Nabu

NOUN
  1. Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools
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How To Use Nabu In A Sentence

  • It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much. Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words
  • See for example Martial, "Epig.", xiv, 161, where the signal for the opening of the baths is made with a tintinnabulum also described as œs thermarum. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Cave honors his own definition with songs that truly "resonate with the susurration of sorrow, tintinnabulation of grief" like "Straight to You", "Nobody's Baby Now", and the slayer "Into My Arms". Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
  • Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. Walden
  • Two dresses of osnaburg were then given each person. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
  • It is an example of what Mr. Pärt calls tintinnabulation, a slow, introspective style, with the strings playing in a high register, that often evokes the pealing of bells. NYT > Home Page
  • Nostra Paula, [129] quae ex urbano palatio et opimis praediis in speluncam Bethleemiticam tantis itineribus peregrina cucurrit, ut ad Christi vagientis cunabula delitesceret. Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities
  • When one day, a Persian conqueror -- Cyrus -- entered the precincts of E-Sagila, his first step was to acknowledge Marduk and Nabu as the supreme powers in the world; and the successors of Alexander continue to glory in the title 'adorner of The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
  • Matt was the first to do this ... then Michael, who was like the unabusive brother I never had ... then Dave. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Fictionalizing my life
  • Like Armenian string cheese, Nabulsi is salty, and studded with tiny black nigella seeds (also known as black caraway or black cumin), which give the cheese a slightly spicy, peppery taste. Say Cheese: Crisp and spicy
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