10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STILLICIDE»
Discover the use of
stillicide in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stillicide and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Crystal Land; Artifice in Nabokov's English Novels
Whatever in my field of vision dwelt — An indoor scene, hickory leaves, the svelte
Stilettos of a frozen stillicide — Was printed on my eyelids' nether side Where it
would tarry for an hour or two, And while this lasted all I had to do Was close my ...
2
Stillicide: A Falling of Water in Drops
Stillicide was made for Sara Jaffe's Barnard Pre-College Program writing about the arts class. Fiona includes fiction and poems inspired by various art sources, reprinted art pieces, a playlist, and several quotes.
Fiona Graham, Sara Jaffe, 2011
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Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics
Stillicide. What, for his part, Thomas Hardy hears and repeats is the voices of the
dead villagers now lying in Mellstock churchyard, in the wonderful elegy 'Friends
Beyond' (Wessex Poems (1898) ). These dead friends speak Wessex ...
Valentine Cunningham, 2011
4
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Emphyteusis is the legal renting of ground; Stillicide, a continual dropping of
water, as from the eaves of a house. These words, Emphyteusis and Stillicide,
are terms in Roman Law. Stevenson is of course making fun of the required
studies of ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, William Lyon Phelps, 2008
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The Frederician code: or, A body of law for the dominions of ...
If then a man have upon his neighbour's house both the servitude of stillicide,
and the servitude of not building higher, (altius non tollendi), and grant to his
neighbour a permission to heighten his house, the servitude of stillicide is not lost
, ...
Prussia (Kingdom), Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey, Alexandre-Auguste de Campagne, 1761
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A Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Short ...
It is because letting the eavesdrop fall upon a neighbouring proprietor's ground,
would be an infringement of this principle, that the liberty to do so requires the
constitution of the special servitude of stillicide. Ersk. B. ii. t. 9, § 9- See Altius non
...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
See cal. L stilla: trickle, drop. stillatim (in prescriptions): a drop at a time.
stillatitious; stilliform. Stevenson, in An Apology for Idlers, bowing to the
advantages of schooling, avers: "I still remember that emphyteusis is not a
disease, nor stillicide a ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
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The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, Deduced from Its ...
Is the owner of the servient tenement obliged w Stillicide. (296 to repair it P m
make it effectual. And for the negative, servitudes are odious, and not to be
extended beyond what is expressly granted or accustomed, to which we incline;
and ...
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Necessary Heresies: Alternatives to Fundamentalism
In Scots law there are two obscure kinds of ownership rights called stillicide and
emphyteusis. And Robert Louis Stevenson, who studied law much against his
will, used to say in later life that the only two things he ever learnt about the law ...
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Cult in Context: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology
The high calcium content of stillicide water makes it opaque and whitish in colour.
This might have prompted symbolic interpretations in terms of bodily fluids with
similar qualities: breast milkor semen, or both. There isno specific archaeological
...
Caroline Malone, David Barrowclough, 2010
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STILLICIDE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
stillicide is used in the context of the following news items.
Words like lumps of coal
Gifts of 'stillicide' or 'ectoplasm' for her National Book Award — or lumps of coal for failing NaNoWriMo. We'd like to share a few reflections on terrible words from ... «OUPblog, Dec 12»
In 'Magnificence', the Protagonist Continually Invites Death into Her …
Her life trickles by slowly, a stillicide populated by non-events and un-ventures, stagnant and dull. Millet portrays life as purged of vitality, flat cola, an effete ... «PopMatters, Dec 12»
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov, ed by Thomas Karshan: review
to breathing shade, light's stillicide… “Stillicide” is not only a recherché way to translate the original's “dripping light” but it is also a word that Nabokov used with ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 12»
The magician's doubts
In his commentary to lines 34-35, Kinbote discusses Shade's words "the svelte/Stilettos of a frozen stillicide", and advises noting "the cloak-and-dagger hint-glint ... «New Statesman, Jun 11»
