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Ge  n.  (Mythol.) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology. See Gaea.
Synonyms: Gaea, Gaia.






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... bebead to healdenne, fortham ic ne dorste gethristlcan thara minra awuht feala on gewrit settan, fortham me ws uncuth, hwt ths tham lician wolde, the fter us wren. Ac tha the ic gemette, awther oththe on Ines dge, mines mges, oththe on Offan, Myrcena cyninges, oththe on thelbryhtes, the rest fulluht onfeng on Angel cynne, tha the me ryhtoste thuhton, ic tha her on gegaderode and tha ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle

... was an admiral of France, and a leader of the Huguenots (Hu-ge-nots), as the Protestants were then called. He had conceived a plan for founding an empire in America. This would furnish an asylum for his Huguenot friends, and at the same time advance the glory of the French. ...
— A Brief History of the United States • Barnes & Co.

... statelie building [it hes but 20 chalder victual belonging to it]:[531] much cost hes bein wared theirupon. Their is a brave building of a well in the court, fine shade of tries that fetches you into it, excellent lar[ge] gallries and dining roumes. He hes bein mighty conceity in pretty mottoes and sayings, wheirof the walls and roofs of all the roumes are filled, stuffed with good moralitie, tho somethat pedantick. See Spotiswood ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder

... wie schoene stille Traeume. V [A feeling of dissolution takes away every thought of living and being.] Mir ist V als ob V ich laengst V gestorben bin! [The whole being is dissolved in the ether; the end comes with outstretched wings soaring above the earth.] und ziehe selig mit V durch ew'ge Raeume V und ziehe selig mit V durch ew'ge Raeume. [Dissolution of the soul in the universe must sound forth ...
— How to Sing - [Meine Gesangskunst] • Lilli Lehmann

... a gal of her own. She brought her here that time I was home after my first v'y'ge on the Susan Gatskill. A pretty baby if ever ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... littraga: bain dinna tunggor, ngurribu bain ge bain; kamil yanelina. paul, barnaba ellibu, aro yanani. paul goaldone; baindul ngerma winungailone. paul kaia ngummildone, kakuldone, "waria ngurriba ...
— gurre kamilaroi - Kamilaroi Sayings (1856) • William Ridley

... grownde hyt wel in a stownde, And bathed hir threyes everi day, Nine mowthes, as I herde say, And afterwarde anoynitte wel hyr hede With good bame as I rede; Away fel alle that olde flessche, And yo[w]ge i-sprong tender and nessche; So fresshe to be scho then began Scho coveytede couplede be to man." ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... sir. Very sorry to lose you. I hope you'll have a pleasant voy'ge, and get on over there, sir, better than you've ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... ton ge suessi paremenon; ai de nemontai Par Korakos petre, epi te krene Arethouse, Esthousai balanon menoeikea, kai melan ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... Lge und die psychisch abnormen Schwindler. Stuttgart, 1891. DELMAN, G. Der Verbrecher. Ein psychologisches Problem. Leipzig und Wien, 1896. DESPINE. Psychologie naturelle. Essai sur les facults intellectuelles ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... Finnish Demeter. She is always represented as a goddess of great powers, and, after suitable invocation, is ever willing and able to help her helpless sufferers. She is according to some mythologists espoused to Ukko, who bestows upon her children the blessings of sunshine and rain, as Ge is wedded to Ouranos, Jordh to Odhin, ...
— The Kalevala (complete) • John Martin Crawford, trans.

... said, "an' then you won't have the face to ask me why I wuz oncomf'table. Remember the tale you told us, Paul, about some old Greeks who got so fas-tee-ge-ous one o' 'em couldn't sleep 'cause a rose leaf was doubled under him. That's me, Sol Hyde, all over ag'in. I'm a pow'ful partickler person, with a delicate rearin' an' the instincts o' luxury. How do you expect me to sleep with a thing like that pushed up ...
— The Riflemen of the Ohio - A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" • Joseph A. Altsheler

... not to raise a trophy to their own loss and shame, nor awaken in the minds of their confederates the recollection of their misfortunes, he proceeds—'[Greek: all' epeide tois somasin ou paregenesthe, alla tais ge dianoiais apoblepsat' auton eis tas symphoras],' &c., down to the words, '[Greek: episkeptontas medeni tropoi ton tes helladus aleiterion stephanoun],' the writer well remembering that Mr. Smith insisted particularly on the extraordinary force and beauty ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various

... immediately added to s, the intervention of a vowel becomes necessary; and that all the words whose plural is formed in -es really end either in the sounds of s, or in the allied sounds of z, sh, or zh, may be seen by analysis; since x ks, ch tsh, and j or ge dzh, whilst ce, in prince, is a mere point of orthography ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham

... champagne steadily, but he didn't feel elated. Antaeus, born of Ge, the Earth, and Poseidon, the Sea. The invincible wrestler. Each time Hercules threw him to the ...
— The Leech • Phillips Barbee

... real vacation," Cap'n Abe declared, still staring at the fishfly now feebly butting its head against the pane. "That week was when I went to the—'hem—buryin' of my a'nt, Joab. I'll go this time mebbe for two-three months. Take a v'y'ge ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... age moi tode eipe kai atrekeos katalexon, ei de ex autoio tosos pais eis Odyseos. ainos gar kephalen te kai ommata kala eoikas keino, epei thama toion emisgometh' alleloisin, prin ge ton es Troien anabemenai, entha per alloi Argeion hoi aristoi eban koiles epi neusin ek tou d' out' Odysea ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... told Rose and Madam Budd about your sex; and that was the reason they took to you so on the v'y'ge?" ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

... have been early in the spring when we arrived at Sau-ge-nong, for I can remember that at this time the leaves were small, and the Indians were about planting their corn. They managed to make me assist at their labors, partly by signs, and partly by the few words of English old Manito-o-geezhik could speak. After ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... The second was Natchilli Joe, known to his own people as Ekeeseek, who was a child in his mother's hood at the time when he lived on King William Land, and only knew the story of the Franklin expedition from hearsay. The third, Nu-tar-ge-ark, a man of about forty-five or fifty years of age, gave us valuable information. His father, many years ago, opened a cairn on the northern shore of Washington Bay, in King William Land, and took from it a tin box containing a piece of paper with some writing on it. Not far from this ...
— Schwatka's Search • William H. Gilder

... Graeci [Greek: eide] vocant; nostri, si qui haec forte tractant, species appellant (Cic.). But [Greek: eidos] is used by Epictetus and Antoninus less exactly and as a general term, like genus. Index Epict. ed. Schweig.—[Greek: Hos de ge ahi protai ousiai pros ta alla echousin, outo kai to eidos pros to genos echei hypokeitai gar to eidos to genei]. (Aristot. Cat. ...
— Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

... di' dmilon. Polloi men gar emoi Troes kleitoi t' epikouroi Kteinein on ke theos ge pori kai possi kikheio Polloi d' au soi ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Conner brought me, some days ago, a cranium of an Indian, named B-tow-i-ge-zhig (Both Sides of the Sun), who was killed and buried near his house in ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... crept back 'ome like a man in a dream, with a bag of oranges he didn't want, and, arter making a present of the engagement-ring to Ginger—if 'e could get it—he took the fust train to Tilbury and signed on for a v'y'ge to China. ...
— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs

... of Heliotropism and Geotropism were first used by Dr. A. B. Frank: see his remarkable 'Beitrge zur Pflanzenphysiologie,' 1868. [page 6] lower surface, and thus causes it to bend downwards. Hyponasty is the reverse, and implies increased growth along the lower surface, causing the ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin

... earth composed, and in what manner are these materials arranged? These are the first inquiries with which Geology is occupied, a science which derives its name from the Greek ge, the earth, and logos, a discourse. Previously to experience we might have imagined that investigations of this kind would relate exclusively to the mineral kingdom, and to the various rocks, soils, and metals, which occur upon ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... this word, at any rate; and if you know any Greek, learn also this group of words: "[Greek: hos rhiza en ge dipsosei]," which you may chance to meet with, and even to ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

... inhabited by black or dark-coloured people; latterly applied to an undefined tract of land stretching S. of Egypt to the Gulf of Aden, which constituted the kingdom of the Ethiopians, a people of Semitic origin and speaking a Semitic language called Ge'ez, who were successively conquered by the Egyptians, Persians, and Romans; are known in the Bible; their first king is supposed to have been Menilehek, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; their literature consists mostly of translations ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... hand, when Pisistratus introduced the worship of Olympian Zeus on a great scale into Athens and built the Olympieum, he seems to have brought him straight from Olympia in Elis. For he introduced the special Elean complex of gods, Zeus, Rhea, Kronos, and Ge Olympia.[45:1] ...
— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray

... A., Recherches Critiques sur l'ge et l'origine des traductions Latines d' Aristote, 2 ed. Paris, ...
— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik

... spearman, chu[u]gen, samurai and officials were only to be witnessed at times on the highway which leaves Shinjuku for the Ko[u]shu[u]kaido[u] and the alternate and then little used Ashigarato[u]ge road. Arrived at Samoncho[u] the ground selected was inspected by Shu[u]den. The bishop's eyebrows puckered in questioning mien. "Here there are too many people. Is there no other place?" They led him to another site. The wrinkle deepened to a frown—"Here there are too many ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... interposed with moist emotion. "John, we're landless! My plantation b'longs t' my wife. I can sympathize with you, John. As old song says, 'we're landless! landless!' We are landless, John. But you have price—priceless 'dvant'ge over me in one thing, vice-president; you've ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... ain't resisted no p'leece! No, suh! Not me! But Judge Crutchfield, you can't tell him nothin'. 'Tain't no use to have a lawyer, nuther. Judge Crutchfield don't want no lawyers in his co't. Like 's not he cha'ge you mo' fo' havin' lawyer. Then you ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... "The cha'ge, seh, is trespass, and it is answerable in Judge Whitcomb's cou't in Carbonate. The plaintiff in this particular case is John Doe, the supposable owneh of that mining claim up yondeh. In the next it will probably be Richa'd Roe. You are ...
— A Fool For Love • Francis Lynde

... and one of my sisters tried to teach him to read. It was not a success but he was much amused at his own mistakes. A few years before he died he visited me, inquired for my sisters, hunted them out and visited them, and on his return said to me "Be-she-ke-o-ge-ma," my Indian name, "you and your sisters seem just like my own folks." Poor old "Kaig," like about all his associates has gone to the "Happy Hunting Ground." Peace ...
— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various

... part by eb'ry single husban' too, an' she's figgerin' to outdo all the yuthers wid Brudder Littlejohn's co'pse." Sarah Jane almost forgot her little audience in her intense absorption of her subject. "She say to me dis mornin', she say, 'Marri'ge am a lott'ry, Sis Beddinfiel', but I sho' is drawed some han'some prizes. 'She got 'em all laid out side by side in de buryin' groun' wid er little imige on ebry grabe; an', 'Sis Mary Ellen, seein' as she can't read de writin' on de tombstones, she got a diff'unt ...
— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun

... be those islands collectively called Japan. They are named by the Chinese Ge-pen; the terminating syllable go, added by Marco Polo, is supposed to be the Chinese word kue, signifying kingdom, which is commonly annexed to the names of foreign countries. As the distance of the nearest part of the southern island from the coast of China near Ning-po is not more than five ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving

... fear. We had heard ominous stories about past voyages. The cook (technically a seaman, but in reality no sailor)—the cook, when unstrung by some misfortune, such as the rolling over of a saucepan, would mutter gloomily while he wiped the floor:—"There! Look at what she has done! Some voy'ge she will drown all hands! You'll see if she won't." To which the steward, snatching in the galley a moment to draw breath in the hurry of his worried life, would remark philosophically:—"Those that see won't tell, anyhow. I don't ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad

... mile fum Ole Fo't on de Ole Mo'ganton Road. I sho' has had a ha'd life. Jes wok, an' wok, an' wok. I nebbah know nothin' but wok. Mah boss he wah Ole Man Andy Hemphill. He had a la'ge plantation in de valley. Plenty ob ebbathin'. All kine ob stock: hawgs, cows, mules, an' hosses. When Marse Andy die I go lib wif he son, ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

... so great at this loss, that he fell from the rock where he was standing down into the sea, and was drowned. In memory of him, the body of water near the rock is still known as the AE-ge'an Sea. ...
— The Story of the Greeks • H. A. Guerber

... Spring weather; time for adventure. Genoa, this cruise, on a Twillingate schooner, with the first shore-fish. A Barbadoes cruise again. Then a v'y'ge out China way. Queer how the flea-bite o' travel will itch! An' so long as it itched I kep' on scratchin'. 'Twas over two years afore I got a good long breath o' the fogs o' these parts again. An' by this time a miracle had happened on the Labrador. The good Lord had surprised ...
— Harbor Tales Down North - With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. • Norman Duncan

