单词 | rebus |
例句 | In San Antonio, Texas, the final contest was a fresh and very complicated rebus puzzle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Well, my uncle gave me Mr. Lemoncello’s Phenomenal Picture Word Puzzler for Chanukah and I can’t figure out this one rebus.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Logograms for abstract words were often derived by the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “All right, you Maniac Magees, here is your picture puzzle. The category is Famous Quotes. You have sixty seconds to solve this rebus.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides cables and tubes, what connects these various constructions is a rebus of images that decodes as “I see catastrophes ahead.” Art In Review: ANTOINE CATALA: ?I See Catastrophes Ahead? 2012-03-08T22:19:06Z Alex Israel’s installation “Property,” consists of found objects that form a kind of tawdry sculptural rebus about the pursuit of physical perfection by evoking the body, gyms, medicine and illicit sex. Art Review: A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel 2011-05-31T23:36:56Z It’s a rebus: Thatch plus yellow paint equals blond hair. Art Review: Rauschenberg, Before Fame Struck 2014-05-08T20:35:43Z It is comic and allusive, this outsize rebus: the pencil as well as the sharpener. Thomas Scheibitz – review 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z It's also worth trying jering rebus, a boiled fruit with the look and texture - though unfortunately not the taste - of chestnuts. Malaysia on a plate 2010-12-28T11:06:09Z Rather than inventing complicated rebuses or byzantine treasure hunts, Yates confronts his six players with perhaps the oldest and simplest contest of all: the penalty-dare. ‘Black Chalk’ review: A school game turns deadly 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z “A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, ‘The Handmaiden’ is finally and most significantly a liberation story,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Handmaiden’ and Kristen Stewart on ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, she caused a small sensation by introducing the rebus puzzle. Bernice Gordon, Who Toyed With Words, Dies at 101 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The books are rebuses: They combine normally written words with emojis that substitute for words or parts of words. See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Professor Crystal compared them to “the rebuses of old, which replaced parts of sentences, or using a gesture or facial expression in place of words in speech.” Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z At the back of each book, a rebus dictionary offers a translation for each emoji and its meaning. See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z If somebody must write my life story, let it be in rebus form. Elizabeth McCracken: By the Book 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z A modern-day equivalent would be using a picture of an eye to represent “I” — a linguistic concept called the rebus principle. How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, “The Handmaiden” is finally and most significantly a liberation story. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection. Review: How a Guatemalan kidnapping inspired Eduardo Halfon's autofictional 'Cancion' 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In recent weeks, fans called out the game for inviting players to guess less familiar words such as “tapir” and “rebus.” Wordle sparks transatlantic rift as Brits denounce American English spelling of ‘favor’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Baric’s entrancing collage, with an incessant penchant for psychedelic dissonance, is in itself a rebus — a puzzle that derives meaning from drawings and letters. Review: 'Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus' is better experienced than solved 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Premise: A seeming twist on “Classic Concentration,” which featured contestants competing to decipher a rebus, except now the rebus is made entirely of emojis. With ‘Boy Band,’ ‘Candy Crush’ and more, summer TV has more reality than you can shake a stick at 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Photograph: Universal Images Group/Getty Images In essence, Griffiths had to crack an elaborate Tudor code of rebuses, ciphers, heraldic motifs and symbolic flowers to discover who the man was. Shakespeare: writer claims discovery of only portrait made during his lifetime 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Mrs. Gordon was credited with pioneering and popularizing the use of the rebus, in which a character represents a word or part of a word. Bernice Gordon, whose crosswords appeared in newspapers across and down the U.S., dies at 101 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z According to Google trends, searches for the terms “rebus meaning” and “tapir meaning” soared in the United Kingdom earlier this month as people researched the words. Wordle sparks transatlantic rift as Brits denounce American English spelling of ‘favor’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Gordon is credited with pioneering the “rebus” puzzle, which requires solvers to occasionally use symbols instead of letters. Bernice Gordon, crossword puzzle constructor, dies at 101 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Directions on scales, or dials, or mathematical or other instruments; puzzles; games; rebuses; labels; wrappers; formul� on boxes, bottles, and other receptacles of articles for sale or meant to accompany such articles. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z So it was, long ago, when I loved, when I composed a rebus every day. