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...NUMBER:30603 QUOTATION:In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greetings cards,...
12) Tahmasp Kuli Khan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Tahmasp Kuli Khan, see Nadir Shah....
13) Ahmad Shah. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...founder of the Durani dynasty. His success in commanding Afghan forces in India for Nadir Shah of Iran won him the rule of Afghanistan on Nadir's death (1747). He...
14) 331. The Night Obscure of the Soul by Rachel Annand Taylor. Nicholson &
Lee, eds. 1917. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
...WHEN the Soul travails in her Night Obscure, The nadir of her desperate defeat, What heavenly dream shall help her to endure, What flaming Wisdom be her Paraclete?...
15) vertical circle. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through the zenith and the nadir and thus is perpendicular to the horizon....
16) sensible horizon. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
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...intersecting an observer's position perpendicular to the line formed by the observer's nadir and zenith....
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...For the nadir of the art, however—which, as if to justify divers sayings, was reached just before the close of the eighteenth century, and just before those ascents...
18) Ze'nith, Na'dir. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Na dir is the opposite point, immediately beneath the spectator s feet. (French, zenith, nadir.) 1...
19) Norwegian literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Denmark, and Danish culture began a long dominance in Norway; Norwegian culture sank to its nadir in the 16th cent. as Danish became the written language. The works...
20) celestial horizon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...It is the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the observer's zenith and nadir; it divides the celestial sphere into two equal hemispheres. The observer...
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