Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Tas   Listen
noun
Tas  n.  A heap. (Obs.) "The tas of bodies slain."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Tas" Quotes from Famous Books



... glad of that: 'tas put me in better heart. Nay, if I clutch him once, let me alone to drag him if he be stiff-necked. I have been one of the six my self, that has dragged as tall men of their hands, when their weapons have been gone, as ever bastinadoed a Sergeant—I ...
— The Puritain Widow • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... R. a nro senor Dios. P. que cosa es dios? R. la primera causa, el princi pio de todas las cosas, El que hi co todas las cosas, y el no tiene principio nifin. P. quantos dio ses ay? R. un solo dios. P. qua tas personas. R. tres P. como se llama la primera? R. Dios padre. P. como se llama la seu da? R. Dios hijo. P. como se lla ma la tercera? R. Dios spiritu sancto. P. son por uenturatres Dioses. R. no sontres dioses. las personas son tres, ysolo ai un dios. P. qual de las tres ...
— Doctrina Christiana • Anonymous

... September I visited the Municipal Hospital of Ghent. In Salle (Hall) 17, I met and talked with Martha Tas, a peasant girl of St. Gilles (near Termonde). As she was escaping by train from the district, and when she was between Alost and Audeghem, she told me that German soldiers aimed rifle fire at the train of peasants. She was wounded ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

... Philo'tas, son of Parmenio, and commander of the Macedonian cavalry. He was charged with plotting against Alexander the Great. Being put to the rack, he confessed his guilt, and ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer

... resembles the ancient advice of Timaeus of Locrus, the Pythagorean: [Greek: tas psychas apeirgomes pseudesi logois, ei ka mae agaetai alathesi].[13] And I almost suspect that it is your wish, according to the fashion of to-day, ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... Shawnee village of Piqua, on Mad River about six miles southwest of present Springfield, Ohio. His mother may have been a Creek or Cherokee woman, who had come up from the South with some of the Shawnees. The Shawnees were a Southern people, once. The mother's name was Me-tho-a-tas-ke. ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... no beds to sleep in, lest they should become lazy and hard to please. Their only couch was a heap of rushes, which they picked on the banks of the Eu-ro'tas, a river near Sparta; and in winter they were allowed to cover these with a layer of cat-tail down to make them ...
— The Story of the Greeks • H. A. Guerber

... saphes teras, Ous, ou kathaper talla ton zoon gene, Eiothe kinein ex anarthron klasmaton, Kai gar stibarois syntethentes osteois, Kai te pladara ton sphyron katastasei, Kai te pros arthra ton skelon hypokrisei, Nyn eis tonous agousi, nyn eis hypheseis, Tas pantodapas ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

... kniues, Good for there meate, and safer for their liues. There's much example for't, the fellow that sits next him, now parts bread with him, pledges the breath of him in a diuided draught: is the readiest man to kill him. 'Tas beene proued, if I were a huge man I should feare to drinke at meales, least they should spie my wind-pipes dangerous noates, great men should drinke with ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... bon dieu!" howled an injured gentleman. "To sleep is impossible, tas d'imbeciles! ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers

... as I have no doubt it must and will occur, in obedience to a fate that never swerves and a purpose which cannot be altered, what will be the part played therein by that beautiful Egyptian Amenar-tas, the Princess of the royal house of the Pharaohs, for the love of whom the priest Kallikrates broke his vows to Isis, and, pursued by the vengeance of the outraged goddess, fled down the coast of Lybia to meet his doom at Kor?"— She, ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard

... else dans l'antichambre, oui, je m'en souviens, et puis... Though I believe there was some one else besides, and there was a guard standing in the entry. You must ask Nastasya; she knows all about it better than I do. J'etais surexcite, voyez-vous. Il parlait, il parlait... un tas de chases; he said very little though, it was I said all that.... I told him the story of my life, simply from that point of view, of course. J'etais surexcite, mais digne, je vous assure.... I am afraid, though, I may have shed tears. ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... river of Palestine. Jou'ka-hai'nen (You-ka-hai'nen). A celebrated minstrel of Pohyola. Jou-ko'la (You-ko'la). The home or dwelling of Youkahainen. Ju-ma'la (You-ma'la). Originally the heavens, then the god of the heavens, and finally God. Ju'tas (yu'tas). The Evil Principle; Hisi, Piru, and Lempo are synonyms, Kai'to-lai'nen. A son of the god of metals; from his spear came the tongue of the serpent. Ka-ler'vo. The father of Kullervo. Ka-le'va (Kalewai'nen). The father of heroes; a hero in general. ...
— The Kalevala (complete) • John Martin Crawford, trans.

... 'em tas' better!" declared Jeb, anxiously watching Polly hand one to Anne next, and one ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... regretons Entre nous, pauvres vieilles sottes, Assises has, a croppetons, Tout en ung tas comme pelottes; A petit feu de chenevottes Tost allumees, tost estainctes. Et jadis fusmes si mignottes! Ainsi en ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... kinds of days wurk on de plantation: One is de whole tas', meanin' a whole han' or a person een his prime. He wus given two tas' fur dis day's wurk. A tas' carried frum twenty four to twenty five rows which wus thirty-five feet long en twenty five feet wide. De shree fourth han' wus given one whole tas' which ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration

... ARCHY'TAS of Tarentum made a wooden pigeon that could fly; and Regiomonta'nus, a German, made a wooden eagle that flew from Koenigsberg to meet the emperor, and, having saluted him, returned ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... Metastasis (met-as'tas-is). The transfer of a diseased process from a primary focus to a distance by the conveyance of the causal agents through the blood vessels or lymph channels, like mumps from face to ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... from being perpetually used: [Greek: "Thelo soi deixai ton tou Achilleos taphon, horas ton epi tae thalattae; Sigeion men ekeino to Troikon, antikru de ho Aias tethattai en to Rhoiteio. CHAR. Ou megaloi, o Hermae, oi taphoi tas poleis de tas episaemous deixon moi aedae, has kato akouomen taen Ninon taen Sardanapalou, kai Babulona, kai Mukaenas, kai Kleonas, kai taen Ilion autaen, pollous goun memnaemai diaporthmensas ekeithen, hos deka oloneon maede neolkaesai, maede diapsuxai to skaphidion."] The reply that ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com