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...sts from editors, authors, indexers, and teachers of publishing courses. Sales of the 14th edition reached nearly half a million copies, bringing the grand total of all Manual of Style sales to well over one million. Throughout the 1990s, the growing popularity of the World Wide Web changed everything once again. The web offered new ways of researching, new ways of comm...

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...te; empire of Russia, kingdom of Bel- gium, [kingdom of God, or of heaven], duchy of Anhalt, state of Illinois, county of Cook, city of Chicago. 5.... ...ng the fourth degree in a direct line of descent, call for a hyphen: great-grandfather, great-grandson. I 76. Compounds of " life " and " world " r... ...in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "T... ... by the pradominsnce of a common language. It wu no( tba Rmt time that thil grand pmsp& had bson held forth to the world. When Alex- ander WM yet a ... ... the predominance of a wmmon language. It was not the first time that this grand prospect had been held forth to the world. When Alexander was yet ... ...the predominance of a common language. It wae not the .first time that this grand prospect had been held forth to the world. When Alexander was yet ...

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...sly as ever escalating means justify an ever shrinking cause. The initial burst of grandiosity inherent in every such undertaking gives way to cyni... ...ebellion not 40 years before (in 1848-9) and were awarded with the half autonomous Duchy of Vojvodina, an integral part of the Kingdom of Hungary. ... ... some export concessions for some agricultural produce. In 1885, he acted upon his grandiosity to disastrous outcome. Four years later, he abdicate... ...g fascism by centuries. Miklos Horty, the Austro-Hungarian Admiral was consumed by grandiose fantasies of an Hungarian empire. He had very little i... ...ed a divine mission or divine plan to the political unit of the nation, a part of a grand design. The leader was the embodiment, the conveyor, the ... ... a "Besa" (the sacred Albanian vow) given to them by NATO. Opinions regarding the grand strategy of conducting the war differed strongly. The agre...

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...hosen by Council has full authority when Council not in session; Loya Jirga (Grand National Assembly) supposed to convene eventually and ap- prove per... ... (12 elected members and 3 appointed by Governor); judicial Sum- mary Court, Grand Court, Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, Her Majesty's Privy Council ... ...humidity Terrain: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grand-Terre is low limestone formation Land use: 18% arable land; 5% perm... ...4.4% agriculture; unemployment 1.5% (1985 average) Government Official name: Grand Duchy of Luxem- bourg Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Luxemb... ...griculture; unemployment 1.5% (1985 average) Government Official name: Grand Duchy of Luxem- bourg Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Luxembourg A... ...ndependent courts; coalition governments are usual Government leaders: JEAN, Grand Duke (since 1964); Jacques SANTER, Prime Minister (since July 1984)...

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...s, family and other heirs should be supported by it. It then becomes the "Duchy of Madison County" and we are stuck with generations of "Dukes of Mad... ...s. Everyone else watches in amazement and dismay the consequences of this grand folly: innovation is thwarted, consumers penalized, access to works ... ... many an article either truncated or mysteriously divided. Still, it is a grand and welcome undertaking. Another sorely needed contribution is the J... ...f more collectivist and consensus-seeking cultures, are less sanguine and grandiose and more willing to accept teachings ex-cathedra. So said Theodo... ...urope VI. The xxth Title Added at Project Gutenberg of Canada VII. The Grand Opening of Project Gutenberg of the Philippines VIII. The Official... ...scounted and subsidized hardware and connection time. In one of its more grandiose moments, the heads of governments of the EU countries have decid...

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...m Design. Science tries to explain the Big Bang as an inexplicable wonder, a grand mysterious Miracle… which just happened by pure random luck to a... ...oes not happen because a certain person just happens to explore farther. The Grand Banks between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland were fished for hundre... ...st inhuman butchering armies on Earth. For example: a full 80% of Napoleon’s Grande Armee retreating from Moscow; had a host of sexual diseases tha... ...ning your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s oak table lovingly for twenty fucking years. Once you di... ...ning your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s Oak table for twenty years. Once you die, that table wil... ...n name only. Prussia and the Junkers, along with the fragmented kingdoms and duchy’s of greater Germany were all obsessed in recreating that long-l...