... the dative omiliai echthrois, nomothesiai epitropois; and also some rather uncommon periphrases, thremmata Neilou, xuggennetor teknon for alochos, Mouses lexis for poiesis, zographon paides, anthropon spermata and the like; the fondness for particles of limitation, especially tis and ge, sun tisi charisi, tois ge dunamenois and the like; the pleonastic use of tanun, of os, of os eros eipein, of ekastote; and the periphrastic use of the preposition peri. Lastly, he observes the tendency to hyperbata ...
— Laws • Plato

... Red-cedars blossom tu, though few folks know it, An' look all dipt in sunshine like a poet; The lime-trees pile their solid stacks o' shade An' drows'ly simmer with the bees' sweet trade; In ellum-shrouds the flashin' hangbird clings An' for the summer vy'ge his hammock slings; All down the loose-walled lanes in archin' bowers The barb'ry droops its strings o' golden flowers, Whose shrinkin' hearts the school-gals love to try With pins—they'll worry yourn so, boys, bimeby! But I don't love your cat'logue style,—do you?— Ez ef to sell ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... crux of this passage, B. proposes 'geohte,' rendering: I know this people with firm thought every way blameless towards foe ...
— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin

... of Breda a few days before and was come to Falkenswert (where you have past in your journey to Spa) one hour from hence. Prince Charles arrived here the same day from Germany to take ye command of the allies, the next Day the whole army amounting to 70thd men went on towards the county of Lige to prevent the French from beseiging Namur, I hear now that the two armies are only one hour from another, so we expect very soon the news of a great battle but not without fear, Count Saxes army being, by all account ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing

... Sanchoniathon, Ouranos was the son of Autochthon, and, according to Plato, Autochthon was one of the ten kings of Atlantis. He married his sister Ge. He is the Uranos of the Greeks, who was the son of Gaea (the earth), whom he married. The Phoenicians tell us, "Ouranos had by Ge four sons: Ilus (El), who is called Chronos, and Betylus (Beth-El), ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... red deer's hide Nokomis Made a cloak for Hiawatha, From the red deer's flesh Nokomis Made a banquet in his honor. All the village came and feasted, All the guests praised Hiawatha, Called him Strong-heart, Soan-ge-taha! Called ...
— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous

... kinds, either (1) simple, i.e. made up of non-significant parts, like the word ge, or (2) double; in the latter case the word may be made up either of a significant and a non-significant part (a distinction which disappears in the compound), or of two significant parts. It is possible also to have triple, quadruple or higher compounds, like most of our amplified names; ...
— The Poetics • Aristotle

... the fifth tribe of the Iroquois, were directed in their original location, to occupy a hill near the head of Canandaigua lake. This hill, called Ge-nun-de-wa, is venerated as the birth place of their nation. It was surrounded anciently by a rude fortification which formed their dwelling in time of peace, and served for a shelter from any sudden attack of a hostile tribe. Tradition hallows this spot on ...
— An account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha - Red Jacket and his people, 1750-1830 • John Niles Hubbard

... artistic perfection. We might naturally expect that the fashions should show a well-marked trend in the direction of some one or more types of apparel eminently becoming to the human form; and we might even feel that ge have substantial ground for the hope that today, after all the ingenuity and effort which have been spent on dress these many years, the fashions should have achieved a relative perfection and a relative stability, closely approximating to a permanently tenable artistic ideal. ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... ge-refa, was in Chaucer a kind of land agent, but the name was also applied to local officials, as in port-reeve, shire-reeve. It is the same as Grieve, also originally official, but used in ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley

... when so important an event is on the tapis. Bridesmaids, if prevented by illness or sudden bereavement from officiating, should notify the bride as soon as possible, as it is a difficult thing after a bridal cort,ge is arranged to ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... thymi men goosan hen eleaire gynaika, ophthalmoi d' hs ei kera hestasan e sidros atremas en blepharoisi; doli d' ho ge dakrya keuthen.] ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker

... "two trees," the picture of a forest, we come to [sen] "three trees," suggesting the idea of density of growth and darkness; [xiao] "a child at the feet of an old man" "filial piety"; [ge] "a spear" and [shou] "to kill," suggesting the defensive attitude of individuals in primeval times [wo] "I, me"; [wo] "I, my," and [yang] "sheep," suggesting the obligation to respect another man's flocks [yi] "duty toward one's neighbour"; [da] "large" and [yang] "sheep" ...
— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles

... curiositie Antoninus also observes, (lib. 8. Meditat.) in the nature of the sun-beams, where although he admits of chusis, yet he doth not of aporrhoia which is ekchusis. Ho helios katakechusthai dokei, kai pantei ge kechutai ou men ekkechutai. he gar chusis autou tasis estin. aktines goun hai augai autou apo tou ekteinesthai legontai. The sunne, saith he, is diffused, and his fusion is every where but without effusion, &c. I will onely adde one place more ...
— Democritus Platonissans • Henry More

... and concludes by recommending him on his journey to the care of an officer of rank, on a mission to Turkey—"Car il sait le Turc, aussi bien que nous deux ne le savons pas." With this Voltairism he finishes, and gives his "Dieu protge." ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

... started Marse Jim died. He war out in de pasture pickin' up cow loads a throwin' em in de garden an' he jes drop over. I hate to see Marse Jim go, he not sech a bad man. Ater he die his boys, Tom an' Andrew take cha'ge of de plantation. Dey think dey run things diffe'nt from dey daddy, but dey jes git sta'ted when de war come. Marse Tom and Marse Andrew both hab to go. My pappy he go long wif dem to do der cookin. My pappy he say dat some day he run four or five miles ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... mitch os yer loife's worth to kneel an pray here, onless yo choose to ge an throw yersel at th' feet o' yon ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... old-fashioned provincial word into a blaze of literary notoriety. Yet I cannot help conceiving the original form of this adverb to be grathedly ([Old English: geraethlic], root [Old English: raeth], with the preteritive prefix [Old English: ge]) or gerathely. In our Yorkshire dialect, to grathe (pronounced gradhe) means, to make ready, to put in a state of order or fitness. A man inconveniently accoutred or furnished with implements for the performance of some operation on which he was employed, {362} observed ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 • Various

... o' nothing better, and one night just as we was making the Channel 'e tried 'is plan. He was in the second mate's watch, and by-and-by 'e leans over the wheel and says to 'im in a low voice, "This is my last v'y'ge, sir." ...
— Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs

... a-saying, seein' she was bent on bein' wi' us, Paul and me allowed to each other that we'd set up in fine style at Kit's House, so as not to rob her of what es her doo: that es to say—one of us wou'd live down there wi' a car'ge and pair o' hosses, and cut a swell wi' dinner parties an' what-not, while the other bided here an' tilled 'taties, turn and turn about. But she wudn' hear o' that, neither. She's a terrible ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... said. "They'll have it all trodden up again—Hi! You! Ge' back 'ere!" There is as special a lingo for talking to cattle as there is for talking to babies. I used it as well as I could. I swung the lantern in their faces, I brandished the hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at them recklessly. They snorted and backed and ...
— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge

... no," he continued. "Me, I wanta stay bei der place; seven yahr I hef stay. Mist'r Derrick, he doand want dot I should be ge-sacked. Who, den, will der ditch ge-tend? Say, you tell 'um Bismarck hef gotta sure stay bei der place. Say, you hef der pull mit der Governor. You speak der gut ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris

... my dear cousin Levoushka is in the Senate. However, he is in the Heraldry Department. Let me see. No, of the real ones I do not know any. Heaven knows what a mixture they are: either Germans, such as Ge, Fe, De—tout l'alphabet—or all sorts of Ivanvas, Semenovs, Nikitins, or Ivaneukos, Semeneukos, Nikitenkas pour varier. Des gens de l'autre monde. However, I will tell my husband. He knows all sorts of people. I will tell him. You explain it to him, for he never understands ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

... 450-1100.— The English of this period is called the Oldest English or Anglo-Saxon. The gender of nouns was arbitrary, or— it may be— poetical; it did not, as in modern English it does, follow the sex. Thus nama, a name, was masculine; tunge, a tongue, feminine; and ege, an eye, neuter. Like nama, the proper names of men ended in a; and we find such names as Isa, Offa, Penda, as the names of kings. Nouns at this period had five cases, with inflexions for each; now we possess but one inflexion— that for the possessive. —Even the definite article was inflected. ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

... warum warfest du mich hin In die Stadt der ewig Blinden, mit dem aufgeschloss'nen Sinn? Frommt's, den Schleier aufzuheben, wo das nahe Schreckniss droht? Nur der Irrthum ist das Leben; dieses Wissen ist der Tod. Nimm, O nimm die traur'ge Klarheit mir vom Aug' den blut'gen Schein! Schrecklich ist es deiner Wahrheit sterbliches Gefaess ...
— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater

... inventive faculty which often did him even better service. He was the soul of every intellectual enterprise in the school, the best speaker at the Debating Society; the best performer on Speech Day; who knew nothing about [Greek: ge] and less about [Greek: men] and [Greek: de]; who composed satirical choices when he should have been taking notes on Tacitus; edited a School Journal with surprising brilliancy; failed, to conjugate the verbs in [Greek: mi] during his last fortnight in the school; and won the ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... Jeremiah face to face, and so he did not trouble about them, their likes or dislikes, their approval or disapproval. He had on his mind a very troublesome problem when it began to be rumored that Jehoiakim was about to re-introduce human sacrifices in Ge-Hinnom. ...
— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman

... but there is a fine kettle-of-fish made on't up at our house." "What can be the matter, Mr Western?" said Allworthy. "O, matter enow of all conscience: my daughter hath fallen in love with your bastard, that's all; but I won't ge her a hapeny, not the twentieth part of a brass varden. I always thought what would come o' breeding up a bastard like a gentleman, and letting un come about to vok's houses. It's well vor un I ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

... writers, almost in euery commedie, no vn- Serui cor- // thriftie yong man, that is not brought there vnto, ruptel // by the sotle inticement of som lewd seruant. iuuenum. // And euen now in our dayes Get and Daui, Gnatos and manie bold bawdie Phormios to, be preasing in, Multi Ge- // to pratle on euerie stage, to medle in euerie t pauci // matter, whan honest Parmenos shall not be hard, Parmeno- // but beare small swing with their masters. Their nes. // companie, their ...
— The Schoolmaster • Roger Ascham

... co't air prepared," went on the Justice, "fur to remove the disabilities set up by the decree of divo'ce. The co't air on hand to perform the solemn ceremony of marri'ge, thus fixin' things up and enablin' the parties in the case to resume the honour'ble and elevatin' state of mattermony which they desires. The fee fur performin' said ceremony will be, in this case, to ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... voice, until at length its melody was tainted with terror, and there fell a shadow upon my soul, and I grew pale, and shuddered inwardly at those too unearthly tones. And thus, joy suddenly faded into horror, and the most beautiful became the most hideous, as Hinnon became Ge-Henna. ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... one so snug in a corner, with a neat little lawful ring on your fingers! And you that go to keep me a lone woman, frightened of the darrk! I'm an awful coward, that's the truth. And ye know that marr'ge is a holy thing! and it's such a beaut'ful cer'mony! Oh, Mr. Wilfrud!—Lieuten't y' are! and I'd have bought ye a captain, and made the hearts o' your sisters jump with bonnuts and gowns and jools. Oh, Pole! Pole! why did you keep me so short o' cash? It's been the roon of me! What did ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... that the only railroads that are really well run, so far as I have traveled, are those under private ownership and direction, as in Great Britain and the United States. I have tried the various trains de luxe and Blitzzge of Continental Europe and their slow progress and often indifferent accommodations make one long for an English or American express train. And then to hold first-class tickets in Germany, and be refused admission to first-class compartments still empty "because some officials may want ...
— Socialism and American ideals • William Starr Myers

... Mr. Cavendish, with a tone of the most withering compassion. 'I'm afraid you don't quite apprehend my meaning. I am not alluding to coarse material facts at all. I am speaking of a genealogical tree—a ge-ne-a-lo-gi-cal tree, you understand? I am trying to rescue your ancestors from the dust of ...
— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne

... child). The father laments the loss of his pearl.] Perle plesau{n}te to prynces paye, To clanly clos in golde so clere, Oute of oryent I hardyly saye, Ne proued I neu{er} her precios pere, 4 So rou{n}de, so reken in vche araye, So smal, so smoe her syde[gh] were. Quere-so-eu{er} I Iugged ge{m}me[gh] gaye, I sette hyr sengeley i{n} synglure; 8 Allas! I leste hyr i{n} on erbere, ur[gh] gresse to grou{n}de hit fro me yot;[1] I dewyne for-dolked of luf daungere, Of at ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... spone / in your disshe stonding [Sidenote: Don't leave your spoon in your dish or on the table.] Ne vpon the table / it shold not lye Lete your trenchour / be clene for ony thing 269 [Sidenote: Keep your trencher clean.] And yf ye haue cha[n]ge / yet as honestly As ye can / make a voyde manerly So that no fragment / fro your trencher falle Do thus my childe / in chambre & ...
— Caxton's Book of Curtesye • Frederick J. Furnivall

... applauses. From the red deer's hide Nokomis Made a cloak for Hiawatha, From the red deer's flesh Nokomis 230 Made a banquet in his honor. All the village came and feasted, All the guests praised Hiawatha, Called him Strong-Heart, Soan-ge-taha! Called ...
— The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... Jack Amerald—he likshe his glass o' port," he said roguishly, "and shuvversh accord'n'ly," he continued, with a compassionating paddle of his right hand; "one of thoshe aw—odd feels in his stomach; and as I have pretty well done all I can man-n'ge down here, I must be off, ye shee. Wind up from Golden Friars, and a little flutter ovv zhnow, thazh all;" and with some remarks about the extreme cold of the weather, and the severity of their night journey, and many respectful and polite ...
— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... abandoned that gambit. "You're aw right," he cried, laying a grimy hand on Denton's grimy sleeve. "You're aw right. You're a ge'man. Sorry—very sorry. Wanted ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

... a fit of jealousy at Mentz. The young nephew of the Elector Arch-Chancellor, Comte de L——ge, was very assiduous about the Empress, who, herself, at first mistook the motive. Her confidential secretary, Deschamps, however, afterwards informed her that this nobleman wanted to purchase the place of a coadjutor to his uncle, so ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... origin when I am at a loss. Aer may be explained, oti airei ta apo tes ges; or, oti aei rei; or, oti pneuma ex autou ginetai (compare the poetic word aetai). So aither quasi aeitheer oti aei thei peri ton aera: ge, gaia quasi genneteira (compare the Homeric form gegaasi); ora (with an omega), or, according to the old Attic form ora (with an omicron), is derived apo tou orizein, because it divides the year; eniautos and etos are the same thought—o en eauto etazon, cut into ...
— Cratylus • Plato

... it the castle court though what a 'court' can have to do here is more than I can tell you, seeing that there is no law. 'Tis as I supposed; not a soul within, but the whole family is off on a v'y'ge of discovery!" ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

... d' allelon aleometha kai di' homilou Polloi men gar emoi Troes kleitoi t' epikouroi, Kteinein, hon ke theos ge pore kai possi kicheio, Polloi d' au soi ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Ted became great friends. She was older than Kalitan, and, though only fifteen, was soon to be married to Tah-ge-ah, a fine young Indian who was ready to pay high for her, which was not strange, for she was ...
— Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin • Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

... probably right. There is no such thing on the field of history as a proved Apostolic succession; but if any line of medival Bishops has high claims to historical validity it is, as Dr. Dllinger has shown (in his Beitrge zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters), the line ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton

... where I then was. I saw them; I spoke to them; I invited them to partake with me in the pleasures of the chase; and, at the end of the number of days appointed for this exercise, they attended me in my retinue as far as to Ge-hol. There I gave them a ceremonial banquet and made them the customary presents.... It was at this Ge-hol, in those charming parts where Kang Hi, my grandfather, made himself an abode to which he could retire during the hot season, at the same time that he thus put himself in a situation to be able ...
— De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars • Thomas De Quincey

... belonged to the Musk-ho-ge-an family, and numbered twenty thousand people, in fifty towns. They had light complexions, and were good-looking. Their women were short, their men tall, straight, ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... besaenftigte der Hierophant Den ungeduldig Strebenden. "Was hab ich, Wenn ich nicht alles habe?" sprach der Juengling. "Gibt's etwa hier ein Weniger und Mehr? Ist deine Wahrheit wie der Sinne Glueck 10 Nur eine Summe, die man groesser, kleiner Besitzen kann und immer doch besitzt? Ist sie nicht eine einz'ge, ungeteilte? Nimm Einen Ton aus einer Harmonie, Nimm Eine Farbe aus dem Regenbogen, 15 Und alles, was dir bleibt, ist nichts, solang' Das schoene All ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various

... anyhow, have any interference in this here matter. That I do like in writing nothing else, I wouldn't, mam, on any account in the world, be bound to marry; but I don't wish it altogether to be left out. I'll ge her fourteen wages, and if she don't like me, and I don't like her, I'll pay her back to Sydney. I want nothing in the world but what is honest, so make the agrement as you like, and I'll bide by it. I sends you all the papers, ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 - Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 • Various

... of her. She is my daughter—my second child. Sigismund, embrace your sister! You permit it, General? Ah, we never know how much we love these children until we lose them! I always spoke well of her; did I not—Ge—General?" And here Madame de la Roche-Jugan burst ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... to, or look, (lit. to eye) Meeoong[105]. See, I cannot Meerang. Seed Nigh. Separate, to Wockkayoong. Seven Sit'chee(Loo-Choo); Nannatsee (Japan). Seventeen Sit'chee joo. Seventy Sit'chee hacoo. Servant Toomoo, or Eeree, or Sad'ge-ee. Sew, to Nawyoong, or No-a-yoong. Shade, or shady Kajee. Shake, to Katcheeming. Shaking a thing Yootoo yootoo. Shallow Asassa. Sharp Aka, or chirraring? Shave, to Sooyoong. Shell Oosheemaw. Shell fish (like a crab) A'mang. Shield ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall

... generaliteit daar heen sal worden gedirigeert en daar op ten sterkste geinsteert, dat de heer Adams als afgezant van de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-America, ten spoedigsten bij Hun Hoog Mog' moge werden ge admitteert en erkent; en word de raadpensionaris gelast den voornoemden heer Adams van deese Hun Edele Groot Mog' resolutie onder de ...
— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

... headed the procession. All the village fell in behind the band and the pall-bearers, two and two, and when they turned out of the main street to mount the hill toward the cemetery, Carlitos cranked up again and the car went on, leaving the funeral cort['e]ge marching blithely to the strains ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long

... Reckon you'd better swim out, then, for I've been hurried by you landlubbers 'bout as much as I propose to be on this v'y'ge." ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe

... hope our chart, With childish glee on our voy'ge we start, The boat glides merrily o'er the wave. But ah! there's many a storm to brave, And many a dang'rous reef to clear, And rushing rapid o'er ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... this matter, dated December 17, 1534, concludes as follows "Und ist Summa das unsere Meinung, dass wahrhaftig in und mit dem Brot der Leib Christi gegessen wird, also dass alles, was das Brot wirkt und leidet, der Leib Christi wirke und leide, dass er ausgeteilt [ge]gessen und mit den Zaehnen zerbissen werde." (St. L. 17, 2052.) Self-evidently, when writing thus, Luther had no Capernaitic eating and drinking in mind, his object merely being, as stated to emphasize the reality of the sacramental union. January [1]0, 1535, however, the day after his return ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... after one of her progresses into Galicia, showing her habitual liberality in this way. "Decid a dona Luisa, que porque vengo de Galicia desecha de vestidos, no le envio para su hermana; que no tengo agora cosa buena; mas yo ge los enviare presto buenos." Reynas Catholicas, tom. ii. ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott

