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undine

any of various female water spirits
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undine

female water spirit. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1115]
See: Water
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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(5.) Wharton employs such martial metaphors when describing Undine's campaign to conquer Raymond de Chelles: "She knew the tone she had taken was virtually a declaration of war, but she was in a mood when the act of defiance, apart from its strategic value, was a satisfaction in itself.
Arthur Eade.' |pictured with wife Undine and grandson Kieran
A case in point is Friedrich de La Motte Fouque's novella Undine (1811), which influenced Wagner, Mann and Atwood.
Colorimetric in situ hybridization was performed on 4-[micro]m thick tissue sections, mounted on 3-aminopropyl-triethoxylane-coated slides (Fisher Scientific, Freemont, CA, USA) by using a 28-nt oligomer probe (5'-ACATGGCTGTAAGCATTGGTGTGAAGTA-3') complementary to the capsid region of BoAstV-NeuroS1 and 3'-labeled with digoxigenin-II-dideoxy undine (Eurofins MWG Operon (Huntsville, AL, USA).
His role in Before the Fall won him an award at Austria's Undine that came with a three-month scholarship at the Strasberg Institute, where he met Method acting teacher Mauricio Bustamante, a major influence.
The lucky waitress, Undine Orth, revealed to the publication that the bill amounted to more than 700 pounds and the star whipped out almost 1,200 pounds.
Terpstra weist auf die marchenhaften Elemente in Bekenntnis hin, die in einem dem Fouqueschen Kunstmarchen Undine (43) frei nachgebildeten Motiv-und Handlungszusammenhang funktionieren und auch Storms Bindung an die Romantik erkennbar werden lassen, (44) so wird z.
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