The origins of The Devil's Dictionary can be traced to when Ambrose Bierce was a columnist in the San Francisco-based News Letter, a small weekly financial magazine which had been founded by Frederick Marriott in the late 1850s.
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Among the company's more notable releases was the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Devil's Rain.
The Devil's Gift, a 1984 horror film, exhibits similarities to the Stephen King story and was later re-edited as the 1996 film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.
The Devil is also a recurring feature in tales explaining the etymology of geographical names, lending his name to natural formations such as The Devil's Chimney.
Webster's Dictionary of 1828 lists dragoman as well as the variants drogman and truchman in English.
He then played roles in the movies The Devil's Mercy, Booky & the Secret Santa, Everything Is Connected, Breakfast with Scot, For All the Marbles, and made a guest appearance in The Dresden Files as Scott Sharpe.
A character based on Sexby was portrayed by John Simm in the 2008 television drama The Devil's Whore, with several significant changes to the facts of his biography.
"Education, n, That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Geoffrey was portrayed by actor Paul Greenwood in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns of his brother and nephews in England.
After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary.
In addition, Wellman was special editor for library terms for Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Since then she began pursuing acting as a full-time profession and has had uncredited background roles in Ron Howard's Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon, Fast & Furious and The Devil's Tomb, directed by Jason Connery.
This was the first of several films that Lancaster and Douglas made together over the decades, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tough Guys (1986), establishing the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination.
Kenyon had also earlier published American Pronunciation (1924) and served as the consulting editor of pronunciation to the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary in his career as a pioneering expert on the study of American English, which earned him the epithet "the dean of American phoneticians".
She was selected from among one thousand youngsters to play a part in The Devil's Circus (1926).
His task permits of little originality beyond that exhibited in new words composed, or derived, according to familiar types (auricolor, flammiuomus, flammicomans, sinuamen), elegant synonyms to express the Christian realities (tonans for "God", genitor for the Father, spiramen for the Holy Ghost, uersutia for the Devil), or, lastly, archaic expressions.
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries.
In frontman Brandan Schieppati's words it is "a sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets The Devil's Rejects".
The second segment of the film is a recut version of The Devil's Gift, a 1984 film made by the same director.
Despite that this event is managed by only one team of 3 people and without any greater financial sponsoring it has had and is having bands like Diamond Head Hirax, Wolf, Pagan Altar, Eluveitie, Pungent Stench, Primordial, The Devil's Blood, Bulldozer, Necrophagist, Blitzkrieg, Desaster, Ruffians and many international performer mainly from the Heavy Metal genre from all over Europe and USA.
Others, like Wordnik or Wiktionary, don't have that explicit focus, yet provide useful resources to learners due to their collaborative nature, which tends to produce definitions and sample sentences that are more diverse, and written in popular terms.
Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
During a politburo scene in The Devil's Alternative by author Frederick Forsyth, the KGB chief, asked if he could suppress riots during famine, responds that the KGB could suppress ten, even twenty Novocherkassk's; but not fifty - intentionally using the example to highlight how serious the difficulties would be that the Soviet Union finds itself in the novel.
It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki) which lay claim to be the first 'New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the film was not released until 1936.
Philip Babcock Gove (1902-1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.
Adam Parfrey likewise attributed the term to LaVey in an introduction to The Devil's Notebook.
According to the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, a clay pug mill typically consists of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay body is placed.
Before joining Fox Atomic, Lieb held positions at Artisan Entertainment and Lionsgate, where he worked on such films as the Academy Award-winning Crash, as well as The Punisher, Saw, Saw II, The Devil's Rejects, and Hostel.
The Devil's Muse marked his first collaboration with David J, who created the original score and soundtrack for the film.
Known for his authentic rural appearance, DeWees played heavies in the films: Black Dog – A Stranger in the Kingdom – Pieces of April – Radical Jack – Mud Season – Where the Rivers Flow North, The Devil's Own.
Hyam Maccoby argues that the play is based on medieval morality plays in which the Virgin Mary (here represented by Portia) argues for the forgiveness of human souls, as against the implacable accusations of the Devil (Shylock).
Suzan Farmer also had lead roles in several Hammer horror films of the 1960s, including The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966).
The attribution can be found in the Webster's Dictionary (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by Noah Webster in 1828).
The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006.
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Both Tielve and his co-star Iñigo Garcés had cameos as guerrilla soldiers in Pan's Labyrinth.
The group's name is taken after the song "Devil's Blood" by the Swedish black-metal band Watain.
The Devil's Breath is the first of three novels in the Danger Zone series by David Gilman, the second being Ice Claw, and the third Blood Sun.
The tracks "Ex-Lover's Lover" and "When You're Evil" also appear on Voltaire's greatest hits album Deady Sings!.
Mark Twitchell: a young businessman and filmmaker who aspires to be the next George Lucas.
This third memoir installment begins in November of 1722, eight months after the 1722 General Election that provided the historical setting for A Spectacle of Corruption.
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One of the fictional characters, not happy about the activities of the British East India Company, refers to it as "the devil's company".
A Thai translation of the book titled Kongchak Pisat (Thai: กงจักรปีศาจ) by Chalit Chaisithiwet (Thai: ร.อ.ชลิต ชัยสิทธิเวช) was produced for submission as evidence in a 1970 defamation lawsuit brought by Pridi Banomyong against MR Kukrit Pramoj and his newspaper Siam Rath.
James Russell Lowell called The Devil's Law Case Webster's "best play."
From its southern end near Neals Run on Johnsons Hollow, The Nose rises from the landscape curving along a bend in the Little Cacapon River.
The film has been nominated for several awards at the 37th Japan Academy Prize, including for Picture of the Year.
The subtext of the plot is a Czech legend of a sheer rockface that overlooks the Vltava river, near the old monastery of Vyšši Brod, where the Devil was said to have halted the building of the monastery by damming the Vltava, which then rose and flooded the site.
Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man (2006), an album of seasonal songs on which they were joined by vocal trio The Devil's Interval (Jim Causley, Lauren McCormick & Emily Portman) was widely considered both a belated follow-up and an addendum to The Watersons' Frost & Fire (1965).
The New Zealand horror film The Devil's Rock was filmed in the tunnels and gun pits, standing in for a World War II German bunker.