How To Use Issus In A Sentence

  • That's what bugs my missus more than anything.
  • Intermingled with the Euphorbia scrub is a Zizyphus scrub that is characterized by Zizyphus nummularia with Acacia leucocephala, Acacia senegal, Anogeissus pendula, and Dicrostachys cinerea. Northwestern thorn scrub forests
  • But it pales beside the one his missus continues to live in. The Sun
  • Sold in garden centers as bulbs, or potted in the grocery store, Narcissus tazetta papyraceous may survive the winter when planted in D. C.-area gardens but not the colder parts of the region. Use these fragrant plants to freshen the indoors
  • _ 45, 'Nobis tam longae absentiae condicione ante quadriennium amissus est.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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  • _ That's what I do want to know, zoa come along -- Woo ye though -- Missus, let's behave pratty -- Zur if you pleaze, Dame and I will let you walk along wi 'us. Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
  • And then when I looked confused they'd say, hold on a minute, why don't you call my mate, Phil, and he'll do your bathroom a treat, missus.
  • Dave's what you call the randy milkman who's giving your missus extra deliveries when you're out at work. Home | Mail Online
  • He could be in hot water with his missus over published reports that he two-timed her with a porn star at a wild bachelor party.
  • Some mornings the missus had to get me out of bed and put my shoes and socks on for me. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gallery forests are dominated by Cynometra vogelii; the patches of dense dry forest by Isoberlinia doka, Anogeissus leiocarpus, Cola cordifolia, Antiaris africana, which is nationally threatened, Chlorophora excelsa (VU), and the edible akee Blighia unijugata. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Cliff and ravine vegetation is often very diverse and dense; the chasmophytic flora includes Cissus quadrangularis, Ficus lecardii, Boscia angustifolia, Euphorbia sudanica, Lannea microcarpa and Combretum lecardii. Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
  • Other more widespread common species include Putterlickia pyracantha, Rhoicissus tridentata, Grewia accidentalis, Phyllanthus verrucosus, and the grass Panicum maximum. Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
  • You know, the missus and I just bought a new house, and it cost considerably less than $1.2 billion.
  • Missus jets out to QLD A.M thursday so I get to collect young fella from Footy training, that 6pm at the earliest, drop at the Marsh, 6.30, turn dunny door around and head for melb, thats 40 minutes obeying the LAW! Cheeseburger Gothic » And some touring admin.
  • About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
  • And more than that: by titling the works ‘Narcissus’ he recalled the myth of a man looking into the water and falling in love with his own image.
  • Pulchricoma Venus, and Cupid himself was yellow haired, in aurum coruscante et crispante capillo, like that neat picture of Narcissus in Callistratus; for so Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Psychologists call this narcissism, the personality trait that was inspired by Narcissus, the Greek god who saw his reflection in a pool and fell in love with himself.
  • This forest type is dominated by evergreen tree species with scattered deciduous trees such as Dipterocarpus kerri, Anogeissus acuminate, Pometia pinnata and Lagerstroemia calyculata. Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam
  • Whereas the code delivered to Bronze Age men simply tumbles the wife in with all the other property, the Catholic catechetical tradition pulled her out of the inventory and makes a rather sharp distinction between the kind of coveting that happens when you've got your eye on the neighbor's Prius and the kind of coveting that happens when you've got your eye on the neighbor's missus. Latest Articles
  • The blooms of freesia, narcissus, hyacinths, cattleya orchids, and miniature gardenias are often short-lived, but their sweet fragrance makes up for their early demise. How To Avoid Housework
  • And when Father O’Táighléir chanced by one time, collecting for the Chinese missions, he said, “A word missus,” and was off explaining how the Volunteers were decent honest Catholic sons of Ireland and of the Church, whose leaders in the tradition of this sainted isle were poets as much as gentlemen. At Swim, Two Boys
  • The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose.
  • Do you and the missus talk about directing when you're alone together, I ask, the arched eyebrow obvious in my voice.
  • And if she lingered too long with these and the dogs, Sir Paul, the parrot, was screaming loudly, threatening to "tell the missus," while the whole cageful of little birds were twittering and scolding that they had not been attended to first of all. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
  • I do a bit of shopping for the missus.
  • A discreet man, Sar-Aggreth was nonetheless a powerful Wizard. Though he may not not be as famous as Sar-Issus or Sar-Shazzar, he is remembered as a good, if somewhat strict, teacher.
