aphrodite and remained sacred to her.
Among his works are three books of madrigals, a book of ricercars, but only two sacred compositions — a curious omission for a composer so closely connected with the church.
Among these populations were the Jews, who, as they had no images, took with them the sacred vessels of the temple.
Among other sacred objects in the temple was the Palladium, a statue of Pallas Athena ) supposedly brought by Aeneas from Troy.
Among his sacred compositions are: A Passion Cantata, Funeral Music in Honor of Hasse, a setting of the one hundredth Psalm ; and a few symphonies.
Among the best of his sacred subjects are a St Sebastian and an Assumption of the Virgin, both in the church of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura in Rome.
Among Cavalieri's secular compositions were madrigals, monodies, and pieces he wrote for intermedi ; his sacred compositions included a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo.
Among the sacred groves associated with such jinjas or Shinto shrines is the 20-hectare wooded area associated with at Atsuta-ku, Nagoya.
Among the Mizrahim ( Arabic-speaking Jews living in the Middle-East ) it was quite common to replace their Hebrew names with relevant Arabic ones, whenever they bore a religious note and were deemed sacred to both Jews and Moslems, so Abraham turned into Ibrahim, Aharon into Haroun, David into Daoud, Moshe into Moussa, and Shlomo into Soliman and Salman.
Among English texts, Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac relates that in order to give relief to a boy afflicted by madness, he " washed him in the water of the sacred font and, breathing into his face the breath of healing ' spirit of salvation ', drove away from him all the power of the evil spirit ,"< ref > Bertram Colgrave, ed.
Among his copious works are many masses, including a Requiem mass ; psalm settings, lamentations, vespers, antiphons, sacrae cantiones, and numerous other sacred works.
Among them were Anglesey ( Môn ), located on the Northern Welsh Coast, which was the sacred island of the druids of Britain ; the Scilly islands, where archaeological remains of proto-historical temples have been found ; and some of the Hebrides Islands, which were, in the Gaelic tradition, home of ghosts and demons: on one of them, Skye, the Irish hero Cúchulainn was educated by the war goddess Scathach.
Among its sacred objects is a wooden blessing cross featuring silver filigree work and twenty-four red gems ; this is from the end of the 19th century and appears to be the work of an anonymous artist from the Russian school.
Among the temples Aurangzeb destroyed were two that are most sacred to Hindus, in Varanasi and Mathura.
Among his duties was the ritual brandishing of the sacred spears of Mars when the Roman army was preparing for war.
Among the " sacred and fundamental laws " he proposed was " Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.
Among noted nineteenth-century Theatines was the Sicilian Father Gioacchino Ventura dei baroni di Raulica, a philosopher, littérateur, and great sacred orator.
Among the Tallensi tribe there is a belief in the sacred crocodile.
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