How To Use Lyra In A Sentence

  • You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
  • The variable stars in the above image are RR Lyrae variables, single stars that pulsate with periods of about half a day.
  • No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
  • He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted. Joan of Arc of the North Woods
  • Found it to be in south latitude 28 degrees 55 minutes by meridian altitudes of sun, Aquilae (Altair), and Lyra, and in longitude about 121 degrees 10 minutes East. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated,
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  • Since the bombing had started, the ritual checking of number seven Lyra Street had given Vi comfort.
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is important to recognise because it is treatable.
  • He began to slow down as his surroundings began to grow more familiar, and soon he found that his feet had taken him home, to the small, run-down apartment building where he and Lyra lived.
  • Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • Lyra finds and uncages the caged daemons, gets them back to their owners, and engineers an escape for the children.
  • Lyra is wonderful as an independent prospector who learns from being burned; while intriguingly he does not regrets his actions but is burned more so as his obsidian and her amethyst is a fiery PSI heart and soul matching . Obsidian Prey-Jayne Castle « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • Lyra IG hardware includes eight (8) Intel Xeon processors, nVidia Quadro FX 5800 graphics with hardware genlock, and 6GB RAM in a 1. 5U chassis, 1-year hardware warranty, and an attractive maintenance program. PRWeb - Daily News Feed
  • The leaves of this species are six inches long, pale yellowish-green, lyrate, with obtuse and entire divisions: when fully developed, they somewhat resemble those of the oak, as implied by the name. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • Since the bombing had started, the ritual checking of number seven Lyra Street had given Vi comfort.
  • Nicholas of Lyra had allowed that Judas may have been good when he was first called to the apostolate.
  • Why are they bullyragging Russia but not China?
  • He had bullyragged a fair sized fortune out of the manufacturing business before he was 35. Tattlings of a Retired Politician
  • Spider plants and ivies are ideal for desks, and a large-leaved Ficus lyrata or Phoenix roebelinii will cheer up a bare corner.
  • Like all the other identified extra-solar planets, the body found orbiting the star in the constellation Lyra is a giant.
  • The radical leaves are lyrate and roughish when young; those of the stem clasping, or heart-shaped, at base, and of an oblong form, -- all somewhat fleshy, of a dark-green color, with a glaucous bloom. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • Come, now - explain your ingenious little riddle, and don't go on badgering and bullyragging people in this mysterious way.
  • The species of Yucatan and southern Mexico have small lyrate antlers with few, short tines, rather different from the broader type of the more northern species with well developed secondary tines. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
  • Hornless females would place it among the latter; but lyrate horns, ovine nose, and want of sinus, would give it rather to Gazella, and its singular inguinal purses further ally it to _Ant. dorcas_ of this group. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • Heraklion also hosts an arts festival from July to September with plenty of live lyra, while the Aerakis Music store Daidalou St stocks a huge range of Cretan music, many of the artists signed to this legendary store's own label. Insiders' guide to Greece
  • -- Muzzle, ear-conch, and tragus similar to those of _M. lyra_; the posterior portion of the tragus, however, is longer and more attenuated upwards, and more acutely pointed; the nose-leaf is shorter, with convex sides; but the anterior concave disc is considerably larger, and the base of the thickened process is cordate; thumbs and wings as in _M. lyra_; interfemoral membrane deeper; the calcaneum stronger; colour the same. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • The male differs greatly from the female in colour, and in the form of its tail, which is lyrate, or has the outer feathers longer and curved outwards.
  • For Pullman fans, this kind of plucky self-confidence must sound familiar: it's Lyra Belaqua, the novel's crafty protagonist, who travels from Oxford to the Arctic Circle -- aided by armored bears, flying witches and a truth-telling compass that only she can read -- to rescue her kidnapped best friend. The Arctic Adventurer
  • I hate arguing with archdeacons; but of course we can't have Lalage put into a witness box and ballyragged by archbishops and people of that kind, and she'd be the only available witness. Lalage's Lovers
  • The mousy-haired girl was gaining on Lyra fast; in hardly a second she'd bounded over Lyra's head, and stood in front of her, smiling smugly and effectively cutting her off from Tay.
  • He laughed and he bullyragged the boy until Bertram shouted the correct answer.
  • You're not going to ballyrag me and say I'm responsible.
  • Â Lyra leads her women across the ruins of a future New York, revealing the deaths of the “overmen” and encountering a group of male savages, apparently emulating the long-dead Wolverine, still overexposed in the far-flung future. Review: All-New Savage She-Hulk #1 (of 4) | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • But I did not come here to ballyrag like an old woman. Phineas Finn
  • On page 48 she explains how the IRS is bullyragging this poor gentleman over a few million in tax deductions.
  • This is not about some fool of a Secret Service agent jumping the gun on an innocuous online comment, or an airline security officer with a penchant for bullyragging 55 year old women.
  • Synopsis: A stingy merchant hires a trainee from the College and Order of Heralds to assist with alien languages and customs on a trade run to the low-tech planet Lyra. REVIEW: The Good Old Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
  • This lovingly crafted book features a postcard, a cruise time-table and a fold-out map of Lyra's Oxford.
