How To Use Ambrosia In A Sentence
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(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia.
Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
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Recollect always that ambrosia, as food of gods, is the continual restorer of strength; that all food is ambrosial when it nourishes, and that the night is called "ambrosial" because it restores strength to the soul through its peace, as, in the
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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The ambrosia fungus appears as the black lining of the gallery.
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The "Pigeon in Crispy Pastille" in the Moroccan restaurant is a delicate patty of tender shredded pigeon in crispy layers of millefeuille, an edible work of art, while the "Orange Salad" dessert offers magical orbs of orange ambrosia that burst in your mouth like citrus caviar.
Being a Paying Guest of the King
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He is in Billy's make-believe world of ambrosia the moment the curtain rises.
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Not dissimilar to the 1960's standby in the 'burbs of Toronto called "ambrosia" which was a white sweet glommy glob including coconut flakes, tinned mandarin orange segments and other preserved ingredients.
Latter-day fixin's!
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They who had practised penances and observed excellent vows for amrita now seemed to be eager seekers after amrita (celestial ambrosia).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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"Vatican newspaper highlights work of scholarly singing nun"
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The food was said to be superb and like ambrosia on earth.
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‘It is really the ambrosia fungus that kills the tree, not the beetle,’ said Ludwig, who has launched a two-fold emergency program to deal with the threat.
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Sometimes when inspiration hits, you create something that just tastes like ambrosia.
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Tony sipped from his glass. "Mmm. Ambrosia. Nectar of the gods. Divine. Wonderful.
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Athena strengthens Achilles by planting ambrosia and honey in his chest.
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Surviving manuscripts show that the standard Gregorian chant was not used, and Ambrosian forms persisted in Italian-speaking regions until recent times.
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Ambrosia, nectar, soma, these swill through our myths and histories
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The ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. , is one of the most hazardous weed species distributed worldwide and causing serious damages to agricultural production and human health.
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* Elder Joy – This fabled treat coveted by the dark deities is a sinister cousin to a popular human confection -- an ambrosial amalgam of Coconut, white-chocolate Ganache, and Rum, enrobed in the darkest Chocolate and topped with a crisp, whole Almond.
Places You Haunt
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And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus.
2009 February « Anglican Samizdat
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Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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Then my feet no longer rest on earth, but standing by Zeus himself I take my fill of ambrosia, the divine dish.
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Eat, and thank Providence for such delights as this, which you infidels call ambrosia," says he, while one of his women put the dish of honey-coloured curds before me.
The Sky Writer
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It's one of those dishes that's just crying out for some mandarin chicken salad and a scoop of ambrosia, held in one hand on a paper plate while you fiddle with the coffee urn with the other.
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This very brief Vespers is already found in the Compiègne antiphonary, a manuscript of the ninth century; but inasmuch as an analogous rite is also found in the Ambrosian Easter vigil, it is probably much older.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.2 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the Font, Litany of the Saints, Mass and Vespers
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The goo was warm; it smelled like ambrosia, and glinted like a prism caught in sunlight.
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And I use Big Words, like "ambrosial," which bothers some children's book reviewers.
INTERVIEW: Vandana Singh
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Last night's dinner was nutritious ambrosia and I was reminded how easy it is to make something very simple and tasty.
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This damage is associated with ambrosia fungi that cause wood rot and death of the tree.
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There's definitely a great round-up of delicious, ambrosial and nectareous recipes for all of us to try!
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It tasted wonderful to her, like ambrosia compared to the slop Vinch had been feeding her all of her life.
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We studied the bill of fare as if it contained the secret of our army's delay upon the Potomac, and had just concluded that the first crop of strawberries was exhausted and they were waiting for the second crop to grow, when Hebe hove in sight with her nectared ambrosia in a pair of cracked, browny-white saucers, with browny-green silver spoons.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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The toilet is a mighty throne, and the tub is like a giant overturned turtle shell filled with nectar and ambrosia.
