"Asterisk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with an asterisk may govern a noun or pronoun through the preposition de with the exception of junto, which governs ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... usefulness of the material. There are given in Table 8 the properties of some of the commonly used bituminous materials and the properties that can be varied in the process of manufacture are indicated with an asterisk. A variation in these properties will usually result in some change of other properties, but generally ...
— American Rural Highways • T. R. Agg
... to the illustration markers for the convenience of some readers. These have been indicated by an asterisk. ...
— Ben, the Luggage Boy; - or, Among the Wharves • Horatio Alger
... tramped for three or four hours, then again drove, this time to the edge of the New Forest, where we first took tea at an inn, and then tramped through the forest to an inn on its other side, at Brockenhurst. At the conclusion of our walk my companion made a list of the birds we had seen, putting an asterisk (*) opposite those which we had heard sing. There were forty-one of the former and twenty-three of the latter, ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... books with an asterisk are suggested as those on which reading should be begun. The reader can then proceed to the others and after them to the many authors—great authors—who are not included ...
— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair
... Hymns that were sung in the temples in honour of the great gods of Egypt between 1600 B.C. and 900 B.C., and of Hymns that were used by kings and private individuals. The following Hymn to Amen-Ra is found in a papyrus preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo; the asterisk marks groups of words which are equivalent to our lines ...
— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge
... are often combined on coins for purposes of sexual symbolism. R. P. Knight explains these symbols as follows: "It appears therefore that the asterisk, bull, or minotaur, in the centre of a square or labyrinth equally mean the same as the Indian lingam,—that is the male personification of the productive attribute placed in the female, or heat acting upon humidity. Sometimes the bull is placed ...
— The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - An Interpretation • Sanger Brown, II
... by E.H. Bailey, R.A. (1788-1847), and six by Rossi. Not only were Flaxman and Chantrey artists and not mere masons, but examples of both Bacon and Bailey are among the very few sculptures in the National Gallery. The asterisk affixed to the number indicates that the remains ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul - An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch • Arthur Dimock
... of the Mohawk Valley won at Oriskany, according to Washington, the first battle of importance in the American Revolution.* [Tr. note: original has no footnote to go with this asterisk] ...
— The Lutherans of New York - Their Story and Their Problems • George Wenner |
