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Love
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love feast
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Love wave
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Guinevere
Guinevere In Arthurian legend, King Arthur's queen who was loved by Lancelot of the Lake. In Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur she betrayed the king, and was sentenced to die. She was rescued by Lancelot and later restored to Arthur.... Read more |
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Nat Love
Nat Love 1854–1921 Cowboy At a Glance Read more |
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The Lady of Shalott
Shalott, The Lady of In the Arthurian legends*, the Lady of Shalott was a young woman named Elaine of Astolat who died of unfulfilled love for Sir Lancelot, the greatest of King Arthur's knights. Lancelot had entered a joustingtournament but wanted to hide his true identity... Read more |
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Anna Moffo
Anna MoffoOpera singer Soprano Anna Moffo was one of the best-loved performers at New York's Metropolitan Opera in the 1960s. In the words of Elizabeth Forbes of London's Independent newspaper, Moffo "was the perfect interpreter of those innumerable operatic heroines who are dying of consumption... Read more |
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Familists
Familists , religious community founded in Friesland in the 16th cent. by Hendrik Niclaes. Niclaes, a merchant of Münster and originally a Roman Catholic, claimed to have been chosen prophet and prepared by special outpouring of the "spirit of the true love of Jesus Christ." His teachings... Read more |
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carpe diem
carpe diem , a descriptive term for literature that urges readers to live for the moment [from the Latin phrase "seize the day," used by Horace]. The theme, which was widely used in 16th- and 17th-century love poetry, is best exemplified by a familiar stanza from Robert Herrick's "To the... Read more |
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Sir Launcelot
Sir Launcelot , in Arthurian legend , bravest and most celebrated knight at the court of King Arthur. He was kidnapped as an infant by the mysterious Lady of the Lake , from whom he received his education and took his title, Launcelot of the Lake. As a young man he went to the court of King... Read more |
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Women in Love
Women in Love, a novel by D. H. Lawrence...school in London. Ursula is in love with Rupert Birkin (a self...His father, Walter, is dying and he takes over management...her. Birkin offers Gerald love and friendship to be based... |
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Tristram and Isoud
...eight Works of Malory. The love of Tristram and Isoud is much...corresponding Arthurian story of the love of Launcelot and Guinevere, and...the queen, and he falls in love with her daughter Isoud; when...sends for Isoud while he lies dying in Brittany. If ... |
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Saroyan, William
...impetuous and undiscriminating love for all sorts of people and situations...Trouble with Tigers (1938); Love, Here Is My Hat (1938...Rock Wagram (1951); Mama, I Love You (1956), about...You Know Who (1962); Not Dying (1963); Short Drive, Sweet... |
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Aiken, Conrad (Potter)
...consciousness to the intensity of love. Brownstone Eclogues (1942...reasons of his career and his love for a girl, but actually in his...of Mexico (1939), about a dying woman's last love as it takes her...about a sad old man who is dying, as ... |
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Beyond the Horizon
...has been his rival for the love of Ruth Atkins, but when she reveals that she loves Robert, Andrew goes to sea...Ruth hopes that Andrew still loves her and will return. Andrew...he reveals to Ruth that his love for her soon passed. Disillusioned...returns ... |
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Wings of the Dove, The
...English social adventurer, is in love with Merton Densher, a London...and, carried away by his love and faith in her ability to manage...the plot to Milly, and the dying girl, deprived of hope, quickly...swear that he is “not in love with her memory.” He ... |
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Gee, Maggie
...Dorset. Her first novel, Dying, in Other Words (1981) was...Light Years (1985) is a love story charting an estranged...presents the redeeming power of love in a ruthless and violent world...reconsiders the twists and turns of a love affair and finally, their ... |
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Tristram
...return voyage, Tristram falls in love with Isolt, but feels honor...recuperating, Morgan tries to make him love her. He goes with Gouvernail to...indifference with her passionate love, and he marries her. Later...queen back to Cornwall. She is dying, and ... |
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Déclassée
...who for five hundred years have been dying for causes in which they believe. Indeed...accepts, though she confesses that she still loves Thayer. Thayer suddenly reappears, so...struck down by a taxi. Only as she is dying and sees Thayer does she understand Solomon... |
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Bricks without Straw
...the plantation of Hesden Le Moyne, nursing his dying son and incidentally falling in love with Hesden, a band of “Ku Kluckers” falls...at the insistence of Hesden and his repentant dying mother. Reconciled and married, they resume... |
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Tochmarc Étaíne
...transformations. After the Dagda wins the love of Boand, tricking her husband...beauty that he falls sick with love for her, but he is shamed to...knows that only Étaín's love can cure it. Following his kingly...leaving Étaín to attend to his dying brother; ... |
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universalism
...not only a revelation of the love of God but also a judgement on all who will not accept that love. It could then be argued...to the resources of divine love, yet it is conceivable that even the tiniest dying ember of individual responsibility... |
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Culhwch ac Olwen
...son in a pig-run and shortly afterwards dying. To find a new wife for himself, Cilydd...Hearing this, Culhwch, who has fallen in love with Olwen without having seen her, sets out...Olwen accepts Culhwch's profession of love but says that she can not join him until... |
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Fingal Rónáin
...rather everyday human elements such as love and jealousy. The motif of mistaken sexual rivalry...home his bride, she immediately fell in love with the son and sent her maidservant to persuade him...jester Mac Glas. As Máel Fothartaig was dying he protested his innocence and ... |
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bioethics
...governed by its principles, including the sacredness of human life, love of neighbour, and respect for the sovereignty of God. For discussion...bioethics, see CONTRACEPTION, PROCREATION, AND ABORTION, ETHICS OF; and DYING, CARE OF THE. |
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last
...the last) the end or last moment, esp. death: she did love me to the last. ∎ (the last) the last mention or sight of...one's last do something for the last time: the dying embers sparked their last. last but not least last in order... |
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Liath Macha
...are gentle. The horse is portrayed as showing extraordinary love for his master, refusing to be saddled and shedding tears of...Cúchulainn's final battle. Some accounts have Liath Macha dying with his master, taking eighty enemy warriors with him; others... |
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Julian of Norwich
...mystic, probably educated by Benedictine nuns. After nearly dying (1373) she had a series of sixteen religious experiences...name. Twenty years later, she wrote The Revelations of Divine Love, meditations on her ‘shewings’, the first book known... |
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peril
...archaic expose to danger; threaten: Jonathon periled his life for love of David. PHRASES: at one's peril at one's own risk...likely to incur or to suffer from: the movement is in peril of dying. ∎ at risk of losing or injuring: anyone linked with the... |
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Lutyens, (Agnes) Elisabeth
...Dimittis (1965); The Tyme doth Flete (1968); Verses of Love (1970); Roads, 2 sop., counterten., ten., bar., bass (1973...pf. (1975); Duo No.1, hn., pf. (1956–7); The Dying of the Sun, gui. (1969); Romanza, gui. (1977); The... |
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reason
...informal marbles. 4. he continues, against reason, to love her synonyms: good sense, good judgment, common sense, wisdom...Reno) has one frantic mission in life: to keep anyone from dying in the small Italian village where he lives. The reason is... |
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taste
...synonyms: flavor, savor, relish, tang, smack. 2. he was dying for a taste of brandy synonyms: mouthful, drop, bit, sip...appetite, stomach. 4. a taste for adventure synonyms: liking, love, fondness, fancy, desire, preference, penchant, predilection... |
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Dying for love in The Peony Pavilion and Romeo and Juliet.
...canonical works about feverish love on the international stage...consider the way in which dying for love is presented...because she has found her love. The two young lovers...glamorous story of romantic love at first sight followed by the ... |
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Breast Cancer and dying for love
...11-04-1994 Breast cancer and dying for love.Linda J. CollierMany women diagnosed...His response: "Of course if I love her, I'd stand by her side throughout...not sure that I'd be able to make love to a woman who had only one breast... |
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Dying of love
...intoned as in a rite, 'live only for love'. That is what both he and Isolde...before long they find themselves dying of love. That is the indisputable message...performers of his work) when singing a love duet. That is all the production... |
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Dying of Love in Koln
...When Richard Strauss died in September 1949 his wife Pauline lost her will to live and she died eight months later. Dying of love does not need to be instantaneous, although it is convenient in the operatic world. At the end of the 20th-Century... |
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FANS' UNDIE DYING LOVE FOR SHANE.(Features)
Love Me Do (Saturday, ITV, 7.10pm) It was...undies as well." Thousands of women fell in love with the star when he renewed his wedding...I've changed my priorities. You see, I love being married and being a dad." Tonight... |
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Another dying love; SWEET NOVEMBER X Cert 12, 120 mins.(Review)
Byline: ALEXANDER WALKER SWEET November is yet another Love Story-type spin-off, this time with Charlize Theron as the girl with an inoperable illness who selflessly devotes her last... |
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Dear Rachael: Scared to end our dying love.(Features)
Byline: Rachael Q I LIVE with my girlfriend Sandra but we have fallen out of love. We both knew things were going downhill in the summer but over the past three months it's become obvious that there is no passion... |
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Dying for love in a chilly climate; Do Lancashire women really die of love?...
...sensitivity led him on a three-year labour of love to produce his book, Lancashire, Where Women Die of Love, a very engagingly written, humorous canter...Lancashire is ``the county where women die of love''. It was an essay by the celebrated Southport... |
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I was left paralysed & dying.. only love of a baby saved me; NOW KARA CAN...
...moment of fun with her son - the tot whose love saved her after she was left paralysed...again. It is an amazing story of a mum's love and determination conquering adversity...symptoms. -SCRIBBLED a last message of love to her parents just before she was robbed... |
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Dying for love: the epidemic of domestic abuse cases.
...violent and brutal deaths, and were killed, according to authorities, by men whose love they trusted. But they are not the only women who have died because of love--or the lack of it. Every day in Black America, thousands of Sisters are punched... |
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