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...istorians derive their insight into the closing years of the reign of the “Grand Monarch,” Louis XIV: whom the author shows to be anything but grand—a... ...ew of the King, and was much above the Princes of the blood by his rank of Grandson of France, and by the Court that Monsieur his father kept up. The ... ...riage. In order to vanquish all these obstacles, the King applied to M. le Grand (Louis de Lorraine). This person was brother of the Chevalier de Lorr... .... An Apartment as it was called, was an assemblage of all the Court in the grand saloon, from seven o’clock in the evening until ten, when the King sa... ...sat down to table; and, after ten, in one of the saloons at the end of the grand gallery towards the tribune of the chapel. In the first place there w... ...ove Roanne, which prevented navigation to that place, the principal in the duchy of M. de la Feuillade. His father, tempted by the profit of this navi... ...ved from Parma (the Queen of Spain, it has not been forgotten, was of that Duchy); he omit- ted nothing by the aid of the Duke of Parma, and by other ... ...e Duc du Maine, and his posterity after her death, the countdom of Eu, the Duchy of Aumale, and the principality 980 Saint-Simon of Domfes! The gift ... ... three slices. More- over, she had given the first two to Lauzun, with the Duchy of Saint-Forgeon, and the fine estate of Thiers, in Auvergne, when th...

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... bing; meanwhile two others scrubbed the four marble steps which led up to the door; beyond these we could see some men-servants taking up the carpet ... .... Two or three open carriages arrived, and depos- ited some maids of honor and some male officials at the hotel. Presently another open carriage broug... ...aden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet of the army on his head. Last came the Empress of Germany a... ...W I’ve got five hundred fleas on me!” That was probably over the average. Yes, it must have been very much over the average. The average at that time ... ... got five hundred fleas on me!” That was probably over the average. Yes, it must have been very much over the average. The average at that time in the... ...full of endearing diminutives; nothing that they love escapes the application of a petting diminutive—neither the house, nor the dog, nor the horse, n...

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...aughter thirty thou- sand francs a year, and settled it on his anticipated grand- sons, naming them counts of La Bastie-Wallenrod. This “dot” made onl... ...wooped down upon their happi- ness, just as the cold fell in 1812 upon the grand army in Russia. One night sufficed Charles Mignon to decide upon his ... ...resent day, —after all, the Canalis are not Navarreins, nor Cadignans, nor Grandlieus. Nature, however, helps him out in his pretensions. He has those... ...ement, which makes him disagreeable and capricious; they want him al- ways grand, noble; it never occurs to them that genius is a disease, or that Nat... ...ce on me would sooner or later have come between us. Your husband, however grand your fancy may make him, would have ended by reproaching you for havi... ...much of you as he does of all those merchants down there; he’ll sell you a duchy with some name ending in ‘ia’ or ‘agno.’ Don’t play away your happine...

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...e you aware that the great Pitt lived in Baker Street? What would not your grandmothers have given to be asked to Lady Hester’s parties in that now de... ... polite, and prosy—the young ladies blonde, timid, and in pink—the mothers grand, beautiful, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds. They talked in Englis... ...ure. The greatest triumph of all was at supper time. She was placed at the grand exclusive table with his Royal Highness the exalted personage before ... ...eorgy is Made a Gentleman GEORGY OSBORNE was now fairly established in his grandfather’s mansion in Russell Square, occupant of his father’s room in t... ...od looks, gallant bearing, and gentlemanlike appearance of the boy won the grandsire’s heart for him. Mr. Osborne was as proud of him as ever he had b... ...nd marriage-days of its princely governors. Then from all the towns of the Duchy, which stretches for nearly ten mile—from Bolkum, which lies on its w... ...dow, a severe and devout Princess of the House of Bolkum and Regent of the Duchy during her son’s glorious minority, and after the death of her husban... ...ought of refusing to receive her in the very highest society of the little Duchy; and the ladies were even more ready to call her du and to swear eter...

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... this final Third Volume of our History. Sansculottism reigning in all its grandeur and in all its hideousness: the Gospel (God’s Message) of Man’s Ri... ...ears’ distance, it is different. To all men now, two cardinal movements or grand tendencies, in the Sep- tember whirl, have become discernible enough:... ...is cut in fragments; with indigni- ties, and obscene horrors of moustachio grands-levres, which human nature would fain find incredible,—which shall b... ... literary De Ligne the Thundergod of Dandies, fell backwards; shot dead in Grand-Pre, the Northmost of the Passes: Brunswick is skirting and rounding,... ...stream up on him: full of heart; yet rather difficult to deal with. Behind Grand-Pre, for example, Grand-Pre which is on the wrong-side of the Argonne... ...lgium to France;—of which Dumouriez might have made the pret- tiest little Duchy for his own secret behoof! With all these things the General is wroth...

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...f these towns were once the capitals of a little feudal State,—a county or duchy conquered by the crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line ... ...hat the town is to the region, an exact image of the past, the symbol of a grand thing destroyed,—a poem, in short. This mansion belongs to the nobles... ...e, with a sword argent in pale, and the terrible motto, FAC. Is not that a grand and noble thing? The circlet of a baronial coronet surmounts this sim... ...on- firmed republican would be moved by the fidelity, the noble- ness, the grandeur hidden in the depths of that dark lane. The du Guaisnics did well ... ... men worked, or thought they worked, for a family in perpetuity. Hence the grandeur of these houses. Faith in self, as well as faith in God, did prodi... ...ages, it is less easy to fail of it. Such was the thought of our immediate grandfathers, abandoned by a generation which was soon to have no signs and...

