How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

The word also made him feel hate, sincere hate, for those so labeled.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.

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.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

The word is derived from the Greek γῆ, gê, meaning " earth " and λόγος, logos, meaning " speech ".

The word graal, as it is earliest spelled, comes from Old French graal or greal, cognate with Old Provençal grazal and Old Catalan gresal, meaning " a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal " ( or other various types of vessels in Southern French dialects ).

The word is used in a common English phrase, ' not one iota ', meaning ' not the slightest amount ', in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: " until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law " ().

When Scripture says, ‘ The Lord rained fire from the Lord out of heaven ,’ the prophetic word indicates that there were two in number: One upon the earth, who, it says, descended to behold the cry of Sodom ; Another in heaven, who also is Lord of the Lord on earth, as He is Father and God ; the cause of His power and of His being Lord and God.

The word " mammoth " comes from the Russian mamont, probably in turn from the Vogul ( Mansi ) language, mang ont, meaning " earth horn ".

Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for ' earth ', and meaning ' land of Amerigo '.

The etymology of the word " turmeric " probably comes from the early French " terre merite " via the Latin " terra merita ", literally " deserving earth ".

Martin Heinrich Klaproth named the new element in 1798 after the Latin word for " earth ", tellus.

The name is thought to be derived from the Nahuatl word tlālli " earth ", and its meaning has been interpreted as " path beneath the earth ", " long cave " or " he who is made of earth ".

Some authorities think it is less confusing as the word is used to describe any chemical or crystal with oxidized titanium such as the rare earth titanate pyrochlores series and many of the minerals with the perovskite structure.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the etymology is " uncertain and disputed ": " The word is perhaps related to the Sardinian place names Nurra, Nurri, Nurru, and to Sardinian nurra heap of stones, cavity in earth ( although these senses are difficult to reconcile ).

The gyrocompass ( sometimes spelled with a hyphen, or as one word ) contains a rapidly spinning wheel whose rotation interacts dynamically with the rotation of the earth so as to make the wheel precess, losing energy to friction until its axis of rotation is parallel with the earth's.

Harthacnut presumably consumed large quanties of alcohol, as he was drinking to the health of the bride — he " died as he stood at his drink, and he suddenly fell to the earth with an awful convulsion ; and those who were close by took hold of him, and he spoke no word afterwards …" The likely cause of death was a stroke, " brought about by an excessive intake of alcohol " In The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England ( 2000 ), Clifford Brewer suggested a cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death.

In Early Modern English, the word was used with the intention of contrasting " earth " with " heaven ", and so presenting man as an inhabitant of the sublunary sphere, as opposed to heavenly creatures or deities.

The geometrids, also known as inchworms or loopers, are so named because of the way they move, appearing to measure the earth ( the word geometrid means earth-measurer in Greek ); the primary reason for this unusual locomotion is the elimination of nearly all the prolegs except the clasper on the terminal segment.

: Which Jared came forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families, from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth ; and according to the word of the Lord the people were scattered.

The name comes from the Dutch word " aarde " meaning " earth ".

Also similar is the Arabic word أرض arḍ which means land or earth.

* One should give people lucky presents to enhance the relationship between themselves and others: new clothes, peach branches ( for expelling evil ), cocks / chickens ( wishing for good manners ), new rice ( wishing for being well-fed ), rice wine in a gourd ( wishing for a rich and comfortable life ), bánh chưng ( or bánh tét ) and bánh dày which symbolize sky and earth ( for worshipping the ancestors ), red things ( red symbolizes happiness, luckiness, advantages ) like watermelon, dogs ( the bark – gâu gâu – sounds like the word giàu-richness in Vietnamese language ), medicated oil ( dầu in Vietnamese, also sounds similar to giàu ).

They perpetuate his word on earth, having gladdened their hearts because of him.