The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

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 ''.

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.

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.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

The rider from Concord was as good as his word.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

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

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.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

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.

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 ; ;

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

The word hissed distinctly from Poet's lips as he struggled to his feet.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

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

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

( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

Plato describes the priestesses of Delphi and Dodona as frenzied women, obsessed by " mania " ( μανία: frenzy ), a Greek word connected with " mantis " ( μάντις: prophet ).

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

The word was coined from the Greek root ἀνδρ-' man ' and the suffix-oid ' having the form or likeness of '.

In March 2006, the New York Times reported that Ashcroft was setting himself up as something of an " anti-Abramoff ", and that in an hour long interview, Ashcroft used the word integrity scores of times.

The incidents on Wednesday night lasted about an hour, and were summarized by one witness: " The word is out.

The word Latin horoscopus, ultimately from Greek " nativity, horoscope ", literally " observer of the hour birth ", from " time, hour " and " observer, watcher ".

The word noon is derived from Latin nona hora, the ninth hour of the day, and is related to the liturgical term none.

This graphical solution give the word ADIEU, and combined to the end of the message would give the date and the hour of a " date " between the two lovers to become ...

At the time of the Survey of English Dialects, much of the East Riding was partially rhotic: a final r on a word, as in letter, hour, and quarter would be pronounced in a rhotic manner, but an r mid-way through a word, as in start, yard, and ' burn ' would be pronounced in a non-rhotic manner.

Since the siesta is the traditional daytime sleep of Spain, and through Spanish influence, of many Hispanic American countries and in the Philippines, the word siesta has been taken from Spanish, from the Latin hora sexta – " the sixth hour " ( counting from dawn, therefore noon, hence " midday rest ").

Every hour or so, a 10 – 20 minute ' word war ' is held in which the entire room falls almost completely silent with concentration, save for the sound of keystrokes.

The day before Operation Blue Star, he met with Gandhi for more than an hour, but she omitted even sharing a word about her plan.

I had reared six sons to manhood, and of them all, one only remained, and he too far distant to speak one consoling word to me in this trying hour " ( chap.

KFAI's programming is highly eclectic and uses block programming, so that, for example, one might find a country music program followed by an hour of news about LGBT issues, or a reggae program followed by an hour of spoken word readings or an hour of Hmong programming.

The Germanic word is cognate with Greek ( horos ) " year " ( and ( hora ) " season ", whence hour ), Slavonic jarŭ " spring " and with the-or-in Latin hornus " of this year " ( from * ho-jōrinus ), as well as Avestan yāre " year ", all from a PIE stem.

With word of French plans to occupy Egypt, Nelson wrote to Berry in late 1797, ' If you mean to marry, I would recommend your doing it speedily, or the to-be Mrs. Berry will have very little of your company, for I am well, and you may expect to be called for every hour '.

BBC news updates appear in the mornings at the top of the hour, and there are numerous other news and spoken word programs as well as programs dealing with LGBTQ issues and women's issues ( Yeah, What She Said ).

An example of an actually long word that has been used in the Finnish language is kolmivaihekilowattituntimittari which means " three phase kilowatt hour meter " ( 31 letters ) or lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas " airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic under officer student " ( 61 letters ) which has been deprecated.

In a visit on May 28, 1862, he observed: " That man Haupt has built a bridge four hundred feet long and one hundred feet high, across Potomac Creek, on which loaded trains are passing every hour, and upon my word, gentlemen, there is nothing in it but cornstalks and beanpoles.

Jones also read the previous night's sports news during the second hour, substituting odd phrases for the word " beat " or " defeated " in the result depending on the city of the team that won — e. g. " the San Francisco Giants Violent Femmes'd the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-2.

The only surviving Jewish parallel to the temptation uses the standard word šbyt " roof " not " wing ": " Our Rabbis related that in the hour when the Messiah shall be revealed he shall come and stand on the roof ( šbyt ) of the temple.