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In the Iliad, the word ares is used as a common noun synonymous with " battle.
The word accintus meaning a soldier ( literally, " girt " as for battle ) attests this differing usage.
This myth has Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens after the battle, to announce the Greek victory with the word " Nenikēkamen!
Bede puts a clear emphasis on Oswald being saintly as a king ; although he could be interpreted as a martyr for his subsequent death in battle, Bede portrays Oswald as being saintly for his deeds in life and does not focus on his martyrdom as being primary to his sainthood — indeed, it has been noted that Bede never uses the word " martyr " in reference to Oswald.
Burgoyne's army was readying to cross the Hudson at Fort Edward on August 17 when the first word of the battle arrived.
The etymology of the term comes from the word battle ( Serbian: бој, boj ); the Boyars of Serbia were literally " men for the battle " or the warrior class, in contrast to the peasants ; they could own land but were obliged to defend it and fight for the king.
Procopius also left a word portrait of Totila before his troops drawn up for battle:
* the Irish word for a battle
Both MacBain ( 1982 ) and Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) correlate the element with Norse böð, genitive boðvar, ‘ war ,’ and Anglo-Saxon beadu, genitive beadwe,battle ,’ suggesting that the word originally denoted ‘ battle ’ or ‘ strife .’ Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) presents the element as an extended form of the Proto-Indo-European root * bhedh-‘ pierce, dig .’ To this root Pokorny also links the Sanskrit bádhate, ‘ oppress ,’ and the Lithuanian bádas, ‘ famine ’.
The Old Norse word hildr is a common noun meaning " battle " and it is not always clear when the poets had the valkyrie in mind, as a personification of battle.
Some of the fleeing Sabines drowned in the Anio ; their arms drifted down the river into the Tiber and past Rome, and the Romans recognised this as a sign of victory even before word of the outcome of the battle arrived in the city.
Oktibbeha is a Native American word meaning either bloody water ( because of a battle fought on the banks ) or possibly icy creek.
During this battle, a flag designed by Colonel Moultrie flew over the fortress, dark blue with a crescent moon on it bearing the word " liberty ".
The battle had been a slaughter, for want of a more delicate word.
The reference of Arthur carrying the image of St. Mary on his shoulders during one battle has been explained by later commentators as a mistake for Arthur bearing the image of Mary on his shield, the Welsh word for the two being practically homophones
The word is derived from the English corruption of calibre as this gun was of standard bore, increasing combat effectiveness as troops could load bullets that would fit their guns ( before, they would have to modify shot to fit, force it in, or cast their own before the battle ).
Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle and the band dropping the word " Railroad " from their name ( in his 2001 autobiography, " From Grand Funk to Grace ", Farner stated that the shortening of the band's name was done after most of their fans began to refer to them as Grand Funk ).
In the morning of the 19th Grouchy received word of the outcome of the battle of Waterloo.
But John soon received word that the battle was already over and hastily retraced his steps.
When word of that atrocity reached the Dominion fleet, in the middle of a fierce battle with Allied forces, the Cardassian ships switched sides and aided the Alliance fleet.

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I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.
Complicity is an embarrassing word.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.
Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??
The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.
Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.
For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.
From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;
When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.
If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

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