"ANG" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "K'ang Heng," said the child, as he put the blocks together in a new form, "had a still better way, as well as more economical. His house was built of clay, and as the window of his neighbor's house was immediately opposite, he chiseled ...
— The Chinese Boy and Girl • Isaac Taylor Headland
... imo. Quadrando enim rotundum (Ang. 'squaring the circle') Camum accendere, juvenes ingenui semper nitebantur. Fecisse vero ...
— Verses and Translations • C. S. C.
... tame fish, which "sat up, and followed him about like a dog," turns out to have had some foundation in fact. There is a fine pool of salt water at Derryquin (Ang. "Oakslope") Castle, which stands on the edge of Kenmare Bay; and this pool not long since held a number of tame fish, which came to be fed when anybody approached, just as carp do in many well-known places. Unluckily, however, ...
— Disturbed Ireland - Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. • Bernard H. Becker
... visited him at Government-house they would contrive to be somewhat more cleanly in their persons, and less coarse in their manners; and he seemed absolutely offended at some little indelicacies which he observed in his sister Car-rang-ar-ang, who came in such haste from Botany Bay, with a little nephew on her back, to visit him, that she left ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins
... provinces (changwat, singular and plural); Amnat Charoen, Ang Thong, Buriram, Chachoengsao, Chai Nat, Chaiyaphum, Chanthaburi, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chon Buri, Chumphon, Kalasin, Kamphaeng Phet, Kanchanaburi, Khon Kaen, Krabi, Krung Thep Mahanakhon (Bangkok), Lampang, Lamphun, Loei, Lop Buri, Mae Hong Son, Maha Sarakham, Mukdahan, Nakhon Nayok, ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... beginner who has just collided with freshly-painted fence). "Confound your filthy paint! Now, just look at my coat!" Painter. "'Ang yer bloomin' coat! 'Ow ...
— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton
... was smart and set up—'ands full of 'air-brushes and things, and swearin' at me. A regular gentleman! Now 'e's 'arfway to a wild man. What am I to do with 'im? What the 'ell am I to do with 'im? I can't leave 'im 'ave that flying-machine; that's a bit too good, and if I don't kill 'im, 'e'll jest 'ang about ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... referring to your age," replied the other; "it's strange to see 'ow the aged 'ang on to life. You can't 'ave much pleasure at your time o' life. And you're all alone; ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... 'What should be done in order to secure the submission of the people?' Confucius replied, 'Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, then the people will submit. Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit.' CHAP. XX. Chi K'ang asked how to cause the people to reverence their ruler, to be faithful to him, and to go on to nerve themselves to virtue. The Master said, 'Let him preside over them with gravity;— then they will reverence ...
— The Chinese Classics—Volume 1: Confucian Analects • James Legge
... to recover from the rebels the girl, who had been taken with them in their flight, and whom he then married. Li Tz{u}-ch'eng retreated westwards; and after two vain attempts to check his pursuers, his army began to melt away. Driven south, he held Wu-ch'ang for a time; but ultimately he fled down the Yang-tsze, and was slain by ...
— China and the Manchus • Herbert A. Giles
... of the house of K'ang, her name being Hwa-mei, though from the nature of her charm she is ofttime called the Golden Mouse. But touching this affair of your own immediate danger: we being both but common men of the idler ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... 'em, in time, I've no doubt, when I once got the 'ang of their style. There's a gal at the Montpellier Baths. Scissoree! 'ow I've tried for a smile, When she tips me my tannersworth! Shucks! she's as orty and stiff as yer please. Primrose Dames isn't in it for ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 15, 1892 • Various
... 'ead. On the south side of the 'ead we discover the mouth. The 'orse's mouth was constructed for mincing 'is victuals, also for 'is rider to 'ang on by. As the 'orse does the other forty-five per cent. of 'is dirty work with 'is mouth it is advisable to stand clear of that as well. In fact, what with his mouth at one end and 'is 'ind-legs at t'other, the middle of the 'orse is about the only safe spot, and that is why we place the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, August 1, 1917. • Various
... him first yesterday afternoon. I'd just been out to get meself a pennyworth o' soda, an' as I come in I passed 'im on the second floor, lookin' at me with an air of suspicion. I thought to meself at the time, I thought: You're a'andy sort of 'ang-dog man. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Mantua, about 1550. M. Fetis, in his "Biographie Universelle des Musiciens," states that he was famous for his Viols and Lutes. S. Ang. Maffei, in his "Annali di Mantova" (fol. 147), highly praises the instruments made ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart
... mean, Mrs. Courage, but people like us? If we don't 'ang by each other, who will 'ang by us, I should like to know? 'Ere's one of us plyced in a 'igh position, and instead o' bein' proud of it, and givin' 'er a lift to carry 'er along, you're all for mykin' it as 'ard for 'er as you can. Do ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... Kung ang isalubong sa iyong pagdating Ay masayang maukha't may pakitang giliw, Lalong pag-ingata't ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... king of the sovereign state, who was bound to punish the offender. It is plain that in such a system the elements of disorder must lie near the surface; and no sooner was the authority of the central state lessened by the want of ability shown by the successors of kings Woo, Ching, and K'ang, than constant strife broke out between the several chiefs. The hand of every man was against his neighbor, and the smaller states suffered the usual fate, under like circumstances, of being encroached upon and absorbed, notwithstanding ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various
... reign of the emperor Shen Tsung there lived an official named Wu, who was at that time, Governor of Ch'ang-sha. His wife, Lin, had given him a son named Ya-nei, or "In-the-Palace," who had that year reached the age of sixteen. He was well endowed, although not without tendency to wantonness; yet he had ...
— Eastern Shame Girl • Charles Georges Souli
... Court of common Counselmen, what on airth he was to do with 'em, and they told him to hinsult the Libery Committee on the matter, and they, like the lerned gents as they is, told him to take down sum of the werry biggest and the most strikingest as they'd got of their hone Picters and ang 'em up in the Gildhall Westybool, as they calls it, coz it's in the East, I spose, and so make room for a lot of the littel uns as had been sent to 'em, coz they was painted by "Old Marsters," tho' who "Old Marsters" was, I, for one, never could make out, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 30, 1892 • Various
... as another lad, a lad of charm and adventure. "C'm on, Ang," proposed Fate in nasal American; "Evans's chauffeur's havin' a rooster-fight in the garage. Hurry up—c'm on—lots of fun." And while Angus, stirred by the prospect, struggled with a Scotch conscience, ...
— August First • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray
... Confessor, Thorold, sheriff of Lincolnshire, gave his manor of Bokenhale to the abbey of Croyland, and afterwards bestowed upon it his manor of Spalding, with all its rents and profits. (Gale's Rer. Ang. Script. Vet. Tom. i. ...
— The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme • Thomas Cooper
... eddication!" broke in the boatswain. "Ye bloody murderer! Ye'll 'ang if you've gone to a dozen colleges! Wait till they 'ear about this business at 'ome, or in any port ye call at! They'll know the brig—and ye'll 'ang, every ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... drive yesterday. Mrs. Keziah, however, showed a disposition to qualify her report, saying:—"Th' o'ald la'ady was ma'akin' but a power show, at that. She'll be a great age, shower-ly! Only they do say, creaking dowers ha'ang longest." ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... my comrade, thou sleeping butterfly.) An Occidental reader may recognize, through the translation, the charm of the poetic image, and he may be interested in a technical lyric form hitherto new to him, but beyond this, in his ignorance of Japanese, he cannot go. Here is a lyric by Wang Ch'ang-Ling, a Chinese poet ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry
... more at that. Ar, strike me blue! It gimme Joes to sit an' watch them two! 'E'd break away an' start to say good-bye, An' then she'd sigh "Ow, Ro-me-o!" an' git a strangle-holt, An' 'ang around 'im like she ...
— The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke • C. J. Dennis
... "Ha—ang on! We'll stop him!" she cried, her arms now tightly encircling the runaway's neck, her feet dragging on the ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower
... que te veo Aerea como dorada mariposa, [170] Ensueo delicioso del deseo, Sobre tallo gentil temprana rosa, Del amor venturoso devaneo, Anglica, pursima y dichosa, Y oigo tu voz dulcsima, y respiro [175] Tu aliento perfumado en ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... reached a small village of leathern tents, inhabited by a people of the tribe of Fade-ang, in a valley on the frontier region of Aire. The chief was respected as a person of great authority, and, it was said, was able to protect them against the freebooting parties which their guests of the other day, who had gone on before, were sure to collect against ...
— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston
... Philip may, like hothers, consider it 'the thing' you know, to 'ang on as it were to Vi. But I 'ad thought 'im superior to it. Ah! poor 'uman natur, as 'Uxley says!" and Briggs sighed. "Lady Errington is a sweet creetur, Mamzelle—a very sweet creetur! Has a rule I find the merest nod of my 'ed a sufficient saloot ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... could not pronounce it satisfactorily, they insisted that I was deceiving them, and that it was a name of my own invention. One funny old man, who bore a ludicrous resemblance, to a friend of mine at home, was almost indignant. "Ung-lung! "said he, "who ever heard of such a name?—ang lang—anger-lung—that can't be the name of your country; you are playing with us." Then he tried to give a convincing illustration. "My country is Wanumbai—anybody can say Wanumbai. I'm an orang-Wanumbai; ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... before the infant comes into the world. The Chinese philosopher, Han Wan-Kung, is cited by Legge as saying: "When Shuh-yu was born, his mother knew, as soon as she looked at him, that he would fall a victim to his love of bribes. When Yang sze-go was born, the mother of Shuh-he-ang knew, as soon as she heard him cry, that he would cause the destruction of all his kindred. When Yueh-tseaou was born, Tzewan considered it was a great calamity, knowing that through him all the ghosts of the Johgaou family would be ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... stick on the ground in a kind of ecstasy,—"That's it! Things ain't goin' to be as they 'as been now the Squire's little gel is 'ome! That's it!" And he nodded emphatically. "Give a reskil rope enough an' he'll 'ang hisself by the neck till he be dead, and the Lord ha' mercy on ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... some'eres in America, sir; an' she got 'old of the capting of a tramp boat o' some kind—one o' them boats as smells intoxicating round the 'atches—an' she give 'im an' the mate a 'andful o' jewelry that she'd on 'er when she was took in an' 'ad someways contrived to 'ang on to, an' I'm blessed hif she wasn't able fer to steer fer the island, sir—we took 'er aboard the yacht only this mornin' with 'er 'air down her back, an' we've brought 'er on here. An' she says—men can be gr'it beasts, sir, an' no manner ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... fought on against the hopeless odds before them. As long as a man had life in his body, rifle and shot, he used them to advantage. The next Britisher might be forty yards away or more, but until he was ordered to retire he would ... "'ang on like 'ell ...
— Norman Ten Hundred - A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry • A. Stanley Blicq
... m'apprendre, Pourquoi me pressez-vous la main? Sur le rve anglique et tendre, Auquel vous songez en chemin, Si vous n'avez rien m'apprendre, Pourquoi me ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... are an example of impenitent wilful sinners; and Lot's wife of imperseverant and relapsing righteous persons."—Library of Ang.-Cath. Theology, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 • Various
... at hat[gh] e gostes of god at gyes alle soes; His sawle is ful of syence, sa[gh]es to schawe, To open vch a hide y{ng} of aunt{er}es vn-cowe; 1600 at is he at ful ofte hat[gh] heuened y fader Of mony ang{er} ful hote w{i}t{h} his holy speche. When nabugo-de-no[gh]ar wat[gh] nyed i{n} stou{n}des, He de-vysed his dremes to e dere trawe, 1604 He keu{er}ed hy{m} w{i}t{h} his cou{n}sayl of caytyf wyrdes; Alle at he spured hym i{n} space he expowned clene, ur[gh] ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... is taken from a roll painted by Chao Meng-fu in 1309 in the style of Wang Wei, a poet and artist of the T'ang dynasty (A.D. 699-759). A fine description of it is given by Mr Laurence Binyon: 'In the British Museum collection is a long roll, over seventeen feet long, painted almost entirely in blues and greens on the usual warm brown silk.... It is one continuous ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... the gentleman addressed, an upholsterer. "I should say 'ang 'er. It won't do, in my opinion, to let wives think they can play old Harry with their 'usbands. What the gentleman said as acted in the prosecution was true as gospel. It won't do for us to be soft heads and let our wives think they can massacre us with impunity. Women ain't reasonin' ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... surface of the water and went toward the west, whither the Anishinb[-e]g followed him, and located at Ottawa Island (No. 4). Here they erected the Mid[-e]wign and lived for many years. Then the Otter again disappeared beneath the water, and in a short time reappeared at Awiatang (No. 5), when the Mid[-e]wign was again erected and the sacred rites conducted in accordance with the teachings of Minab[-o]zho. Thus was an interrupted migration continued, the several resting places being given below in their proper ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... Han and Wu dynasties (25-280 A. D.), we are told, were too diffuse, and those of the later periods, the T'ang and Sung dynasties, too literal. The best is said to be that by Ko-so-gai, a priest of Tibetan descent, which was made during the early Wei dynasty, about 252 A. D. This may be the same which was read in Japan in ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller
... his advice served me at every turn. Engaging the coolies was of course the matter of chief importance. On them would depend the success of the first stage of my journey, the two and a half or three weeks' trip to Ning-yuean-fu in the Chien-ch'ang valley. A representative of the coolie "hong," or guild, a dignified, substantial-looking man, was brought to the inn by Mr. Stevenson. After looking over my kit carefully (even the dog was "hefted" on the chance he ...
— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall
... 'Ang Science! Ile lamps and old Charlies—bless 'em!— Wos good for trade, our trade. Ah! if my dad Could see 'ow Larnin', Law, and Light oppress 'em, Our good old cracksmen-gangs, he'd go stark mad. As for the Hartful Dodger and old Fagin, Ah! they're well hout of it. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various
... contrary, In things of one species there is no such thing as "first" and "second" [prius et posterius], as the Philosopher says (Metaph. iii, text 2). But in the angels even of the one order there are first, middle, and last, as Dionysius says (Hier. Ang. x). Therefore the angels are not of ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... naman ang yyong Anac si Jesus Bendito tambien el tu Hijo Jesus blessed also he thy ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... Dick. "Only one thing's sure in our present interestin sitiwation; and that is if we don't ang ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... creation of the world there lived a tall giant by the name of Ang-ngalo, the only son of the god of building. Ang-ngalo was a wanderer, and a lover of work. He lived in the mountains, where he dug many caves. These caves he protected from the continual anger of Angin, the goddess of the wind, ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... Supposing the Ang.-Sax. "laerig" to be derived from the same root, it would denote in "ofer linde laerig," the leather covering of the shields, or their capability to resist ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 24. Saturday, April 13. 1850 • Various
... of Speght's interpretation is "Dare, v. Sax. to stare." The reader should always be cautious how he takes upon trust a glossarist's sly fetch to win a cheap repute for learning, and over-ride inquiry by the mysterious letters Sax. or Ang.-Sax. tacked on to his exposition of an obscure word. There is no such Saxon vocable as dare, to stare. Again, what more frequent blunder than to confound a secondary and derivative sense of a word with its radical and primary—indeed, sometimes to allow the former to usurp ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various
... ang labis ay nagdurugtong, What is short cuts off a piece from itself, what is long adds another on (the poor gets poorer, ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig
... Nagpuputol ang kapus, ang labis ay nagdurugtong, What is short cuts off a piece from itself, what is long adds another on (the poor ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig
... world, paved the way for much beautiful art and literature and living. "But in the end, all your stern orderliness, Benham," said Prothero, "only leads to me. The human spirit rebels against this everlasting armour on the soul. After Han came T'ang. Have you never read Ling Po? There's scraps of him in English in that little book you have—what is it?—the LUTE OF JADE? He was the inevitable Epicurean; the Omar Khayyam after the Prophet. Life must relax ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... adult population ever incarcerated in a State or Federal prison, by gender, race, Hispanic origin, ang age, 2001 ...
— Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001 • Thomas P. Bonczar
... in glory, To Clusium's royal 'ome: An' round these bloomin' temples 'ang The bloomin' shields ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... goods in London town When I was there. If they jist twigged yer 'at The Dooks would ask yeh could yeh keep one down, An' Earls would 'ang out 'Welcome' on the mat, An' sling yeh invites to their stately ...
— Digger Smith • C. J. Dennis
... prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children—this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world. "I 'aven't the 'ang of 'em," he said. "They ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... Jamie!" he said as we shook hands, "always 'ave a box o' Keatings 'andy, an' 'ang on ...
— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall
... rich French tradesman, who marries Ang'elique, the daughter of Mons. le Baron de Sotenville, and has the "privilege" of paying-off the family debts, maintaining his wife's noble parents, and being snubbed on all occasions to his heart's content. He constantly said to himself; in self-rebuke, Vous Vavez voulu, vous Vavez voulu, George ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... Vinci, Tintorett, Giulio Romano, &c. The fourth portfolio has only one name to the 23 lots, viz. Tintorett; and Filippo Bellin is the only master named in the fifth portfolio. In the sixth, we meet with Tintorett, Perugino, Mich. Ang. Bonaroti, Annibal Caracci, Paulo Brill, and Raphael. Of the 42 drawings in Portfolio 7. all have names annexed to them, excepting eight; and here we read those of Guido Reni, Gio Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Corregio, Andrea del Sarto, Tadeo ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 • Various
... the great thing—effect, sir, effect! Of course, being only studies, they don't look finished—which is the most hartisticest part about 'em! But, lord! Young Har never finishes anything—too tired! 'Ang me, sir, if I don't think 'e were born tired! But then, 'oo ever knew a ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... Monast. Ang. i. 278. A similar regulation is found among the laws of the gild in London. "And ye have ordained respecting every man who has given his 'wed' in our gildships, if he should die, that each gild brother shall give a 'genuine ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier
... said Watson. "I have no objection to Christmas morning, but 'ang me if I can see any sense in Christmas Eve. What's it good ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... in ten would be able to tell the reason why. A jealous woman is said to drink vinegar, and the origin of the term is as follows:—Fang Hsuan-ling was the favourite Minister of the Emperor T'ai Tsung, of the T'ang dynasty. He lived A.D. 578-648. One day his master gave him a maid of honour from the palace as second wife, but the first or real wife made the place too hot for the poor girl to live in. Fang complained to the Emperor, who gave him a bowl of poison, telling him to offer his troublesome wife the ...
— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles
... that. Ever since you came into that old committee room I saw there was something particular about you, something that you an' me 'ad in common. I'm not speakin' so much of us bein' in the same line of business. Some'ow—oh, 'ang it all, let's get out of this and take a taxi. I'm not a ...
— Living Alone • Stella Benson |
