Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

And Bill Wisman, forty-three, a farmer's son from Beallsville, Ohio, is a quiet but impressive man.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Also to the northeast is the town of Porto de Mós with its fanciful rebuilt castle.

Also to the south is the town of Porto de Mós with its fanciful rebuilt castle.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

She uses the fanciful name Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV, but an odd encounter with her father reveals that her real name is Françoise Appledelhi.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful " topsy-turvy " worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion — fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.

Much of the information that others subsequently reported about him is just as fanciful and some of it is vindictive or blatantly absurd, yet it is interesting and therefore worth reporting.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

This work, completed c. 1138, is an imaginative and fanciful account of British kings from the legendary Trojan exile Brutus to the 7th-century Welsh king Cadwallader.

This dependence, though most closely associated with Andrew Cecil Bradley, is clear as early as the time of Mary Cowden Clarke, who offered precise, if fanciful, accounts of the predramatic lives of Shakespeare's female leads.

A dictionary definition referring to fantasy literature is " fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.

Although the mainstream media often explained fanciful methods of performing these acts, the real secret was usually that there is no secret, you just do it.

It is interesting to note that the fanciful derivation of the name Veronica from the words Vera Icon ( eikon ) " true image " dates back to the " Otia Imperialia " ( iii 25 ) of Gervase of Tilbury ( fl.

For the most part, however, Kandinsky's paintings did not feature any human figures ; an exception is Sunday, Old Russia ( 1904 ), in which Kandinsky recreates a highly colourful ( and fanciful ) view of peasants and nobles in front of the walls of a town.

The name is " so styled on the basis of a more or less fanciful resemblance imagined in the form of the knot.

Though the etymology of the word ' panettone ' is rather mundane, three more complex and fanciful folk etymologies have arisen.

Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary.

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

As-gard, he conjectures, is the home of the Æsir ( singular Ás ) in As-ia, making a folk etymological connection between the three " As -"; that is, the Æsir were " men of Asia ", not gods, who moved from Asia to the north and some of which intermarried with the peoples already there.

The word assassin is often believed to derive from the word Hashshashin ( Persian: حش ّ اشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin, or Assassins ), and shares its etymological roots with hashish ( or ; from Arabic: ).

( The etymological convention that verbs derived from Greek roots are spelled with-ize and those from Latin with-ise is preserved in that practice.

In Faroese, ð is not assigned to any particular phoneme and appears mostly for etymological reasons ; however, it does show where most of the Faroese glides are, and when the ð is before r it is, in a few words, pronounced.

The disagreement between definitions is possibly due to the accumulation of evidence from archaeology of the original anciency of the metal in civilization ; in reference to " the dawn of civilization ", and in this respect has become the adopted modern meaning, disassociated from the original etymological Latin.

Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds.

The English word house derives directly from the Old English Hus meaning " dwelling, shelter, home, house ," which in turn derives from Proto-Germanic Khusan ( reconstructed by etymological analysis ) which is of unknown origin.

Athenaeus ( writing in the 1st or 2nd century BCE, and drawing on the etymological speculation of Apollodorus of Athens ) notes that the red mullet is sacred to Hecate, " on account of the resemblance of their names ; for that the goddess is trimorphos, of a triple form ".

" This theory of the Roman origins of many European folk traditions related to Diana or Hecate was explicitly advanced at least as early as 1807 and is reflected in numerous etymological claims by lexicographers from the 17th to the 19th century, deriving " hag " and / or " hex " from Hecate by way of haegtesse ( Anglo-Saxon ) and hagazussa ( Old High German ).

The character set is broadly broken into the following categories ( though these are by no means the only etymological roots of the characters we see in modern Chinese script ):

Since lexicalization may modify lexeme phonologically and morphologically it is possible, that a single etymological source may be borrowed in two or more forms into a single lexicon.

In Finnish, the month is called maaliskuu, which is believed to originate from maallinen kuu, meaning earthy month, because during maaliskuu, earth finally becomes visible under the snow ( other etymological theories have however been put forward ).

The etymological explanation for the form of the qi logogram ( or chi ) in the traditional form 氣 is " steam ( 气 ) rising from rice ( 米 ) as it cooks ".

The Latin etymological counterpart of Reich is not, but rather.

As such, the use of the term in antiquity, or even using a strictly etymological definition, is not common in the academy.

The ambivalence of her function is suggested in the etymological relationship of the root * venes-with Latin venenum ( poison, venom ), in the sense of " a charm, magic philtre ".