So rich a palimpsest is French civilization, so varied is. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
The description of this granite palimpsest is best given in Mr. Petrie's own words, as written in his weekly report at the time of the discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
The graphical front-end for DeviceKit is called palimpsest and provides several nice management capabilities. From Wordnik.com. [LXer Linux News] Reference
An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
A palimpsest is my brain; such a palimpsest, O reader! is yours. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Appalachia visitation understanding the ancients palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [Fountain Street] Reference
But this palimpsest of a concert hall is the better for it. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Pasternack: New York's New Alice Tully Hall: A Harmonic Renovation] Reference
Call it palimpsest, call it reinscription, call it Doris. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)] Reference
Herwerden's new collation of the Vatican palimpsest containing. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Close on Indy's face, a palimpsest of cynicism and moral fury. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana Jones and the Worrisome Trade Deficit] Reference
In Unter der Haut she claims that memories are like a palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Peggy Sophie Parnass.] Reference
What else than a natural and mighty palimpsest is the human brain?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Sealed, and written on brand new vellum, not a scrap of palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Price]
At once he rises, glaring coldly at the Crerar palimpsest on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Ms. Quandt said she took almost four years to take the palimpsest apart. From Wordnik.com. [November 27, 2006 - Joan of Arc and Hyperides] Reference
''This book is the most important palimpsest in the world,'' Mr. Noel said. From Wordnik.com. [November 27, 2006 - Joan of Arc and Hyperides] Reference
He tried the reshaped nib on his palimpsest then nodded at the letter width. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
Memory becomes a palimpsest, like a map of different countries, continents and cultures. From Wordnik.com. [Katja Behrens.] Reference
Frank's interest in the city's palimpsest past isn't just confined to bricks and mortar. From Wordnik.com. [The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn] Reference
She longed to penetrate below the surface and decipher the strange palimpsest of human life. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Osborne: Passing Oceania] Reference
A palimpsest, then, is a membrane or roll cleansed of its manuscript by reiterated successions. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The truth is, like any palimpsest awaiting a scribe, Twitter's value depends on those who choose to play. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Maureen Dowd, Please Stop Now. Twitter is Not Just For the Banal Retentive] Reference
The master scrivener wrote three words on his working palimpsest, with a quick fluidity that Cerryl envied. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
It was one of the supreme images of history, a palimpsest of the greatest civilisations the world had ever known. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
The palimpsest is believed to have been created by Byzantine monks in the 13th century, probably in Constantinople. From Wordnik.com. [November 27, 2006 - Joan of Arc and Hyperides] Reference
As soon as she was safe from observation, Asie unwrapped the papers with the care of a savant unrolling a palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
While enjoyable and surprisingly fast-paced, the film is itself a palimpsest, with only partial information in places. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document] Reference
The mystery of Archimedes' treatise on combinatorics, the Stomachion, was solved in 2003 by deciphering the palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [November 27, 2006 - Joan of Arc and Hyperides] Reference
His second marriage, of course, had overlain the memories of his first, like the later writing on a medieval palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [2061 Odyssey Three]
Every great city is a palimpsest, an old text upon which new texts are inscribed before the old text is completely erased. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
Also, we are told that a forger added paintings of the evangelists to the palimpsest and another manuscript recently for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document] Reference
It tells how the lost work was scraped and washed clean in the twelfth century for reuse as a prayer book, leaving a palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document] Reference
"Well, Watson, it's as well we have not to turn out to-night," said Holmes, laying aside his lens and rolling up the palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.] Reference
A close examination revealed the fact that it was a palimpsest which, after treatment, permitted the restoration of this fragment. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
"With parchment, you can use it like a palimpsest, take a sharp knife and scrape off the letters, then write in dun instead of white.". From Wordnik.com. [Scion of Cyador]
The new owner delivered the palimpsest to Baltimore's Walters Art Museum, where it has since undergone conservation and image analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document] Reference
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