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Ambrosian chants
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The Ambrosian scheme, deriving its origin from St. Ambrose, only provides for the recitation of the Psalter once a fortnight.
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The two wardens proved very pleasant fellows indeed; and declared that the cup of coffee which was brewed for them was nectar, "ambrosia," Mr. Lawrence called it.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
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It was fortunate for me that I had my "Noctes Ambrosianæ" along, for when I had exhausted my praise of the surrounding glories of nature, my bookseller would not converse with me; so I opened my book and read to him that famous passage between Kit North and the Ettrick Shepherd, wherein the shepherd discourses boastfully of his prowess as a piscator of sawmon.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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It is one of more than 300 species of wood-boring ambrosia beetles which distribute the spores of ambrosia fungi.
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Thespian chorus, was in the Dorian states already devoted to sublime themes, and enriched by elaborate art; and Simonides, whose elegies, peculiar for their sweetness, might have inspired the "ambrosial
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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I'll never forget my first sip of that citric ambrosia.
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ambrosial food
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What was left was as a good a piece of beef as I have ever cooked or tasted - ambrosia for the meat-eating gods.
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Here's one labeled "TENEBRAE FACTAE SUNT, Responsorio ambrosiano" an Ambrosian responsory, that is, I believe for Good Friday, but will look more at this:
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From cat to zombie to Mitchum to Aldo in the snow, you find yourself falling in some kind of ambrosial, demented love.
Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall
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So they have a special drink called nectar, and they eat food which is ambrosia, which is immortal.
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The ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia, an alien invasive weed, can profoundly influence natural ecosystems, agriculture, and human health.
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The result is like ambrosia, pleasing in colour, form, smell, and taste.
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A comparative study on the morphological characteristic of stem, leaf, anthotaxy and involucrum of three kinds of ragweed weed—Ambrosia Artemisiifolia L.
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They called these fluids the amrit, meaning ambrosia, or nectar.
Meditation as Medicine
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* Elder Joy – This fabled treat coveted by the dark deities is a sinister cousin to a popular human confection -- an ambrosial amalgam of Coconut, white-chocolate Ganache, and Rum, enrobed in the darkest Chocolate and topped with a crisp, whole Almond.
Places You Haunt
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And if Cupid is not totally swacked on ambrosia, perhaps the two of you can get together for a date.
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Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Kerry Blasts Boehner Over Troop Deaths "Small Price" Remark
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A pity, because the beautifully poached damsons, greengages and plums which accompanied them were ambrosial enough to serve on their own.
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Indulge your taste buds in an ambrosial meal prepared by a creative Hawaiian chef, then take a long languorous walk, arm in arm, along the beach.
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The best time to practice your sadhana is in the ambrosial hours of the early morning—the amrit vela, “time of nectar.”
Meditation as Medicine
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So they have a special drink called nectar, and they eat food which is ambrosia, which is immortal.
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XXI 15, sui quali grava un eccesso di memoria e un igienico distacco, comprovante che non c'è niente di piú filiale e amorevole che uccidere il padre; di quei libri perduti e riconquistati, decorati con ogni possibile segno di tenerezza, come il Virgilio Ambrosiano allestito dal padre ser Petracco, «michi subreptus» nel 1326 e «deinde restitutus» nel 1338 apud Avinionem sottoscrizione autografa del foglio di guardia del codice Ambr.
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005)
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Recollect always that ambrosia, as food of gods, is the continual restorer of strength; that all food is ambrosial when it nourishes, and that the night is called 'ambrosial' because it restores strength to the soul through its peace, as, in the
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
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So they have a special drink called nectar, and they eat food which is ambrosia, which is immortal.
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Then he drank his lukewarm black coffee and ate the bittersweet chocolate, which went down like so much nectar and ambrosia: never a better breakfast hath man eaten, Bob felt.
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As their tongues dueled in a lazy exploration of soft and hard surfaces, ambrosia covered her palate and sweetness filled her lungs.
Surrender the Dark
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Taking refuge in the Dharma, save the ambrosial water and set up a waterworks in yourselves.
