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:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.
:" In modern scholarship, the term is often used with reference to kami worship and related theologies, rituals and practices.
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A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.
:" Bringing a sound knowledge of Naval Administration and professional skill to his assigned task, Rear Admiral Burke reorganized the rapidly expanded staff to meet its ever increasing responsibilities and, through his unusually fine conception of the essentials of modern warfare, materially improved the mutual functioning of the operation, plans and intelligence sections of the staff ...( and ) contributed immeasurably to the success of Naval operations in the Korean theater ..."
:" The birth of the modern Romanian state must distinguish two main currents-one exuberant but superficial, based on liberal ideas which depart from Paris to Bucharest and Iași.
:" The importance of this was enormous ... to the modern ethologist dealing with higher animals and faced as he is with ever-increasing evidence for the complexity of perceptual organization ... the very reverse of Morgan's canon often proves to be the best strategy ".
:" In recent years, Hamilton and his reputation have decidedly gained the initiative among scholars who portray him as the visionary architect of the modern liberal capitalist economy and of a dynamic federal government headed by an energetic executive.
:" The modern -- decentered -- understanding of the world has opened up different dimensions of validity ; to the extent that each dimension of validity has its own standards of truth and falsity and its own modes of justification for determining these, one may say that what has been opened up are dimensions of rationality " ( Cooke, 1994 ).
Writer Nick Tosches stated :" It is impossible to discern the first modern rock record, just as it is impossible to discern where blue becomes indigo in the spectrum.
The Gregory Walker or passamezzo moderno (" modern half step "; also quadran, quadrant, or quadro pavan ) was " one of the most popular harmonic formulae in the Renaissance period, divid into two complementary strains thus :"
:" So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION.
:" Now that modern devices afford abundant opportunities for the perpetration of such wrongs without any participation by the injured party, the protection granted by the law must be placed upon a broader foundation.
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:" Hans-Ulrich Wehler clearly and persuasively demonstrated over 30 years ago that modern historiography has a socio-political mission.
:" Mr. Huxley quotes from the Chinese Taoist philosophers, from followers of Buddha and Mohammed, from the Brahmin scriptures and from Christian mystics ranging from St John of the Cross to William Law, giving preference to those whose writings, often illuminated by genius, are unfamiliar to the modern reader.
:" In recent years, Hamilton and his reputation have decidedly gained the initiative among scholars who portray him as the visionary architect of the modern liberal capitalist economy and of a dynamic federal government headed by an energetic executive.
:" Since Bronwen he has entered on a new style, more modern, more dynamic, one in which his love of ' rubbing-notes ' is given free rein.
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:" The first time a version similar to the modern handling is published is in the August issue 1900 of a German magazine, Carl Willmann ’ s “ Zauberwelt ”.
:" So, the origin of the modern standard choreography seems to have appeared between the publication of Hoffman ’ s book in 1889 and the published effect in “ Zauberwelt ” 1900.

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:" It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
" Of the scholastics he says :" Yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places problem of the universals ; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place whole and the parts ; ... And these are but a small part of the Incongruencies they are forced to, from their disputing philosophically, in stead of admiring, and adoring of the Divine and Incomprehensible Nature ...."
:" Should their policy prevail, Japan, which is small, resource-poor, and unable to consume all its own industrial products, would have no resort but to destroy the status quo for the sake of self-preservation, just like Germany.
:" There is no difference whether you have a basketful or a small piece.
A recipe for one such compound was given thus :" For the Freckles which one getteth by the heat of the Sun: Take a little Allom beaten small, temper amonst it a well brayed white of an egg, put it on a milde fire, stirring it always about that it wax not hard, and when it casteth up the scum, then it is enough, wherewith anoint the Freckles the space of three dayes: if you will defend your self that you get no Freckles on the face, then anoint your face with the whites of eggs.
:" Frankly, my dear, I don't give a small copper coin weighing one tolah, eight mashas and seven surkhs, being the fortieth part of a rupee '.
:" Borborites " is also an invalid name for the small dung fly family ( Sphaeroceridae ).
:" When it was clear the Israelis were going to withdraw fully from Lebanon, Syrian and Lebanese officials fabricated the fiction that this small, sparsely populated area was part of Lebanon.
:" Two days brought us to San Pedro, and two days more ( to our no small joy ) gave us our last view of that place, which was universally called the hell of California and seemed designed in every way for the wear and tear of sailors.
:" Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally ; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions.
:" pronounced corries with small glacial lakes at the their bases, morainic ridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers and ice domes were confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate "
:" The fact that fate of the revolution was decided in Vienna and Berlin, that the key issues of life were dealt with in both those capitals without taking the slightest notice of the Frankfurt assembly-that fact alone is sufficient to prove that the institution was a mere debating club, consisting of an accumulation of gullible wretches who allowed themselves to be abused as puppets by the governments, so as to provide a show to amuse the shopkeepers and tradesmen of small states and towns, as long as it was considered necessary to distract their attention.
:" A bird swallows small bits of gravel that act as ' teeth ' in the gizzard, breaking down hard food such as seeds and thus helping digestion.
:" The seven persons forming the party were Robert McClelland of Hagerstown, who, with the celebrated Captain Wells, was captain of spies under General Wayne in his famous Indian campaign, Joseph Miller of Baltimore, for several years an officer of the U. S. Army, Robert Stuart, a citizen of Detroit, Benjamin Jones, of Missouri, who acted as huntsman of the party, Francois LeClaire, a halfbreed, and André Valée, a Canadian voyageur, and Ramsay Crooks, who is the only survivor of this small band of adventurers.
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:" In spring 1927 I was living atop a five-storied apartment at Paris's Quartier Latin, a small lodging full of gas and onion smell.
:" The streets are wide and its promenades and fine plane-trees make the town attractive ; but the public buildings, the chief of which are the Saint-Jean-Baptiste cathedral, a heavy building of the 18th century, and the citadel, which serves as barracks and prison, are of small interest.
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:" the landscapes in landscape archaeology may be as small as a single household or garden or as large as an empire ", and " although resource exploitation, class, and power are frequent topics of landscape archaeology, landscape approaches are concerned with spatial, not necessarily ecological or economic, relationships.
:" And everywhere, in profusion along this half mile of, there are small, neatly cored holes ... appears to be a Hilton for wrens and purple martins.
:" After breakfast I poured what remained of my tea into a small glass bottle, an ordinary demi-bouteille in fact ; the waiter then provided me with a ham sandwich, and, with my scrip thus frugally furnished, I thought the heights of Monte Rosa might be won ..."
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:" Rich Gallaecia sent its youths, wise in the knowledge of divination by the entrails of beasts, by feathers and flames — who, now crying out the barbarian song of their native tongue, now alternately stamping the ground in their rhythmic dances until the ground rang, and accompanying the playing with sonorous < span lang =" la "> caetrae </ span >" ( a caetra was a small type of shield used in the region ).

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