A kiss can also be used to express feelings without an erotic element but can be nonetheless " far deeper and more lasting ," writes Nyrop.

The most common example is the " intense feeling which knits parents to their offspring ," writes Nyrop, but adds that kisses of affection are not only common between parents and children, but also between other members of the same family, which can include those outside the immediate family circle, " everywhere where deep affection unites people.

In Kristoffer Nyrop's book, The Kiss and its History, Nyrop describes the kiss of love as an " exultant message of the longing of love, love eternally young, the burning prayer of hot desire, which is born on the lovers ' lips, and ' rises ,' as Charles Fuster has said, ' up to the blue sky from the green plains ,' like a tender, trembling thank-offering.

Nyrop notes the poetical stories of the " redeeming power of the kiss are to be found in the literature of many countries, especially, for example, in the Old French Arthurian romances ( Lancelot, Guiglain, Tirant le blanc ) in which the princess is changed by evil arts into a dreadful dragon, and can only resume her human shape in the case of a knight being brave enough to kiss her.

Nyrop notes that the kiss of peace was used as an expression of deep, spiritual devotion in the early Christian Church.

During the Middle Ages, for example, Nyrop points out that it was the custom to " seal the reconciliation and pacification of enemies by a kiss.

The kiss of respect is of ancient origin, notes Nyrop.

" Kissing the Cross brings blessing and happiness ; people kiss the image of Our Lady and the pictures and statues of saints — not only their pictures, " but even their relics are kissed ," notes Nyrop.

" People also kissed the earth for joy on returning to their native land after a lengthened absence, as when Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War Nyrop points out, however, that in modern times the ceremonious kiss of respect " has gone clean out of fashion in the most civilised countries ," and it is only retained in the Church, and that in many cases " the practice would be offensive or ridiculous.

According to Nyrop, up until the 20th century, " it seldom or never takes place between men, with the exception, however, of royal personages ," although he notes that in former times the " friendly kiss was very common with us between man and man as well as between persons of opposite sexes.

Nyrop notes that " as a last act of charity, the image of the Redeemer is handed to the dying or death-condemned to be kissed.

Its use in ancient times was widespread, and Nyrop gives examples: " people threw themselves down on the ground before their rulers, kissed their footprints, literally ' licked the dust ,' as it is termed.

Kristoffer Nyrop has identified a number of types of kisses, such as kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and friendship.

Nyrop gives a vivid example in the classic love story of Daphnis and Chloe.

Affection can be a cause of kissing " in all ages in grave and solemn moments ," notes Nyrop, " not only among those who love each other, but also as an expression of profound gratitude.

The old well, stemming from the original abbey, was in 1915 topped by a well house designed by Martin Nyrop, one of the schools former students.

Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen ( 1927 – 1973 ), Danish translator and official, was born and raised in Gentofte, Denmark as the first of two children.

" Northwest Orient's president, Donald Nyrop, authorized payment of the ransom, and ordered all employees to cooperate fully with the hijacker.

* 1952 – Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player ( d. 1995 )

Her parents, mag. art Karen Nyrop and mag. art Anders Carl Christensen, were both engaged to teach French language for listeners at the Danish State Broadcast when it started around 1926.

The power of a kiss is not minimized when he writes that " we all yearn for kisses and we all seek them ; it is idle to struggle against this passion.

" Saint Cyril also writes, " this kiss is the sign that our souls are united, and that we banish all remembrance of injury.

St Paul repeatedly speaks of the " holy kiss ," and, in his Epistle to the Romans, writes: " Salute one another with an holy kiss " and his first Epistle to the Thessalonians ( 1 Thessalonians 5: 26 ), he says: " Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

Turner writes that in 1935 he bought an oscillograph, and attached it to friends and students ( and catatonic patients from a nearby psychiatric hospital ), who volunteered to suck each other's nipples, scratch, lick and kiss each other, while Reich read the tracings.

`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

`` It is no time '', he writes, `` to talk with Hints and Innuendos, but openly and honestly to profess our Sentiments before our Enemies have compleated and put their Designs in Execution against us ''.

'' Patchen is still the rebel, but he writes in a doleful, mournful tone.

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What is needed, Philip Morrison writes in The Cornell Daily Sun ( October 26 ) is a discontinuity.

Mark Arnold-Foster writes: `` People are leaving ( West Berlin ) because they think it is dying.

`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.

It should be admitted, too, that there is a good percentage of lapsed or nonchurchgoing Catholics ( one paper writes 50 per cent ).

George E. Sweazey writes: `` There is danger in trying to make admission to the Church so easy and painless that people will scarcely know that anything has happened ''.

Mr. Philip Toynbee writes, for example, that `` in terms of probability it is surely as likely as not that mutual fear will lead to accidental war in the near future if the present situation continues.

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

Expanding upon Foucault's position, Alexander Nehamas writes that Foucault suggests " an author [...] is whoever can be understood to have produced a particular text as we interpret it ", not necessarily who penned the text.

Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.

Snorri further writes that Asgard is a land more fertile than any other, blessed also with a great abundance of gold and jewels.

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

A further approach, elaborated by André Malraux in works such as The Voices of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to a metaphysical question (' Art ', he writes, ' is an ' anti-destiny ').