"Nome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Four several places, all in Egypt, bore the name of Busir, or Busiris, so famous in Greek fable. The first, where Mervan was slain was to the west of the Nile, in the province of Fium, or Arsinoe; the second in the Delta, in the Sebennytic nome; the third near the pyramids; the fourth, which was destroyed by Dioclesian, (see above, vol. ii. p. 130,) in the Thebais. I shall here transcribe a note of the learned and orthodox Michaelis: Videntur in pluribus Aegypti superioris urbibus Busiri Coptoque arma sumpsisse Christiani, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon
... that here were swarthy little Japanese with teas and silks, dusky Kanakas with copra, and Alaskan liners carrying gold and returning miners. There would be brigs from Buenos Ayres and schooners that had nosed into Robert Louis Stevenson's magic South Sea islands. Puffy London steamers, Nome and Skagway liners condemned long since on the Atlantic Coast, queer rigged hybrids from Rio and other South American ports, were gorging themselves with lumber or wheat or provisions according to their needs. Here truly lay before him ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine
... xigoto vo ateg[vo]te cos mair[vo]zure [... coso ...] (10v) 'I shall go and sweep out the courtyard (atrium), pull up the weeds, and then having dispensed with these things I shall go,' ima cono io fuqe iuqeba nome ia, utaie ia fito bito motu, ut[vo]tu sacamori suru (129) 'when it already is late at {153} night, urging themselves on to drink and sing, the men enjoy themselves ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... at Nome, and with the first rush of eager prospectors went in a missionary, who aided with his own hands in the building of the church. Though the saloon men were bidding for the only available lumber, the bishop got it first to build a clubhouse ...
— Home Missions In Action • Edith H. Allen
... G. A. Reisner in the temple of the Third Pyramid at Giza. It shows the Pharaoh Mycerinus supported on his right side by the goddess Hathor, represented as a woman with the moon and the cow's horns upon her head, and on the left side by a nome goddess, bearing upon her head the jackal-symbol of her nome. (b) The Ecuador Aphrodite. Bas-relief from Cerro-Jaboncillo (after Saville, "Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador," Preliminary Report, 1907, Plate ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... little ring expressed symbolically the expulsion of the pain." The so-called Celtic word-charms in the formulae of Marcellus are usually longer than the above; as, "Tetune resonco bregan gresso;" "Heilen prossaggeri nome sipolla na builet ododieni iden ...
— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson
... fu de' contadini il si indiscreto, Ch' a sbigottir la gente Diede nome dolente Al vin' che sovra gli altri il cuor fa lieto? Lagrima dunque appellerassi un ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan
... are learning way up here in Alaska, aren't you, son? To-morrow we'll be at Nome, and then your head will be so stuffed with mines and mining that you will forget all about ...
— Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin • Mary F. Nixon-Roulet |