  • The tastefulness of his treble viol playing and the more resonant, lower lyra viol is fetching, and his rhythmic liveliness is always in evidence, but 28 dances are slightly too much of a very good thing. Jordi Savall: The Celtic Viol II – review
  • It's amazing how gadgets age so quickly, iPod is just so much easier to convert video that the Lyra has obsolesced. Boing Boing
  • The famous Mr. Johnson is a shire-fellow of mine, and very proud I am of it, and reckon it among the greatest events of my life that he has bullyragged me soundly for differing from him, and being right, about a line of Virgil he had misquoted in my hearing. The Yeoman Adventurer
  • Patients who develop CMV polyradiculopathy while on ganciclovir or foscarnet therapy should receive combination therapy with both drugs. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • As the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra he was immortal, but he received a terrible, poisonous wound from an arrow which was shot (in error) by Hercules.
  • He has already suffered enough and any one with such a ballyragging, unreasonable, unladylike, and headstrong wife deserves our sympathy. Duty, and other Irish Comedies
  • He did not owe any allegiance to Lyra; he could do as he wished.
  • The variable stars in the above image are RR Lyrae variables, single stars that pulsate with periods of about half a day.
  • FoL fpitbam. alterna, fublyrata, laxa, glabra, fupra virid. fubtus pallida; lacin. ob - long. acutis, ioaequaLter dentat. Summa plantarum
  • No blood flowed till February 4, 1898, when a skirmish, set off by the shot of a bullyragged American sentry, led to war. History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)
  • [2] To _balrag_ is to abuse -- Mr. Lover makes it _ballyrag_, and he is high authority: but if I remember rightly, Curran in his national stories used to employ the word as above. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
  • If I could find the oyster of the world, I'd buy the gun they used to shoot the moon, and ballyrag the Governments to never make a law, just tell the truth on Thursday afternoons…
  • I begin to sympathize with the boss, because I know what he felt when I ballyragged him for copy. The Gentleman from Indiana
  • The radical leaves are hairy and rough, and are usually lobed, or lyrate; but, in some of the sorts, nearly spatulate, with the borders almost entire. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • As Kharl recalled, perhaps according to Lyras, the black mage who had claimed he was but a minor mage, if that, Guillam had been quietly backing Ilteron and had slipped out of Val-murl during the revolt. Ordermaster
  • The eclipse was also detected by the Proba-2's LYRA Lyman Alpha Radiometer instrument, the first ultraviolet radiometer in space that employs diamond detectors. Satellite Captures Solar Eclipse from Space | Universe Today
  • ‘I've always liked mirrors,’ Lyra mused, turning this way and that as she studied her reflection in the silvered glass.
  • What do you mean by assaulting and ballyragging me in this way? Henry Dunbar A Novel
  • The posterior canal is slightly developed and the lip is lyrate within.
  • Expected to hit stores this fall, Thomson's LYRA is the first portable device that can play multiple audio formats; even better, it will use IBM's 340-megabyte microdrive to store up to nine hours of high-quality music. Marrying Music To The Pc
  • I wouldn't have had an archbishop ballyragging me and ordering me about. Plays of Near & Far
  • Nunc opus, Aonidum comites tripodumque ministri, diuersis certare modis: eat enthea uittis atque hederis redimita cohors, ut pollet ouanti quisque lyra. sed praecipui qui nobile gressu250 extremo fraudatis opus, date carmina festis digna toris. hunc ipse Coo plaudente Philetas The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla
  • Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • It is unpleasant to have to sit at meals and listen to the only girl you have ever really loved being bullyragged by an old lady with six chins. Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
  • The comet is not going to be terribly bright (in part because it has broken up into numerous fragments instead of being a single, whole comet), about magnitude 4, and has just passed through the bottom part of the constellation Lyra (right past Messier 57, the Ring Nebula; see the picture below). Archive 2006-05-01
  • Labyrinth in Houdetsi hosts the Irish-born lyra aficionado Ross Daly's lyra and lute workshops, while further south are the party hot-spots, where clubs like Zig Zag in Malia (Malia St) and The Matrix in Hersonissos (Eleftheriou Venizelou St) play DJ Omeyocan's remixes of Cretan hits. Insiders' guide to Greece
  • A particularly egregious incident of bullyragging the wild animals that we saw during this trip to Yellowstone involved someone using their vehicle to try to force a bear to run up a tree.
  • The patterning on the back is lyrate (boomerang shaped ridges over the shoulder and on the back) with small orange-capped warts.
  • Horns non-lyrate: _Gazella Cuvieri_; _G. leptoceros_; _G. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • In a climactic scene in the third book, Lyra comes to grief when she spins a fantastic tale to a mythological creature called a harpy who is guarding the underworld. His Dark Material
  • Only don't think I want to ballyrag about the money. Ralph the Heir
  • It's not that I'm not proud of my junk, it's just that I'm already sick of being scrutinized, frisked, questioned, herded around, bullyragged and browbeaten at each leg of a flight.
