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The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).
Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.
Although the word " chalcogen " is literally taken from Greek words being " copper-former ", the meaning is more in line with " copper-ore former " or more generally, " ore-former ".
Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.
Jesus ' words are not to be taken literally – we should seek the supercelestial meaning in which the true route to salvation is revealed.
The song is also well known by the opening words and refrain of the first stanza, "" ( literally, " Germany, Germany above all "), but this has never been its title.
The importance of bread in German cuisine is also illustrated by words such as Abendbrot ( meaning supper, literally evening bread ) and Brotzeit ( snack, literally bread time ).
Other words derived from this root are ' mad ' ( literally, ' one whose intellect is hidden '), ' madness ', and ' embryo, fetus ' (' hidden inside the womb ').
Coined in English 1387, the word hero comes from the Greek " ἥρως " ( heroes ), " hero, warrior ", literally " protector " or " defender " the postulated original forms of these words being *, hērwōs, and *, Hērwā, respectively.
The words " lute " and " oud " derive from Arabic al ‘ ud ( العود ; literally " the wood ").
The regional toponym Mesopotamia comes from the ancient Greek root words μέσος ( meso ) " middle " and ποταμός ( potamia ) " river " and literally means "( Land ) between rivers ".
The words of an opera are known as the libretto ( literally " little book ").
The word poltergeist comes from the German words poltern (" to make noise ") and Geist (" ghost "), and the term itself literally means " noisy ghost ".
The words for pencil in German ( Bleistift ), Irish ( Peann Luaidhe ), Arabic ( قلم رصاص qalam ruṣāṣ ), and other languages literally mean lead pen.
The title refers to the parting words of Tongan warriors, " Malie toa, malie tau " ( literally, " Brave warrior, bravely fought ").
These words literally mean " beggar ", learner, auspicious, adept, endowed with harmony and order ; and it is traditional for bhikkhus to beg their food.
Sikhs always greet each other with the words " Sat Sri Akaal " which literally means " Truth is Time-less being ".
The medieval Latin word vagus means literally " wandering " ( the words vagrant, vagabond, and vague come from the same root ).
In Derrida's view, deconstruction is a tradition inherited via Heidegger ( the French term " déconstruction " is a term coined to translate Heidegger's use of the words " Destruktion "— literally " destruction "— and " Abbau "— more literally " de-building ").
Sweden uses the words sv: könsroll and: sv: könsidentitet ( literally ' sex role ' and ' sex-identity ') for the English terms ' gender role ' and ' gender identity '.
There are also numerous descriptive words, such as blēd ( that is, something that has bled, or " bloomed ", out ), bōgincel ( literally " little bough "), ōwæstm ( literally " on growth "), and tūdornes ( literally " offspringing ").

words and I
He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
So, I mustered my few words of the Manu dialect and said, `` We greet you in peace.
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.
In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??
I bethought me of the Lord's Prayer, and these words came to mind: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.
As I have said, words from Tennyson remain ever in my memory: `` That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before ''.
I could hear Alfred's voice a few words behind Meltzer's like a counterpoint, punctuated by sobs of sorrow and resignation.
And even hearing it in a concert hall surrounded by hundreds of people the words and the melody would make me a little colder and I would reach out for my husband's hand.
No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.
I think the answer is to be found in Prokofieff's own words: `` the clarity must be new, not old ''.
`` Not in the largest sense of the words '', I said.
One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;

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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.
Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.
Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.
In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
There were no words to say this but there was no need.
but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

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