... trachyne] But T. Burgess' emendation [Greek: trachys ge] seems better, and is approved ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

... peri toutou nomizei kai ouch hs sy. ton men gar en t bat phanenta t Mys theologei ton de en HIerich t met' auton ophthenta, ton tn HEbrain epistasian lachonta, machairan espasmenon, kai t Isou lysai prostattonta to hypodma, touton de ge ton archangelon hypeilphe Michal, k. t. l.—The entire passage may be seen in the best annotated editions of Eusebius, (lib. I. c. ii. 17.) since that of Valesius, who first introduced it to notice. But to read it in a truly valuable context, ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... Raoul Derevaux, a Frenchman, and Captain Harry Anderson, an Englishman, they finally made their way into Belgium, where they arrived in time to take part in the heroic defense of Lige in the early stages of the war. Here they rendered such invaluable service to the Belgian commander that they were commissioned lieutenants in the little army of ...
— The Boy Allies in Great Peril • Clair W. Hayes

... the boys for hookin' things," added another. "Last v'y'ge I made, there was a fireman we called Sandy, as I'd seen hangin' around my sea-chest jist afore I missed suthin'. So I fixed a fish-hook to the lock, and nex' day Mr. Sandy had a precious sore finger somehow; ...
— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... built. There aint any on us but has seen more'n twenty years sarvice with you or yer father. Now some on us got talkin' over things today, and talkin' 'bout the big haul o' treasure we made last v'y'ge from that there 'Santa Maria.' An', o' course, big haul as it was, it aint nothin' at all to what's buried right here on this island. Why, all the loot that we've taken for sixty- five year is in the ground within half a mile of where we stand— all on it, way back to ...
— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson

... Polaka, the son of the principal chief, and himself an enterprising trader who has made many journeys to distant localities—and to others, the Hano once lived in seven villages on the Rio Grande, and the village in which his forefathers lived was called Tceewge. This, it is said, is the same as the present ...
— A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola • Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff

... said to himself, "dead astarn; and our boy's v'y'ge through life will be an easy ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn

... dose, apodosis, anecdote *Dynamis power dynamite, dynasty *Eidos form, thing seen idol, kaleidoscope, anthropoid *Ethnos race, nation ethnic, ethnology Eu well euphemism, eulogy *Gamos marriage cryptogam, bigamy *Ge earth geography, geometry Genos family, race gentle, engender Gramma writing monogram, grammar Grapho write telegraph, lithograph *Haima blood hematite, hemorrhage, anemia *Heteros other heterodox, heterogeneous *Homos same homonym, homeopathy *Hydor water hydraulics, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the {mainframe} industry. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was 'IBM and the Seven Dwarves': Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. RCA and GE sold out early, and it was 'IBM and the Bunch' (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull; Burroughs merged with Univac to form Unisys (in 1984 —- this was when the phrase 'dinosaurs mating' ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... made and compyled by Steuen Hawes somtyme grome of the honourable chambre of our late souerayne lorde kynge Henry [the] seuenth (whose soule god pardon). In the seconde yere of the reygne of our most naturall souerayne lorde k[yn]ge Henry the eyght. ...
— The coforte of louers - The Comfort of Lovers • Stephen Hawes

... account of their unaffected piety, vigorous language and healthy humor have become exceedingly popular with all classes. They are published by Wiegandt & Grieben (Berlin), in eleven volumes under the general title, {Gesammelte Schriften—Erzhlungen, Aufstze und Vortrge.} Our story {Eingeschneit} taken from the sixth volume ({Aus der Sommerfrische}) relates a humorous travelling adventure from the author's own merry college-life, when a student of divinity at the university ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel

... Republican re/gime, no matter how politicians raved Ils se sont endormis, le c(oe)ur rempli d'espoirs, Dans un reve d'amour et de concorde humaine! Qui monte des hameaux consume/s par la flamme, Ni le ge/missement des vie/illards et des femmes! the inquiries of the Commission, whose report is nai"vely alleged did its best to fill the ro^le of an enemy. but who, after three months' drill and man(oe)uvring, were as expert ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... der Liebe, Welche Staerke muthigen Entsagens, Welche himmlisch erdentschwungene Triebe, Welche Gottbegeistrung des Ertragens! Welche Sich-Erhebung, Sich-Erwiedrung, Sich-Entaeussrung, voell'ge Hin-sich-gebung, ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... of St. Brendan. Note 56 refers to a puffin (Anas leucopsis) or 'girrinna.' The bird, at least by 2004 classification, is not a puffin but a barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and I found one reference to its Irish name as 'ge ghiurain.' As these birds nest in remote areas of the arctic, people were quite free to invent stories ...
— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy

... dey wear long ole frock den en uh girl comin' on dere when dey ge' to be any kind uv uh girl, dey put dat frock down. Oh, my child, dey can' ge' em short 'nough dese days. Ain' hab nuthin but uh string on dese day en time. Dey use'er wear dem big ole hoop skirt dat sit out broad lak from de ankle en den dey ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various

... drink, that Westover was in a manner prepared to have him say something startling. "It's about young Mr. Lynde, sor. We've got um in one of the rooms up-stairs, but he ain't fit to go home alone, and I've been lookin' for somebody that knows the family to help get um into a car'ge. He won't go for anny of ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... Entha d aner eniaue pelorios— —oude, met allous Poleit, all apaneuthen eon athemistia ede. Kai gar Oaum etetukto pelorion oude epskei Andri ge sitophagps.] ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson

... 30: The seventh and eighth volumes of Shandy, English edition, are reviewed in the first number of a short-lived Frankfurt periodical, Neue Auszge aus den besten auslndischen Wochen und Monatsschriften, 1765. Unterhaltungen, amagazine published at Hamburg and dealing largely with English interests, notes the London publication of the spurious ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer

... brilliant genius to whom so much is due in the deciphering of the cuneiform inscriptions, Ihave little doubt that long ago a chair would have been founded at the Collge de France ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... several of the sacred sutras, had made a good beginning in Sanskrit, knew the name of every idol in the temple of the 3,333 images in Kioto, had twice visited the sacred shrine of the Capital, and had uttered the prayer "Namu mi[o] ho ren ge ki[o]," ("Glory be to the sacred lotus of the law"), counting it on his rosary, five hundred thousand times. For sanctity and learning he had no peer among the young ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis

