"Dal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Signori potuto scegliere molte persone piu degne dell' ufficcio di Segretario per la corrispondenza straniera; ma non sarebbe, son certo, stato possibile di trovar alcuno dal quale questa distinzione sarebbe stata piu stimata. Sento con un animo molto riconoscente la parzialita che l'Academia a ben voluto mostrar per me; e mi conto felicissimo che la mia elezione sia stata graziosamente confirmata ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... dal). A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot. Saturn (sat' urn). The father of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. Scandinavian (skan di na' vi an). Of or pertaining to Scandinavia; that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Sibyl (sib' il). A woman supposed to be endowed ...
— Classic Myths • Retold by Mary Catherine Judd
... young man from the first suggested: old Dalcastle would listen to nothing concerning them with any patience. George complained that his brother harassed him with his presence at all times, and in all places. Old Dal asked why he did not kick the dog out of his presence whenever he felt him disagreeable? George said he seemed to have some demon for a familiar. Dal answered that he did not wonder a bit at that, ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg
... me a list of prices current (Prezzo Corrente Legale de generi venduti nella piazza di Roma dal di 28 Febbraro al di 5 Marzo 1852), from which it appears, that sculpture, paintings, tallow, bones, skins, rags, and pozzolano, comprise all the exports from the Papal States. What a beggarly list, compared with the natural riches of the country! In fact, vessels ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie
... il cor mi sento, Dall' affetto, e dal' furor; Un riuale che pauento F che peni questo Cor. ...
— Amadigi di Gaula - Amadis of Gaul • Nicola Francesco Haym
... Parties Hurriyat Conference in the Kashmir Valley (separatist group); Bajrang Dal (religious organization); National Socialist Council of Nagaland in the northeast (separatist group); Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (religious organization); Vishwa Hindu Parishad (religious organization ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... not; but they're deadly quick to spot skrim—little things of that kind. See here, old man, send the Wife Home for the hot weather and come to Kashmir with me. We'll start a boat on the Dal or cross the Rhotang—shoot ibex or loaf—which you please. Only come! You're a bit off your oats and you're talking nonsense. Look at the Colonel—swag-bellied rascal that he is. He has a wife and no ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling
... side of the dal-elv which the road now led us over for the third or fourth time. The picturesque bell-tower of red painted beams, erected at a distance from the church, rose above the tall trees on the clayey declivity: old willows hung gracefully ...
— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen
... Eppiu dal convento e frati dogni santi o avere per chagione duna meza fighura di bronzo di Sco. rossore della quale non sa fatto merchato niuno. Chredo restare avere piu ...
— Donatello • David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
... sufficient frequency to account for its adoption in Bengali. Dr. Friedrich Mller, in his useful abstracts of some of the grammars discovered by the Novara in her journey round the earth (1857-59), has likewise referred dal to the Sanskrit dala, but he renders what I had in English rendered by band, by the German word Band. This can only be an accident. Imeant band in the sense of a band of robbers, which in ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller |
