How To Use Leviathan In A Sentence
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Matthew Walker, the eponymous company founded in 1899 and now owned by Northern Foods, is a leviathan of the Christmas pudding world.
Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud
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Leviathans are one of the nastiest water animals that ever swam the seven seas, and I thought that a leviathan was scaring the fish away from something.
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What I find funny about that Leviathan cover is that you can't improve upon the original. heu mihi commented at 8:23 AM~
Ferule & Fescue
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One of the tendrils touched the tip of one of the leviathan 's tentacles.
WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
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It is worthy of note, too, that the word leviathan in xli. 1 is used in a totally different sense from iii 8, where it is the mythological (sea?) dragon.
Introduction to the Old Testament
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Shoulder to shoulder, at least 20 people could stand with their backs against each of these leviathans.
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Lincoln is lionized not because he saved self-government, but primarily because he sanctified and vastly extended Leviathan.
February « 2009 « Antiwar.com Blog
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Whether this leviathan be a whale or a crocodile is a great dispute among the learned, which I will not undertake to determine; some of the particulars agree more easily to the one, others to the other; both are very strong and fierce, and the power of the Creator appears in them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The humpback whale, that mighty leviathan of the briny deep, hardly strikes one as a marvel of agility; on the contrary, it seems the very embodiment of stateliness and power.
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Fish populations plummeted and eventually, when the canal was 30 kilometers long and the sea continued to move away, the boats were abandoned to lie like great leviathans on sands that were once sea bottom.
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And, just as Raven had foreseen, the Leviathan rushed forward, its hooves clomping down upon the stone flagstones.
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I am to face this leviathan Charles, who will presently swim hitherward, cleaving the deep before him.
Quentin Durward
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Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
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While it's well known that many modern large animals, including Indian elephants, can swim, sauropods have long been viewed as bulky leviathans in a class of their own.
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Town, with a certain Irish purser, who is as well known as he is respected among the leviathan old negro ladies, it would be hard to find.
Travels in West Africa
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But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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His leviathans and huge worms and wrecks of ships rot on every shore and in his dunnest deeps amidst pearls and sea-born blooms.
The Masque of the Elements
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He would have bene a proper instrument for any tyranny, if he could have a man tyrant enough to have bene advized by him, and had no other affection for the nation or the kingdome, then as he had a greate share in it, in which like the greate Leviathan he might sporte himselfe, from which he withdrew himselfe, as soone as he decerned the repose therof was like to be disturbed, and dyed in
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
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The reason for the fluctuations is uncertain, but if there were several large leviathans in the lake prior to 1860 as proponents believe, why was there only one highly doubtful sighting?
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A minority interpretation to which I adhere is that Leviathan in Job 41 is a theriomorphic description of Satan.
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Even so, say the skeptics, it's hard to make a solid business case for these leviathans.
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In the event of leviathan attack, the offending leviathan is shot by the laser on a specific blue spot near its right flank, which has the effect of relaxing all muscular structure and connective tissue in the leviathan body, killing it instanteously.
Archive 2004-08-08
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There is Princess Gloriana amid sea demigods with conch-shell trumpets and mer-people and fishes of every size from sprat to leviathan.
Nutrition
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they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks
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YA author Scott Westerfeld's next novel is Leviathan, a remarkable YA steampunk adventure story that pits Darwinists (the English side, with their evolved war-machines created by splicing and dicing various animals 'genomes to make zeppelins) against the Machinists (the German side, who use enormous, precision-made, steam-driven mecha and the like) in an alternate WWI.
Boing Boing
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Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
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A veritable witness have you hitherto been, Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters, ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and cheeseries in his bowels.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Moving underneath them, the whale then rises, gulping them down in one leviathan mouthful.
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From here it appears as a fine conical peak, steep slopes rising smoothly to a narrow crest, a direct contrast to the tor-studded whaleback of distant Ben Avon and the leviathan mass of Cairn Gorm itself.
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Think of the precedents—Proteus, Scylla… I am certain there is something extremely edifying in the Bible about Leviathan and a hook, and my old nurse, a dour Scotswoman, used to terrify me with stories of kelpies and other devilish creatures that drowned and ate their victims, apart from their livers.
The Mistaken Wife
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_Leviathan_, which, painted by an English camoufleur, Wilkinson, fairly revels in color designed to confuse the eyes of those who would attack her.
Our Navy in the War
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But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Hap could see the fluked tail just under the surface, and the leviathan poised as if standing for a moment on solid ground.
DRAGON GAMES
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Monsieur Balzac very angry with Buchanan, for the same reason; nor will he by any means let us substitute Belzebub, Asmodeus, and Leviathan, in the room of Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, which is, in his Opinion, perfect
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
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Contacting a local ghillie was easy and for a reasonable fee we were able to arrange for her to spend a day on the river trying to catch one of these leviathans.
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Think of the precedents—Proteus, Scylla… I am certain there is something extremely edifying in the Bible about Leviathan and a hook, and my old nurse, a dour Scotswoman, used to terrify me with stories of kelpies and other devilish creatures that drowned and ate their victims, apart from their livers.
The Mistaken Wife
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The present-day reputation of Leviathan is somewhat ironic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Thomas Barnett says the military should be divided between what he calls a leviathan force for high intensity wars and a system administrative force to rebuild nations.
CNN Transcript May 18, 2004
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The Leviathan was “aerostatic,” Service-speak for being the same density as the air around it.
LEVIATHAN
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“resolutive-compositive” method elaborated in the opening sections of the Leviathan (Lukes 1968, 119).
Methodological Individualism
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Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
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The whirlwind tour was meant to humanize the low-cost leviathan so often depicted as self-serving and ruthlessly pragmatic.