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It may be that in harping in highest exultation how they had won to, and touched, the Path Ambrosial – the Amataŋ Padaŋ40 – Nibbana, they implied some state inconceivable to thought, inexpressible by language, while the one and the other are limited to concepts and terms of life; and yet a state which, while not in time or space, positively constitutes the sequel of the glorious and blissful days of this life's residuum.
Psalms of the Sisters
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Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in completion of it, had not happened to look at Young John; when she was again so overcome by the contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion.
Little Dorrit
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Use local firewood only - Do not transport firewood from other states because destructive pests and diseases, such as redbay ambrosia beetle and laurel wilt, can hitchhike into Florida on infested firewood.
Media Newswire
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I'll never forget my first sip of that citric ambrosia.
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Ambrosia, nectar, soma, these swill through our myths and histories.
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“Gods and goddesses stay immortal by eating a divine confection called ambrosia and by sipping nectar,” she read.
ATHENA THE BRAIN
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Geneva had wanted a lavish one, filled with gifts and smiles, dance and music, and food that tasted of ambrosia.
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Prayer (II) borrows its first line and its meter from an Ambrosian liturgical hymn.
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A more personal synergy of my own: a jigger of Harvey's turns a fine chili to ambrosia.
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These are called ambrosia-beetles, because of the dainty food they eat.
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
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He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests.
SuperCooperators
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His knowledge of Greek enabled him to introduce much Eastern theology and liturgical practice into the West; Ambrosian plainsong is associated with his name, and the Athanasian Creed has been attributed to him.
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The reason behind this is that I have my taste buds prepared to receive ambrosia later.
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Perhaps I should have piped up and suggested a digestion sabbatical before the final touch, which effectively scuppers any true criticism by being truly ambrosial.
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In 1882, a sickly Pierre-Auguste Renoir felt reinvigorated by eating a brandade -- a puree of cod and potatoes -- and wondered if he had "rediscovered the Ambrosia of the gods.
Matthew Jacob: In France, They Cherish Lunch and Liberte
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No mortal could ever taste ambrosia, as Greek myth said.
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There were always a good many lady's-delights that grew under the bushes, and came up anywhere in the chinks of the walk of the door-step, and there was a little green sprig called ambrosia that was a famous stray-away.
Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
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And at the flood of purple hyacinths that turned the air to ambrosia: `Oh, smell them, Christopher!
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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Then he drank his lukewarm black coffee and ate the bittersweet chocolate, which went down like so much nectar and ambrosia: never a better breakfast hath man eaten, Bob felt.
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There were always a good many lady's-delights that grew under the bushes, and came up anywhere in the chinks of the walk or the door-step; and there was a little green sprig called ambrosia that was a famous stray-away.
From A Mournful Villager
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When ambrosia is in my cup and the delightful smell is wafting in my nose, I sit down at my computer and ignore my children arguing over who gets the last Poptart and who is stuck with plain old cornflakes.
Invisible Man @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
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S. Carlo championed a severe style of painting while Federico founded the Ambrosiana and donated his own collection to that institution in 1618.
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There is no Ash Wednesday (or Clean Monday for that matter) in the Ambrosian Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Duck was served orgiastically and sweet yams in some ambrosial sauce.
FAIRYLAND
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But even if that were not the case, even if we did live in some kind of ambrosian world where none of us ever did things because it benefited our bellies or bank accounts and were capable of being the ultimate altruists at all times, it would still make no sense to say that the very law which creates the definition of a corporate person can't put limits on how that person behaves -- and in fact put even tighter limits on the legally created person than on the real one.
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The disease is caused by a fungus (Raffaelea lauricola) that is introduced into host trees by a non-native insect, the redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus).
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
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Eat, and thank Providence for such delights as this, which you infidels call ambrosia," says he, while one of his women put the dish of honey-coloured curds before me.
