How To Use Oread In A Sentence

  • Genesis Energy Chief Executive, Murray Jackson swops his ‘captain of industry hat ‘for a toreador's montera this week assisted by Carmen opera star, Jessie Raven.’
  • In skintight toreador pants, she manages to make the world's most famous come-on out of a simple walkaway , and Marilyn's face, by popular standards, is as spectacular as her figure.
  • Villagers face forward into the square to see the toreadors who march behind them.
  • The three microreaders available in the Library are fully occupied most of the time.
  • The playful musicians, the nightclub style and habit, the interplay with the women, secondary but necessary foils for the cock of the walk antics of the musicians, are bested perhaps only by a toreador in his prime.
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  • Then came the bullfights, except that the toreadors, being slaves or convicts, had been given no chance to practice, so the bull usually gored them to death.
  • Thereafter Jurgen came upon a considerable commotion in the bushes, where a satyr was at play with an oread. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • The RFID microreaders, RFID tags and EDTP readers are not available locally.
  • Periodicals, newspapers, microforms and microreaders are on the fourth floor.
  • Better to have had the brilliant young conductor Philippe Jordan on stage, seen at the start wielding his baton like a toreador with his sword.
  • It is significant the bullfighter is mounted, he says: ‘In the real story of Carmen, her second lover is not a toreador but a famous picador.’
  • The humor in ‘G,’ for instance, comes from the gap between a lithe and elegant woman's body and her evocation of a bull, perhaps also a toreador, in response to verses about cowboys lassoing cattle in Argentina.
  • He's a toreador, after all, and you have so much experience at bull-flinging.
  • Not for a moment could it be fancied the oread step which belonged to that daughter of the hills -- my wife, my Agnes; no, it was the dull massy tread of a man: and immediately there came a loud blow upon the door, and in the next moment, the bell having been found, a furious peal of ringing. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
  • If electricity is a thing of the past in the future, a small generator operated by a windmill was included to power microreaders and projectors.
  • Her lithe, almost tomboyish figure was tightly enclosed in purple toreador trousers and a lilac blouse. BLACK EAGLES
  • Brandishing his trophies, the triumphant toreador tours the arena to the applause of the public, who hand him flowers and wine.
  • Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad? There & Back
  • It's solitary, it's compulsive, it's expensive, and I tend toread a short story or novel and imagine that the fictionalproblems are my own, living half in Andre Dubus's character'ssadness and half in my own life. Amanda Eyre Ward about the genesis of her short stories, including those collected in Love Stories in This Town, and how her writing style has evolved over the years.
  • She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain. There & Back
  • At his best, the 27-year-old plays his brand of power tennis with the sort of easy grace you would usually associate with a toreador twirling his cape, waiting for the exact moment to sink the estoque between the bull's shoulder blades.
  • The microreader is a low-power module designed for use in portable, battery powered applications or electronic door locks etc.
  • Aisles are embedded with inexpensive microreaders, and any product can be inventoried real-time.
  • We always remembered the picture she made there; and in later days when we read Tennyson's poems at a college desk, we knew exactly how an oread, peering through the green leaves on some haunted knoll of many fountained The Story Girl
  • Ramon, a famous toreador - pigheaded and full of himself - also takes an immediate interest in the fiery female.
  • For something more subtle and different from the classic plastic frames, there are these Toreadior aviators with swarovski crystals on the side.
  • But there are so many bulls and nary a toreador to be seen by the portal.
  • As he beheld their filmy draperies that swayed phantom-like among the crags overhead, he understood those pagan minds of olden days for whom such wavering exhalations were none other than sea-nymphs, Atlantides, offspring of some mild-eyed god of Ocean rising to greet their playfellows, the Oreads, on the hills. South Wind
  • These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Set in a Brazilian factory town where familiar operatic characters such as the toreador and Don Jose appear as a rock musician and a lovesick cop, respectively, Carmen provides a dramatic challenge for Les Grands.
  • Meursius is of opinion, that the Greeks borrowed their notion of these divinities from the Phœnicians, for _nympha_, in their language, signifying _soul_, the Greeks imagined that the souls of the ancient inhabitants of Greece had become Nymphs; particularly that the souls of those who had inhabited the woods were called Dryads; those who inhabited the mountains, Oreădes; those who dwelt on the sea-coasts, Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
  • You may use the microreader for up to 3 hours.
  • As for him, he was not thinking of the mountain girl, the oread who, in the days when he was younger and his heart beat high, had caught his light fancy, tempting him from his comrades back to the cabin in the valley, to look again into her eyes and touch the brown waves of her hair. Audrey
  • I applaud his swift-footed move: Like the toreador who dodged the bull at the last milisecond, he escaped being gored.
  • Possibly, if the thing became too pensive and soulful altogether, he might give it some title suggestive of the absent lover at the bull-fight -- "The Toreador's Bride" -- or something of that sort. The Coming of Bill
  • Revlon Photoready MakeupNot only that, it contains a natty ingredient called photochromatic pigments that bend and reflect light away from the skin so flaws stay hidden. Sky Showbiz - Latest
  • In today's opening contest, I've narrowed the field down to Russian Spirit, Fathom Five, Le Toreador, Ishetoo and Fol Hollow but, in the hope that his lowish draw might prove a slight advantage, it's Fol Hollow (1.40) who might just come out on top. Talking Horses
  • And what of the asphalt toreadors who use their own defenselessness as a kind of weapon? Pedestrian Detection
  • Digital microreaders are available in the Copy Center on 2 West in the Main Library.
  • Retailers are also taking advantage of integrated units like POS printers with built-in microreaders, said Buzek.
  • Back then, however, microreaders and microprinters did not exist.
  • They can get through the eye of a needle.… They're also as brave as toreadors.
  • I ran, in as dignified a manner as one does when late for a train, while the guard waved a red flag like an accomplished toreador on amphetamines.
  • The handsome toreador sat at the bar, his blue eyes and white hair both lightly glistening alike in the poor light the CPI could offer.
  • He constructed a toreador mounted on a horse composed of drainpipes, with bicycle tyres to represent the horse's protruding entrails.
  • His eyes glisten from a web of wrinkles, and I can imagine an event for each line drawn: flying in Vietnam, coaching the Port Arthur Toreadors for fifteen years, losing a wife named Marguerite to encephalitis, losing his only child to the state of California. Between Here and the Yellow Sea
  • His approach to the arts was akin to that of a toreador to a bull.
  • The toreador's victorious march overlaps don Jose's killing of Carmen with the clamors of ‘Victoire!’
  • Their torsos were generously oiled and sprinkled with pollen, and they stamped their feet like toreadors, kicking up the sand and whipping up a fever of excitement among themselves and the girls who were watching them.
  • This invention will be hereinafter described with particular reference to an embodiment thereof applied to the microreader used as the interface.
  • The library is equipped with the latest in microreaders and printers in order to make full use of the growing microform collection.
  • Once, Bert almost tripped over Sam, spinning around to admire a passing woman melted into tight turquoise toreador pants, a jeweled white sweater, and heavy make-up, including bee-stung lips covered with pale, nearly white lipstick.
  • I care though. just so thats out in the open. .well not so open. nobodys oging to oread this and thast prolly for the best. Katebell Diary Entry
  • Tennyson calls “Maud” an _oread_, because her hall and garden were on a hill. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
  • He paused to survey the oread vision of Lady Kitty. The Marriage of William Ashe

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