I have not recorded every variant of the punctuation of later editions, but all that affect the sense while at the same time not manifestly absurd.
I have not attempted to give anything like a full account of the variant readings of these, but have recorded so much as is sufficient for four different purposes.
It will be recognized as a variant of the stories about the youth who visits the "Water King" and elopes with one of that monarch's daughters.
In a Servian variant of the story, it is distinctly stated that the protecting cow had been the girl's mother--manifestly in a previous state of existence, a purely Buddhistic idea.
The Baba Yaga who figures in it is, as is so often the case, replaced by a Snake in the variant to which allusion has already been made.
In a variant of the same story in another collection,[97] the part of Norka is played by a white wolf.
In a variant from the Kursk Government (Afanasief IV.
In a variant of this story found in the Tula Government we have, in the place of woe, Nuzhda, or Need.
In this variant the boy rows a silver boat with a golden oar; in another South Russian variant[212] the boat is golden, the oar of silver.
In a variant from the Smolensk Government, it is the wife who climbs up the pea-stalk, while the husband remains down below.
Another variant of this story, under the title of "Norka," will be quoted in full in the next chapter.
A variant of this story (from the Chernigof Government)[211] begins by telling how two old people were childless for a long time.
A variant form, which approaches closely to that of Jonah’s great fish, is still found in Palestine.
A list of its variant readings and of its mistranslations is appended.
All these variant products of a brief acquaintance, though he dwelt on them as luxuries, failed to give him satisfaction, they formed a fretful and at times a tormenting accompaniment to his unapportioned days.
And perhaps one can hardly wonder, under the circumstances, that even then he did not feel secure, and was anxious to see so incalculable a "sport" or variant of the royal breed removed to a safe distance.
Ships on a captive register will fly the same flag as the parent country, or a local variant of it, but will be subject to the maritime laws and taxation rules of the offshore territory.
Grimm's The White Snake, for instance, is a variant of Zlatovlaska.
In all these tales the same incidents are presented but with a difference in spirit and in background that instantly marks one variant Teutonic and its fellow Slavic.
In the vernacular 'ajab mundra: a variantof the inexhaustible box.
In the Pushto version of probably the original story the name is Gulandama = Rosa, a variant probably of the Flower Princess.
Bartlomiej is the Polish form of Bartholomew; Maciej and Maciek (a diminutive) are variantforms of Matyasz (Matthias).
It seemed needless to record other variant readings, even in these notes; they are of little interest except to special students of the work of Mickiewicz.
Finally, the preoccupation with the decay and disruption of society produces a variant of Shock and Awe in the form of frustration collapsing the will to resist.
Shutting down an adversary's ability to "see" or to communicate is another variant but without many historical examples to show useful wartime applications.
Defn: Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.
Perhaps, however, originally a variant of whiz, and formerly the name of a popular game.
Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.
Defn: Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present.
Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers.
It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet.
Syne followys Astur, the semlyast of ane, Astur, maist sovyr horsman forto seik, Of variant cullour was hys armour eik; Thre hundreth walyt men with hym he led.
This variant of the Wandering Jew myth may now be regarded as unconscious homage to the author whose metaphorical bones may be recognized in buttons now fashionable, and some even found useful in holding clerical vestments together.
The portrait is a variant of that now in Independence Hall, and one of two painted by C.
The flounder was noted as a variant of the fish theme which seemed to be a descendant of a symmetrical ancestor because its structural plan was like that of other bony fishes.
An occasional variant has a cylindrical flat-topped body, with elaborate handles in the form of scrolls; the so-called pelike is a more common type, but somewhat inelegant.
The d is frequently used, and must be regarded merely as a variant of the t sound.
The g is sometimes, though rarely, employed as a variant of the k.
If the second hand is solely responsible for the attempt at improvement here, and is not reproducing a variant in the parent manuscript of Π, then BF must descend directly from Π.
The scribbling habit is a variant of that peculiar propensity which finds form in drawing a portrait on the blackboard before the teacher gets around in the morning.
They are a variant of the impulse that makes Quakers and all those peculiar people known as Primitive Christians, who mark the swinging of the pendulum from pride and pretense to simplicity and a life of modest usefulness.
A curious variantof this crown, with a jewelled instead of an inscribed band, heads a drawing of the city arms of the date 1651 in the Dormant Book of the corporation of Carlisle.
Armorial Bearings of Ladies; Use of Lozenges and Roundels as variantforms of Shields; Arms of Men on Lozenges; Combinations of Shields with Lozenges and Roundels of Arms on Seals and in Embroideries.
Certain tints of it which are known both as Pompeiian and Damascus red have sufficient yellow in their composition to fall in with the yellows of oiled wood, and give the charm of a variant but related colour.
Its ceremonies differ with the degrees of latitude and longitude, and it receives variant interpretations.
Legend of Hiram Abif but a variant of an universal one, 435-m.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "variant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
