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You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.
The Latin word ops means " riches, goods, abundance, gifts, munificence, plenty ".
The word Ojus is a Seminole Indian word for " plenty " or " lots of ," and when Fitch was in the area, Ojus had plenty of everything, including just about any type of crop imaginable-peas, beans, sugar cane, and tomatoes.
According to President Gandhi, a trained anthropologist and historian, Azania was selected as the name for the new administration because of its historical importance, as " Azania was a name given to Somalia more than 2, 500 years ago and it was given by Egyptian sailors who used to get a lot of food reserves from the Somali Coast [...] Its origin is Arabic word meaning the land of plenty.
" Complete with anthemic choruses, spoken word story lines, and plenty of bombastic power metal punctuating every dramatic turn ", says Allmusic's Vincent Jeffries, " Nightfall in Middle-Earth is perhaps Blind Guardian's most triumphant ".
In cryptography, SEAL ( Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm ) is a very fast stream cipher optimised for machines with a 32-bit word size and plenty of RAM.
The Hawaiian use of the word " wiki " was the local pronunciation of the word " quickly " spoken to them by missionaries trying to get their flocks to work more to Western timeframes than the more laid back Hawaiian work ethic of getting it done in plenty of time.
The name Dapto is said to be an Aboriginal word either from Dabpeto meaning " water plenty ", or from tap-toe which described the way a lame Aboriginal elder walked.
The name " Kembla " is Aboriginal word meaning " plenty wildfowl ".
The name Kaitaia means plenty of food ( Kai being the Maori word for food ).
Kembla is an Aboriginal word meaning " plenty of game ".
The name of the river comes from a Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-mon ( pronounced " sang gä mun ") meaning " where there is plenty to eat.
While the first recorded use of the name are the Latin " Cucaniensis ", and the Middle English " Cokaygne ", or modern-day " Cuckoo-land ", one line of reasoning has the name tracing to Middle French ( pays de ) cocaigne "( land of ) plenty ," ultimately adapted or derived from a word for a small sweet cake sold to children at a fair ( OED ).
Padre Morga wrote that Polillo originated from the Chinese word " Pulilu ", which means beautiful island with plenty of food.
In contrast to the modern word, it had a meaning of " season " and specifically " harvest ", and hence " plenty, prosperity ".
Eventually, farmers began to graze their herds in the region where they encountered lands with thick grasses: relva, the Portuguese word for grass, as the region became known, was used to describe this place, because this settlers found plenty of this boa erva ().
It is also important to note that the word " plenty " is a subjective term with meaning based on personal opinion with no scientific evidence provided.
There is plenty of evidence of the use of the term Brythoniaid ( Britons ); by contrast, the earliest use of the word Kymry ( referring not to the people but to the land — and possibly to northern Britain in addition to modern day territory of Wales ) is found in a poem dated to about 633.
And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn ’ t have to suffer through another word .” In National Review http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Jim_Geraghty James Geraghty wrote, “ Folks, there are plenty of arguments against Hillary Clinton, her policies, her views, her proposals, and her philosophies.
" Mahantongo " is a Lenape word, translated " where we had plenty of meat to eat " or " good hunting grounds.

word and .
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.
There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.
Hundreds of men are required to pass the word to the button pushers and to push the buttons.
I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.
The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.
I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.
A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.
Complicity is an embarrassing word.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
How it's phrased there -- the word violent.
There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

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