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  1. Thus that the Boeotian poet imagined her, as nothing in his verses contains any, allusion ,to a triple formed goddess. Hecate was, in some legends, an invisible figure
  2. Century authors have occasionally made use of the heroic couplet, often as an, allusion ,to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is Vladimir
  3. Alex, though. (He is nicknamed by Alex" prison charlie" or" Chaplin," an, allusion ,to Charlie Chaplin. ) *Billy boy: A rival of Alex's. Early on in the story
  4. In Schopenhauer's words, they fall into the mire while gazing at the stars,an, allusion ,to Plato's dialogue Theætetus, in which Socrates tells of Thales (the first
  5. An acronym for" Macedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking, allusion ,to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup. This tongue-in-cheek attitude was carried
  6. UPI rode Angry Many as a horse for thirty years. An elaboration of this, allusion ,is found only in a late Paris commentary. The ruler TaxMart (Taxa UPI)
  7. Corrupted the name Beyond, the original name of Benjamin, since Beyond was an, allusion ,to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.
  8. Uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperture," to open," in, allusion ,to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to" open," which is
  9. In filmmaking style and latter-day awareness of noir as a historical source for, allusion , Directors and the business of noir While the incentive noir, Stranger on the
  10. From cretin, French for alluvium (soil deposited by flowing water),an, allusion ,to the affliction's suspected origin in inadequate soil. *From" Chretien,"
  11. Of Asia, particularly the neighborhood of Ephesus. Note the confident local, allusion ,in 19:9 to" the school of Tyrannous" and in 19:33 to" Alexander "; also the
  12. Spelling A. GA. DE, is from AGA. DE, meaning " Crown of Fire" in, allusion ,to Ishtar," the brilliant goddess ", whose cult was observed from very early
  13. Claims to have been alerted to the existence of the Gospel of Barnabas, from an, allusion ,in a work by Grenades against Paul; in a book which had been presented to him
  14. South. During his presidency James K. Polk was known as" Young Hickory ",an, allusion ,to his mentor Andrew Jackson, and " Napoleon of the Stump" for his speaking
  15. Put up even money, now,with Casey at the bat.::: The second line above is an, allusion ,to Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man (1734),which contains the line" Hope
  16. The audience that Rosebud was the name of the sled from Kane's childhood – an, allusion ,to the only time in his life when he was truly happy. The sled, thought to be
  17. Versus Taylor). The match was nicknamed" Thunder Meets Lightning" as an, allusion ,to tremendous punching power of Chávez and blinding speed of Taylor. Chávez was
  18. Suggested that Lincoln's formulation" four score and seven" was an, allusion ,to the King James Version of the Bible's, in which man's lifespan is given as
  19. An orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash (again, a clear, allusion ,to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what
  20. About the body of Moses. Some interpreters understand this reference to be an, allusion ,to the events described in Zechariah 3:1,2. The classical theologian Origin
  21. Bible. The poem Aurora Leigh, for example, features religious imagery and, allusion ,to the apocalypse. Critical reception American poet Edgar Allan Poe was
  22. Which he served as a brigade commander in the mid-1970s). The lion may be an, allusion ,to Scotland. The shield can be shown surrounded by the insignia of an honorary
  23. Of their victims at the end of chapter five of Galactic Patrol seems a clear, allusion ,to chapter twenty-nine of The Moon Pool; Merritt's account of the Faith and
  24. Were keen amphetamine users early in their existence. Land Speed Record is an, allusion ,to Husker Dü's amphetamine use. Amphetamine was widely abused in the 1980s
  25. A republican government in France. The leap year was called Textile,an, allusion ,to the" bissextile" leap years of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, because
  26. Daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine. A dismissive, allusion ,in the text to the" wealth of Hungary" has suggested the hypothesis that it
  27. She dances again; and again desires to receive John's head in a charger," an, allusion ,to the events surrounding the death of John the Baptist. Once again he was
  28. Of his first definitive philosophical work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,an, allusion ,to Spinoza's Tracts Theologico-Politicus. Elsewhere, Wittgenstein
  29. Authoritarian figures dedicated to conquest and complete conformity. The, allusion ,is most obvious in the Dale stories penned by Nation, in particular The Dale
  30. Interpretation of the name is" mouth of the river of the sandbar ",an, allusion ,to the River Far set, which flows into the Logan where the sandbar was located.
  31. To take refuge in the United States. This was dubbed the" Cactus Curtain ",an, allusion ,to Europe's Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain in East Asia. U. S. and Cuban
  32. And which could not reasonably have been drawn from elsewhere. A probable, allusion ,contains an idea which is uniquely traceable to its source. Possible allusion s
  33. Tales #25. Buckler's character dealt with rebellion and loyalty, with, allusion , to Frankenstein's monster, in a twelve-issue run. Decathlon was later
  34. By the lilting rhythm of the poem, the dreamlike, pastoral metaphors and, allusion ,to scenes from the Garden of Eden. By the end, the poet's older voice has
  35. Sources critical of Freemasonry for their so-called" bloody penalties," an, allusion ,to the apparent physical penalties associated with each degree. This leads to
  36. Text is no less vivid or lurid for that discretion. The author makes constant, allusion ,to history and myth as a source of object lessons or exemplars of particular
  37. Was acquainted with Poly carp, who had been mentored by John, makes a possible, allusion ,to this book, and credits John as the source. Grenades (c. 115-202) assumes
  38. That distinguished 'clear ','probable' and 'possible' allusion s. A clear, allusion ,is one with almost the same wording as its source, the same general meaning and
  39. Hostages; a fact the Roman people could testify to “, this once again being an, allusion ,to the giving of hostages by the defeated Romans at Age. Battle of Vibrate In
  40. To the state of being God),pan deistic beliefs are deistic. The earliest, allusion ,to pandas found to date is in 1787,in translator Gottfried Grove’s
  41. Infernal villain" who takes part in a massacre of women and children, in an, allusion ,to the Canoe Massacre. Dickens was much incensed by the massacre, in which
  42. Meaning differs from the modern language. Classical Chinese relies heavily on, allusion ,to a corpus of standard literary works to convey semantic meaning, nuance,and
  43. Component. The resulting drink smells like suntan lotion and the name is an, allusion ,to that. Other recent variations are the Cuba Light made with rum and Diet Coke
  44. To Anatolia, can not definitely be established as his. Still, it is on an, allusion ,in this work that Zuni, followed by Steinschneider, partly bases the hypothesis
  45. Methodological objections have been made to this way of proceeding. Each, allusion ,may not have an equal significance. To counter this, G. K. Beale sought to
  46. S middle name is given variously as either Joseph or Jerome, the latter in, allusion ,to creator Jerry Siegel. Beginnings In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kent
  47. Academics would now accept it. The account of this contest, followed by an, allusion ,to the Trojan War, inspired the later tales of a competition between Hesiod and
  48. Ancien régime: a sociopolitical or other system that no longer exists,an, allusion ,to pre-revolutionary France (used with capital letters in French with this
  49. And pray to a God who cannot give success. This sentence in italics is an, allusion ,to the Bible, Isaiah (). " Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together
  50. Max Denmark remarks that the alternative to many-worlds is" many words ",an, allusion ,to the complexity of von Neumann's collapse postulate. MRI is considered by

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