Word: namelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gentleman with a High Hat; a Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan. Secure in an elegance which time has not soiled, these two look out from history, nameless, irreproachable, erect. Much have they seen since one Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, by painting them, preserved their finery from the fate that overtook its fashion. Lately, they have been themselves much watched, talked of?that serene lady, that impeccable gentleman:?because a destitute nobleman, Felix Yusupov, once prince in Russia, sold them to a U. S. financier and art collector, Joseph E. Widener, of Philadelphia, so cheaply that he felt himself...
According to a report, displayed as the most noteworthy news of the day by The New York Herald-Tribune, the oft-heralded floating bar has at last appeared on the Atlantic Coast. The report declares that it is a ship of 17,000 tons, nameless, flying the English flag, carrying the silver and linens of the former German liner Friedrich der Grosse. The location of the ship was 15 miles off Fire Island, a long narrow strip of land protecting the southern shore of Long Island...
...duel to the death with swords ensued upon a nameless sward: Captain Fonseca was wounded...
...Signed) A NAMELESS SUBJECT OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE...
Older generations have come and long since passed, save for college records and dusty class rolls, into their nameless obscurity; but each one has contributed its share to the physical and spiritual aspect of the University. And if at times a few features of their work do not seem to have been constructed with an eye to the possible standards of their successors, it does not necessarily follow that the memories they recall are in any way less appealing...