I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water, there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; ;

`` All right, you bastards '', I said, `` the great actor is about to buy a drink ''.

In large part, this is because the tiny flowers forming the umbels, are perfectly suited for ladybugs, parasitic wasps, and predatory flies, which actually drink nectar when not reproducing.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink.

The concept of an immortality drink is attested in at least two Indo-European areas: Greek and Sanskrit.

The Greek ἀμβροσία ( ambrosia ) is semantically linked to the Sanskrit अम ृ त ( amrita ) as both words denote a drink or food that gods use to achieve immortality.

* Some ancient Egyptian statues of Anubis read ,"... I am death ... I eat ambrosia and drink blood ..." which hints that ambrosia is a food of some sort.

Alcaeus exhorts his friends to drink in celebration of a tyrant's death, to drink away their sorrows, to drink because life is short and along the lines in vino veritas, to drink through winter storms and to drink through the heat of summer.

The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!

When the volume of an alcoholic drink is shown in centilitres, determining the number of units in a drink is as simple as < var > volume </ var > × < var > percentage </ var > ( converted into a fraction of 1 ).

A traditional drink of Argentina is an infusion called mate ( in Spanish, mate, with the accent on the first syllable ).

The drink is sipped through a metal or cane straw called a bombilla.

The percentage of Federal participation in such costs for any State is referred to in the law as that State's `` Federal share ''.

For purposes of this explanation, this percentage is referred to as the State's `` unadjusted Federal share ''.

I have the honor to refer to the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed today between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India ( hereinafter referred to as the Agreement ) and, with regard to the rupees accruing to uses indicated under Article 2, of the Agreement, to state that the understanding of the Government of the United States of America is as follows: 1.

Displacement is sometimes referred to as `` swept volume ''.

This clergyman should have referred to Shakespeare's dictum: `` So-so is a good, very good, very excellent maxim.

One of my favorites is A. armata, a species very common in England, where it is sometimes referred to as the lawn bee.

Brown ( 1959 ) has reviewed generally the various methods of assaying TSH, and the reader is referred to her paper for further information on the subject.

In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Secretary is authorized and directed to provide for the giving of notice of strikes or lock-outs to applicants before they are referred to employment.

No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.

With respect to positions not covered by subparagraph ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) of this paragraph, any individual may be referred to a place of employment in which a labor dispute exists, provided he is given written notice of such dispute prior to or at the time of his referral.

Consequently, it is referred to the therapist for attention.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

Aristotle is referred to as " The Philosopher " by Scholastic thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).

The lower petal is referred to as the " labellum " or " lip ", and is usually distinctively different from the side petals.

The right of victims to speak at sentencing is also sometimes referred to as allocution.

However, in hydrogen astatide ( HAt ) the negative charge is predicted to be on the hydrogen atom, implying that this compound should instead be referred to as astatine hydride.

The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.

Donald's reputation is suggested by the epithet dasachtach, a word used of violent madmen and mad bulls, attached to him in the 11th-century writings of Flann Mainistrech, echoed by the his description in the Prophecy of Berchan as " the rough one who will think relics and psalms of little worth ".

** Irish writer Flann O ' Brien's comic metafiction At Swim-Two-Birds is published in London but attracts little attention at this time.

She is said to have been the mother of his sons Murchad, Conchobar and Flann.

Flann is an Irish language male name.

He is named in Dál Riata king-lists, the Duan Albanach and the Synchronisms of Flann Mainistrech.

The Saint Augustine / Pelagius debate is mockingly discussed in the novel by Flann O ' Brien titled The Dalkey Archive, wherein Saint Augustine actually makes a ghostly appearance.

Farrell is involved in a film adaptation of Flann O ' Brien's metafictional novel At Swim-Two-Birds alongside Cillian Murphy and Gabriel Byrne.

A collection of wisdom literature attributed to Flann Fína, the Briathra Flainn Fhina Maic Ossu, has survived, though the text is not contemporary with Aldfrith as it is in Middle Irish, a form of Irish not in use until the 10th century.

Though playing on the mystery genre, the book is more in line with the postmodern fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Alasdair Gray, and Flann O ' Brien.

The Dalkey Archive is a novel by the Irish writer Flann O ' Brien.

In Flann O ' Brien's book " The Dalkey Archive " Skerries is the location of the narrator's meeting with James Joyce.

There is also the possibility that he received additional training at the Mac Aodhagain bardic school located at Ballymacegan, Lough Derg, County Tipperary, which was run by noted scholar, Flann Mac Aodhagain.

Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O ' Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino.

The latter novel, a humorous postmodern romp, riffs on the metafictional possibilities introduced in Flann O ' Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds, and is one of Sorrentino's most popular works.

De Selby is a fictional character originally invented by Flann O ' Brien for his novel The Third Policeman.

The publisher is named for the novel The Dalkey Archive, by the Irish author Flann O ' Brien.

An example authority record, for author Flann O ' Brien, taken from the United States Library of Congress authorities files, is reproduced below.

Cross of the Scriptures: This 4-metre high sandstone cross is one of the most skillfully executed of the surviving high crosses in Ireland, and of particular interest for its surviving inscription, which asks a prayer for Flann Sinna, King of Ireland, and Abbot Colmán who commissioned the cross.

However, this is unlikely, as the evidence suggests that, if historical, they belong to a distinct people associated with other kingdoms, possibly the Dáirine, who may be referred to as their people in an obscure poem in Old Irish by Flann mac Lonáin ( d. 896 ).

Sometimes also included are the Uí Fidgenti ( O ' Donovan, Ó Coileáin, O ' Connell, others ) and the related Uí Liatháin ( Lyons, Gleeson, others ), ancient allies of the Eóganachta who may have originally belonged to the Dáirine, although it is also possible they were earlier or peripheral branches of the descendants of Ailill Flann Bec, or of Ailill Aulomm, not involved in the innovative Cashel politics of the descendants of Conall Corc, actual founder of the Eóganachta dynasties.

As grandchildren of Dáire Cerbba ( Cearba, Cearb ) in most sources ( e. g. Rawlinson B 502 ), also an ancestor of the Uí Liatháin and Uí Fidgenti, the brother and sister are sometimes regarded as belonging to an early branch of the Eóganachta which later became peripheral or went extinct, although it is more likely that all descendants of Dáire Cerbba belong to a distinct people, possibly the Dáirine, which may be hinted at in an obscure Old Irish poem by Flann mac Lonáin, although in the Banshenchus Mongfind is called " Mongfind of the Érnai " ( Érainn ), a people in any case related to the Dáirine.