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In the opening scene of Hamlet, for example, Horatio speaks of "the most high and palmy state of Rome" (1.1.112).

13); but "Love and Sorrow" then describes how "evening followed on this palmy noon;/The Roman came, and.../Wrenched [away] the glad cup." Eventually, "drunken," he dropped "cup and wine together" and ushered in another "morrow" of "sorrow" (11.

Called "The Red Oasis" due to the oases galore and abundance of palmy forests, the town's main oases are Tinerkouk, Okarout, Sherwin and Kharora, all of which are dotted with red castles dating back to the 13th century.

the persistence of the Jew villain in the popular novels that a supposedly enlightened constituency devoured in the palmy days of the Reform Bill; the depressingly uniform presentation of the Jewish paragon as a moralizing apologist, a tolerant and educated bore; the portrayal of the Jew as black priest centuries after the Jews stopped being suspected of poisoning the municipal water works or accused of cutting up babies for Passover.

The mind of one familiar with antique models at once turns to the palmy ages of Greek art, and of its Roman copyists.

The government rest houses, where members of the public could stay now, offered a view of how the colonial ruling class travelled in its high and palmy imperial days, and the kinds of digs they stayed in when they shut down their offices in Delhi and Calcutta for the summer.

When Jean Depuis, a French trader and adventurer, travelled the Red River from Yunnan into Vietnam in 1871, he found Laokay "a wretched assembly of huts which even in its palmy days could never have been prepossessing and now bore a look of the most abject desolation" (McAleavi 1968, p.

In its palmy days, under the management of John Douglass, the Standard was a recognized home of realistic melodrama.

Nintendo, the master of fun gaming, has done it again with this great evolution for the palmy army faithful.

"In its palmy days, it had 12 teachers" on the faculty, "The Oregon Companion" says, but eventually it closed in 1908, perhaps when the original church-state funding agreement must have collapsed, although the book doesn't specify the reason.

However folk- or tribal-infused such a style may be, it does not by any stretch represent an homage to the Birkenstock and granola generation, resisting tired labels like "hippie,'' or "counterculture,'' which in the palmy days of Woodstock served as badges of subversion.

However, the Marcoses blocked state efforts, saying that the Malacanang collection is not part of the civil case which included Aguamina, Avertina, Palmy, Vibur and Maler, or collectively known as the Arelma asset.

That, however, remains far below the 15,476 workers reported by the biggest companies in the palmy days of 2005.