Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
The idea of inlaying gold and other precious metals upon the surface of bronze, stone, or wood was already ancient in Egypt in the time of Khûfû. The gold is often amalgamated with pure silver. This electrum is of a fine light-yellow colour. It pales as the proportion of silver becomes larger, and at 60 per cent. it is nearly white.
"Please your honour," replied the carpenter, "I wasn't drunk I was only a little fresh." "Take you care, Mr Cheeks. Well, now, what are the rest of your crew about?" "Why, Thompson and Waters are cutting out the pales for the garden, out of the jib-booms; I've saved the heel to return." "Very well, but there won't be enough, will there?" "No, sir, it will take a hand-mast to finish the whole."
"As a source of valuable information, it beats the Encyclopedia Brittanica in an easy hand gallop; the tonsorial artist is not in its class and even the 'Intelligence Office, pales into innocuous desuetude beside it. "Had it not been for a recent visit to a medium, I should never have learned many important truths which affect me very closely.
On their birthdays men made offerings to their Genius, women to their Juno. A modern poet thus alludes to some of the Roman gods: "Pomona loves the orchard, And Liber loves the vine, And Pales loves the straw-built shed Warm with the breath of kine; And Venus loves the whisper Of plighted youth and maid, In April's ivory moonlight, Beneath the chestnut shade." Macaulay, "Prophecy of Capys."
Ah! dearest, what happiness in having at all hours an enormous interest, which multiplies the fibres of the heart and varies them indefinitely! to feel no longer cold indifference! to find one's very life depending on a thousand trifles! on a walk where an eye will beam to us from a crowd, on a glance which pales the sun!
In the face of all that a college education will mean to this girl our personal comfort rather pales into insignificance." "Who are we that we should revel in the fleshpots of Overton while the stranger knocks at our gates?" supplemented Emma. "Now which is it to be? Shall we say, 'good-bye beloved sitting-room, ne'er shall we behold thy like again, or shall we bid fond adieu to the bedroom?
One of the interesting episodes of this period was the dismissal of Crampton, the British minister, who insisted on enlisting men in the United States for service in the Crimean War, an act which pales into insignificance in comparison with some of the things which Bernstorff did during the early stages of the Great War.
The moonlight, the reflected light, pales as the Star-Sun of your being rises, and the moonlight of Earth gives place to the Sun-spheres of Ra. O child of Adam! The beginning of sorrow is the dawn of spiritual life. The wise man rules the stars; the fools of Earth obey. Mars
John Burroughs said he thought we had, and one day when he was staying at our place he came across a bird that he had never seen before. About ten years ago we imported a great number of birds from abroad yellow-hammers, chaffinches, green finches, red pales, twites, bullfinches, jays, linnets, larks some five hundred of them. They stayed around a while, but where they are now I do not know.
She bowed her head and I went on. 'In those wars I met a man who was named Teule, but who had another name in former days, so he told me on his deathbed some two years ago. 'What name? she asked in a low voice. 'Thomas Wingfield. Now Lily moaned aloud, and in her turn caught at the pales to save herself from falling.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking