Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of AllusionsMerriam-Webster, 1999 - 592 strán (strany) A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students. |
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... novel Love and Other Demons : Cayetano is sent as an exorcist , but after one look at the girl's blue eyes and cascading copper hair , all that gets exorcised is his own inhibition . A Latin American Abelard and Héloïse ? Not quite ...
... novel Love and Other Demons : Cayetano is sent as an exorcist , but after one look at the girl's blue eyes and cascading copper hair , all that gets exorcised is his own inhibition . A Latin American Abelard and Héloïse ? Not quite ...
Strana 16
... novel , it's from a famous poem by English Roman- tic poet John Keats— " Ode to a Nightingale" — which in turn refers to the biblical story of Ruth . After her husband died , Ruth loyally followed her mother - in - law Naomi , speaking ...
... novel , it's from a famous poem by English Roman- tic poet John Keats— " Ode to a Nightingale" — which in turn refers to the biblical story of Ruth . After her husband died , Ruth loyally followed her mother - in - law Naomi , speaking ...
Strana 27
... novel Oliver Twist . Artful Dodger was the star of Fagin's gang of child thieves and was the most accomplished pickpocket of them all . His name was Jack Dawkins , but in tribute to his slippery skills he was called the Artful Dodger ...
... novel Oliver Twist . Artful Dodger was the star of Fagin's gang of child thieves and was the most accomplished pickpocket of them all . His name was Jack Dawkins , but in tribute to his slippery skills he was called the Artful Dodger ...
Strana 34
... novel of the same name that looked hard at smug , middle - class , unimaginative , insular , conformist America . Reread the novel and you'll discover that George Follansbee Babbitt was a little more complicated than that . He was dimly ...
... novel of the same name that looked hard at smug , middle - class , unimaginative , insular , conformist America . Reread the novel and you'll discover that George Follansbee Babbitt was a little more complicated than that . He was dimly ...
Strana 39
... novel by William March ) , about a little girl who is a cal- culating murderess . The term in use , by Myra McPherson , in her examination of the life of serial killer Ted Bundy in Vanity Fair , May 1989 : The major missing link to ...
... novel by William March ) , about a little girl who is a cal- culating murderess . The term in use , by Myra McPherson , in her examination of the life of serial killer Ted Bundy in Vanity Fair , May 1989 : The major missing link to ...
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Strana 553 - To this war of every man, against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice.
Strana 390 - Because you do not believe that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
Strana 486 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When...
Strana 248 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Strana 85 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper ? And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Strana 89 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget— lest we forget!
Strana 77 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Strana 109 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Strana 553 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.