Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. nihtegale,nightingale, AS. nihtegale,; niht, night + galan, to sing, akin to E. yell,; cf. D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala, G. nachtigall, Sw. näktergal, Dan. nattergal,. See Night, and Yell
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
From the famous Crimean hospital nurse, Florence Nightingale, born 1820.
In literature:
I called her my nightingale for her singing was done at night.
"Sixty Years of California Song" by Margaret Blake-Alverson
The nightingale should have them all.
"Mary's Meadow" by Juliana Horatia Ewing
The wood extended straight down to the sea, and in the trees lived a Nightingale.
"Tell Me Another Story" by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
The Nightingale Gisar is not here.
"The Laughing Prince" by Parker Fillmore
We see only the beams of the sun, but the spirits also hear them; we hear the song of the nightingale, but the spirits also see it.
"Serbia in Light and Darkness" by Nikolaj Velimirovic
But it was like listening to a nightingale in a brass band.
"The Tragic Muse" by Henry James
The nightingales will have begun now.
"Mary Gray" by Katharine Tynan
Kaiserswerth and its deaconesses became more widely known through the life and inestimable services of Florence Nightingale.
"Deaconesses in Europe" by Jane M. Bancroft
Is the song of the nightingale mirthful or melancholy?
"Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442" by Various
I refer to the Virginian nightingale.
"Wild Nature Won By Kindness" by Elizabeth Brightwen
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In poetry:
`Nine summers had she scarcely seen,
The pride of all the vale;
And then she sang: -she would have been
A very nightingale.
"The Two April Mornings" by William Wordsworth
And though it keeps no calendar,
It knows when flowers are springing;
And waketh to its summer life
When Nightingales are singing.
"The Wood-Mouse" by Mary Botham Howitt
The nightingale may sing to thee;
Who else, where all are slain,
Is left to smile? What heart can stir?
O Spring, thou com’st in vain!
"New Spring" by Hovhannes Hovhannessian
YE mountain bluebells, weep with me,
And flowers in coloured crowds;
Weep, nightingale, on yonder tree,
Cool winds dropped from the clouds.
"Ye Mountain Bluebells" by Avetik Isahakian
Our palms are pines, our oranges
Are apples on our orchard trees;
Our thrushes are our nightingales,
Our larks the blackbirds of our vales.
"Haverhill" by John Greenleaf Whittier
Fast climbing up the eastern sky
To grasp and slay the shuddering night,
All careless of my heart's delight,
Or if the nightingale should die.
"By The Arno" by Oscar Wilde
In news:
Erica Sarzin-Borillo, Eccentricities of a Nightingale .
The Nightingale and Other Short Fables.
Buzzell, Nightingale win Member/Guest Tournament Golf.
Delco Nightingale live at the El Bar February 13th, 2009.
Delco Nightingale performing "What Is This Thing Called Love" at the El Bar in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia on February 13th, 2009.
Nursing's Responsibility, Nightingale 's Legacy.
Since Nightingale 's time numerous scholars have documented that environmental conditions play a major role in the health of individuals and populations.
The Nightingales lived at Lea Hall from 1821 to 1825, until their new home, Lea Hurst was completed.
Even Death (Violeta Urmana), who sits in a white coat waiting for the Emperor's demise, is wooed by the Nightingale 's song.
"THE NIGHTINGALE " premiered on December 21, 2005 on PBS (check local listings).
It is the first Black-headed Nightingale -Thrush (Catharus mexicanus) ever seen in the United States.
During its first year of operation, Ridgeview's Nightingale Center for older patients struggling with behavoir changes, received an award for excellence.
Nightingale 's Marks 7 Years Caring For Seniors.
An oil slick in the south Atlantic Ocean is threatening a group of endangered penguins on Nightingale Island.
CRIME TIMES THREE "Cover Her Face," "A Mind to Murder" and "Shroud for a Nightingale".
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In science:
The system is first studied using the transfer matrix method introduced by Bl¨ote and Nightingale , which takes advantage of the Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation in terms of graphs of the partition function of the Potts model in order to reduce the dimension of the Hilbert space.
Quenched bond dilution in two-dimensional Potts models
Nightingale for his stimulating input and for steering this work in the right direction.
The Lognormal Distribution and Quantum Monte Carlo Data
Nightingale, in Quantum Monte Carlo Methods in Physics and Chemistry, edited by M. P.
The Lognormal Distribution and Quantum Monte Carlo Data
Nightingale,“A Short Course in General Relativity”, Longman, London and New York 1979 (Polish edition: J.
Teleparallel equivalent of general relativity: a critical review
Nightingale, Og´olna Teoria Wzgl¸edno´sci”, PWN, Warszawa 1985); J.
Teleparallel equivalent of general relativity: a critical review
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