"Renewer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 4579) has this meaning, while Pa-gibil-(ga) or Pa-bl-ga is abu abi, "grandfather." [56] This meaning may be derived from Gibil, as also from Bl isatu, "fire," then essu, "new," then abu, "father," as the renewer or creator. Gish with Bl or Gibil would, therefore, be "the father-man" or "the father-hero," i.e., again the hero par excellence, the original hero, just as in Hebrew and Arabic ab is used in this way. [57] The syllable ga being a phonetic complement, the element mesh is ...
— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous
... worm-eaten. The windows are broken. The damp wall-papers are running to a sickly green. Of roof there is almost none. For the lover of beauty or the landscape painter these ruins have little charm. But to us these tottering walls are of matchless interest, for within these walls Count Zinzendorf, the Renewer of the Brethren's Church, spent the years ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... and a "dame"; the doctor was the son of "Bates's Blue-Ribbon Hair Renewer"—awful facts against which the additional fact that he was rich and she was not, counted nothing. Sally talked all the time; the doctor was the most silent of men. Sally was twenty-two, the doctor thirty-five. Sally loved to flirt; the doctor ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... went rolling, And his power was crescent still. But yet there remained to conquer One foe, and the greatest—although Despoiled of his ancient terrors, At heart, as of old, a foe— Unmaker of all, and renewer, Who winnows the world with his wing, The Lord of Death, the ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson |
