An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction: Including Also Familiar Pseudonums, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and ConversationHoughton Mifflin, 1893 - 440 頁 |
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acter allusion ancient appellation ballad beautiful brother called Carlyle cele celebrated century character Charles Charles Lamb Christian comedy daugh daughter death distinguished Doctor Don Quixote Duke England English entitled Faery Queen fairy famous father France French George German giant goddess Greek Henry hero heroine Hist humor imaginary island Italian Jack John Jupiter king King Arthur knight lady land Leigh Hunt Lord Macaulay married Milton Molière Molière's mother Myth name given name popularly given nickname given nom de plume Odin Old Norse original Orlando Orlando Furioso Orlando Innamorato Parliament Pickwick Papers poem poet poetical popular Prince pron pseudonym Queen represented romance satire says Scand Scott Scott's novel Scottish Shakespeare's Sir Walter Scott's sobriquet sobriquet given sometimes given sound Spanish speare's spirit story surname sword tale tion title given vowel wife word writers Written young
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第 389 頁 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
第 88 頁 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
第 376 頁 - A wilderness, a land of deserts, and of pits; a land of drought, and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man (but a Christian) passeth through, and where no man dwelt (Jer.
第 152 頁 - When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole, have no need of the physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
第 88 頁 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
第 421 頁 - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
第 53 頁 - ... till they could all play very near, or altogether as well as myself. This done, say the enemy were forty thousand strong, we twenty would come into the field the tenth of March, or thereabouts; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy; they could not in their honour refuse us: Well, we would kill them; challenge twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them too...
第 350 頁 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
第 34 頁 - Us many other pranks, would sometimes in the dead of night, in passing through the different streets, set up the most horrid and continuous shrieks, in order to scare the poor girls who might happen to be out of bed. It was generally believed that the faculty of seeing this goblin was peculiar to certain individuals, but that the gift could be imparted to another at the time of the ghost's appearance, by the mere action of touching.
第 284 頁 - Yes ! ' the noble lady, upon an appointed day, got on horseback naked, with her hair loose, so that it covered all her body but...