... practical parts and in its power to mold character, it was deficient in philosophical insight and interest. This led to a prolonged conversation on Buddhistic philosophy, in which he explained the doctrines of the "Ku-ge-chu," and the "Usa and Musa." Without attempting to explain them here, I may say that the first is amazingly like Hegel's "absolute nothing," with its thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, and the second a psychological distinction ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick

... of composing and reciting verses for as Blair observes, "The first poets sang their own verses." Sextus Empir. adv. Mus. p. 360 ed. Fabric. Ou hamelei ge toi kai oi poiaetai melopoioi legontai, kai ta Omaerou epae to ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer

... down on the bank, and trudged heavily and quickly out to the buggy. He was anxious to be off; he shook the reins, shouted "ge lang" to the white horse, and wheeled swiftly around ...
— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins

... ich knden Kund'ge des Weltrechts, Dass der Antichrist wird mit Elias streiten.[1] Der Wrger ist gewaffnet, Streit wird erhoben: Die Streiter so gewaltig, so wichtig die Sache. Elias streitet um das ewige Leben, 35 Will den Rechtliebenden das Reich strken; Dabei wird ihm helfen, ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas

... Geist, Herre Gott, Erfuell' mit deiner Gnaden Gut Deiner Glaeubigen Herz, Muth und Sinn; Dein bruenst'ge Lieb' entzuend' in ihn'n. O Herr, durch deines Lichtes Glast Zu dem Glauben versammelt hast Das Volk aus aller Welt Zungen, Das sei dir, Herr, zu ...
— The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther

... believe it heartily, sir, and let the wheel fly? One gets to the end of the v'y'ge on this tack as well as ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... took a last leave; but she said to some she'd fetch 'em home something real pritty, and so did. An' then they come home t'other way, round the Horn, an' she done so well, an' was such a sight o' company, the other child'n was jealous, an' she promised she'd go a v'y'ge long o' each on 'em. She was as sprightly a person as ever I see; an' could speak well ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... will become fewer and fewer, till they cease altogether. It will then only need that the accent should be shifted, in obedience to the tendencies of the English language, as far back in the word as it will go, that instead of 'presti/ge', it should be pronounced 'pre/stige' even as within these few years instead of 'depo/t' we have learned to say 'de/pot', and its naturalization will be complete. I have little doubt that in twenty years it will ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench

... s'apparut aprs sa mort vn des nostres par deux diuerses fois. En l'vne il se fit voir en estat de gloire, portant le visage d'vn homme d'enuiron trente ans, quoy qu'il soit mort en l'ge de quarante-huict. . . . Vne autre fois il fut veu assister vne assemble que nous tenions," etc.—Ragueneau, Relation des Hurons, ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... mentions, amongst the extraordinary marine animals found in the seas around Ceylon, a fish with feet instead of fins; [Greek: poias ge men chelas e pteri gia.]—Lib xvi. c. 18. Does not this drawing of a species of Chironectes, captured near Colombo, ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... "Awn ge' DOWN," said Paul, distinctly, every fibre of his small being headed, as it were, for the pebbly shingle where it was ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris

... other eye against the door-post, began to babble of how he had been prying in my room, and how he had gone to the police that morning, and how they had taken down everything he had to say—''siffiwas a ge'm,' said he. Then I suddenly realised I was in a hole. Either I should have to tell these police my little secret, and get the whole thing blown upon, or be lagged as an Anarchist. So I went up to my neighbour ...
— The Door in the Wall And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... pathetically that she burst out—laughing. Then, suddenly, he arose and in an altered tone cried out: "Well, if you make fun of me, I shall never beg pardon again!" Afterwards at school, at the Collge Henri IV, he was teased and made fun of by his fellows on account of his timidity, awkwardness and the effeminate elegance of his dress. This sort of experience, aided by his natural temperament, gradually led to the concealment of his feelings. ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen

... cler'gy creep fe'ver fet'ter fer'vor sleep tre'mor let'ter her'mit sweep ge'nus en'ter mer'cy speed se'cret ev'er ser'mon breeze re'bus nev'er ser'pent teeth se'quel sev'er mer'chant sneeze se'quence dex'ter ver'bal breed he'ro mem'ber ver'dict bleed ze'ro plen'ty per'son freed ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

... Eau always means brandy; and Eau-de-vie, brandy of a high proof. I think nothing of your ignorance, young man; for it is natural to your situation, and cannot be helped. If you will return with me, and make a v'y'ge or two on the Atlantic, it will serve you a good turn the remainder of your days; and Mabel there, and all the other young women near the coast, will think all the better of you should you live to be as old as one of ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper

... Prometheu touto gignoskeis hoti orges nosouses eisin iatroi logoi. Pr. ean tis en kairo ge malthasse kear kai me sphrigonta thymon ischnaine bia.]— AEsch. Prom. ...
— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... quoth my uncle, aloud, with a thirsty rubbing of the hands and a grin to match, "fetch the bottle. The bottle, b'y! 'Tis time for growed men t' pledge the v'y'ge. A bit nippy, parson ...
— The Cruise of the Shining Light • Norman Duncan

... any rate to hieroglyphic students: "Mesiceuras ancor mien re mies quan geu ceures o pres deu vous, e deu vous temoes tous la goies e latandres deu mon querque vous cones ces que getou gour e rus pour vous, e qui neu finiraes quotobocs ces mon quere qui vous paleu ces paes mes le vre ... ge sui avestous lamities e la reu conec caceu posible e la tacheman mon cher bonnamies votreau enble e bon amiess theress le vasseur." Of which dark words this is the interpretation:—"Mais il sera encore mieux remis quand je sera aupres de vous, et ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... indicate to you myself, and I even insist upon the omission of the passage, viz., the second part of Lohengrin's tale in the final scene of the third act. After the words of Lohengrin—"Sein Ritter ich bin Lohengrin ge"—[nannt fifty-six bars must be omitted] "Wo ihr mit Gott mich landen" ["saht" therefore,—"nannt" ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... and beloved! How selfish Sorrow ponders on the past, And clings to thoughts now better far removed! But Time shall tear thy shadow from me last.[ge] All thou couldst have of mine, stern Death! thou hast; The Parent, Friend, and now the more than Friend: Ne'er yet for one thine arrows flew so fast,[201] And grief with grief continuing still to blend, Hath snatched the little joy that ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... thought much of that story. Who knows whether the coach would have reached the top of the hill without the Fly? Do you believe that rude shouts "Gee up! Ge' lang!" were more effective than the hymn to the Sun buzzed by the little Fly? Do you believe in the virtue of a blustering oath? Really believe it was the Coachman who made the coach to go? No, I tell you, no! She did much more than the big whip's noisy cracking, ...
— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand

