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.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

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.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

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

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

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

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.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

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.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

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.

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

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.

Ailanthus (; derived from ailanto, an Ambonese word probably meaning " tree of the gods " or " tree of heaven ") is a genus of trees belonging to the family Simaroubaceae, in the order Sapindales ( formerly Rutales or Geraniales ).

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

Blas Infante, in his book Orígenes de lo flamenco y secreto del cante jondo, suggested that the word may derive from Andalusian Arabic fellah mengu, " Escapee Peasant ", referring to the formerly Muslim Andalusians ( Moriscos ), who stayed in Spain and, according to certain modern authors, are supposed to have mixed with the Romani newcomers.

Early modern scholars derived the name from Lucis, an ancient people mentioned in Avienus ' Ora Maritima and Tan, from Celtic Tan ( Stan ), or Tain, meaning a region or implying a country of waters, a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region.

It was formerly referred to as Serpentarius (; also Anguitenens ), a Latin word meaning the same as its current name.

The word pidgin, formerly also spelled pigion, originally used to describe Chinese Pidgin English, was later generalized to refer to any pidgin.

Bezique was developed in France from the game Piquet, although the word Bezique, formerly Bésique or Bésigue, was known in France in the 17th century, coming probably from the Italian card game Bazzica.

By the end of the 12th century the word Ruthenia had come into use ( among the alternative spellings Ruscia and Russia ) in Latin papal documents to denote the lands formerly dominated by Kiev.

In regions that were formerly colonies of Spain, the Spanish word criollo ( literally, " native ," " local ") historically referred to class in the colonial caste system, comprising people born in the colonies with unmixed Spanish descent.

Thus, he thought the root of the word was " wit " ( formerly spelt " wyt " or " wytte ") and Pentecost was so-called to signify the outpouring of the wisdom of the Holy Ghost on Christ's disciples.

WAPA-TV uses it same logo for Noticentro ( formerly Noticentro 4 ), changing the word WAPA to Noticentro, but with the same red strips at the right.

The spelling of the name of the creeks was formerly Monong, a Potawatomi word which one authority says meant " swift-running ".

The word " Fān " was formerly used by the Chinese almost innocently in the sense of ' aborigines ' to refer to ethnic groups in South China, and Mao Zedong himself once used it in 1938 in a speech advocating equal rights for the various minority peoples.

Historically, also kiep, which formerly used to be a taboo word meaning " female genitals ", but presently is a mild or humorous insult meaning " a fool ".

* The word ' dulu ' means " first " or " advance " or " olden ", while ' dahulu ' means " formerly "'.

Plaut is the same word as German platt or Dutch plat, meaning ' flat ' or ' low ' but formerly meaning ' intelligible ', and the name Dietsch corresponds etymologically to Dutch Duits and German Deutsch ( both meaning " German "), which originally meant ' ordinary language, language of the people ' in all the continental West Germanic languages.

The long, medial or descending s ( ſ ) is a form of the minuscule letter s formerly used where s occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word, for example " ſinfulneſs " (" sinfulness ").

The word collapsar, short for collapsed star, was formerly used to refer to the end product of stellar gravitational collapse, a stellar-mass black hole.

The Mason word, once given to the Entered Apprentice, was now conferred in the third degree with the five points of fellowship, and the two linked words formerly bestowed on a fellowcraft were split between the first two degrees.

The bare place name was used formerly to refer to the person who owned it, rather than the land itself ( the word " Gloucester " in " What will Gloucester do?

Since 1996, she has been the wordsmith in Geode Music & Poetry ( formerly SugarBeat ), making four spoken word and music recordings with Jennifer Giles on keyboards, Alrick Huebener on bass, Gavin McLintock on sax, and friends, including Dave Broscoe, Jamie Gullikson, Mike Essoudry, Petr Cancura, Mark Molnar, John Higney, Linsey Wellman, Penn Kemp, Colin Morton, and Max Middle.

" Demijohn " is an old word that formerly referred to any glass vessel with a large body and small neck, enclosed in wickerwork.

The common name was formerly spelt as a single word, " Corncrake ", but the official version is now " Corn Crake ".