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Today the rebus is a convention of the crossword. Bernice Gordon, whose crosswords appeared in newspapers across and down the U.S., dies at 101 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The only danger that can well arise is if these categories are transplanted without due reservations, and made of universal application, i.e. if the scientist elects on his speciality to pronounce de omnibus rebus. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Time pressed, and perhaps the Dutch girl's presence confused me, or the delicacy of the position occurred to me in mediis rebus, as I think the Fraulein called it. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z One of the most singular rebuses I have seen occurs in a window in the chapel at Lullingstone, co. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z But she could not guide a husband who needed a bridle rein, neither could she decipher rebuses. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z As addressed not to the imagination but to the practical understanding, it was in a peculiar manner the literary product of a people 'rebus natus agendis.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We are filling the little heads nowadays far more with sand-map puppets and blackboard rebuses than with the Word of God. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z And another time: "A treaty is only valid rebus sic stantibus, if the situation is the same as when it was concluded; if the circumstances change, it becomes invalid by the very fact." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Arth or Narth, in the British language, is said to signify a bear; hence this ensign was adopted as a rebus or play upon his name. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z If it be composed of the first three, then the nomen corresponds to what in heraldry is called a rebus. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z The fish, we are told, was adopted by those Christians because of the alphabetical rebus—the Greek word I. K. Th. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Br�hl stood thoughtful, then he whispered in Pauli's ear: 'Est modus in rebus! Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z This rebus is repeated in the roof of the choir. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z Est modus in rebus, there are limits in all things, and our diplomat should have been guided by this ancient saying together with the counsel of a master, the illustrious Talleyrand, "Pas de zele, surtout!" My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Then this figure, more or less reduced or conventionalised, served to indicate not only the term man, but the full sound man, as in the word manifest, and in the modern rebus. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z In the rebus dear to children of a suitable age, this is still done to-day. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z He seemed never to have heard of Horace, and was consequently entirely ignorant of the propriety of maintaining a modus in his rebuses. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z A similar rebus is in the crypt on Cardinal Morton's monument—a mort or hawk perched on a tun or barrel. Canterbury 2011-02-17T03:00:20.527Z He invented hoaxes, composed rebuses, tried to engage in polemics, and even intended, in spite of the situation of the premises, to get up concerts. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z From the example here given, the Maya script would appear to have in part reached the rebus stage, which also plays so large a part in the Egyptian hieroglyphic system. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z It has been suggested that the word “Drede” used here is a rebus composed of the initials of the words “dominus rex Edwardus domina Elizabeth,” referring to Edward IV. and his Queen. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z I have solved the rebus of existence and have put on omniscience. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile One day he commences a heroic poem, which terminates the next in a rebus or sonnet. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Will you truthfully answer the rebuses I shall now propound to the best of your ability, and govern yourself accordingly till the surface of Hades congeals to glistening bergs, and that with no unseemly curiosity?” Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus The Aztec writing may be best described as pictographic, the pictures being symbolical or, in the case of names, combined into a rebus. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Sophy lay awake at night, racking her brain for possible solutions, until it haunted her dreams like a dark rebus, cluttering her only half-unconscious brain with the refuse of rejected theories. Shadows of Flames A Novel It was not by the Maya system, but by one of rebuses, that the old missionaries wrote what few books they composed for their unhappy Indian congregations. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks His rebus is a fire beacon lighted, a tun holding the fire. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Emblems, rebuses, and puns, the delight of the Jesuits, were very fit for that purpose. Priests, Women, and Families Enough if we know what we have to do 'rebus sic stantibus.' Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians It is recorded of another Inca that, as a wise measure he destroyed all writing, presumably picture and rebus writing, as calculated to mislead his people by a multiplication of symbols. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations "Farther towards the frontier, and higher in the scale of rank, I suppose?" said I, by way of solving the rebus. Eyes Like the Sea It is exactly the same contrivance that is used to construct the puzzle called a "rebus." The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West The former is largely phonetic, but in a peculiar manner, for which I have proposed the term of “ikonomatic,” the principle being that of the rebus. A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages The national State may for the time being limit its absolute sovereignty by international agreements, but any such agreements are only conditional and temporary—rebus sic stantibus. German Problems and Personalities This rebus is surrounded by the nocturnal heaven strewn with stars and the reference to the union of rain or earth-wine with earth and darkness is evident. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The picture-writing so common to savages and barbarians finally passes from a simple rebus to a very complex written language, as in the case of the Egyptian or Mexican. History of Human Society He made epic poems, tragedies, and pastorals, with surprising facility; song, epigram, or rebus, was all one to him; though, it is observed, he could never finish an acrostick. The Story of the White Mouse One class was formed as were the “canting arms” in heraldry, that is, by a rebus. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The Mayas, besides using their alphabet, employed at the same time a kind of pictorial writing, something not unlike our rebus. The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries As in the Maya map the centre of this is occupied by the well-known hieroglyph or rebus of Te-noch-ti-tlan, the ancient capital, which consisted of Mexico and Tlatelolco. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The deciphering of rebuses, the solution of small problems of strictly definite scope, are occupations which attract many able minds. Introduction to the Study of History And the greatest pages of his autobiography, written with his brush, will be only so many childish rebuses if we forget what astounding pages of History and Argument were turned before him. Holbein That the early alphabets are of this type of rebus pictures appears in their names. Introduction to the Science of Sociology They entertained Elizabeth at Sutton; she would have a child's memory of the founder of the house, and doubtless praised the rebus in the terra cotta moulding, the "R.W.," the grapes and the tun. Highways and Byways in Surrey It is evident that the employment of this significant emblem was suggested by the Nahuatl word for “freeman,” and constituted a sort of rebus expressing this title or rank. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Joke, if you will, but, as Horace said, 'est modus in rebus.' The Regent's Daughter The term ‘Rebus’ is from the Latin rebus, ‘by things,’ because it is a name-device, the representation of a name by objects. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter They wrote at times with pictures standing for sounds, as we now write in rebus puzzles. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Never still for a moment, yet so indistinctly marked that at a distance it looks like a dozen other birds one might name—a veritable feathered rebus. Our Bird Comrades Another name for goose being aq or ak, we find that its value as a rebus must have been supreme, since it so perfectly expressed the word ak=middle. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations “The cross is the symbol of the four winds; the bird and serpent the rebus of the rain-god, their ruler.” Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire A necessary provision with regard to the notorious clause rebus sic stantibus. The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures The complete development of a sound alphabet from this type of rebus writing required, doubtless, much experimentation on the part of the nations which succeeded in establishing the association. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The plan of our work may be said to comprise the treating de omnibus rebus nauticis, for many branches of knowledge are demanded of the intelligent seaman. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It does not appear impossible that the word khat=corpse may also have been brought into use in the rebus and furnished an anagram or allusion to the ak or centre. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The freedom of style used in the latter case only serves to emphasize the conventionality of the former, and to separate the entire system from either picture or rebus writing. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs "Guess this rebus," said Cricket, presenting a paper on which she had been drawing for a moment. Cricket at the Seashore This again confirms the theory of the rebus meaning of the cross-hatching. Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 A cask; the rebus of the final syllable TON in many surnames. The Handbook to English Heraldry A careful analysis of this and of the astronomical images suffices, however, to disclose the limited scope of the meaning of such groups, each one being but a different rebus containing the same phonetic elements. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The rebus of Prior Thomas Goldstone—a shield with three gold stones—is carved upon these arches. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See The rebus is the bridge from the writing of thoughts to the writing of sounds, and it came into use through the necessity of writing proper names. The Booklover and His Books In the cases of these two gods we got the chiffre, and the rebus is still to seek. Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 Mr. Fremantle wrote the next day as usual, de omnibus rebus. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents This appears to explain clearly why the bull was chosen as the image or rebus of Polaris and Ursa Major, which appear to have been regarded as a single combination of stars. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations It was one mass of broken, misplaced, jumbled up belongings, that would require the rebus manager of a magazine to assemble in order. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages And yet I have spoken ‘de omnibus other rebus’ first. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) It has the hand as in 2020, the rebus also, and the sign for Ymix is slightly different, being modified with a sign like the top of a cross, the symbol of the four winds. Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 Modern painters and engravers have frequently adopted similar devices as a rebus, or enigmatical representation of their names. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) If analyzed more closely, however, and interpreted as a rebus, it appears to yield a fund of deeper meaning. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations She had been a fool indeed to miss such a rebus. Little Novels of Italy The night-moths, which dashed in to burn themselves at the candles, frightened the children; and Madame Bayard was so tired that she could not even guess the simple rebus on her dessert napkin. Ten Tales All of them have been pure picture-writing, except in so far as their rebus character may make them in a sense phonetic. Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 This rebus should be noticed; it is a pun in stone, with its hart lying in water. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The image of the house, always represented with a single doorway, is obviously a rebus of the name Hathor, explained by Egyptologists as Het-heru, literally “the house of Horus.” The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations This rebus may be found in various places where the work was due to him. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey In the hollow of the arch-moulding are sixteen boars with rue leaves in their mouths, forming a "rebus" of the dean's name. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The mode in which this is done corresponds precisely to that of the rebus. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America If this interpretation be correct, the serpent figure must be used symbolically or as a true rebus. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. Some of their so-called idols were, after all, either attempts to represent in objective form, the attributes of the divine power, the forces of nature, the elements, etc., or rebus figures. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations His rebus is a ram wearing a collar with the letters R.Y.G.E. inscribed on it. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey Together with verbal humour and many absurd devices connected with it, he especially repudiates the rebus. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 "I am trying to guess a rebus which has just appeared in 'The Iris.'" The Poor Plutocrats On both sides the design is a rebus 62on the name of Parker, representing in fact a Park within a high paling. English Embroidered Bookbindings On the side walls and slanting roofs more warriors are figured, many accompanied by a rebus or hieroglyph which evidently records, in Mexican style, individual names. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Find the sum expressed in each horizontal row, and add together the four numbers thus found, to form the complete sum expressed by the rebus. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 This has a hare on one side, a ton on the other,—a rebus of the town name Watton. Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 This I conjecture to have been a thorn, intended as a rebus upon the name of Christopher Thornber, the fifteenth abbot, who died in 1486. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 S, single at the end of words, has a grosser sound, like that of z, as trees, eyes, except this, thus, us, rebus, surplus. A Grammar of the English Tongue This name signifies, literally, “the head of four,” but could be expressed by the rebus of a “serpent's head,” which would obviously have been employed in pictography to express the title and rank. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations "It is probably a rebus," said Rolf thoughtfully. Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country But Calvin, though he boasts him “easy and flexible in mediis rebus, such as external rites,” is decidedly in favour of the Puritans. John Knox and the Reformation For mean's her design, and her subject as mean, The first but a rebus, the last but a dean. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 The rebus of each of these abbots can be seen in its decorations: an ash growing out of a tun or barrel, and a church or kirk with a tun. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The 'Bus Strike being at an end, the newspapers will discontinue writing de Omnibus rebus, and must employ themselves upon quibusdam aliis. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891 Est modus in rebus: the poet seems niggardly with his melody; he may weary us with too long waiting, with too little staying comfort. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies It is a building of red brick having on the top a lion, the rebus of the founder's name. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 A dean's but a parson: and what is a rebus? The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 There are also some rebuses, and some lettering. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See I recollect, when I was first under examination at the University of London, Dr. Pereira was the examiner, and you know that "Pereira's Materia Medica" was a book de omnibus rebus. Critiques and Addresses All three panels are in excellent preservation, and the design of a harp, being a rebus of the Master's name, is a quaint relic of old customs. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time By the time she came to where she could stand, she was a rebus of the Coliseum,—"a noble wreck in ruinous perfection." We Girls: a Home Story The Dean never stops, When he opens his chops; I'm quite overrun With rebus and pun. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Not a day passed without a rebus, an anagram, or a madrigal. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. "As, box, boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes; kiss, kisses; rebus, rebusses." The Grammar of English Grammars The dwelling of this Starr family was the Tudor house at the end of the main street which bears on it the design of a star, the rebus of the one-time owners. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Every treaty of alliance presupposes the rebus sic stantibus; for since it must satisfy the interests of each contracting party, it clearly can only hold as long as those interests are really benefited. Germany and the Next War If your worship will please to explain me this rebus, I swear from henceforward you shall be my Phoebus. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 I said it was 'one of many volumes of odds and ends de omnibus rebus;' and I read him the last entry I had made the night before, on my return from the opera. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 This sceptic's name was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything. Les Misérables A coronet with five points, and beneath, Cedit amor rebus—'Love yields to circumstance.' Far from the Madding Crowd I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses, and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire Great stir in the Shrine Market! altars to Phoebus Are going dog-cheap—may be had for a rebus. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes For here some sixteenth-century humorist had displayed the arms of Abbot Beere in the form of a convivial rebus or riddle—to wit, a cross and two beer flagons. Henry Fielding: a Memoir There must be a limit, even to rebuses. Les Misérables It's the labours of Hercules, a puzzle, a rebus! Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series This difficult but all-important step appears to have been taken through the use of the rebus, that is, writing words by pictures of objects which stand for sounds. Early European History I recollect, when I was first under examination at the University of London, Dr. Pereira was the examiner, and you know that Pereira's "Materia Medica" was a book de omnibus rebus. Science & Education As if every picture was a rebus and every poem a charade! Mankind in the Making Florio's rebus or device, then, was a Flower. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 Every treaty or promise made by a state, Treitschke holds, is to be understood as limited by the proviso rebus sic stantibus. Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) We thus form whole universes of platonic ideas ante rem, universes in posse, tho none of them exists effectively except in rebus. Meaning of Truth Our account of truth is an account of truths in the plural, of processes of leading, realized in rebus, and having only this quality in common, that they PAY. Pragmatism The pavement of the chapell there is of bricks, annealed or painted yellow, with their coat and rebus; sc. a tower and a tunne. The Natural History of Wiltshire "Cedit amor rebus; res age tutus eris," is a very wise saying, and Meadows, by his own observation and instinct, sought the best antidote for love. It Is Never Too Late to Mend And here, in old English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at the bottom. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Waywardness is here, in spite of the eternal prohibitions, and the existence of any amount of reality ante rem is no warrant against unlimited error in rebus being incurred. Meaning of Truth He, the seeker after numerical combinations, the solver of amusing problems, the answerer of charades, rebuses, logogryphs, and such things, was at last in his true element. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Observing several to be very busy at the western end of the temple, I inquired into what they were doing, and found there was in that quarter the great magazine of rebuses. Essays and Tales "A plague on rebuses, Jehan! the wine is better at 'Eve's Apple'; and then, beside the door there is a vine in the sun which cheers me while I am drinking." Notre-Dame De Paris A sort of riddle or rebus, you know. From Sand Hill to Pine It was like a dramatic rebus with which old Europe and new America alike became fascinated. Mystery of the Yellow Room A rebus is added to this purpose:— The enemy to the stomach, and the word of disgrace, Is the name of the gentleman with the bold face. Kenilworth Such seems to be the education and government appointed for man by the voluntatem Dei in rebus revelatum, and the education, therefore, which the man of science will accept and carry out. The Ancien Regime For, marry, if the cobbler stuck to his last, then were his latest his last in rebus ambulantibus. Seven Men |
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