10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALEMBICATED»
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The D Programming Language
Click here to view code image string toString(E)(E value) if (is(E == enum)) {
foreach (s; __traits(allMembers, E)) { if (value == mixin("E." ~ s)) return s; } assert(
toString(w) == "alembicated"); } The not-yet-introduced element above is mixin("E
.".
Andrei Alexandrescu, 2010
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T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888–1922
In order these are: "Etiolated, alembicated, / Orotund, tasteless, fantastical, /
Monotonous, crotchety, constipated, / Impotent galamatias / Affected, possibly
imitated." Definitions: "etiolated": puny or blanched; "alembicated": over-refined; ...
THE DEBUT IN society of Graciela Alcantara y Lopez de Montefrio, one of fifteen
cocooned creatures alembicated in the bosom of distinction: the introit of the
Aridalusian herald who, year after year, with a fanfare of feathers, frilled shirt, and
...
Luis Rafael Sánchez, 1982
The next caper's the Bank of England, gents, and planned wiv such bleedin'
daedalian cunning; executed wiv such effin' alembicated precision as'll - 'Ello!
what's this I 'ear? bit of a susurrus from Charlie an' 'is mates? Watch it Charlie!
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Damnatio memoriae: erased from memory
(6) alembicated. An alembic is a gourd-shaped vessel used in distilling. It has a
long beak or neck which conveys the products to a receiver. The hot spirit drawn
out of the alembic of hell, Edmund Burke (1729-97), political philosopher.
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The Book of the Boudoir
Her temperament, and the structure of her intellect were too German, too
alembicated :Iwhile the school of Thomas and of Madame de N ecker, in which
she was brought up, was too pre'cieuse not to have stifled any pre— disposition
she ...
Lady Morgan (Sydney), 1829
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Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America
He was indeed a wonderful mixture of the universal and the alembicated. But he
played with the curious and the special, they never submerged him, and it was a
sign of his robustness that he could play to the end. His voice sounds loudest, ...
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A Companion to the Latin Language
Another genre that contributes to history's "alembicated style” (Mayer (2001) 29)
is comedy. Scraps of dialogue mark scenes as partaking of comic atmosphere,
even when that atmosphere is about to turn tragic (e.g. Liv. 1.57.8 age sane; 1.58.
7 ...
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Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural ...
In that projection, prototopia, or the primal scene, becomes a retrospective object
of desire ideologically alembicated into Utopia; atavism transmutes into sure-fire
prolepsis; revenant into prosopsos (a new appearance rather than an ...
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Indirections of the Novel: James, Conrad, and Forster
Alembicated by an over-refined, over-closeted culture, her passional self (and
she believes urgently in the concept of passion) can be brought to a focus, fatally,
only by a ruling Idea - and by the one young woman, Verena, who seems to offer
...
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He listed, diapason, begrime, alembicated, terraqueous, incarnadine. Russell had a wicked sense of humour and in listing these words, ... «The News on Sunday, Jun 15»
