"Lich" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Aufgrund ihrer | natrlichen Schnelligkeit machte | Atalanta den Rckstand jedoch bald | wieder wett und berholte ihn erneut. | Nachdem Hippomenes sie jedoch in | derselben Weise noch ein zweites und | ein drittes Mal vom Weg abbrachte, | gewann er schlielich den Wett!auf, | freilich nicht durch seine Fhigkeit, | sondern durch seine List. | | Diese Sage scheint eine hervorragende | Allegorie ber den Wettstreit von | Kunst und Natur zu sein. Denn die | Kunst, die von Atalanta reprsentiert | wird, ist an sich, wenn ihr nichts ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon
... old yew trees of the churchyard and out through the lich-gate into the road, when Monica suddenly looked over her ...
— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil
... issues: soil pollution from toxic chemicals such as DDT; the energy crisis of the 1990s led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood; pollution of Hrazdan (Razdan) and Aras Rivers; the draining of Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant in spite of its location in a ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... Highland lakes and rivers; and one of his most memorable exploits was performed upon the banks of Loch Vennachar, in the very district which forms the scene of our action: it consisted in the destruction of a funeral procession, with all its attendants. The 'noontide hag,' called in Gaelic Glas-lich, a tall, emaciated, gigantic female figure, is supposed in particular to haunt the district of Knoidart. A goblin dressed in antique armor, and having one hand covered with blood, called, from that circumstance, Lham-dearg, ...
— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... for the last time, in his native city, for which he ever retained a warm affection, and which, by a sudden apostrophe, under the word Lich, he introduces with reverence, into his immortal Work, THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY:—Salve, magna parens! While here, he felt a revival of all the tenderness of filial affection, an instance of which appeared in his ordering the grave-stone and inscription over Elizabeth ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell |
