Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as valkyr.
  • noun A wise woman; a fate-reader.

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Examples

  • Singer is competent and can do things like Walkyrie, Apt Pupil and The Usual Suspects, but if they're going for a reboot and not a prequel/sequel (like Wolverine), someone else could be interesting. zoey personally id rather someone else direct the first class reboot. having singers vision start over again seems pointless.

    Could Jack the Giant Killer Mean Bryan Singer is Not Available to Direct X-Men: First Class? | /Film 2010

  • Couriers brought wedding presents by the score—silver candelabras from the Astors, a diamond-studded warming pan from the father of the groom, an immense silver punchbowl from Andrew Carnegie, three table services, and, according to Henry Adams, “pitchers, pots and plates enough to supply the Walkyrie and Valhalla.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Couriers brought wedding presents by the score—silver candelabras from the Astors, a diamond-studded warming pan from the father of the groom, an immense silver punchbowl from Andrew Carnegie, three table services, and, according to Henry Adams, “pitchers, pots and plates enough to supply the Walkyrie and Valhalla.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Then he turns his anger against the Walkyrie, who dared to disobey his commands and Bruennhilde flies before him, taking Sieglinda on her swift horse Grane, which bears both through the clouds.

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • In the second scene we see Wotan, giving directions to the Walkyrie

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • Siegfried plunges through the fire, awakes the Walkyrie and after a long resistance, wins the proud virgin.

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • In the first act of Walkyrie -- which is not overburdened with the atmosphere of morality -- even the black-hearted Hunding says to his blood-enemy,

    The Case of Edith Cavell A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants 1898

  • Chanting her Walkyrie war-cry, Brunhilde departs, laughingly calling out to Wotan that he had best be prepared for a call from his wife, who is hastening toward him as fast as her rams can draw her brazen chariot.

    Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894

  • As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: --

    Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894

  • Solemnly he then pronounces her sentence, declaring she shall serve him as Walkyrie no longer, but shall be banished to earth, where she will have to live as

    Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894

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