  • I have collected in the last quarter of a century more than 30 different varieties of Ampelopsis and Parthenocissus.
  • Apparently the missus is cooking a proper meal tonight - roast pork and veggies. The One With The Missus
  • The two easiest bulbs to force are paper-white narcissus and amaryllis.
  • Turnip an hed bit it by de time I git back dar en I called my missus en she come en made me eat de rest of de turnip en my face enall swelled up en my eyes war closed foh days. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives
  • Gor blimey, avva cup of tea missus. The Sun
  • I here halted the party for breakfast by the side of a stream and, on casting my eyes upwards, I found that I was in a sort of natural grapery, for the tree under which I lay was covered with a plant which bears a sort of grape and I believe is a species of cissus. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
  • The city features six fruits - lemon, lychee, banana, longan, pomelo and pineapple - and three flowers - narcissus, camellia and orchid.
  • Black Narcissus is a fairy tale crossed with sexy nuns locked in feverish desire with a soupcon about the fading British empire. Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored
  • Hey, missus(Sentencedict), are these your kids?
  • Flowers were also very scarce, narcissus and chrysanthemums being the chief varieties at twopence and threepence per bunch.
  • I have a new missus and she's beautiful. The Sun
  • Ah d'clar 'to goodness, Missus Brewster, is this business runnin' away?" exclaimed Sary, after the local had started from Oak Creek. Polly and Eleanor
  • They're proud, but heavily governed by the need to sneak stuff past the missus.
  • What to buy: Look for bulbs such as amaryllis, hyacinth, daffodil, muscari, narcissus (shown in the box above) or crocus (shown in the glass) at your local florist or garden center. Spring Forward
  • In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.
  • The word Narcissus comes from the ancient Greek word narke which means a stupor.
  • Pussy willows in bloom, dogwoods budding, the Narcissus providing tiny splashes of yellow against the brown landscape, fields going green. "I’m made of bones of the branches, the boughs, and the browbeating light..."
  • It was about 9:30 in the evening when the missus said she was going home and would take the kids with her.
  • Noa; my missus did not loike me to chaffer much with neighbour Joplin, for she was but a bad 'un, -- pretty fease, too. Lucretia — Volume 06
  • Yes," said he, "when I was a young man I used to go to Battersea on holidays, I and some others, and nothing would suit us but outrigged gigs, randans, and such like; but now I'm growing old, and a flat-bottomed tub suits us better, my missus and me. Littlebourne Lock
  • Boston Ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata is a deciduous vine with tendrils. Boston Ivy has glossy dark green leaves that turn bright red in the fall.
  • Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Bag this and your missus will know she's on to a winner. The Sun
  • Among flowers and trees he should admire the narcissus, the violet and the orange.
  • Well I'll put it this way - the missus doesn't expect me before about nine every day anyway, so as long as nothin comes up at closing time, I'm always on!
  • Wonder what his missus will say? The Sun
  • Then we turned round and his missus had returned and was wetting herself laughing at us.
  • Poet's narcissus flowered and this scilla scilla planted together bloom at same time The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
  • Narcissus uero dignus amore puer. cernis ab inriguo repetentem gramine ripas, Narcissus
  • The most important is the myth of Narcissus, seen as the symbol of the youth's self-absorption.
  • Half the charm of silver in nature is due to its remoteness; no ore of man's refining can attain the sparkle of a raindrop; we cannot distil the radiance from a white narcissus, nor rob the stars of their silver fleeces. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • It aned strange that they had made no igements for the care of their houseplants. pradescantias, peperomias, a cissus that ibed to the ceiling on carefully spaced igs, a Joseph's coat, a variegated ivy, all ing down leaves that were limp and parched. Put On By Cunning
  • I was surprised, though, when Bridget's head popped up eventually and she said, ‘Welcome back, missus.’
  • `If you use so much red, missus, you'll look as though you're having an apoplexy. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • He is a weak-willed, manipulative narcissus.
  • What with these devil-ships a-flyin 'about the skies, and dropping thunderbolts on us from the clouds, and furreners a-comin' up the Thames as I've heard, London ain't 'ealthy enough for me, nor the missus and the kids, and thanks for your kindness, sir, we're movin' to-night, keb an 'all. The World Peril of 1910
  • I took the missus to recharge the batteries a bit this past weekend and it did us wonders.
  • Will play Cricket, badminton now. repley Cricket: Nielsen: Lee still a major doubt stuckinseoul England cricket stars celebrate Lord's win by racking up �5k bar bill ... but Freddie Flintoff settles for a pint with the missus daneshzaki Bangladesh wins series; will the Windies board bring back the original team members at least now #cricket intellibitz Cellphone Directory | Cricket TXTM8 Offers High-End Features at ... intellibitz smokes a plethora of cricket intellibitz Cricket: Flintoff on fitness hopes - ClubCall. com: Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Against opposition from Technicolor labs, Cardiff also successfully pioneered the use of fog filters on Black Narcissus.
  • The great physicist drew up a formula for his own happiness and made his missus sign it. The Sun
  • The American artist celebrated his eighty-first birthday at Villa Narcissus, his home on the island of Capri, by dancing the tarantella.
  • Put up hyacinths, paperwhite narcissus and forcing bulbs for an early display. The to-do list: October
  • So the missus and I decided to spend Sunday afternoon taking in a film as we were in an Oscar kind of mood.
  • _ 45, 'Nobis tam longae absentiae condicione ante quadriennium amissus est.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Just the trick if you are at a loss over what to get the missus for her next birthday. The Sun
  • The city features six fruits - lemon, lychee, banana, longan, pomelo and pineapple - and three flowers - narcissus, camellia and orchid.
  • If a were up to t 'use o' words, a could say a mighty deal; but somehow a'm tongue-teed when a come to want my words most, so a'll only just mak 'bold t' say as a think yo've done pretty well for yo'rsel ', getten a house-full o' furniture '(looking around him as he said this),' an 'vittle an' clothin 'for t' axing, belike, an 'a home for t' missus in her time Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
  • The end of the 60s saw too many flowered, silked, brocaded and babooned pop stars giving the peace sign with the missus in front of their rock 'n' roll manors before retreating indoors and screaming "Where's my f------ breakfast?! Andrew Loog Oldham: Mods & Rockers Festival: Mocking The Rockers
  • So they breathed a sigh of relief when Bet Lynch, his missus, said she'd stay behind as manager.
  • Aruba also has two snakes: the cascabel (Crotalus thurissus unicolor), an endangered subspecies of rattlesnake, which does not use its rattle; and the Aruba cat-eyed snake (Leptodira bakeri). Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub
  • The streamless bed of the Ilissus passes between the Acropolis and Hymettus in a south-westerly direction, until it vanishes in the low ground which separates the city from the Piræus. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
  • Landramnus, bishop under Louis the Pious, was by this prince appointed missus dominicus, or royal commissary, in 825. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Mijnheer took up a root here and there, telling her something of the history of each; explaining how the narcissus increased and the tulips grew; showing her hyacinth bulbs cut in half-breadthways with all the separate severed layers distended by reason of the growing and swelling of the seeds between. The Good Comrade
  • Elsewhere, sal is intermingled with chir pine Pinus roxburghii along the southern face of the Churia Hills and with tree species such as Terminalia belerica, Dalbergia latifolia, Anogeissus latifolius, Dillenia indica and Garuga pinnata on northern slopes. Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
  • At one point, we're hearing from Eyes Cusack that "Me brud's gone loolah on accoun' and his missus gobbin' hoss trankillisers like they's penny fuckin' sweets, y'check me? City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
  • We insurrectioned and, be the procuratress of the hory synnotts, before he could tell pullyirragun to parrylewis, I shuttm, missus, like a wide sleever! Finnegans Wake
  • The next day, my mother with a knife to carefully cut open the ball daffodils, and a Peach of the "Narcissus Doll" was born.
  • And so I left feeling very good, and as I took the bus uptown to meet the missus, I finished the song, almost without thinking.
  • In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.
  • The liquid golden light of winter floods our flowering yard, perfumed by blooming narcissus, cymbidium orchids, Andean lilies, and others. Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: Vote for Green, Not Junk Jobs, in 2012
  • Use hippeastrum, paperwhite narcissus, hyacinth or even crocus and miniature iris. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘I was promised a slap-up meal and a few drinks on them the next time the missus and I go to the races,’ said Peter perking up at the prospect.
  • It is not known when he began to govern, but it is certain that he was already bishop in 798, when Charlemagne sent him into Narbonne and Provence as missus dominicus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • I awlus towd my missus that whenever Moses gave his furst hawve-craan it 'ud be his fust stride towards th' kingdom o 'grace; but if he's gin Jim Lancashire Idylls (1898)
  • The narcissus is a flower named after the young man who fell in love with his own reflection and pined away because he could not reach the object of his love.
  • Parthenocissus tricuspidata "feet" like a sucker, like lying in the crevice in tightly, straining lie on the wall, is not easy to wind down, and then extend outward.
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  • Do not place tulips in containers with any flowers in the Narcissus genus (paperwhites, daffodils, etc.) which have just been cut, as the mucilage they exude can adversely affect tulips' vase life.
  • Try bulbs that are prolific in winter months, such as tulips, narcissus, hyacinth, kalanchoe and cyclamen.
  • Saturday started off pretty wack as after dropping the missus to work I had to go to Prescot Police Station with my producer.
  • I just got in from a day trip with sleepover - hang on, that makes it an overnighter - trip to down south, for fun filled frivolity in Sorrento, and a catch up with the missus.
  • The candidate himself says the missus, and we quote, ‘speaks her mind appropriately.’
  • “Conspectus ab utrâque acie aliquanto augustior humano visu, sicut cœlo missus piaculum omnis deorum iræ, qui pestam ab suis aversam in hostes ferret;” — “He was looked on by both armies as one more august than a man, as one sent from heaven, to be a piacular sacrifice, to appease the anger of the gods, and to transfer destruction from their own army to the enemies,” Liv., A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
  • Cephissus, where in the starlit night the tettix (4) in the black old olives by the stream made its monotonous music, where great fireflies gleamed, where Philomela the nightingale called, and the tall plane trees whispered softly to the pines. A Victor of Salamis
  • The poor shunter - he's the one who has to go home and explain the love-bites to his missus. A Fire Raging in Islington
  • Narcissus have loosened up since I last saw them and it's difficult not to be carried away by the voice, the lush but powerful arrangements and the enormous tuneage.
  • And so I left feeling very good, and as I took the bus uptown to meet the missus, I finished the song, almost without thinking.
  • So when the wind isn't blowing towards his house (can't upset the missus!) he sets fire to the piles.
  • The city features six fruits - lemon, lychee, banana, longan, pomelo and pineapple - and three flowers - narcissus, camellia and orchid.
  • Only in nature is interpellation absent, and it is only when Narcissus sees his reflection in the mirror of the lake (the technic of objective realization?) that narcissism and auto-interpellation is born.
  • “Conspectus ab utrâque acie aliquanto augustior humano visu, sicut cœlo missus piaculum omnis deorum iræ, qui pestam ab suis aversam in hostes ferret;” — “He was looked on by both armies as one more august than a man, as one sent from heaven, to be a piacular sacrifice, to appease the anger of the gods, and to transfer destruction from their own army to the enemies,” Liv., A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
  • Well, if that's the way you want it, missus, that's the way it's going to have to be.
  • Narcissus was a young man who spurned the nymph Echo and became enamoured of his own reflection.
  • Hyacinth and Narcissus stand by, wan and sere.
  • At least I was too ill to be nagged by the missus into doing housework.
  • In Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the most commonly available fragrant plant is the paperwhite narcissus. Use these fragrant plants to freshen the indoors
  • Once Alexander had destroyed the professional core of Persians and mercenary Greeks at Issus, Darius had to rely on levies from outlying satrapies.
  • Setting: Missus Miggins Pye shawp, or odder plaise taht has cayk and frills awn the taybul! Mai arms nawt reely dis long. Iz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • You and the missus can just go out to the driveway with a bottle of champagne and sit in the Galant.
  • I have found an unexpected use for my missus. The Sun
  • In truth he was so afraid of assumptions and "anticipations" and prejudices -- his great bugbear was so much the "_intellectus sibi permissus_" the mind given liberty to guess and imagine and theorise, instead of, as it ought, absolutely and servilely submitting itself to the control of facts -- that he missed the true place of the rational and formative element in his account of Induction. Bacon
  • Lovely bowls of muscari, tulips, daffs and narcissus = = and NO tedious Big Dig. Tina gets creative with container gardening presentation at Missouri Botanical Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • He forces paperwhite narcissus bulbs that fill the house with an intense, heady perfume. Archive 2009-01-01
  • The missus and I would go see it (she liked the documentary, too), but we've both got work responsibilities.
  • Setting: Missus Miggins Pye shawp, or odder plaise taht has cayk and frills awn the taybul, arownd or, fayling awl els, Starbux! the Edgware Road ayreah! I tink they r - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Did you laugh down the phone to Mr Bank Manager & tell him his missus is Friar-Tucked? Friday Night In Out-Patients « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • I know the missus might not be happy with me saying that but it's true! The Sun
  • Avoid strong lights near the bed-a powerful beam on your missus' bare butt will have her scurrying for cover.
  • And the missus wanted somewhere to keep her horses. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other favorite flowers are pussy willow, azalea, peony and water lily or narcissus.
  • Alek brought her a cluster of early narcissus and she wore a short white gown with a grass-blade pattern.
  • He lost his' missus 'a year ago and he's lonely without her.
  • Competition moves in on the missus but she spins some yarn and wards them off.
  • Both species bear the longitudinal groove in the centre, and when broken across, are found to contain numerous smaller shells, -- Terebratulæ of both the smooth and sulcated kinds, and a species of minute smooth Pecten resembling the _Pecten demissus_, but smaller. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • The Missus sat enthroned on the couch surrounded by soft pillows, her books and magazines in reach.
  • Tonight the missus and I went out for dinner and some Christmas shopping.
  • Missus Hall would relieve herself on old newspapers in the alleyways on Central Avenue.
  • You can move erythronium, bluebell and narcissus in the same way. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose.
  • Try bulbs that are prolific in winter months, such as tulips, narcissus, hyacinth, kalanchoe and cyclamen.
  • Unfortunately, the missus is a native Northern Virginian, so she wants to stay relatively close. Think Progress » Virginia GOP state senator blames high energy costs on federal law that doesn’t exist.
  • Garden centres are supplied with spring flowering bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, narcissus, tulips and crocus, but let's not stop there.
  • The named varieties of Narcissus cyclamineus are some of the best, with reflexed petals thrown back from the trumpet. Light up your garden with bulbs
  • You get a player phoning up to say his missus has crashed the car and he can't get into training. The Sun
  • Why would Narcissus choose the pond when he could capture himself on tape? GENIE ON THE LOOSE
  • How nice it is to sit on the terrace in the evenings and hear the roar of cars and buses; it saves me from making conversation with the missus.
  • Fulmimurate protagoreanism mbeavan fuzhou confrs ntations Second chappel missionek nissus bonesetter abac mantrac penins aqueomercurial disharmonious dorsicornu transcricao two-ply xequoyah fulminurate Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • I'm sure a word with the director would open the way for me to borrow a few dozen of the choicer pieces with which I would be happy to drape the missus.
  • The city features six fruits - lemon, lychee, banana, longan, pomelo and pineapple - and three flowers - narcissus, camellia and orchid.
  • Missus Obama said two beehives will provide honey.
  • In fact, as a result of the last few months' boom in trade, the son went out and bought himself a new car on the never-never and the missus had done the same and ordered a new kitchen.
  • Les habitants sont pour la plupart issus de vieilles familles de petits propriétaires; les nouveaux venus sont des travailleurs agricoles et depuis peu s'installent de jeunes couples fuyant la ville. French Word-A-Day:
  • And this year even the missus is coming to complete it all. Not going smiting...
  • Among the most commonly forced bulb flowers are amaryllis, paper-white narcissus, muscari and hyacinths.
  • The ketosterones found in Incarnate come from cissus quadrangularis MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • And so, like Echo , Narcissus began to pine away , wasted by an impossible love.
  • The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose.
  • The gallery forests are dominated by Cynometra vogelii; the patches of dense dry forest by Isoberlinia doka, Anogeissus leiocarpus, Cola cordifolia, Antiaris africana, which is nationally threatened, Chlorophora excelsa (VU), and the edible akee Blighia unijugata. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection
  • The Missus, after a brief passage of raptorial staring: Are you putting salami in that? I Win The Bet!
  • The last time we mentioned Annie the boss started jumping up and down and making odd squeaky sounds that did not impress the missus.
  • I finally got Little King's Story yesterday, and the missus is away this weekend: -) Kings and Kings
  • My work in slavery times wuz ridin 'behin' my Missus, Clara Griffin, who wuz my old missus 'sister's daughter. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
  • Though the paperwhite and tazetta narcissus like it dry and sharply drained, too, the majority of narcissi couldn't be easier, and I plant them by the thousand to enliven rough grass and orchards in clients 'gardens. Light up your garden with bulbs
  • However it is difficult to see exactly what ‘contracted to thine own bright eyes’ means, although the glossarists cite the example of Narcissus from classical literature.
  • Black Narcissus, Sister Ruth's transition from the dour, ascetic domain of nunhood into the unfettered, sexualised outside world is heralded by that unforgettable big close up of red lipstick metamorphosing Kathleen Byron's sensuous mouth. DVD Times
  • Meanwhile , the influence of parameter variation to the control system performance was dissused.
  • And here to the doorstep came the "slavey," very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
  • Flowers were also very scarce, narcissus and chrysanthemums being the chief varieties at twopence and threepence per bunch.
  • I think it was his missus reminding him to pick up her dry-cleaning. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • I just got in from a day trip with sleepover - hang on, that makes it an overnighter - trip to down south, for fun filled frivolity in Sorrento, and a catch up with the missus.
  • Use hippeastrum, paperwhite narcissus, hyacinth or even crocus and miniature iris. Times, Sunday Times
  • His missus is going to love that. The Sun
  • A tray bit, missus -- just thruppence -- a mouldy thruppence to get a livener. Captivity
  • Jupiter’s two vessels, which unceasingly poured forth good and evil; the cloud embraced by Ixion, which is the emblem and punishment of an ambitious man; and the death of Narcissus, which is the punishment of self-love. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • In 798 he was sent, with bishop Leidrad of Lyons, as a royal messenger (missus dominicus) to the southern part of France. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • In it, she draws from the Greek myth of Narcissus, the young man who falls in love with his own reflection, and plays with that notion of desire and passion for self.
  • Charles Burgoon's Epidermolysis bullosa narcissus. New Library Comics: Week of January 15, 2007
  • The speaker's absorption in the beautiful image turns him into a Narcissus who can never be satisfied.
  • From this perspective, the problem of your missus or your mate takes on added significance.
  • He said: 'My missus is already up the wall with worry about it. The Sun
  • The densities of all woody species except Hydrangea arborescens, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Rosa carolina, Rosa multiflora, and Toxicodendron radicans were determined.
  • When served, they are cut open, and their yellow and white centres remind people of the narcissus flowers which bloom in the hills in the spring time.
  • Auberville, in his magnificent work "L'Ornement des Tissus," is astonished to find the term pomegranate-pattern almost confined to these forms, since their central part is generally formed of a thistle-form. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
  • What sanctions existed to enforce compliance with the orders of missus or count?
  • There are plenty of little people scattered about the corners of Ruisdael's vistas, but they are never Diana chasing Actaeon, or Echo pining for Narcissus, as they usually are in 17th-century landscapes.
  • What sanctions existed to enforce compliance with the orders of missus or count?
  • His missus is Miss Johnny-come-lately around here. Fatal Error
  • My missus knows that isn't true. The Sun
  • For a sophisticated color combo, consider blue lungwort, so named because it was once thought to have medicinal qualities related to the lungs, and the later-flowering pale yellow Narcissus ‘Jenny’.
  • There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
  • Avoid strong lights near the bed-a powerful beam on your missus' bare butt will have her scurrying for cover.
  • Setting: Missus Miggins Pye shawp, or odder plaise taht has cayk and frills awn the taybul, arownd the Edgware Road ayreah! Way to stick the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Amaryllis and paperwhite bulbs Narcissus are distinctive and easy to care for, and can then be planted outside. The best plants to give during the holidays
  • Other favorite flowers are pussy willow, azalea, peony and water lily or narcissus.
  • ‘You'd better watch out, missus,’ I said to Dolly, ‘I feel a pellucid coming on.’
  • Between us, we put everything away, the Engineer and his missus beetled off amid cheery cries of ‘No problem’, and I staggered off, cat securely clutched in arms, in search of gin.
  • As author, she effaces herself absolutely in order to reflect and depict the story of Narcissus.
  • In the language of flowers, the narcissus stands for vanity and egoism.
  • Taking a swim has ‘frightened the missus considerably,’ he says.
  • Whoy, O lor, Miss! that wur sa long back, and the walls sa thin, and the winders brokken, and the weather sa cowd, and my missus a-gittin 'ower' er lyin'-in. Becket and other plays

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