For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

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.

Later Helion wrote of this phase: `` For years I built for myself a subtle instrument of relationships -- colors and forms without a name.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

These gentlemen are calling for a resumption of testing -- in the atmosphere -- on the greatest possible scale, all in the name of national security.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

He had a mean, unbroken sheer bastard in his outfit, and someone invented the name Trig for him.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

Watson had given his name and asked for a safe-conduct pass.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

In 1781, Franz Sulzer claimed that it's related to bucurie ( joy ), bucuros ( joyful ), a bucura ( to become joyful ), while an early 19th century book published in Vienna assumed its name is derived from " Bukovie ", a beech forest.

* Hilaire, linked to the name Hilarius derived from Latin hilaris meaning joyful.

The joyful Sanctus ( a complicated eight-part fugue scored for double chorus ) begins with a brassy fanfare to announce him " who comes in the name of the Lord " and leads into an angelic Agnus Dei sung by the female soloists with the chorus.

The name Euroa comes from an Aboriginal word in the old local dialect meaning " joyful ".

It may also be used as or a variant of the Hebrew name Aliza, ע ַ ל ִ יז ָ ה meaning " joyful ".

To our noble Alma Mater's name, we, her children sing a joyful lay,

His Pali monastic name, ' Maha Ghosananda ', means " great joyful proclaimer ".

The name translates as " joyful ".

Initiation into Hinduism ( Vaishnava ) and receiving the name " Sadananda " ( always joyful ).

Ganden means " joyful " and is the Tibetan name for Tuṣita, the heaven where the bodhisattva Maitreya is said to reside.

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

The name itself comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of '- teen ' as in ' thirteen ' (- надцать ,-nadtsat ).

Its name is from the Seneca Indian word Gen-nis '- hee-yo, meaning " the Beautiful Valley ".

If it is Cornish then ' Dun ' would = Fort ( Oliver Padel proposes ' Dun ' '- tagell ' ( narrow place ) in his book on place name elements and may be right ); there is a possible cognate form in the Channel Islands: Tente d ' Agel, but that still leaves the question subject to doubt.

Pashur or Pashhur ( pash '- hur ) was the name of at least two priests contemporary with the prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.

The original Armenian name for the country was Hayk, later Hayastan ( Armenian: Հայաստան ), translated as the land of Haik, and consisting of the name of the ancient Mesopotamian god Haya ( ha-ià ) and the indoeuropean suffix '- stan ' ( land ).

The title is associated with the god Gukumatz of the K ' iche '- Maya, one of the creation gods of the Popol Vuh ; his whole name translating as " Sovereign Plumed Serpent ".

The name of the river is Celtic and means ' holy one ' and the '- ford ' suffix is Old English.

Residents generally pronounce the name of this unincorporated suburb by placing the most emphasis on the final syllable ( Mar '- tuhn-EZ ).

Locally, the city's name is pronounced BUCK-an '- uhn, with the emphasis on the first syllable.

The Saxon name for Ealing was recorded c. 700 as ' Gillingas ', meaning ' place of the people associated with Gilla ', from the personal name Gilla and the Old English suffix '- ingas ', meaning ' people of '.

The term " will-o '- the-wisp " comes from " wisp ", a bundle of sticks or paper sometimes used as a torch, and the name " Will ": thus, " Will-of-the-torch ".

This is a name that is sometimes applied to a phenomenon perhaps more frequently called Jack-o '- the-Lantern, or Will-o '- the-Wisp.

The '- a ' was added in analogy with other Swedish place names ending with-landa, and also makes the name a pun on the Swedish verb " landa ", which means " to land ".

' Brioc ' was an old English or Brythonic personal name and '- ham ' is an ancient term for village.

The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o '- type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i. e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.

However the name has been retained by nearby Pristan '- Przheval ' sk.

The university's name is taken from the Ouachita ( pronounced Wash '- uh-taw ) River, which forms the eastern campus boundary.

and rumors of the upcoming " Panther '- the code name for the forthcoming Camaro, slated as a direct competitor for the Mustang.