The eccentric dialogue is delivered in a dreamy deadpan, and often appears to be hastily jammed into tiny word balloons that can scarcely contain it.

In Surat Al-Kahf (" The Cave ", 18: 83 – 98 ) of the Qur ' an, a pious warrior king called Dhul-Qarnayn journeys to the place between the East and the West, and in the place between the two mountains he finds people who scarcely understood a word " 18: 94 They said: " O Dhul-Qarnain!

For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn't have to fiddle with it ; and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word.

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In 1833 Grahamstown was described as having " two or three English merchants of considerable wealth, but scarcely any society in the ordinary sense of the word.

In the wake of Swift's departure, The X-Ecutioners have been scarcely heard of ; however, the latest word is that the group has two new members, DJ Boogie Blind and DJ Precision.

" Roberts explains, " has such a firm grasp of his goal that scarcely a word is extraneous ... You feel you've read volumes, though, not just because of the density of Wright's thoughts, but due to the crushing weight of the burden they carry.

If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The word Armageddon appears only once in the Greek New Testament, namely in.

However, it appears to be the first use of the word bunyip in a written publication.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

In this sense the word baccalarius or baccalaureus first appears at the University of Paris in the 13th century, in the system of degrees established under the auspices of Pope Gregory IX, as applied to scholars still in statu pupillari.

The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.

The Greek word Messias appears only twice in the Greek Old Testament of the promised prince ( Daniel 9: 26 ; Psalm 2: 2 ); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Savior, this title was used.

The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

In the early stages of the movement, the word " Druze " is rarely mentioned by historians, and in Druze religious texts only the word Muwaḥḥidūn (" Unitarian ") appears.

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 ").

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindi word and as a colloquial Anglo-Indian word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases ( 1903 ).

The most commonly accepted today appears to be the proposal of Ives Goddard at the Smithsonian Institution, who derives it from the Montagnais word meaning " snowshoe-netter ".

The name Ericaceae comes from the type genus Erica, which appears derived from the Greek word ereike.

The word energy derives from the Greek, which possibly appears for the first time in the work of Aristotle in the 4th century BCE.

The principal types of graphemes are logograms, which represent words or morphemes ( for example, Chinese characters, or the ampersand & representing the English word and ; also Arabic numerals ); syllabic characters, representing syllables ( as in Japanese kana ); and alphabetic letters, corresponding roughly to phonemes ( see next section ).

The word Kallisti ( Modern Greek ) written on a golden apple, has become a principal symbol of Discordianism, a post-modernist religion.

A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is a freestanding unit of meaning.

The word foo is the principal example.

The term " pontiff " is derived from the Latin word pontifex, which literally means " bridge builder " ( pons + facere ), and which designated a member of the principal college of priests in ancient Rome.

In 1526 – 27, the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Menezes accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it Papua, a Malay word for the frizzled quality of Melanesian hair.

Such minimal systems are sometimes called pitch accent, since they are reminiscent of stress accent languages which typically allow one principal stressed syllable per word.

Lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the principal American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, argues that the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip, whose origins are unknown.

The word temple, however, is used frequently in the tradition of Eastern Christianity and particularly the Eastern Orthodox Church, where the principal words used for houses of worship are temple and church.

" In a time when women, having no vote, could neither give nor withhold consent, Jefferson had to be using the word men in its principal sense of " males ", and it probably never occurred to him that anyone would think otherwise.

The name " Manistee " is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county.

As described by historian Edward Jay Epstein, " During these first runs, films got their reviews, garnered publicity, and generated the word of mouth that served as the principal form of advertising.

Finally, Escalante receives word that the students all have all passed the second exam, and Escalante tells the school principal that he wants his students ' original scores reinstated.

The name Cutchogue is derived from an Algonquin word meaning " principal place.

Some early reenactors assert the word derives from German Farbe, color, because inauthentic reenactors were over-colorful compared with the dull blues, greys or browns of the real Civil War uniforms that were the principal concern of American reenactors at the time the word was coined.

His preferred name for the technique was Hauptmotiv ( principal motif ), which he first used in 1877 ; the only time he used the word ' Leitmotiv ', he referred to ' so-called Leitmotivs '.

The word can be translated principal elders or senior statesmen.

The principal decides to visit Nick's house to end the use of the word, but the situation is out of Nick's hands now, and the word's usage cannot be controlled.

They go on to differentiate copyright from patent: " the principal difference in the enactments lies in the presence of the word use in the patent statute and its absence in the copyright law.

The first movement rondo's principal theme being a word, " fmsbwtözäu " pronounced Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu, from a 1918 poem by Raoul Hausmann, apparently also a sound poem.

The name of the principal village of the Neutrals-Onghiara ( located on the present-day site of Niagara on the Lake was mispronounced by the Chippewa as Nyahgeah, and again by Europeans as Niagara, making this word one of the few remnants of Neutral culture.

This word is itself derived from ammaccare, meaning crush or beat, used here in reference to the almond paste which is the principal ingredient.