The word "giggle," which is the literal translation of the Greek word, and singularly like it in the main sound, would have been thought very bold by a conventional poet.
Brinton thinks that the free use of animate symbols to express abstract ideas, which he finds so frequent, is the source of a confusion which has led to their claiming literal descent from wild beasts.
The angels are depicted as weighing souls in a literal balance, while devils clinging to the scales endeavour to disturb the equilibrium.
The literal images of all things which I saw were impressed on my shapeless mind, to be reproduced afterward by faculties then latent.
It will be the literal you will hunger for, dear Ben.
The use of the term burial throughout this paper is to be understood in its literal significance, the word being derived from the Anglo-Saxon "birgan," to conceal or hide away.
At an early period the soil he tilled was of too bold and rugged a character to cultivate aught save the sterling literal seeds of truth, the sweetness of whose blossoms is fragrance to the soul.
Van Cortbemde: The Good Samaritan, pouring in oil and wine in a most literal sense.
He turned astonished eyes upon her, eyes in which she remembered afterward there was absolutely nothing but a literal and pained apprehension of what she said.
She turned away from them more actively than from the rest, but it was because they bristled, naturally enough, with dilemmas and distresses which she made a literaleffort to forget.
The literal meaning and belief in detailed accuracy were given up and Mr. Gladstone sought to establish only a general correspondence between the Biblical narrative and the results of science.
In the early part of the century, the discoveries of geologists had been the occasion of great distress to those good people who clung to a literal interpretation of everything in the Bible.
She dared not tell a literal lie to that piercing, prominent pair of black eyes.
The children's books in those days were Hogarth's pictures taken in their most literal acceptation.
In literal truth and elaborate finish, we think his volume will show him to be a capital, a nearly faultless, translator.
It is a literal fact that the Oriental mind can accept and believe two opposite things at the same time.
Elsewhere many men have been counted the sons of God in the most literal sense of the word, being supposed to have been begotten by his holy spirit in the wombs of mortal women.
It would be truer to say that the possessor of the supreme literary gift will make his matter interest us, however light or serious, however literal or imaginative, it may be.
The one has but literal facts to tell, the other is full of imagination and similitude.
I don't pretend to be giving you good news; but I 'm telling the simple, literal truth, so that you may know why I have gone to the dogs.
It was reserved for Christianity to develop these when theliteral doctrine had lost its interest, and the heavenly kingdom had been transported from the earth to the skies.
The only wonder is that such a person as the literal record justifies, should be accepted as the founder of a religion.
This language may be used and understood in a true sense; but in its literal sense, and as it is very generally understood, it has no meaning.
That this is distinctly affirmed in the book of Genesis, which the Catholic Church receives as a portion of the inspired Scripture, according to the obvious and literalsense of the words, is not questioned by any one.
It is only necessary, therefore, to show that this obvious and literal sense is proposed by the authority of the Catholic Church as the true sense.
It seems impossible to think that the words here must be taken in theirliteral sense.
My master Grimald[58] studied the literal arts under him, first in Gaul and then in Italy.
If only they would say plainly that a man could remain a convinced Christian, and yet not be bound to hold to the literal accuracy of the account of miraculous incidents recorded in the Bible, it would be a great relief.
It is impossible to believe that if the majority at these Councils had supposed that such an account as the account in Genesis of the Creation was mythological, they would thus have attested its literal truth.
The vain woman interprets the statement that she is clay, in a literal sense, and tries to violently model her clay into the Venus of her dreams.
The Poems of, in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin by the late Robert Macfarlan; together with A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems by Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
In accordance with these views, we have adopted, as the standard text, the quarto of 1728; of which the present edition is nearly a literal reprint.
Moreover, the attempt to be so wondrous literal is safe to break down at the end of a few verses.
The phrase "Ka ai a ke kumu i ao oleia ia oukou" has been translated with a double-punning meaning, literal and figurative, according to the interpretation of the words.
The boys in a certain district school on Hawaii call the weekly head inspection "playing the ukulele" in allusion to the literal interpretation of the name for the native banjo.
Foreigners and Hawaiians have expended much ingenuity in rendering the mélé or chant with exactness,[5] but the much simpler if less important matter of putting into literal English a Hawaiian kaao has never been attempted.
Though the phrase does not seem to be a literal quotation from any author known to have been familiar to Beethoven, it is obviously a paraphrase of something which he had read.
The above are literal and simple facts, which took place in performing the sacrifice; but the following is the explanation of the mystic signification contained in the ceremony.
This literal rendering of natural objects with deceptive accuracy, always condemned by the best artists, is especially inappropriate when brought in close contact with the highly conventionalized forms of architectural composition.
The French designer, while influenced by Chinese compositions, was too artistic to be satisfied with literal reproductions of his Oriental models.
Ceiling-decoration should never be a literal reproduction of wall-decoration.