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There are creatures so little, so weak, as to be easily restrained thus, and triumphed over; but the leviathan is not one of these: he is made to be the terror, not the sport and diversion, of mankind.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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For over an hour they tracked the leviathan on its journey -eastwards, their faces warmed by the rising sun.
AMAGANSETT
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“Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant.”
Rep. Carnahan and the Gladney Incident: the secret press conference. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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The present-day reputation of Leviathan is somewhat ironic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This paper surveys the interplay between political theories and theological doctrine in Leviathan.
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It is the vast labor pool that global capitalism has tapped into that is the new leviathan.
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Since a corporation's culture shapes the quality and range of its journalism, the danger in reducing ownership to a few leviathans seems clear.
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(for otherwise it seems unaccountable) why Moses there so particularly mentions the creation of the whales, because God had so lately insisted upon the bulk and strength of that creature than of any other, as the proof of his power; and the leviathan is here spoken of as an inhabitant of the sea (v. 31), which the crocodile is not; and Ps. civ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Well, both Leviathan and Behemoth, the mythic and legendary giant creatures of the sea and the land respectively, are kosher.
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She was in awe of the powerful old leviathan, and adjusted its controls with a naive reverence.
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The face of the leviathan is here described to be terrible (ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The French administration is seen as a modern Leviathan condemning man to an existence which is becoming more nasty and more brutish because it is getting longer.
The Government and Politics of France
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I give you the health of 'Thanatos' -- the leviathan of artillery, the winged bearer of death and destruction -- and of its inventor, Herr von Heckmann.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth
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Although the author does not mention it, you can see, from the useful illustrations contained here, that the cornucopia in Britannia's hand has been transformed into a sword in the hand of Leviathan.
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The typical person lacks the resources, knowledge, and skills to take on the local leviathan that our local governments have become.
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Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
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Seajacks, originally a Norwegian company, is the business behind the monster wind installation ships named Leviathan and Kraken.
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Not every Frenchman will welcome the sight of such a leviathan trailing Union flags to the gates of Paris.
ANTI-ICE
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Blue whales, found in all the oceans of the world, are true leviathans, stretching as long as 100 feet and weighing as much as 200 tons.
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Haworth is the railway's headquarters, boasting a locomotive depot where visitors can view the steam leviathans under repair or restoration.
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While the penultimate anti-whaling lament, The Last Leviathan, proves somewhat lugubrious, the album closes on a note of affirmation with the simple but affecting love song Running Home.
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For the Swede still remains 15 goals shy of the total the supreme Rangers marksman racked up in matches between Scotland's footballing leviathans.
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Granted, the Leviathan numbers are just predrill guesses.
The New Big Oil and Gas Find
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The leviathan is said to play in the waters, because he is so well armed against all assaults that he sets them at defiance and laughs at the shaking of a spear, Job xli.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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It is the vast labor pool that global capitalism has tapped into that is the new leviathan.
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The last few hundred bats always malingered in the nesting coves, and tonight the Leviathan needed all of her beasties in the air.
LEVIATHAN
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I too think these school-run mums in automotive leviathans should be horsewhipped to within an inch of their lives.
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There is a palpable sense of the ghosts of ancient wars looking down grimly on a humbled leviathan.
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He said oil slicks from the stricken leviathan still sometimes marred the bay.
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A beautiful terzetto describes with inimitable grace the gently sloping hills covered with their verdure, the leaping of the fountain into the light, and the flights of birds, and a bass solo in sonorous manner takes up the swimming fish, closing with "the upheaval of Leviathan from the deep," who disports himself among the double-basses.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
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With binoculars and a picnic lunch, one can spend endless hours here, musing on the leviathans that approach almost to the base of the cliffs.
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I left her exploring and made the coffee before steering her away from the leviathan in the back.
THE MANANA MAN
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There were private yachts, Adriatic liners, all brilliant with illumination, and hundreds of gondolas, bobbing, bobbing, like captive leviathans, bunched round the gaily-lanterned barges of the serenaders.
The Lure of the Mask
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We feel quite humiliated on our lonely ferry-boat as these leviathans of nautical architecture sweep past us with an imperious curve far out into the stream, and then move steadily and statelily down the middle of the river, like an "ugly duckling" of mammoth proportions.
Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
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Leviathan among sharks, a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) gains on its small prey in the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.
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These rare leviathans of the deep have not been seen in the North Atlantic for many years.
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I think much of fishing for a leviathan from the Island of the Cold Sea.
Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
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In the hunt - ing of “Leviathan” which ensued (see Mintz) perhaps only the Cambridge Platonists managed to shun scur - rility.
HIERARCHY AND ORDER
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Back in the days when whalers hunted sperm whales, they often reported seeing fish fly through the air when the leviathans surfaced.
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The French administration is seen as a modern Leviathan condemning man to an existence which is becoming more nasty and more brutish because it is getting longer.
The Government and Politics of France
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YA author Scott Westerfeld's next novel is Leviathan, a remarkable YA steampunk adventure story that pits Darwinists (the English side, with their evolved war-machines created by splicing and dicing various animals 'genomes to make zeppelins) against the Machinists (the German side, who use enormous, precision-made, steam-driven mecha and the like) in an alternate WWI.
Boing Boing
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Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
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it was a leviathan among redwoods
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Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
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He said I was a bubble of colour and beauty on the black back of Leviathan; that I was a fragile dewdrop on the smoking crest of a lava flow; that I was a rainbow riding the thunder cloud ...
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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At first the awed and fascinated occupants of Alexander thought it must be blood from a slain whale, then realized that no leviathan could exsanguinate enough to dye the water scarlet as far as the eye could see.
Morgan’s Run
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Over the past 43 years he has worked in the trenches at such corporate leviathans as IBM and Xerox, and in between he has found the time to be an entrepreneur, running 21 companies in 17 industries at one time or another.