10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARPYLIKE»
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1
Italian Maiolica: Catalogue of the Collections
116 THE WELL OF THIS TONDINO IS DECORATBD WITH A cupid on a
hobbyhorse before a lagoon landscape, with two bust portraits in medallions
reserved on a ground of harpylike figures, monsters, cornucopias, and strings of
beads ...
2
The Free Church of Scotland monthly record
... and fees were exacted for the visitation of sacred places ; crowds of harpylike
priests were taken into public pay, and offerings were presented in the name of
the supreme British power to idol deities ; military salutes were ordered to be fired
...
Scotland free church, 1863
3
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: ...
But whoso shall judge rightly, will impute this to the designs of her servants, who,
harpylike, conveyed everything they could gripe into their purses or wasted it in
riotous living. Her ears being infected with the base insinuations of these people,
...
William (of Malmesbury), John Allen Giles, 1866
4
Baptist Magazine and Literary Review
... old idols were replaced by new ones, and often clau out of th* East India
Company's store-houses ; taxes were levied on pilgrims, aud fees vrt exacted for
the visitation of sacred places ; crowds of harpylike priests were takra into public
pay, ...
5
The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, ...
Only thus much I would require, honesty in every physician, that he be not over-
careless or covetous, harpylike to make a prey of his patient; Camificis namque
est (as p Wecker notes) inter ipsos cruciatus ingens precium exposcere, as a ...
6
Norica: or, Tales of Nürnberg from the olden time. After a ...
The maiden had reference to the harpylike creature in the Niirnberg arms. Then
my host gave me the following narration : " I found myself, once upon a time, in a
party of friends, all artists, which had been arranged in honour of me after my ...
7
Hand-book for travellers in France [by J. Murray. 1st] ...
Another doorway on the N. has harpylike figures on the capitals of its pillars. The
choir and short transepts have apsidal terminations. The nave is singularly roofed
in compartments, forming two cupolas which rise externally in the form of ...
... old idols were replaced by new ones, and often clad out of the East India
Company's store-houses ; taxes were levied on pilgrims, and fees «K exacted for
the visitation of sacred places ; crowds of harpylike priests were taken into public
pay, ...
9
Lesley's guardians, by Cecil Home
Was it that she was like that hateful English girl whom he had seen in white bridal
dress, harpylike tearing his brother's heart? But the rosy blonde, who knew that
Paul had seen her before, had known that he was near and would presently ...
Julia Augusta Webster, 1864
10
The American Whig Review
... white, grey, and spotted, that would not let me die in peace, but with their
treacherous stingings, their harpylike filchings, and waspish teasings, weapons,
forged in the smithery of I know not what insatiability, roused me from the soft
thinkings ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARPYLIKE»
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Freak Scene: The Public Life of Japan's Private Eccentrics
From their garb and their habitat, it has been inferred that legends of the winged, sorcerous, harpylike mountain-dwelling karasutengu stemmed ... «Nippon.com, Nov 14»
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud at the Kitchen
When Mr. Chaignaud, with his eyeliner-streaked face framed by a wild mane of curls, made harpylike expressions as he borrowed from the Los ... «New York Times, May 14»
Seitz on FX's Fargo: Misanthropic, Ruthless, and Very Smart
The unrelenting abuse heaped on Lester by his wife is cartoonish; her harpylike shrieking, coupled with pay cable's 278th annual visit to a strip ... «Vulture, Apr 14»
'Silent Hill' is one long nightmare
And she encounters malevolent entities (a pyramid-headed executioner, harpylike nurses, a creature cobbled from mannequin limbs) that ... «Albany Times Union, Oct 12»
