Since Lenz does not usually give the lemma for the variants reported, it is difficult to tell which manuscripts offer the reading in the text.
For the many variants and emendations proposed, see the apparatus.
The variant quoque for quaque and the different variants for uide would have been secondary corruptions, unless they also were the result of a damaged archetype.
There are similar variants involving the object of latere at Fast V 361: the accusative given by most manuscripts is generally read in preference to the dative.
However, P has no uniquevariants with any probability of correctness.
Of all the designs the derivatives from or variants of the dog are the most numerous and the most frequently applied.
Of these variants upon the model common to them all, we can only trace one with relative certainty.
This we discover from the innumerable variants of the same madrigal or sonnet which he made, and his habit of returning to them at intervals long after their composition.
Mustela frenata affinis, as here defined, constitutes one of the several slight geographic variants met with, on the sides of, and between, the three north and south mountain chains of Colombia.
Both of the variants mentioned above are sharply distinct from nigriauris on the basis of coloration of the inside of the ear which is blackish in nigriauris like the dark facial markings, and in munda is colored like the back.
Consequently, no logical ranges can be worked out for the two variants with the material now available.
There are two variantsof this cut, the smaller introducing a little landscape background.
The space at my disposal does not admit of the reproduction in extenso of the numerous versions orvariants of Aladdin: a brief outline of their features will however serve my purpose.
Nevertheless, the stories are not as interminable as might be expected; we find also long and short variants of the same theme.
The clearest variants have been chosen, and vague or doubtful passages omitted, so as to render the narratives easily understandable for the ordinary reader.
But, speaking generally, these fluctuating or environmental variants are merely forms of the species, and, other things being equal, they will not actually originate new species.
This very nearly expresses the proportion of fluctuating variants to the mass of typical individuals in many species of plants.
Environmental variations are as frequent as the ever-changing conditions of plant growth may determine, and it is common knowledge that such diversity of the environment and the variants resulting from it are extremely frequent.
If they had been environmental variants they would in all probability have reverted to their weedy ancestor.
It was noted in the paragraph before the last that fluctuating variants were sometimes so far off the usual that they might almost be considered distinct forms or varieties.
Variants from these two sources are given by Professor Woodberry, "Complete Poetical Works of P.
The variants of the Stacey manuscript, 1820, are given in the footnotes.
The Grimm story of "Rumpelstiltskin" is the best known of many variants (No.
In one of the most thorough studies of a single folk tale, Miss Roalfe Cox's Cinderella, with an introduction by Andrew Lang, some three hundred and fifty variants of the story have been analyzed.
Some details of these variants are due to local environments.
The temperament which the evolution acts to establish as normal differs from any one of the archaic variants of human nature in its greater stability of aim--greater singleness of purpose and greater persistence in effort.
The ethnic types of today, then, are variants of the primitive racial types.
It is further to be noticed that the non-conforming sects and variants whose priesthood is here under discussion, vary among themselves in the degree of their conformity to the ideal scheme of sacerdotal life.
It seems to be to some appreciable extent a selection between the predatory and the peaceable variants of the several types.
Figures of speech of this import are used with good effect even in addressing the less warlike modern audiences, made up of adherents of the blander variants of the creed.
The select leisure class has outgrown the use of these pseudo-serviceable variants of pecuniary beauty, at least at some points.
The word "type" is used loosely, to denote variations of temperament which the ethnologists would perhaps recognize only as trivial variants of the type rather than as distinct ethnic types.
It tends rather to a modification of human nature differing in some respects from any of the types or variants transmitted out of the past.
These figures include variants of the same tale or ballad theme, of which there were in some cases as many as 160.
Jock o' the Side and Archie o' Ca'field read almost like variants of Kinmont Willie.
It remains to consider the general relations of the variantsdiscussed in this chapter.
Reference to these classes [194] will show that the variants with The Thankful Beasts are in many respects different from any one of them as far as the features peculiar to The Water of Life, or kindred themes, are concerned.
In Oliver and Lope de Vega it has perhaps supplanted the ransom of a maiden, which is the trait to be expected, if they are rightly placed among the variants of the type The Grateful Dead + The Ransomed Woman.
The two variants are chiefly peculiar in that they introduce a new element into the compound,--The Thankful Beast.
These three variants make evident the nature of the foreign material in Esthonian II.
Lambeth 306, variantsgiven by Furnivall; a critical text with variants of the four was made by A.
Five of its members are the only variants treated in this chapter where the question of dividing the hero's prize is brought up.
