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.

Sir Henry Maine ( 1861 ) studied the ancient codes available in his day, and failed to find any criminal law in the " modern " sense of the word.

:: Out of Zion the word of the law will go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

As the word Capoeira was still forbidden by Brazilian law, Bimba called his new style Luta Regional Baiana ( meaning regional fight from Bahia ).

* The episode " The Stones of Blood ", of the 16th season of Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor encounters the Ogri, a silicon-based life form, and in the same sub-plot, the Megara, who are made entirely out of an unknown substance, possibly energy, and they uphold the word of the law, and execute all who break the law with a beam of energy.

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity ( compare Biblical law in Christianity ).

The same neuropsychological law ...— called by Jean Piaget generalizing assimilation — applies to word formation as well as to grammar.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

In the Rigveda, the word appears as an n-stem,, with a range of meanings encompassing " something established or firm " ( in the literal sense of prods or poles ), figuratively " sustainer, supporter " ( of deities ), and semantically similar to the Greek ethos (" fixed decree, statute, law ").

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

Luther controversially added the word " alone " ( allein in German ) to so that it read: " thus, we hold, then, that man is justified without doing the works of the law, alone through faith ".

The Latin word for guilt is culpa, a word sometimes seen in law literature, for instance in mea culpa meaning " my fault ( guilt ).

The English term is based on the Latin word jurisprudentia: juris is the genitive form of jus meaning " law ", and prudentia means " prudence " ( also: discretion, foresight, forethought, circumspection ; refers to the exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters ).

The proprietary Aramaic ( one of Judaism's holy languages with Hebrew ) word for this type of allowing systematic disagreement in Jewish law, is " Machloket " or argument.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

An unjust law is not a law, in the full sense of the word.

Besides the Bible, children needed to read in order to “ understand ... the capital laws of this country ,” as the Massachusetts code declared, order being of the utmost importance, and children not taught to read would grow “ barbarous ” ( the 1648 amendment to the Massachusetts law and the 1650 Connecticut code, both used the word “ barbarisme ”).

Although the word " product " has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is traditionally limited to products in the form of tangible personal property.

For example, the Sanskrit word dharma, sometimes translated as " religion ", also means law.

This fourth commandment begins with the word ' remember ,' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai.

The word is often used to distinguish law made by legislative bodies from case law, decided by courts, and regulations issued by government agencies.