With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

Those familiar with his work will remember that he placed the incipience of the democratic faith at around 1850.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

I was familiar with Pilgrim's Progress, which I read as literature.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

`` I am not familiar with the expression ''.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders.

So, walking in awe, he became familiar with God, who resided chiefly in Drew Centennial Church with its high steeple and clock.

A busy president, conversant with a problem and its ramifications and beset by pressures to meet deadlines, tends naturally to assume that others must be as familiar with a problem as he is.

Mr. Barcus spoke on the subject of scholarships for Juniors -- with which he is very familiar.

Our readers are familiar with the principles of sonar where sound waves are sent out in water and the echoes then indicate submerged objects.

At present, both the familiar cast acrylic and the newer extruded sheets are being used by sign manufacturers, with extruded now representing an estimated 10% of the total.

Readers of the Reader's Digest are familiar with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a California paper that advertised `` House for rent.

The reader should be familiar enough with projections by now so that he sees that Af and in general that Af.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

All applicants were generally familiar with the work of the receptionist.

Even beginning students in linguistics are made familiar with an appreciable variety of consonant systems, both in their general outlines and in many specific details.

The old way of doing things, which depended on a relatively stable community with stable ideas dealing with familiar situations, was no longer adequate to the task.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

that nowadays all honeymooners are thoroughly familiar with the best sex-manuals and know enough from talk with friends and personal experimentation to take all the anxiety and hazards out of the situation.

Horns the sculptor included on Moses ' head are the result of a mistranslation of the Hebrew Bible into the Latin Vulgate Bible with which he was familiar.

An early reference to kissing is contained in the familiar second verse of the Old Testament book, Song of Solomon, an ancient Hebrew love poem:

The Vulgate translates this phrase as in terram visionis (" in the land of vision ") which implies that Jerome was familiar with the reading " Moreh ", a Hebrew word whose consonants suggest " vision.

Asser may have been familiar with a work by St Jerome on the meaning of Hebrew names ( Jerome's given meaning for " Asser " was " blessed "), so it is possible that Asser's birth name was " Gwyn " ( or " Guinn "), which is Welsh for " blessed " ( or " blessedness ").

He was educated at Oxford University, where he studied the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages, and also became familiar with the ( banned ) writings of Martin Luther and William Tyndale as well as the technology of printing.

Miriam then suggested that the princess take on a nurse for the child, and suggested Jochebed ; as a result, Moses was raised to be familiar with his background as a Hebrew.

This had little immediate impact on Christians, however, since most Christians did not know Hebrew and were familiar with the Hebrew Bible through the Greek Septuagint text of Hellenistic Jews, which included 2 Maccabees and other deuterocanonical works.

While familiar with the ancient Hebrew language, Gompers did not speak and held a lifelong disdain for Yiddish.

St Bruno's " Commentaries " reveal that he knew a little Hebrew and Greek ; he was familiar with the Fathers, especially Saint Augustine and Saint Ambrose.

Hai was not only a master of Hebrew lore, but was also familiar with the Quran and the Hadith, with Plato, Aristotle, Alfarabi, the grammarian al-Halil, the Septuagint, the Greek calendar, Greek history, and the Persian language translation of Kalilah wa-Dimnah.

The word " Hosanna " is derived from Aramaic ( הושע נא ) ( see Aramaic of Jesus # Hosana ) from Hebrew ( הושיעה נא ) (, הו ֹ ש ִׁ יע ָ ה נ ָּ א ), meaning " help " or " save, I pray ", " an appeal that became a liturgical formula ; as part of the Hallel ... familiar to everyone in Israel.

As Christianity gained popularity, Mass was celebrated in Latin, but the familiar and venerated Greek prayer Kýrie, eléison was preserved, as were Hebrew phrases such as " Alleluia ".

Friedman's thesis in The Hidden Book in the Bible is that the Yahwist author wrote many of the most familiar stories in the Hebrew Bible ( including the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, and David ) as one unified text.

Romanized Hebrew can be used to present Hebrew terminology or text to anyone who is not familiar with the Hebrew script.

On the other hand, formal equivalence can sometimes allow readers familiar with the source language to see how meaning was expressed in the original text, preserving untranslated idioms, rhetorical devices ( such as chiastic structures in the Hebrew Bible ), and diction.

These texts demonstrate the extent to which the Jewish community of Provence was familiar with Hebrew, as well as the extent to which the community was integrated into the larger surrounding Christian culture of the region.

He had already mastered Polish ; as a native of Holland, he naturally also spoke French, while the classical Latin, Greek, and Hebrew were also familiar to him.

A familiar example from the Hebrew Bible is the passage in Book of Judges ( Judges 21: 19 )

In both biblical and rabbinical Hebrew, the word " abomination " is a familiar term for an idol, and therefore may well have the same application in Daniel, which should accordingly be rendered, in agreement with Ezra, ix.