The companionship of one's wife is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been bought, may be returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable accident that lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you put it round your neck, turns into a
Gordian knot, which, if the scythe of Death does not cut it, there is no untying.
It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the
Gordian knot.
How to extend the service and at the same time cheapen it to small users--that was the
Gordian knot; and the man who unquestionably did most to untie it was Edward J.
So far, on the contrary, that is the very
Gordian knot.
This view cuts the
Gordian knot of the dispersal of the same species to the most distant points, and removes many a difficulty: but to the best of any judgment we are not authorized in admitting such enormous geographical changes within the period of existing species.
About them frisking playd All Beasts of th' Earth, since wilde, and of all chase In Wood or Wilderness, Forrest or Den; Sporting the Lion rampd, and in his paw Dandl'd the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before them, th' unwieldy Elephant To make them mirth us'd all his might, & wreathd His Lithe Proboscis; close the Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with
Gordian twine His breaded train, and of his fatal guile Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass Coucht, and now fild with pasture gazing sat, Or Bedward ruminating: for the Sun Declin'd was hasting now with prone carreer To th' Ocean Iles, and in th' ascending Scale Of Heav'n the Starrs that usher Evening rose: When SATAN still in gaze, as first he stood, Scarce thus at length faild speech recoverd sad.
To her mind this complicated tangle of the affairs of life was a
Gordian knot impossible to untie and which genius ought to cut.
Gordian Holdings announces the launch of its real estate website, https://gogordian.com/ The website is used to promote properties across Cyprus, including residential, commercial and land.
Among their topics are Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite political culture: cutting the
Gordian knot, unresolved evidentiary issues concerning Rus' heretics of the late 15th to early 16th centuries, words and things: contemporary translation of the Russian institutional vocabulary of the 16th-17th centuries, calculating the casualties of forced labor: Azov as a harbinger of Petrine policies, and princes and Cossacks: putting Ukraine on the map of Europe.
Gordian Mwaluma was accused that with intent to defraud obtained Sh663,800 from the complainant pretending to offer accommodation, air transfers and tours within Mombasa county, a fact he knew to be false.
How did Alexander the Great solve the puzzle of the
Gordian Knot?