10 ROMANIAN BOOKS RELATING TO «ADAMANTÍNĂ»
Discover the use of
adamantínă in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
adamantínă and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Romanian literature.
1
Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dreams
Adamantina's ignominious end as a prostitute is directly juxtaposed with her life as a nun. Adamantina the prostitute, surrounded by dirt and pollution, is starkly contrasted with Adamantina the nun, who is portrayed as an unsurpassed snob ...
2
Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale ...
The Magic Doll (night 5, story 2) Inthe countryof Bohemialived apoor womannamed Bagolana Savonese, whohad two daughters, Cassandraand Adamantina. Before she died, she gave her daughters everything she owned—a chest filledwith ...
Ruth B. Bottigheimer, 2013
3
The Pleasant Nights - Volumul 1 - Pagina 689
Adamantina took the thread, placed it under her arm, and went on her way to the marketplace to sell her wares according to her sister's bidding. but as chance would have it, things went entirely counter to her wishes and those of her sister, ...
Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Donald Beecher, 2012
4
First Italian Reader: A Dual-Language Book - Pagina 85
Being poor and having two daughters, one of whom was named Cassandra and the other Adamantina, she decided to settle the affairs of that miserable pittance she possessed and to die contentedly. Having nothing either in the house or out ...
5
Crocodyle tracks and traces: Bulletin 51 - Pagina 201
The first occurrence of coprolites in the Adamantina Formation was published at the end of the last century (Bertini et al., 1992) and described only two coprolites found in Ibira County associated with bones and teeth of crocodilians and a ...
Jesper Milàn, Spencer G. Lucas, Martin G. Lockley, 2010
6
The Pleasant Nights - - Volumul 1
was finished, she gave to Adamantina, her younger sister, to take out into the marketplace to sell in order to buy bread and so keep themselves alive. Adamantina took the thread, placed it underher arm,and went onher way tothemarketplace to ...
7
The Dream of the Red Chamber: An Allegory of Love - Pagina 82
Miaoyu — "Adamantina" — is, on the surface, a pious nun, who sits in a temple, reading Scriptures when other youths are enjoying spring and sports. However, one soon finds out that Miaoyu's seeming purity (as her name puns on yu 玉 or ...
Jeannie Jinsheng Yi, 2004
8
Elements of Chemistry: Comprehending All the Most ... - Pagina 242
ADAMANTINA. ?00KXr' XJeside the earth and alkalis which have been, in this Sect. IX. ' ^ ^^-.^ibook, already enumerated, and traced through their molt '• . eminent, neutral combinations ; the researches of modern New earths. chemistry, have ...
Robert Heron, comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (comte de Chanteloup), 1800
9
Fairy Tales: A New History - Pagina 131
Adamantina and her sister Cassandra inherited only a chest of linen fluff, but their fortune changed when an old woman gave Adamantina a doll that rewarded her love by defecating gold coins. The doll, stolen by a covetous neighbor, was ...
Ruth B. Bottigheimer, 2010
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Fictions of Enlightenment: Journey to the West, Tower of ... - Pagina 153
And with that peace comes a deep spirituality. And with that spirituality a clear insight, . . ." As he was speaking, Adamantina lifted her eyes a fraction and glanced at him. She looked down again at once, and a deep flush spread slowly across ...