The Sky Writer
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He had never tasted such delicious, scrumptious, crispy, luscious, delectable, exquisite, ambrosial, nectareous, yummy lettuce in aaaaaaall of his life.
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The experience of the Ambrosian hymns was so powerful that Augustine retained it in his memory and often referred to it in his works.
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It's funny how ambrosia is a totally different thing here (and in Portugal as well).
My Ambrosia
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Last year, at the festival, the food Ambi Swami served was sheer ambrosia.
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The ancient yoga masters knew nothing of the endocrine system, but they did know that there was something magical and empowering in the predawn hours, which they called the ambrosial hours.
Meditation as Medicine
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I suppose this is what they call nectar and ambrosia," said Magnus.
Boycotted And Other Stories
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St Gregory the Great added four more to the original Ambrosian modes, and this system forms the basis of Gregorian plainsong, still used in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Eighty-seven folios of the Book of Animals (about one-tenth of the original text by al-Jahiz) are preserved in the Ambrosiana Library in Milan.
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The ambrosial kenyan peaberry in my cup makes me forgive it's less then Nectar like roasting aroma.
Madrigle Diary Entry
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The beautifully poached damsons, greengages and plums which accompanied them were ambrosial enough to serve on their own.
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Then come ambrosia beetles and western oak bark beetles by the thousands, flocking to feed, tunnel out galleries, and lay their eggs.
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The late emperor's brother-in-law and murderer, Lord Urdhven, appoints himself Protector to his nephew, young King Lathmar VII and sets out to kill anyone who stands between himself and mastery of the empire, including (if he can manage it) the king himself and his ancient but still formidable ancestress, Ambrosia Viviana.
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Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Milano/De Agostini Picture Library Leonardo da Vinci's 'Portrait of a Young Man (The Musician)' (circa 1486-7) It is worth the price of admission and queuing for one of the 500 day tickets to see this ravishing show, which complements the Leonardos with relevant paintings by his contemporaries and pupils.
An Exhibition of a Lifetime
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The first nocturn has eleven psalms, and a homily of St. Augustine, divided into three readings; following the normal Ambrosian custom, there is a responsory after the first and second, but not the third.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 7 - The Vigil of Pentecost and the Holy Week Readings
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For example, ambrosia represents a love returned, baby's breath is for everlasting love, white roses is for eternal love, and viscaria is for will you dance with me.
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright: Make This V-day a Sensual One
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But, unlike the eggs of bees and ants, ambrosia beetle eggs do need to be penetrated by something.
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But when I pop one into my mouth, it is ambrosial.
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Is it possible that the gods ate ham, egg and chips and shortened the name to ambrosia?
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Aristotle in his poetic art as an essential part of tragedy, was an even, simple chant, like that which we call the preface to mass, which in my opinion is the Gregorian chant, and not the Ambrosian, and which is a true melopée.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Mixed with the praline and raspberries, it was nothing short of ambrosia.
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It's great to have a job where you serve people the ambrosia of the gods
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It is found, however, that some of these "girdled" trees are especially attractive to several species of ambrosia beetles (Figs. 22 and 23), round-headed borers (Fig. 24) and timber worms
Seasoning of Wood
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These berries, each no bigger than the tip of your little finger, have an intensely concentrated flavor I can describe only as ambrosial - reminiscent of strawberries, roses, and pineapples.
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Euphrasia (eyebright, which is known to cause a clear and bland nasal discharge along with tearing of the eyes that burns and irritates the skin under the eye), Ambrosia (ragweed, an herb that creates pollen that is known to be irritating to some hay fever sufferers), and Solidago (goldenrod, an herb that creates pollen that is known to be irritating to some hay fever sufferers).
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Aside from a few other brief references in patristic literature, nothing more was known of this apocryphon until the Latin manuscript containing a long portion of it was discovered by Ceriani in the Ambrosian Library, at Milan, and published by him in 1861.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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A rose covered arbour smells ambrosial, looks even better and the path through it leads you into the garden.
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There was no room for the ambrosial tenderness of crooners and songsmiths that night.
