Rather, the word ' al ghurnuq ' or ' al gharniq ' was the name of a black or white water bird, sometimes given figuratively to the handsome blond youth.

A sleek and handsome bird, it has glossy black plumage except for the back of the neck, upper back ( mantle ), and a broad band around the lower breast that is white.

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.

The slender, handsome fellow was called Dandy Brandon by the other slaves.

But surely Michigan Avenue was handsome??

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

He was a well-to-do, handsome, and sensitive young poet.

And this handsome booby, staring and sweating, was he her bridegroom??

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Back in college, today's handsome Gander was the only male member of a Texas Tech class on food.

How strange it was that he could give her this handsome house and carte blanche as to its beautiful furnishings, and fail her in -- spiritual ways.

This refugee was a middle-aged man, a big, handsome man with a strut to his walk as I have never before seen.

He was a bright and handsome young man from New York, who worked for the same steel company as John did.

What she felt was a bone-deep loss with a sense of waste to it, not so much sorrow for handsome, ambitious Bobbie, but for the lost years that had been brought into high relief by his death.

He was my nephew, my brother's son, handsome and warm and newly-scrubbed, with happiness upon his face and his face resembled my brother's and mine as well.

Absalom himself was caught by his head in the boughs of an oak-tree as the mule he was riding ran beneath it-an irony given that he was previously renowned for his abundant hair and handsome head.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.

He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.

He was tall and fairly handsome ; " he had sparkling eyes of medium size ; his nose, like that of his brother, was becomingly aquiline ; his hair was blond and grew back somewhat from his forehead.

Being wise, handsome, and wealthy ( Bava Metzia 84a ; Yer.

Although he was not handsome, Isabella admired him for his strength and bravery ; she also regarded him as a gentleman.

He was marvelously handsome ; and the maidens who told him concerning Samuel ( cf 1 Samuel 9: 11-13 ) talked so long with him that they might observe his beauty the more ( Ber.

* Brad Silver-A charming, handsome gynecologist, Brad at first appears to be an ideal husband for Francine ; however, their inability to communicate drives a wedge between them.

Gaveston was considered to be athletic and handsome ; he was a few years older than Edward and had seen military service in Flanders before becoming Edward's close companion.

The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.

Sometimes older versions are shown wearing a pair of glasses ; although used to compensate for his poor vision, Capitano will insist that it is so the brilliant or fierce glint in his handsome eyes will not outshine the sun.

Hal Erickson of Allmovie noted, "... much of Nielsen's early work was undistinguished ; he was merely a handsome leading man in an industry overstocked with handsome leading men.

The persons of those who are well-formed are indeed remarkably fine, nowhere better ; but as those who are favoured with the gifts of nature grow up exceedingly handsome, those from whom she withholds them are frightfully ugly.

* aw and au ( vowel 12 ), sometimes a or a &# 39 ; representing L-vocalisation, are realised, rather than or as in Central Scots dialects, for example aw ( all ), cauld ( cold ), braw ( brave, handsome, fine, splendid ), faw ( fall ) and snaw ( snow ), often written aa, caal ( d ), braa, faa and snaa in dialect writing.

Her mother is an overconfident, doting woman who is constantly trying to marry Bridget off to a rich, handsome man ; and her father is considerably more down-to-earth, though he is sometimes driven into uncharacteristically unstable states of mind by his wife.

Prince Alexander possessed much charm and amiability of manner ; he was tall, dignified and strikingly handsome.

John of Marmoutier describes Geoffrey as handsome, red-headed, jovial, and a great warrior ; however, Ralph of Diceto alleges that his charm camouflaged a cold and selfish character.

Lean, handsome and dashing, he is also rude and insolent ; his successful womanizing leaves him empty and irritable.

By 1819, twenty-five camellias had bloomed in England ; that year the first monograph appeared, Samuel Curtis's, A Monograph on the Genus Camellia, whose five handsome folio colored illustrations have usually been removed from the slender text and framed.

Charles IV was the third son of Philip IV ; like his father, Charles was known as " the fair " or " the handsome ".

It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

Similarly, the ancient English word for bird was " brid ".

Suddenly, one of the birds fell down, hit by an arrow ; it was the male bird.

This machine was an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to those of a bird, first presented in his Codex on the Flight of Birds in 1505.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

The district was originally called Sacopenapã ( translated from the tupi language, it means " the way of the socós ( a kind of bird )") until the mid-18th century.

* Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ( or as he's known for most of the film, " Evil Presence ") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction

It was in use for 800 years or more and numerous bird bones were found here, predominantly White-tailed Sea Eagle.

As he was falling, Athena, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, perdix, the partridge.

The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

In the following years, the bird was preyed upon by hungry sailors, their domesticated animals, and invasive species introduced during that time.

Victor Yannacone, Charles Wurster, Art Cooley and others associated with inception of EDF had all witnessed bird kills or declines in bird populations and suspected that DDT was the cause.

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

He returned to Germany in 1930 and in 1931 he accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he played the important role of brokering and acquiring the Walter Rothschild collection of bird skins, which was being sold in order to pay off a blackmailer.

He noted that the German society was " far more scientific, far more interested in life histories and breeding bird species, as well as in reports on recent literature.

Mayr was co-author of six global reviews of bird species new to science ( listed below ).

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

The Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) was a large, flightless bird of the alcid family that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

It was an important part of many Native American cultures which coexisted with the bird, both as a food source and as a symbolic item.

By the mid-16th century, the nesting colonies along the European side of the Atlantic were nearly all eliminated by humans killing this bird for its down, which was used to make pillows.

A specimen was bought in 1971 by the Icelandic Museum of National History for the sum of £ 9000, which placed it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold.

* A cigarette company, the British Great Auk Cigarettes, was named after this bird.

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.