:... a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes ; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard ; disgraced by a neck an inch long ; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair ; in color an Ethiopian ; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night ; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet ; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age ; shod with Sicyonian shoes ; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses.

today, a VIP can be invited to step forward to touch the eyes on a dragon boat head with a brush dipped in red paint made of the blood of a chicken in order to reanimate the creature's bold spirit for hearty racing.

The bird also features, however, in The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, a poem by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the outcast speaker asks: " Could the whip-poor-will or the cat of the glen / Look into my eyes and be bold?

As time went on the games became increasingly bold in their treatment of grues — Wishbringer allows the player to stumble upon a baby grue and get a good look at it before its parents return ( described as a " horrid little beast with red eyes and slavering fangs ").

* Asne Zeramene is a Saldaean, with dark, tilted eyes and a bold nose, originally of the Green Ajah.

A quote from the NMC, describes the ideal mouse body type, for showing: " The mouse must be long on body with long clean head, not too fine or pointed at the nose, the eyes should be large, bold and prominent.

They should have a short head with full cheeks and bold eyes.

But what quarter could a poor defenseless woman expect from a dictator who would even make so bold as to close all of the banks in our great nation??

alt = A bold woman is singing on stage.

Her old friend Sally Seton, whom Clarissa admires dearly, is remembered as a great independent woman: She smoked cigars, once ran down a corridor naked to fetch her sponge-bag and made bold, unladylike statements to get a reaction from people.

In his journal he wrote, " One Mrs. Hutchinson, a member of the church at Boston, a woman of a ready wit and a bold spirit, brought over with her two dangerous errors: 1.

The heroine of the stories, Lorelei Lee, was a bold, ambitious flapper, who was much more concerned with collecting expensive baubles from her conquests than any marriage licenses, in addition to being a shrewd woman of loose morals and high self-esteem.

Lauded by the New Yorker as " one of the most successful woman composers of all time ", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world.

During the onset of the series, Otaru comes into the inadvertent acquisition of three marionettes ; Lime, a wildly effervescent girl with a knack for mischief, Cherry, the gentle and soft-spoken mind with gifted culinary skills, and Bloodberry, a bold and voluptuous woman with vigor matched only by her libido.

The accepted denotative meaning is a sexually promiscuous woman or " a woman of a low or loose character ; a bold or impudent girl ; a hussy, jade.

Machiavelli reminds the reader that Fortune is a woman, that she favours a strong, or even violent hand, and that she favours the more aggressive and bold young man than a timid elder.

She is a self-assured, bold but subtly assertive woman.

She is a very sensual, self-assured, bold but subtly assertive woman.

When a woman grows bold and daring, we dislike her, and say, ‘ she is too like a man ’: yet in our selves, we magnify what we condemn.

" Elysa Gardner with Vibe magazine was in high praise of Design of a Decade, as well as Jackson herself, stating, " It's been almost 10 years since Janet Jackson announced that her first name wasn't Baby, and it's easy to forget what a bold proclamation that was coming from a woman — particularly a black woman — at that time [...] Only two women were there to remind the rest of us that there was power and freedom in feminine sexuality — to reinforce the fact that we could be adorable and flirtatious and strong and assertive.

He wrote that Mrs. Hutchinson, " a woman of ready wit and bold spirit ," had brought with her two dangerous theological errors, elaborating upon them in his journal.

Even if she was prompted by Ptolemy, her successful intervention in political and military affairs remains remarkably bold and without any known precedent, an extraordinary act for a royal woman.

Audiences were intensely curious about the young woman who had been so bold in escape.

Since only William's narrative voice tells their joint story in the book, critics say it is suggestive of how difficult it was for a black woman to find a public voice, although she was bold in action.

A tag such as " h1 " ( header level 1 ) might be presented in a large bold sans-serif typeface, for example, or in a monospaced ( typewriter-style ) document it might be underscored – or it might not change the presentation at all.

