Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OF. sable, F. zibeline, sable (in sense 4), LL. sabellum,; cf. D. sabel, Dan. sabel, zobel, Sw. sabel, sobel, G. zobel,; all fr. Russ. sóbole,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. sable—Russ. sabolĭ.
In literature:
Standing before the long mirror, Laura looked with a frown at the sable coat, which gave her, as Gerty had said, the air of a tragic actress.
"The Wheel of Life" by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Tea-set and sable coat missing.
"The Burglar and the Blizzard" by Alice Duer Miller
There is, beside, the 'link-man', a lank, dark-faced, black-haired man, in a sable suit, with a link or torch in his hand.
"Uncle Silas" by J. S. LeFanu
His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise.
"The Younger Set" by Robert W. Chambers
The Labrador marten, or "sable," is a sub-species, generally distributed in the forested parts, like the weasel.
"Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador" by William Wood
The pines stand in black platoons upon the hillsides, with a tinge of red or orange on their sable.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece" by John Addington Symonds
Along the North Shore and from Yarmouth to Cape Sable, over a hard bottom, cod abound.
"Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine" by Walter H. Rich
But, for from one woe springs a second, I behold thee having thy head shorn of its locks, and these sable garments; alas me!
"The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I." by Euripides
At length the sable covering had spread itself over the earth.
"The Fugitive Blacksmith" by James W. C. Pennington
As a token that thou wilt forget it, accept this cloak of sable.
"Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)" by Various
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In poetry:
Broke! Broke! Broken!
Your stubborn will is broken
You will dance no more on the sable floor,
O Lilly Willy Woken!
"Lilly-Willy-Woken" by Henry Clay Work
When the great sower, Night,
Lets down his sable bars,
He goes into his endless fields
To plant his seed, the stars.
"In The Meadows Of The Sky" by Charles Hanson Towne
Touch'd at her tears that streaming flow
(Just tribute to the good and brave)
Britannia, wrapt in sable woe,
Bend o'er her Abercromby's grave.
"On The Death Of Lieut. Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby. Killed At The Battle Of Alexandria, In Egypt, Marc" by Hector MacNeill
O! then how pale the BARON grew,
His eyes wide staring fearful!
While o'er the Virgin's image fair
A sable veil was borne on air
Shading her dim eyes, tearful.
"Golfre, Gothic Swiss Tale" by Mary Darby Robinson
Where rocks with sable brows o'erhang the main,
And foaming surges lave the slimy shore,
Where echo screams the lengthen'd sound again,
Where o'er the heath the winds unfetter'd roar.
"Meditation" by Charlotte Dacre
"Why, cruel WHITE-MAN! when away
"My sable Love was torn,
"Why did you let poor ZELMA stay,
On Afric's sands to mourn?
"No ! ZELMA is not left, for she will prove
"In the deep troubled main, her fond—her faithful LOVE."
"The Negro Girl" by Mary Darby Robinson
In news:
Sable is a friendly gal who loves to ride in the car, go on walks and be with her family.
Sable needs an active family, preferably with Corgi experience.
Sable is crate-trained and loves to be inside.
Publicis' Murray Heads to Young & Rubicam Hire is Sable 's biggest since becoming CEO By Andrew McMains.
Au Sable Forks — Shortly after mourners had left to attend a funeral, the Zaumetzer-Sprague Funeral home was engulfed in flames.
Au Sable Forks funeral home fire.
Sierra Club and Anglers of Au Sable win nine-year battle to protect the Mason Tract of the Au Sable River from oil and gas drilling threat.
Northern Michigan's Mason Tract of the Au Sable River Protected.
Elizabeth Dubben, who runs the Amrose Sable Gallery at 306 Hudson Ave in Albany, recently sent an e-mail telling patrons the arts space will be closing on May 24.
Sable & Rosenfeld Port Cranberry Sauce.
Feds Probe Taurus, Sable For Stuck Throttles.
In this image taken on Monday, Nov 5, 2012, chocolate black pepper sable cookies are shown in Concord, N.H.
DETROIT (AP) — Federal safety regulators are investigating some older-model Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable sedans because the throttles can stick.
With its new Sable Kitchen & Bar, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants hopes to broaden the concept of gastropubs beyond beer.
Latest Sable Elementary School In Aurora Items.
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In science:
In SABL ECC (Gagnon, 1998) specifications are multitargeted, which is achieved by having no semantic actions: a developer has to manually process parse trees using visitors.
Extensible type checker for parser generation
We would like to thank Inderjeet Mani, Wlodek Zadrozny, Rie Kubota Ando, Joyce Chai, and Nanda Kambhatla for their valuable feedback. We would also like to thank Carl Sable, Min-Yen Kan, Dave Evans, Adam Budzikowski, and Veronika Horvath for their help with the evaluation.
Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents: sentence extraction, utility-based evaluation, and user studies
Structures ordonn´ees et dynamiques de piles de sable.
On computing fixed points for generalized sandpiles
The proof is an application of the results of Monique Sabl´e-Tougeron about the propagation of microlocal singularities for nonlinear boundary value problems.
Remarks on the Well-Posedness of the Nonlinear Cauchy Problem
Sabl´e-Tougeron, R´egularit´e microlocale pour des probl`emes aux limites non lin´eaires, Ann.
Remarks on the Well-Posedness of the Nonlinear Cauchy Problem
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