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...e performances. There are scenes of all sorts; some dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very mi... ...Briggs never spoke ill of her; high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel; and as for Miss Swartz,... ... solemn promises of writing every week: “Send my letters under cover to my grandpapa, the Earl of Dexter,” said Miss Saltire (who, by the way, was rat... ...angs of envy. “What airs that girl gives herself, because she is an Earl’s grand- daughter,” she said of one. “How they cringe and bow to that Creole,... ...ng than that creature, for all her wealth. I am as well bred as the Earl’s grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by h... ...nd marriage-days of its princely governors. Then from all the towns of the Duchy, which stretches for nearly ten mile—from Bolkum, which lies on its w... ...dow, a severe and devout Princess of the House of Bolkum and Regent of the Duchy during her son’s glorious minority, and after the death of her husban... ...ought of refusing to receive her in the very highest society of the little Duchy; and the ladies were even more ready to call her du and to swear eter...

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...glasses were singularly small and the wines insipid. After dining with the Grand-Duke of Florence, Montaigne passed rapidly over the intermediate coun... ...omfortable, and his stay extended to five months. A mind like his, full of grand classical reflec- tions, could not fail to be profoundly impressed in... ...y had been favoured by fortune to be some slight evidence of that infinite grandeur which nothing could entirely extingish. But it was likely that the... ... This minister had despatches from his court for Venice, addressed to the ‘Grand Governor of the Signory’. The court of Muscovy had at that time such ... ...ue at this point began to refuse its functions), I said, “What are they?” “Grand, grand!” he replied. “I have never yet failed,” returned I, “to have ... ...Italy, out of which he had lately been driven, and par- ticularly with the duchy of Milan, had thought it conve- nient to have a gentleman on his beha... ...hich Count Montfort obtained over Charles de Blois, his competitor for the duchy of Brittany), the conqueror meeting the dead body of his enemy, was v... ... our last Duke of Guienne, the father of that Eleanor who transmitted that duchy to the houses of France and England, continually for the last ten or ...

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... appearance of the whole that the prince could be known from his two companions, the one dressed in violet, the other in green. He on the left, in vio... ...ll be punished!” replied the other girl, sitting down quietly in hers. “Punished, indeed! — that is to say, deprived of a ride! 9 Dumas That is just ... ...dinal’s apartments.” “Then I am condemned, sire?” Louis XIV . made no reply. “Condemned is the word; for I will never solicit him who left my mother a... ...hter and grand-daughter of Henry IV . — if M. de 69 Dumas Retz and the parliament had not sent them wood and bread.” “To die?” murmured Louis XIV . “... ...II.?” exclaimed Mazarin, with a hoarse voice and a disdainful movement of his lips. “Y ou have received a visit from Charles II.?” “From King Charles ... ...lease, in that character.” Whilst every one was pressing round the general, who received all this homage without losing his impassibility for an insta... ...ing everything without arousing suspicion. In this manner, he was enabled to convince himself of the importance the event assumed in proportion as he ...

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...his left side. A gentleman of the “good” century (in distinction from the “grand” century) could alone have invented that compromise between contemptu... ...iding in the future of the Restoration, he finally placed his money on the Grand-Livre at the moment when the funds were at fifty-six francs and twent... ...ard. Beneath the chevalier’s room there lived a paralytic, Madame Lardot’s grandfather, an old buccaneer named Grevin, who had served under Admiral Si... ...housand francs of debt, while his vis-a-vis waited before the door. He was grand,—like Berthier on the retreat from Mos- cow, issuing orders to an arm... ...ousquier saved only twelve hundred francs a year from an investment in the Grand Livre, which he had happened to place there by pure caprice, and whic... ...s; consequently, this family had thrown out so many suckers throughout the duchy as to appear on nearly all the genealogical trees. No bourgeois famil... ...stolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancient duchy of Alencon. Faith and piety admit of no subtleties. Mademoiselle Corm...