His experience made him an attractive candidate, but the Pilgrims ultimately decided against Smith: His price was too high and the Pilgrims feared his fame and bold character might lead him to become a dictator.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that narcissists may be particularly common in the financial sector as they " are able to make quick, bold decisions without any thought for the consequences these might have on other people ".< ref >" When narcissism becomes pathological ", Adrian Tempany, Financial Times, 4 September 2010, accessed 23 June 2012 .< http :// www. ft. com / cms / s / 2 / 5ff67be2-b636-11df-a784-00144feabdc0. html # axzz1wu6UVK53 ></ ref > One financier with experience of NPD claimed to know a recruitment consultant who actively sought to recruit narcissists.

Even Anderson's supporters admitted that the details of the supposed escape " might seem bold inventions even for a dramatist ", while her detractors considered " this barely credible story as a piece of far-fetched romance ".

Unto me the least of all saints is this grace given, that I should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God which made all things through Jesus Christ, to the intent, that now unto the rulers and powers in heaven might be known by the congregation the manifold wisdom of God, according to that eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesu our Lord, by whom we are bold to draw near in that trust, which we have by faith on him.

On the 1st August 1944 he was bold enough to speak publicly with contempt of the Japanese brand of independence, and it was clear that, if they did not soon liquidate him, he might prove useful to us ... At our first interview, Aung San began to take rather a high hand ... I pointed out that he was in no position to take the line he had.

" His lack of confidence in the Missourians led McCulloch to hesitate when a bold attack might well have destroyed Lyon's smaller force and given Missouri to the Confederacy.

The Irish association of Arbutus in English gardens is reflected in the inventory taken in 1649 of Henrietta Maria's Wimbledon: " one very fayre tree, called the Irish arbutis parte of the sayd kitchin garden, very lovely to look upon " By the 18th century Arbutus unedo was well known enough in English gardens for Batty Langley to make the bold and impractical suggestion that it might be used for hedges, though it " will not admit of being clipped as other evergreens are.

In particular, only two years before Rutherford in 1911 had postulated that Z for gold atoms might be about half of its atomic weight, and only shortly afterward, Antonius van den Broek had made the bold suggestion that Z was not half of the atomic weight for elements, but instead was exactly equal to the element's atomic number, or place in the periodic table.

Mark Lawson on BBC Radio 4 warned, with particular reference to a painting by Joe Machine of two sailors having anal sex, that the paintings might cause controversy, as they were " certainly not ... conventional " but contained " very bold and explicit images ".

Paintings in this style usually portrayed castles as indistinct, faintly coloured objects in the distance ; in writing, the picturesque account eschewed detail in favour of bold first impressions on the sense.

" and " a key transitional figure bridging R & B and soul ," Burke's " sound was a bold merger of orchestrated sophistication and countryish, down-home grit, and his best singles built a Gothic sense of drama and heartbreak.

Haupt's critical work is distinguished by a combination of the most painstaking investigation with bold conjecture ; his oft-cited dictum that " If the sense requires it, I am prepared to write Constantinopolitanus where the MSS have the monosyllabic interjection o " well expresses this boldness.

His sense of harmony was highly developed, enabling him to deliver bold statements through complex harmonic progressions ( chord changes ), and embodying the linear, " algebraic " terms of bebop harmony.

Most subsequent philosophers reject Zeno's bold conclusion in favor of common sense.

Bienville wanted to destroy these Natchez remnants, and reduce the Chickasaw: ' It is absolutely necessary that some bold and remarkable blow be struck, to impress the Indians with a proper sense of respect and duty toward us.

The Cimino-designed covers are bold and strong, with a sure sense of space and design.

Variety praised the film's " surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era " and its avoidance of " a sense of excessively partisan rhetoric " by deploying a wide range of interviewees and " a bold organizational scheme that lets focus jump around in interconnective, humorous, hit-and-run fashion.

* “ A combination of brilliant wit and a profound sense of drama, delicate thought and powerful construction, a brave, at times even a bold type of experiment and the constancy of the Russian national tradition, multiply enhanced by the greatest compositional technique – this has always fascinated and continues to fascinate me in Rodion Shchedrin ’ s musical output .” Mikhail Pletnyov

owever bold and ambitious they got, one never lost the sense of a hard, solid band sound at the core.

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, fold, false, falter, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould / mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder ( earlier sholder ), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold ( in the sense of " tract of land ").