"Rad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beyond the position where the asteroid was sighted, moving along what the Altair figured as its orbit. I'm not stretching space, Foster, when I tell you we're hunting for a needle in a junk pile. This part of space is filled with more objects than you would imagine, and they all register on the rad screens." ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... "office" in the Western meaning of the term there was none. The worthy Rad el Moussa transacted affairs on the floor of his general sitting-room, and stored his merchandise in the bed-chambers, or wherever it would be out of reach of pilfering fingers. But he received the little sailor with fine protestations of regard, and (after some giggles and shuffling ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... der so gerne singt 5 Im Hofe, wenn er das Rad am Brunnen schwingt, Im Saale, wann er das Feuer schueret und facht, Wann er abends sich legt und wann er ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... lifting his forearm and drawing the back of it across his dripping brow, "but the grey mare for'rad won't pull, and the whip here won't reach her. I couldn't think upon no ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... it is not therefore so very surprising to find that in March, 1327, a royal pardon had to be granted to "Roger, the barber of Birmingham," for the part he had taken in the political disturbances of that time. Was he a Con., or a Lib., Tory or Rad.? ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
... Not commonly used among hackers, but quite common among crackers and {warez d00dz} in compounds such as 'k-kool' /K'kool'/, 'k-rad' /K'rad'/, and 'k-awesome' /K'aw'sm/. Also used to intensify negatives; thus, 'k-evil', 'k-lame', 'k-screwed', and 'k-annoying'. Overuse of this prefix, or use in more formal or technical contexts, is considered ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... "Yes, Rad, I think I will take a little flight. Perhaps I'll go over to Waterford, and call on Mr. Damon. I haven't seen very much of him, since we got back from our ...
— Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice • Victor Appleton
... to set you an example," replied Jack. "I don't know about Rad, though I've heard you speak ...
— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge
... Rad'icating. Taking root. Retic'ulated. Marked with cross lines like a net. Rev'olute. Rolled upward or backward. Ri'mose. Cracked. Rim'ulose. Covered with small cracks. Ring. Annulus. Riv'ulose. Marked with lines like rivers in ...
— Among the Mushrooms - A Guide For Beginners • Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin
... close & cluchches his hommes His knees catch to close, and he clutches his hams, & he with plat-tyng his paumes displayes his lers[19] And he with striking his palms displays his fears, & romyes as a rad ryth at rore[gh] for drede And howls as a frightened hound that roars for dread, Ay biholdand e honde til hit hade al grauen, Ever beholding the hand till it had all graven, & rasped on e ro[gh] wo[gh]e runisch saue[gh] And rasped ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... and looked alternately at him and at Sussex, as if about to speak, when Bowyer, a man whose spirit could not brook the insult he had so openly received from Leicester, in the discharge of his office, advanced with his black rad in his hand, and knelt down ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... his eyes closed. I marked how drawed and haggard he looked; and then, of a sudden he raised half on to his feet. The girl had begun to sing. Her voice was rich and low, and full of deep, still places, like a mountain stream. But Morrow! He sunk his fingers into me, and leaned for'rad, starin' as though Paradise had opened for him, while the sweat on his ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach |
