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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 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.

word and too
`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.
The markets are far too subtle, and the last word in these endeavors will doubtless never be written, for the enchanting index is about as nebulous as the fountain of youth.
Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible -- in a word, too human -- to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine.
Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).
The Dutch too used the word caste in their 19th century ethnography studies of Bali and other parts of southeast Asia.
Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").
The Persian word for love is eshgh, derived from the Arabic ishq, however is considered by most to be too stalwart a term for interpersonal love and is more commonly substituted for ' doost dashtan ' (' liking ').
If a loan word is too foreign sounding inflection or derivation rules may not be able to transform it.
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.
The first documented appearance of the word " nerd " is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo ( 1950 ), in which the narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect " a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too " for his imaginary zoo.
According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.
They, too, were considered an integral part of the rhyme, so that " pont " could rhyme only with " vont " and not with " long "; but this cannot be reduced to a simple rule about the spelling, since " pont " would also rhyme with " rond " even though one word ends in " t " and the other in " d ".
In Protestant England, the word communism was too culturally and aurally close to the Roman Catholic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists.
The pain is too much ... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning-I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo.
However, many adherents of the approach reject the use of the word " secular " as obfuscating and confusing, and consider that the term " secular humanism " has been " demonized by the religious right ... All too often secular humanism is reduced to a sterile outlook consisting of little more than secularism slightly broadened by academic ethics.
:" word sustainable has been used in too many situations today, and ecological sustainability is one of those terms that confuse a lot of people.
" Madison's use of the word " national " showed that he, too, agreed.
At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered, and was replaced in spoken ritual by the word Adonai (“ My Lord ”), or with haShem (“ the Name ”) in everyday speech, see Names of God in Judaism for details.
Branscombe ( 2006 ) mitigates the story's implications with a different translation of the German word " gewaltig ", rendering it as " very many " rather than " too many ".
This word dates from the Muromachi period, and was possibly coined when the word " 切る = kiru ( cut ), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than Samurai.
Here too, each word in the kuji was associated with Buddhist deities, animals from Taoist mythology, and later, Shinto kami.
* The initial title, Ruddygore, was changed because of claims that " ruddy " was too similar to the then-taboo curse word " bloody " it was shortly changed to Ruddigore.

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