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  • As his eyes followed them he thought of the home-coming that he would have shared; their meetings at the church door, the grave handshakings from the older folk, the saucy "horos" from the half-grown boys, the shy blushing glances from the maidens, and last and dearest of all, the glad, proud welcome in the sweet, serious face with the gray-brown eyes.

    The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898

  • But what is this right reason, and by what standard (horos) is it to be determined?

    Aristotle's Ethics Kraut, Richard 2007

  • Because of the nature of his expertise, the statesman is intimately connected with everyone engaged in the care of humans: the truest criterion (horos) of the statesman, says the Stranger, is that by which the wise and good man manages the affairs of the ruled for the benefit of the ruled (296d-297b).

    Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman Gill, Mary Louise 2005

  • The next session, that of 13 October, was especially important; at it was read the horos, or dogmatic decision, of the council [see VENERATION OF IMAGES (6)].

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • In its seventh session the Fathers drew up the essential decision (horos) of the synod.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • The seventh session drew up the symbol (horos) of the council, in which, after repeating the Nicene Creed and renewing the condemnation of all manner of former heretics, from Arians to

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • (De Coel i. 19, 9) derives it from horos, a boundary. cf.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • [Greek: 'mesambrinae d'eich horos haesuchia'] (noonday quiet held the hill).] [Footnote 5: So Theocritus, 'Idyll', vii.,

    The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • Horizon c. 1374, from O.Fr. orizon (14c.), earlier orizonte (13c.), from L. horizontem (nom. horizon), from Gk. horizon kyklos "bounding circle," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary."

    Pharyngula 2009

  • ES328 okera400 PEG SP uriste - Shell ADS aliop horos MS Pass xServ abView abView 4 AN anDP angage Pro.

    Refinance 2nd Mortgage 2008

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