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...pinion, after having made, each in his own way, close researches as to the grand and splendid figure of Catherine dé Medici. Conse- quently, I have th... ...eatness, and to the popu- lar ridicule which fastens a contrary sense on a grand histori- cal act. Thus, the name of the Prince de Polignac is given t... ...n these days, to the majestic adversary of the most barren of heresies the grandeur she derived from the struggle itself? Calvinists have written much... ...ossible where discussion is permanent. Therefore we ought to recognize the grandeur of the woman who had the eyes to see this future and fought it bra... ...na, a title given by Pope Clement VII., as a half-way sta- tion to that of Grand-duke of T uscany. From Lorenzo are descended the Florentine Brutus Lo... ... for the Valois blood, indemnified the Comte d’Auvergne by the gift of the duchy of Angouleme. Catherine had already given Marie Touchet, who asked no... ...ight as to yourself, Albert; for they have given you the ancient title and duchy of de Retz.” “Now listen to me,” replied his brother. “The queen hope...

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...erry smile. These were Dame Astrida’s son, Sir Eric de Centeville, and her grandson, Osmond; and to their care Duke William of Normandy had committed ... ...he wished young Richard to understand well, whereas, in other parts of the Duchy, the Normans had forgotten their own tongue, and had taken up what wa... ...n as we should have been, had not King Harold the fair- haired driven your grandfather from Denmark. They had not been taught the truth, but to us it ... ...ld not lose one word of the story she was telling him; how Earl Rollo, his grandfather, had sailed into the mouth of the Seine, and how Archbishop Fra... ... Rouen had met with harm from the brave Northmen. Then she told him of his grandfather’s baptism, and how during the seven days that he wore his white... ... forefathers!” “I believe it well!” said Bernard. “He hath the port of his grandfather, Duke Rollo, and much, too, of his noble father! How say you, L... ...ls from the Barons of the Exchequer, who were then Nobles sent through the duchy to administer justice, and the discussions about the proceedings of h... ...ttle Duke!” he told Richard, again and again, that his was the most goodly duchy in France and Germany to boot. When they crossed the Epte, the King w... ...rnard the Dane that he would be more secure be- yond the limits of his own duchy, which was likely soon to be the scene of war; and, sorely against hi...

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...Y es—here it is. What does it call itself? A History of the Assizes of the Duchy of Brittany. Quimper, 1702. The book was written about a hundred year... ...sband: he stood beside her, smiling not unkindly. “Y ou look like my great-grandmother, Juliane de Cornault, lying in the chapel with her feet on a li... ...izes; and while he was away his aunt, the widow of a great nobleman of the duchy, came to spend a night at Kerfol on her way to the pardon of Ste. Bar... ... against the young man being insufficient, and his family influence in the duchy considerable, he was set free, and left soon afterward for Paris. He ... ...hile she feigned an interest in her visitor’s anecdotes about some unknown grandchild. Mrs. Manstey’s real friends were the denizens of the yards, the... ... I don’t care a damn whether you believe me—what I want is to convince the Grand Jury! I oughtn’t to have come to a man who knows me— your cursed incr... ...ht intrude without perceptibly lowering the atmosphere. It was as though a grand opera-singer had strained the acoustics of a private music-room. Thur... ...le. Luckily, how- ever, she also recently inherited a tidy legacy from her grand- mother; and having seen the Leonardo, on which its discov- erer had ...

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...hat ever lived, preparing, after having supported the Duc de Nevers in his duchy of Mantua, after having taken Nimes, Castres, and Uzes, to drive the ... ... affairs of intrigue mistrusted women infinitely more than men. One of the grand causes of this prejudice was the friendship of Anne of Austria for Mm... .... “Be assured you will not find her Majesty ungrateful.” “Oh, I am already grandly recompensed!” cried D’Artagnan. “I love you; you permit me to tell ... ...the guests began to come. As fast as they entered, they were placed in the grand saloon, on the platforms prepared for them. At nine o’clock Madame la... ...ss, was accompanied by his royal Highness, M. le Comte de Soissons, by the Grand Prior, by the Duc de Longueville, by the Duc d’Euboeuf, by the Comte ... ...a chim cut like that of Brutus, had altogether an indefinable character of grandeur and grace. His hands, of which he took little care, were the despa...

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...ribe occupied a room on the third floor. The mother and father had a sort of bedstead in the corner; but Tom, his grandmother, and his two sisters, Be... ...ed girls, unclean, clothed in rags, and pro- foundly ignorant. Their mother was like them. But the father and the grandmother were a couple of fiends.... ...night, he knew his father would curse him and thrash him first, and that when he was done the 8 Mark Twain awful grandmother would do it all over aga... ...ke his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his hand- ful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. And still h... ...melancholy day. At night Tom reached home so wet and tired and hungry that it was not possible for his father and grandmother to ob- serve his forlorn... ...er of Windsor Forest, who passed it to the Third Groom of the Stole, who passed it to the Chancellor Royal of the Duchy of Lancaster, who passed it to... ...ehold, the Constable of the Tower, Norroy King-at-Arms, the Master of the Wardrobe, the Chancel- lor Royal of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Third Groom ...