It seems clear that he had a peculiar gift for evoking the enthusiasm of the native tribes, and we can understand well how he was able to use the famous white fawn, a present from one of the natives that was supposed to communicate to him the advice of the goddess Diana, to his advantage.

I am sent from the presence of the Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth and misunderstood life has been to indicate that you are to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world.

* Since our religion and the arts and practices peculiar to it are the gift of the Goddess, membership and training in a local coven or tradition are bestowed free, as gifts, and only on those persons who are deemed worthy to receive them.

She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.

This solution had a peculiar behaviour at what is now called the Schwarzschild radius, where it became singular, meaning that some of the terms in the Einstein equations became infinite.

These castes had sub-castes, each with its privileges, its distinctions, its peculiar dresses.

The earlier editions were printed in the peculiar spelling that Dewey had devised: the number of volumes in each edition increased to two, then three and now four.

Many patients felt peculiar sensations or had convulsions that were regarded as crises and supposed to bring about the cure.

In the United States, all the northern states had abolished the institution of slavery between 1777 and 1804, although southern states clung tightly to the " peculiar institution ".

The Arabs had lived in it for centuries, but they had long ceased to rule it, and in view of its peculiar character they could not now claim to possess it in the same way as they could claim possession of Syria or Iraq.

Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".

Linguistics scholars demonstrated that, even as a suffix, this peculiar usage of vin had ceased long before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland.

Despite the contents of this telegram, a second communique, from Rice's bankers warned that the multi millionaire had died under peculiar circumstances, and that his body was to be cremated.

They had been accused of speaking in unknown languages as well as practicing knowledge beyond their natural abilities, and acting in peculiar manners.

In other respects it had no peculiar privileges, and was in the condition of an ordinary municipal town, with its own magistrates, local senate, etc., but was certainly in the time of Cicero one of the most considerable places in the island.

In fact, Augusta's due date was earlier and a peculiar episode followed in July in which the prince, on discovering that his wife had gone into labour, sneaked her out of Hampton Court Palace in the middle of the night, to ensure that the King and Queen could not be present at the birth.

Though Dudley did not " delight in banquets ", he had a peculiar taste for exotic fruits and salads — and French cooks.

Bukharin himself speaks of his " peculiar duality of mind " in his last plea, which led to " semi-paralysis of the will " and Hegelian " unhappy consciousness ", which presumably stemmed from the conflict between his knowledge of the reality of Stalinist rule and the threat of fascism, which led Bukharin and others to follow Stalin, who had become the personification of the Party.

Hergé obviously had a strong contempt for slavery, as evidenced by strongly negative emphasis placed on the villainy of slave traders ( supplemented by the scene in which Captain Haddock hurls his peculiar brand of expletives at a slaver leaving their ship ).

As all three had been partisans of Caesar, their choices of targets were somewhat peculiar.

Graves tells that Turner would outline a scene, sit doing nothing for two or three days, then suddenly, " perhaps on the third day, he would exclaim ' there it is ', and seizing his colours work rapidly till he had noted down the peculiar effect he wished to fix in his memory.

His heart had a peculiar shape, it was triangular due to which both the Valknut and the Triquetra have been called Hrungnir's heart.

The obvious answer was that man had spread over the continents following the destruction of the Tower of Babel and taken animals with him, yet some of the results seemed peculiar.

Morphy ’ s room was always kept in perfect order, for he was very particular and neat, yet this room had a peculiar aspect and at once struck the visitor as such, for Morphy had a dozen or more pairs of shoes of all kinds which he insisted in keeping arranged in a semi-circle in the middle of the room, explaining with his sarcastic smile that in this way, he could at once lay his hands on the particular pair he desired to wear.

Toombs objected to halting the spread of slavery into the territories of California and New Mexico and even the abolishment of what John C. Calhoun had called the " peculiar institution " in Washington, D. C.

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

The giraffe has intrigued various cultures, both ancient and modern, for its peculiar appearance, and has often been featured in paintings, books and cartoons.

She assumed that children's songs were a peculiar form of coded historical narrative, propaganda or covert protest, and rarely considered that they could have been written simply for entertainment.

Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.

Due to the different linguistic, cultural and geographical environment, and its peculiar complications, the diverse tribal world of Madhya Pradesh has been largely cut-off from the mainstream of development.

Usage of the term " Intelligent Dance Music " has been criticised by electronic musicians such as Aphex Twin and is seen by artists such as Mike Paradinas as being peculiar to the U. S.

The pronunciation " Yima " is peculiar to the Avestan dialect ; in most Iranian dialects, including Old Persian, the name would have been " Yama ".

In the last few years, these properties have been purchased by new owners who sought to and did demolish them in order build small, ornate homes worth much more, many being valued to amounts on the order of as much as a few million dollars, a peculiar outgrowth of the unlimited-in-value homestead exemption for principal residences from forced sale provided to homesteaders under the Florida Constitution.

He had proposed after an almost momentary acquaintance, allegedly in very abrupt and peculiar terms ; it seems to have been a successful marriage.

Also, since Dinofelis remains have been found near Paranthropus fossil skulls in South Africa, a few of which have peculiar twin holes in their crania matching the Dinofelis upper canines's spacing almost exactly, it is possible that Dinofelis was preying on robust hominids as well.

From Okakura, he gained much of his fascination for aesthetics and perhaps foreign languages, as indeed his fascination with the peculiar cultural codes of the pleasure quarters of Japan owes something to the fact that his mother had once been a geisha.

From this circumstance, as well as from its peculiar relation with the prostate, which it supports as in a sling, it has been described as a distinct muscle, under the name of Levator prostatæ.

Prior to the 1882 book, little attention had been paid to the dialect of " the old Worcestershire folks ", despite it being " interesting and peculiar ".

Audiences may have been displeased with the subtle irony of the compositions and unique camera movements that often highlight peculiar off screen activity.

The British House of Commons, with its traditions … is a machine too peculiar and too delicate to be managed by any but those who have been born within these isles ".

It is not, however, a phenomenon peculiar to nuclear explosions, having been observed frequently in large forest fires and following incendiary raids during World War II.

However, from the same locality the strange larvae and adults of the extinct family Mickoleitiidae ( order Coxoplectoptera ) have been described, which represents the fossil sister group of modern mayflies, even though they had very peculiar adaptations ( e. g. raptorial forelegs ).

The peculiar image of a tricephalous figure has been taken as a pagan predecessor of depictions of a tricephalous Christ symbolizing the Trinity in Christian iconography but is difficult to place in a contemporary context.

If courts, for instance, should prevent a man from breathing any air which had been breathed by another ( within, say a reasonable statute of limitations ), those individuals who breathed most vigorously and were quickest and wisest in selecting desirable locations in which to breathe ( or made the most advantageous contracts with such individuals ) would, by virtue of their property right in certain volumes of air, come to exercise and enjoy a peculiar economic advantage, which might, through various modes of economic exchange, be turned into other forms of economic advantage, e. g., the ownership of newspapers or fine clothing.

" ( No. 15 ) and that " it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.