"Nas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Abyssinia the gold. and silversmiths are highly regarded, but that the ironworkers are looked upon with contempt, as an inferior grade of beings. Their kinsmen even ascribe to them the power of transforming themselves into hynas, or other savage beasts. All convulsions and hysterical disorders are attributed to the effect of their evil eye. The Amhara call them Buda, the Tigr, Tebbib. There are also Mahomedan and Jewish Budas. It is difficult to explain the origin of this strange superstition. ...
— The Book of Were-Wolves • Sabine Baring-Gould
... Aqui'nas was so called by his fellow-students at Cologne, from his taciturnity and dreaminess. Sometimes called "The Great Dumb Ox of Sicily." He was larged-bodied, fat, with a brown complexion, and a large head ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... but a single letter, always, when an initial, implies something antagonistic to life or joy or comfort, resembling in this the Aryan root Nak, expressive of perishing or destruction. Nax is darkness; Narl, death; Naria, sin or evil. Nas—an uttermost condition of sin and evil—corruption. In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being by any special name. He is symbolized by what may be termed the heiroglyphic ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... ventis vsi simus, et quam fessi esse potuerimus tam longi temporis ratio docuerit, proinde nihil nobis deerit. Nam extra Anglos, 20 circiter naues Lusitanicas et Hispanicas nacti in hoc loco sumus: eae nobis impares non patientur nas esurire. Angli etsi satis firmi, et a nobis tuli, authoritate regij diplomatis omni obsequio et humanitate prosequuntur. Nunc narrandi erant mores, regiones, et populi. Caeterum quid narrem mi Hakluyte, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt
... al the land of crowing nas his peer. His vois was merier than the mery orgon On messe-days that in the chirche gon; Wel sikerer was his crowing in his logge Than is a clokke, or an abbey orlogge.... His comb was redder than the fyn coral, And batailed, as ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... aeth gatraeth veduaeth uedwn Fyryf frwythlawn oed cam nas kymhwyllwn E am lavnawr coch gorvawr gwrmwn Dwys dengyn ed emledyn aergwn Ar deulu brenneych beych barnasswn Dilyw dyn en vyw nys adawsswn Kyueillt a golleis diffleis vedwn Rugyl en emwrthryn rynn riadwn Ny mennws gwrawl gwadawl ...
— Y Gododin - A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth • Aneurin |
