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.

This word was first used by Robert Blair ( d. 1828 ), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many writers to denote freedom from spherical aberration.

Editor Farnsworth Wright subsequently prompted Howard to write an 8, 000 word essay for personal use detailing " the Hyborian Age ," the fictional setting for Conan.

Compounding is a process of word formation that involves combining complete word forms into a single compound form ; dog catcher is therefore a compound, because both dog and catcher are complete word forms in their own right before the compounding process has been applied, and are subsequently treated as one form.

Minos is the Cretan word for " king ", or indeed, to take a euhemerist position, the name of a particular king that was subsequently used as a title.

When someone speaks of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word " zap " is often used ( and has subsequently been expanded and used to describe non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to that produced in short-circuit sparking ).

The typewriter and various forms of word processors have subsequently become widespread writing tools, and various studies have compared the ways in which writers have framed the experience of writing with such tools as compared with the pen or pencil.

Porphyry subsequently went to live in Sicily, where word reached him that his former teacher had died.

The Greeks subsequently pictured the bird more like a peacock or an eagle and identified it with their own word phoenix ( Φοίνιξ ), meaning the color purple-red or crimson ( cf.

The couple came across the word catatonia, believing it to mean a sense of extreme pleasure and sleep, and the band was subsequently originally called ' Sweet Catatonia '.

He subsequently conquered Potidaea, this time keeping his word and ceding it to the League in 356.

Steven Muhlberger has subsequently pointed out for many of the events in his chronicle Hydatius are based on word of mouth, and many problems with his chronology " resulted from delays and distortions in the best information to which he had access "; the evidence of Hydatius is not as decisive as Oost believed in his article.

This word, with the meaning " beautiful ", was originally applied to Saint Basil's Cathedral and was subsequently transferred to the nearby square.

The word subsequently entered the English language via Scottish English.

The word Naskapi was first recorded by French colonists in the 17th century and was subsequently applied to Innu groups beyond the reach of missionary influence.

The word " Naskapi " ( meaning " people beyond the horizon ") first made an appearance in the 17th century and was subsequently applied to Innu groups beyond the reach of missionary influence, most notably those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

The word subsequently evolved to its various present forms in the Slavic languages, and other languages adopted the term.

He subsequently coined the term " ley " at least partly because the lines passed through places whose names contained the syllable ley, stating that philologists defined the word ( spelled also as lay, lea, lee, or leigh ) differently, but had misinterpreted it.

At a grand ball at which her engagement with Paul is to be announced, the Empress has a private word with Anna / Anastasia, who subsequently elopes with Bounine.

As a place name, Natal usually relates to the Portuguese ( and subsequently Indonesian ) word for Christmas.

Even when uttered erroneously, their mother's word was supreme for the Pandavas, who then agreed to " share " the princess, who was subsequently married to all five brothers.

Maurice's manual notes the appropriate equipping of Imperial cavalry: " the saddles should have large and thick clothes ; the bridles should be of good quality ; attached to the saddles should be two iron steps, a lasso with a thong ...." Dennis notes that the lack of specific Greek word for stirrup evidences their novelty to the Byzantines, who are supposed to have adopted these from their bitter enemy the Avars, and subsequently passed them on to their future enemies, the Arabs.

Louis subsequently wrote that Sidney " promised me to produce a great uprising ... but the proposition he put to me to advance him 100, 000 ecus ... was more than I wished to expose on the word of a fugitive I offered him only 20, 000 ".