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a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes
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(Gr. Antiq) A contest for a prize at the public games.
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In Greek antiquity, a contest for a prize, whether of athletes in the games or of poets, musicians, painters, and the like.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Gr. , fr. to lead
When you're agonizing over every sentence instead of moving on with the story. ritermag.com
Rather than agonize over the myriad options on the colorful pictorial sushi menu, try closing your eyes and pointing. nashvillescene.com
PARKERSBURG -Choosing which college to attend can be an agonizing decision for high school seniors. newsandsentinel.com
I took my three required two-hour driving lessons with Westwood Driving School as well, and after six agonizing months of pining for a driver's license to call my own, July 3 — the very first day I was eligible to get my license — came along. smdp.com
No student agonized more than she over the papers and poems she turned in to her mentor, the legendary English professor Mina Curtiss. nytimes.com
Brain- Lock inside the Beltway The GOP agonizes about the anti-tax pledge and Democrats do nothing. nationalreview.com
After presumably agonizing for weeks over whether to keep their lifetime pension benefit or take a one-time lump -sum payment, some 42,000 General Motors retirees are faced with making that critical decision today. blog.aarp.org
It was almost exactly four years ago that Mitt Romney watched up close as John McCain agonized over how he should respond to America's spiraling financial crisis. nytimes.com
Tim Jankovich agonized over his decision to become Larry Brown's coach-in-waiting at SMU. espn.go.com
Agonizing journey from Buchtel ends in glory for Norman Wolfe Jr at Kent State. ohio.com
For those in need of an organ transplant, waiting for a match can be agonizing. oprah.com
These are the people who agonize over a boat's form, obsess on its function and then painstakingly put it all together, piece by well-crafted piece. boatingmag.com
Singer/guitarist posts agonizing essay about being 'a 27 has-been'. spin.com
When the plan to revitalize Chicago's public housing came about, a lot of community leaders agonized over the changes. chitowndailynews.org
But Deverra Beverly didn't agonize. chitowndailynews.org
Hence, the correction to the dimm (0), due to the loss of agonal matrix elements, ∆H lgsc ground-state correlation shifts the N 2p bands downward by about 1.05 eV; see Table I.
Correlation-induced corrections to the band structure of boron nitride: a wave-function-based approach
This could explain the agonizingly slow march since the 1960’s towards demonstrating a robust mechanism of explosion.
Perspectives on Core-Collapse Supernova Theory
Consider a 3-face triangulation; recall this is a triangulation of the dual 3-cells of the triangulation Φ, and a 3-face is the dual to an edge e∗ . A n-agonal face of e∗ is divided into (n − 2) triangles.
Structures and Diagrammatics of Four Dimensional Topological Lattice Field Theories
The graph Xn in the n-agonal face is replaced with the dual to the triangulation.
Structures and Diagrammatics of Four Dimensional Topological Lattice Field Theories
The authors of the papers in agonized over the discrepancy between the unification scale and the scale of SUSY breaking.
M Theory and Cosmology
There was a moment of agonizing suspense. "The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance" by
At first he thought Emmy was dead, and rubbed agonized hands together like a fly. "Septimus" by
His father and mine were friends forty years and more agone. "Children of the Mist" by
But the agonized pike made a last effort. "Red Pottage" by
With agonized prescience the sailor knew that he was yielding. "The Wings of the Morning" by
Sis bought that creature at her sister's husband's fish and poultry shop two days agone. "The Torch and Other Tales" by
But at the first touch of his lips upon her own she resisted no longer, only broke into agonized tears. "The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories" by
It was of no use to hark back to the revival and the heart-quaking experiences of a year agone. "The Quickening" by
An agonized squeak came from under his foot, and he felt something small and soft flatten out, like a wad of dough. "The Courage of Marge O'Doone" by
The mare rolled an agonized eye upon him, and with a sudden burst of fury he rained kick after kick on her face. "The Emigrant Trail" by
A year and more agone,
Your mist of golden splendor
Round my betrothal shone!
Of agonizing woe,
ELTRADA bids a smile appear,
A tear of rapture flow.
Of agonizing woe,
His answer falls upon the ear,
'Yes, sister, you must go!'
With agonizing fear,
He only heard the storm of night--
'Twas music to his ear.
The timeless dial-stone,
The trees, and the moon, and the shadows
A hundred years agone!
They view'd the fatal place,
Louisa's mild yet stedfast eyes
Were fix'd on Henry's face.