  • Lyra pulled the dagger from her jerkin and plunged it into his stomach. HONOR BOUND • by Erin M. Kinch
  • He said afterwards that it was a bit too thick on poor old Leonora to be ballyragged any more.
  • She would need to retune some of the strings for Llyrana's tale, after all, and that she could only really do once it was in the hall and settled.
  • As a bandleader, he bullyragged a shifting lineup of modern jazz virtuosos into performances which combined precision execution with emotionally-charged improvisation.
  • He said afterwards that it was a bit too thick on poor old Leonora to be ballyragged any more. The Good Soldier
  • Dungarvan Rugby Club's Ground at Ballyrandle looked in splendid shape last Saturday afternoon for the clash of Munster and Ulster in their interprovincial at Junior level.
  • He is your average, run-of-the-mill psychiatrist… in that he bullyrags his patients into tears and tries to shoot himself in the face whenever he gets the blues.
  • I hope this will be a lesson to you, Doyle, and will teach you not to ballyrag your customers in future. General John Regan
  • By meridian altitudes of E Bootes, a Coronae Borealis, a Lyrae (Vega), and Aquilae (Altair), Explorations in Australia, Illustrated,
  • He added in his own mind that he did not intend to allow a certain topic between him and Lana Corson to get cold while he was being bullyragged by two elderly gentlemen in that study. All-Wool Morrison
  • I remember being once so bullyragged by the Judge that I had to go outside, and was so sick that in order to recover myself I had to take a pint of champagne.
  • The first stars which I learnt from the celestial globe were alpha Lyrae, alpha Aquilae, alpha Cygni: and to this time I involuntarily regard these stars as the birth-stars of my astronomical knowledge. Autobiography
  • We must sound a caveat to the regime that the New DEAL will not sit supinely and see its members being bullyragged.
  • Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid -- or young woman rather -- standing at the door crying her eyes out. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Origin tales: Thoegeny calls Cheiron the offspring of Phillyra; the Gigantomachia and Pherekydes elaborate that Kronos took on the form of a horse to mate with her; Pindar n Pythian 4 later uses this parentage, and implies his Cheiron is married to Charilko -- who is attested in art, shown as entirely human, and with human offspring. The Origins of Centaurs
  • Lyra's eyes glazed slightly, trying to explain.
  • When handling with creditors and assemblage agencies don't permit them ballyrag you or position you over unpaid balances. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • As the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra he was immortal, but he received a terrible, poisonous wound from an arrow which was shot (in error) by Hercules.
  • You get a chap like Norris, who, when he loses his hair, has got just about as much tact as a rhinoceros, going and ballyragging the man, and no wonder he won't say anything. A Prefect's Uncle
  • Mirelly-Lyra, we'd better hope we can mate with the dikta, because, frankly, I'm terrified of you. A World Out of Time
  • Sequences of A. thaliana and A. lyrata populations were aligned and visually corrected.
  • For instance, compare what the Fox ‘says ’, when being bullyragged by the Wolf, with how he actually lives.
  • Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him.
  • The members of the Board had been ballyragged around the country last year as the worst health administrators ever.
  • What would the chivalrous Robert E. Lee, beau ideal of Southern military manhood, think of 22-year-old Southern officers and gentlemen bellowing at and bullyragging 17-year-old girls?
  • In architecture, the cob is nearly three feet high at the shoulder, has beautiful, sweeping horns of a lyrate shape, has a white patch around each eye, a white belly, and a coat of yellow with black on the forelegs. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
  • The rout is not a complete one, as the contingent of Lyran ships arrive in time to help cover the escape of the remains of the Lyrans' central attacking force.
  • Vilmorin mentions two varieties; one having entire leaves, the other with lyrate or lobed leaves; giving preference, however, to the one with entire leaves. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • I have been bullyragged all day… by the wildcat who is sodding the ground and finishing the driveway.
  • Leaves sixteen to eighteen inches in length, very dark green, deeply lobed, or lyrate, and hairy, or hispid, on the nerves and borders. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • Behold him pulling up in front of a sturdy goodwife that had a mustache, and he only sees her mustache, so he bullyrags her -- 'Why aren't you at the front, you?' Under Fire: the story of a squad
  • Faix, it's well come up wid the likes o 'you to ballyrag over me. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • Naggeneen," said the King, "it's trouble enough you've made for all of us, and it's ballyragging enough you and all the rest of us have got for it, and we don't know, as His Majesty said, what more is to come. Fairies and Folk of Ireland
  • Lyra -- I'd say it makes a potful, which isn't very scientific, but if you're worried about making too much just cut the recipe in half. A more natural chile con queso | Homesick Texan
  • Tyl rose to alert Lyra but she'd heard the ex-plosion and now joined them on deck. Voyage To The City Of The Dead
  • I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition styleless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyRashard MendenhallR_Mendenhall Rashard Mendenhall Reacts To Osama Bin Laden's Death: 'What Kind Of Person Celebrates Death?' [UPDATED]

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