"Soph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doubt it is rather dreadful to feel insignificant; but I think it's better than to feel as big and awkward as I did—as if I were sprawled all over Redmond. That's how I felt—I suppose because I was a good two inches taller than any one else in the crowd. I wasn't afraid a Soph might walk over me; I was afraid they'd take me for an elephant, or an overgrown sample ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... 751. Tydeus bites the severed head of Melanippus to the brain, thereby losing the gift of immortality that Pallas was hastening to bring him. The incident is revolting, but Statius has merely followed the old legend recorded by Aesch. Sept. 587; Soph. Fr. ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
... make-up, and you should know that blondes are hard to recognize in brunette wigs. You ought to know that a real girl wouldn't have behaved quite that way. You see you still have a number of things to learn, even though you are a soph. Hoping that you will learn to forgive yourself, ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... pre-existence and repeated embodiment of the soul is taught in the Zohar and even more systematically by Luria, in whose school were composed works called Gilgulim, or lists of transmigrations. The ultimate Godhead is called En soph or the infinite and is declared to be unknowable, not to be described by positive epithets, and therefore in a sense non-existent, since nothing which is predicated of existing beings can be truly predicated of it. These are crumbs from the table ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... Pendens. Soph, Antig. 259, [Greek: logoi d' en alleloisin errothoun kakoi, phylax elenchon phylaka], where see Wunder, and Elmsley on Eur. Heracl. 40. But it is probably only the [Greek: schema kath' holon kai meros], on which see Jelf, Gk. Gr. ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus |
