Word: godiva
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...along with increased devotion to the Virgin Mary. The use of prayer beads recedes into the earliest years of Christianity. In the 4th century, Paul the Hermit tallied his 300 prayers a day by collecting 300 pebbles and discarding them one at a time. In the 11th century, Countess Godiva of Coventry, the celebrated ecdysiast, bequeathed to a certain statue of the Virgin Mary "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might count her prayers exactly." In the 12th century, the prayer now known...
India's legislators are against maharajahs, Lady Godiva and Lady Chatterley's Lover; see BUSINESS, The Dangers...
...Lady Godiva had cantered through Soho last week, she would have been too late. A stripper on horseback has already been signed to work London's "Naughty Mile." The district heaves with a surfeit of female flesh. After years of popularity abroad, the English nude has at last come into her own at home...
Both sides proved to be a bit overzealous. Passo saw to it that before Margaret went anywhere, local police would comb the area, throw up blockades and cordons to keep away the public. When Margaret took a dip in the Viscount Assecas' pool she got the Lady Godiva treatment: nearby peasants' cottages were shuttered up and windows without blinds were pasted with paper...
...your wife's pneumonia, Lord Godiva...