In many homes an empty place setting is symbolically left at the table for the Baby Jesus or, for a lonely wanderer who may be in need of food, or if a deceased relative should come and would like to share in the meal.

It turns out the man is Russian, and he is a mere wanderer ; who just happened to wander into Kurtz's camp: " He rattled away at such a rate he quite overwhelmed me.

alt = Photo of mostly transparent diatoms of varying shapes: one resembles a bagel, another a short length of tape, others look like tiny kayaksThe name plankton is derived from the Greek adjective πλαγκτός-planktos, meaning " errant ", and by extension " wanderer " or " drifter ".

* Nick Haflinger is a wanderer, a man without a place to call his own, or a people he can identify with.

By far, the largest part of this population is the northeast Arctic cod, as it is labelled by the ICES, or the Arcto-Norwegian cod stock, also referred to as skrei, a Norwegian name meaning something like " the wanderer ", distinguishing it from coastal cod.

The Germanic mythological figure of Aurvandil " shining wanderer ; dawn wanderer, evening star ", or " Shining Vandal " is reported as one of the " Germanic Dioscuri ".

The word " zooplankton " is derived from the Greek zoon (), meaning " animal ", and (), meaning " wanderer " or " drifter ".

In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the " shrewd and knavish sprite " and " that merry wanderer of the night " in some scenes it would seem that he is longing for freedom and he is also a jester to Oberon, the fairy king.

The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.

He is a good-natured wanderer who eventually becomes a political leader advocating ties with Earth.

", Cain is facing the punishment that God has visited upon him for the sin of Envy, which is a similar play on the words in where he says, " I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.

He is challenged to defeat the evil wizard, who tells him of his defeat by the one he simply knew as ' the wanderer ', and believes if he sends back the challenger from the future, he can prevent his own demise.

It is a rare but regular wanderer north of its breeding range.

The raccoon dog ( Nyctereutes procyonoides, from the Greek words nukt -, " night " + ereutēs, " wanderer " + prokuōn, " before-dog " in New Latin used to mean " raccoon " +-oidēs, "- oid "), also known as the magnut or tanuki, is a canid indigenous to East Asia.

The plot of Vagrant Story, titled " The Phantom Pain ", is presented as the prelude to the " story of the wanderer ".

Each episode is introduced and concluded by a mysterious wanderer known only as " The Hitchhiker ," and explores the foibles of humanity and its dark spirit.

When she began her pilgrimage she had taken a vow to " remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food.

He had Celtic blood on his father's side and Norse on his mother's: his contemporaries knew him as Somerled Macgilbred, Somhairle or in Norse Sumarlidi Höld (' Somerled ' means " summer wanderer ", the name given to the Vikings ).

The name comes from the Greek words φυτόν ( phyton ), meaning " plant ", and πλαγκτός ( planktos ), meaning " wanderer " or " drifter ".

For example, lines 1-5, or 1-7, and 111-115 can be considered the words of the poet as they refer to the wanderer in the third person, and lines 8-110 as those of a singular individual in the first-person.

The combination of these Hebrew words ( ), " fugitive " and " wanderer " is unique in the Hebrew Bible.

Ahead of its release, RCA's Mel Ilberman stated, " It would be fair to call it Bowie's Sergeant Pepper [...] a concept album that portrays the Lodger as a homeless wanderer, shunned and victimized by life's pressures and technology.

They say that when Menelaus was dead, and Orestes still a wanderer, Helen was driven out by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and came to Rhodes, where she had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus.

In Sophocles ' Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus becomes a wanderer, pursued by Creon and his men.

Apparently the pamphlets of 1602 borrowed parts of the descriptions of the wanderer from reports ( most notably by Balthasar Russow ) about an itinerant preacher called Jürgen.

A wanderer by nature, Hugo Pratt continued to travel from Canada to Patagonia, from Africa to the Pacific area.

* Taranto, a corrupt general who has had his plans for glory dashed by Groo several times, and is obsessed with killing the wanderer.

The moment comes across of a moment of supreme self-realization by Britt that he always will be a wanderer.

The earliest lamps were used by Greek and Roman civilizations, where light primarily served the purpose of security, both to protect the wanderer from tripping over something on the path as well as keeping the potential robbers at bay.

Frank Einstein now lives as a jack-of-all-trades wanderer, accompanied by a variety of allies, including the Atomics.

In his account of the journey Hannu speaks of five principal stations at which the wanderer halted, and man and beast ( then probably the ass, the only beast of burthen proved to have been used in those times ) strengthened themselves for their further progress by enjoying the fresh drinking water.

Kaoru is saved from this murderous impostor by the real Hitokiri Battōsai, Himura Kenshin, now a wanderer who has sworn to stop killing.

Hesse, in the spirit of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, completes the equation by creating Goldmund as an artist and wanderer ( a Dionysian endeavour ) balanced out by Narcissus, the structured and stable priest-monk ( an Apollonian approach ), and highlighting the harmonizing relationship of the main characters.

In accordance to the Bafanquan manuals, during the Ming dynasty a master Wang Zhiyuan had been taught the boxing by a mountain wanderer.

Simon died later that year at Siena, " cursed by God, a wanderer and a fugitive ".

Author Orville Prescott wrote, " Consider the case of Loren Eiseley, author of The Immense Journey, who can sit on a mountain slope beside a prairie-dog town and imagine himself back in the dawn of the Age of mammals eighty million years ago: ' There by a tree root I could almost make him out, that shabby little Paleocene rat, eternal tramp and world wanderer, father of all mankind.

Tähtivaeltaja ( literally stellar wanderer ) is a Finnish quarterly science fiction magazine published by Helsingin science fiction seura ry.

When the two Cobra agents fight their way out soon after, Zartan takes an alternate route and kills off a nearby wanderer, donning his clothing to escape detection by Pit members.

However, as Lao puts up posters around town advertising his circus, he is assisted by Angela's young son Mike ( Kevin Tate ), who learns that the mysterious wanderer is 7, 322 years old.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

Their artistic rationale is given to the witness of unreason.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

As in experience one is seized by given entities and their interrelations and is forced to respond in value feelings to them, so one is similarly seized in the mimetic presentation of images.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

This is given some expression in Beardsley's notion of harmony and the resolution of indecision.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.