... striking Saxon epithets are applied to the sea. We may instance such a compound as ar-ge-bland (ar, "oar"; blendan, "to blend"), which conveys the idea of the companionship of the oar with the sea. From this compound, modern poets have borrowed their "oar-disturbed sea," "oared sea," "oar-blending sea," and "oar-wedded sea." ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... tumult of dust, that in the thickest of it, he dashed into a hollow tree which had been blown down, and changed himself into a snake, and crept out at the roots. Well that he did; for at the moment he had got out, Manabozho, who is Ogee-bau-ge-mon,[36] struck it with his power, and it was in fragments. Paup-Puk-Keewiss was again in human shape; again Manabozho pressed him hard. At a distance he saw a very high bluff of rock jutting out into the lake, and ran ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft

... difficult because, after the inhabitants of Lige, those who live in Borinage are the boldest and most turbulent in all Belgium, and to control them I had only a small unit of 400 conscripts, a few gendarmes and 200 unmounted cavalrymen from my regiment, among whom there were ...
— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... vse other maner of prohemes / whiche by cause they are nat set out of the very mater it selfe / or els the circumstaunces / as in these aforsayd they are called peregrine or strau[n]ge prohemes. And they be taken out of se[n]tences / sole[m]pne peticions / maners or customes / lawes / sta[-] [B.v.r] tutes of nacyons & contreys. And on this maner dothe Aristides begyn his oracion made to the praise ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox

... task. "Careful, Joe; easy—easy now. He's dreadful sick, I guess. Yes, missie, it's him. They've kind o' scratched him some. 'Tain't nothin' to gas about; jest barked his neck. Kind o' needs a bit o' band'ge. Gorl durn you, Joe! Git your arm under his shoulders an' kep his head steady; he'll git bleedin' to death ef y' ain't careful. Quiet, you jade!" he cried fiercely, to the mare whom Diane had frightened with her white robe as she came to help. "No, missie, ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

... domestic and international service provided by satellite, cables and microwave radio relay; totally digitalized in 1995 domestic: microwave radio relay and satellite international: country code - 299; satellite earth stations - 12 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean) ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... harpoon; she allowed no harpoon in her chambers. "Why not?" said I; "every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon—but why not?" "Because it's dangerous," says she. "Ever since young Stiggs coming from that unfort'nt v'y'ge of his, when he was gone four years and a half, with only three barrels of ile, was found dead in my first floor back, with his harpoon in his side; ever since then I allow no boarders to take ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... remedy for the gout. Write, on a golden plate at the wane of the moon, what follows, rolling round it the sinews of a crane. Put it in a little bag, and wear it near the ankles. The words are meu, treu, mor, phor, teux, za, zor, phe, lou, chri, ge, ze, ou, as the sun is consolidated in these names, and is renewed every day; so consolidate this plaster as it was before, now, now, quick, quick, for, behold, I pronounce the great name, in which are consolidated things in repose, iaz, azuf, zuon, threux, bain, choog; consolidate ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... similar, since Gaita, [Footnote: This Amazon makes a conspicuous figure in Anna Comnena's account of her father's campaigns against Robert Guiscard. On one occasion (Alexiad, lib. iv. p. 93) she represents her as thus recalling the fugitive soldiery of her husband to their duty,—[Greek: Hae de ge Taita Aeallas allae, kan mae Athaenae kat auton megisaen apheisa phonaen, monon ou to Homaerikon epos tae idia dialektio legein eokei. Mechri posou pheuxesthou; ataete aneres ese. Hos de eti pheugontas toutous eora, ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... e have the holy scripture expouned to them by preachers in theyr sermons, ac ... this tyme, All be it if it shall here after appere to the kynges highnes, that his sa ... rse, erronious, and sedicious opinyons, with the newe testment and the olde, corrup ... ge in printe: And that the same bokes and all other bokes of heresye, as well ... termynate and exiled out of this realme of Englande for ever: his highnes e ... great lerned and catholyke persones, translated ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 • Various

... always immediately follows the subject, except with the past of the verb ange(ge), to go, which ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson

... he, or wurrds to that effec', as the coort-martial sez. "Sure as death," sez she, "but I misdoubt 'tis cruel hard on my father." "Damn your father," sez he, or anyways 'twas fwhat he thought, "the arrangement is as clear as mud. Jungi will drive the carr'ge afther all's over, an' you come to the station, cool an' aisy, in time for the two o'clock thrain, where I'll be wid your kit." "Faith," thinks I to myself, "thin there's a ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling

... man. "Why, of course, sir. It's a Bri'sh sailor's nature to like a bit of prize money at the end of a v'y'ge; but, begging your pardon, sir, don't you make no mistake. There arn't a messmate o' mine as wouldn't give up his prize money for the sake of overhauling a slaver and reskying a load o' them poor black beggars. It's horrid; ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn

... that knot 'll hold 'til fall. For,' says he, 'I got a rope's end an' a belayin'-pin t' make it hold,' says he, 'til we gets long-side of a parson that knows more about matrimonial knots 'n me. We'll pick up your goods. Liz,' says he, 'on the s'uthard v'y'ge. An' I hopes, ol girl,' says he, 'that you'll be able t' boil the water 'ithout ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors

... iss alretty herselluf by dot Baffin Land ge-gone," he said. "I tink she has der bait ge-swallowed. Ve vait; ve see; und so iss ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers

... euen as col{us} was onward to haue said For his excuse / came in a messengere. Fro god Appolo to Pluto and hym prayde. On his behalfe that he wythoute daungere wolde to hym come & bry{n}ge wyth hym in fere Dyana and Neptunus vnto his banket And yf they dysdeyned hy{m}self he ...
— The Assemble of Goddes • Anonymous

... is that he sholde be true To his souerayn lorde that on hym reyneth And all treason for euer to eschewe In whiche grete shame often remayneth And by whiche he hiz k[yn]ge dysteyneth So a crysten man sholde be true euer To Ihesu Cryst ...
— The Example of Vertu - The Example of Virtue • Stephen Hawes



Words linked to "Ge" :   Gaia, argyrodite, semiconducting material, Greek deity, atomic number 32, Greek mythology



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