Notwithstanding the fact that most variants are European, this hypothesis seems to me very improbable.
With this in mind we can safely proceed to a consideration of the variants of The Grateful Dead which have similar features.
Armenian and Siberian give adequate evidence as to the truth of the latter statement, though more Asiatic variants of this type are to be desired.
The two Icelandic variants seem to be perfectly distinct, though they are nearly related.
Recognition by some such means, it will appear, is an important feature of the majority of the variants in this section.
As for the variants of the compound type with The Ransomed Woman there is considerable diversity, yet all of them have merely substitution, not combination.
Of course, the several European versions and variants have been copied out of one book into another, and independent invention is out of the question.
It is very probable that these werevariants of the same name or were parts of the same village.
This story was heard first from John Ax, and afterward with additions and variants from Swimmer and others.
Scores recorded in collections from the North and West are nothing more than variants from the celebrated Hausmaerchen, as told by French trappers and voyageurs to their Indian campmates and halfbreed children.
As here given it was obtained from Swimmer (east) with additions and variants from Wafford (west) and others.
In some variants of this story, instead of the three holy elders appear the Saviour, St. Nicholas, and St. Mitrofan.
But in one of the variants of the story it is a "pope" or priest, who appears, and he immediately claims a share in the spoil.
There are numerous variants of this story among the Skazkas.
In some of the variants of the story, the influence of ideas connected with Christianity makes itself apparent in the names given to the actors.
In one of the variants of the story the representative of Marya Morevna fights the hero before she marries him.
In one of the numerousvariants of this story[162] the heroine is sent by her husband's mother to the Baba Yaga's, and the advice which saves her comes from her husband.
In another of the variants of this story[213] Ivanushka is the son of a Baruinya or Lady, and he is carried off in a whirlwind by a Baba Yaga.
This story is merely one of the numerous Slavonic variants of a tale familiar to many lands.
I have chosen for that purpose one of the variants of a tale from which, in all probability, our own story of "Whittington and his Cat" has been derived.
The final paragraph of one of the variants of this time-honored jest is quaint, concluding as it does, by way of sting, with a highly popular Russian saw.
The story in which Frost so singularly figures is one which is known in many lands, and of which many variants are current in Russia.
These variants do not necessarily indicate a difference in the signification, as can readily be ascertained by comparing characters in the numerous parallel groups.
Variants and Analogues of Some of the Tales in Volumes XI.
Appendix Variants and Analogues of Some of the Tales in Volumes XI and XII By W.
I think we must consider as the direct or indirect source of the versions and variants the "Miles Gloriosus" of Plautus, the plot of which, it is stated in the prologue to the second act, was taken from a Greek play.
The Concubine of Al-Maamun Appendix: Variants and Analogues of Some of the Tales in Vols.
Critical editions" founded on several copies of a lost original ought to supply the public with the means of verifying the "stemma codicum" which the editor has drawn up, and should give the rejected variants in the notes.
The variants of this tale among the Russians and other Slavs, as well as in Germany, are many, and would fill a volume of good size if collected and published.
In some Russian variants Ivan Tsarevich retains Yelena the Beautiful, not through the art and friendship of the Wolf, but by his own craft and daring.
This tale has many variantsin Russian, and resembles the Brünhilde and Gunter story in the "Niebelungen Lied.
She, too, knew many fairy tales, but they were chiefly such as may be found among the Racconti delle Fate, and the variants which are now so liberally published.
But we are dealing with variants of a proper name, and that of distinctly insular, and Welsh origin.
How plastic and living the materials must have been even in the ninth and eighth century, we see from the manifold variants and repetitions of the same stories, which, however, scarcely change the essential character of the themes.
Philistines) and even from the variants of the LXX.
We may therefore take it as certain that one of the four variants represents at least five MSS.
I incline to think that before the question is finally solved we shall require to study very closely the variants which regard Gawain as Grail hero, and compare them with the Perceval versions.
All the variants bear the trace of this second redaction; the Welsh tale alone indicates clearly what was the primitive form.
It is difficult to know what to make of such confusion, but of the four variants I prefer the last as possessing a certain raison d'etre.
In the lai variants 'opportunity makes the traitor'; in these two versions the traitor is on the watch for his opportunity.
A close examination of the variants of the Lancelot 'Enfances' will, I think, strengthen the hypothesis advanced in a previous chapter, i.
Hartland, or in the same author's Legend of Perseus, the tabulatedvariants of the Dragon story in vol.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "variants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
