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• beauty — n. a beautiful person or thing 1) a dazzling, raving, striking beauty 2) a bathing beauty good looks 3) to enhance beauty 4) dazzling, striking, wholesome beauty * * * [ bjuːtɪ] raving striking beauty wholesome beauty [ a beautiful person or… …   Combinatory dictionary

• striking — strikingly, adv. strikingness, n. /struy king/, adj. 1. attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty. 2. noticeable; conspicuous: a striking lack of enthusiasm. 3. being on strike, as workers. 4. a. capable of attacking an enemy, esp. by… …   Universalium

• striking — adjective Date: 1725 attracting attention or notice through unusual or conspicuous qualities < a place of striking beauty > Synonyms: see noticeable • strikingly adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn — Infobox Book name = Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch Earn image caption = author = Angus McDiarmid country = Scotland language = English subject = Southern Scottish… …   Wikipedia

• A Terrible Beauty (album) — Infobox Album | Name = A Terrible Beauty Type = Album |thumb Artist = The Uncle Devil Show Released = April 2004 Recorded = The Fruity Hitler Rooms, Glasgow Genre = Pop Label = P3 Music Producer = The Uncle Devil Show| A Terrible Beauty is the… …   Wikipedia

• dazzling beauty — overpowering beauty, striking good looks …   English contemporary dictionary

• Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around …   Universalium

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• SARAH — (Sarai; Heb. שָׂרַי ,שָׂרָה), the first of the four matriarchs; wife of abraham . Sarah is first mentioned in Genesis 11:29. Exceptionally, her genealogy is not given. According to Genesis 20:12, Sarah was Abraham s half sister, the daughter of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Moses in Hellenistic literature — While the Pentateuch represents Moses as the greatest of all prophets, to whom the Lord made Himself known face to face (Deut. xxxiv. 10; comp. Num. xii. 7), and who, when descending Mount Sinai, had a halo about his head which so filled the… …   Wikipedia

• Moses in Judeo-Hellenistic literature — The Biblical character Moses is discussed or alluded to in surviving works by a number of Judeo Hellenic or Judeo Roman authors, including Eupolemus, Artapanus, Josephus, and Philo, as well as the non Jewish Hellenistic authors discussed in the… …   Wikipedia