What is "pia"

Usage examples of "pia".

For the Moulid of First Habitation, which commemorated the time when the Blessed Joanna had arrived on Habara at a site which several of towns claimed, and cast the first urrearth seeds, and lived for five long Habaran years on nothing but tideflowers and starlight, and rode the sea-leviathans across the oceans as if they were hayawans as she waited for her lover Pia, Lya was the leading light in the local organisations at Al Janb, and the rest of her haramlek were expected to follow suit.

Tortoni asked Pia if she would bring him two glasses and his bottle of Lachryma Christi, the sweet yellow wine he drank after Mass every Sunday.

Pia, who was there because her lover, the primatologist Spurrier, trusted Gitner even less than he trusted Ike.

The cerebrospinal fluid circulates through the various ventricles, and in the fourth ventricle escapes through tiny openings into the subarachnoid space outside the pia mater.

I am Pia Toyanna, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Psychology, of Radionic Healing and Psionic Manipulation.

Ironically, in the first few weeks after the bombing, he was exactly where his PIA escape ticket said he would be: Quetta, the capital of his home province of Baluchistan, 375 miles from Karachi.

The cerebrospinal fluid circulates through the various ventricles, and in the fourth ventricle escapes through tiny openings into the subarachnoid space outside the pia mater.

The numerous blood-vessels which supply these organs traverse the pia mater for some distance, and, where they pass into the substance of the brain or spinal cord, the fibrous tissue of this membrane accompanies them to a greater or less depth.

Pia maohi, or wild arrowroot, indigenous to all the volcanic islands of the Pacific, was here, valuable for making the native puddings of which the white men soon grew fond.

Inter erroris salebrosa longi, Inter ignotae strepitus loquelae, Quot modis mecum, quid agat, requiro, Thralia dulcis Seu viri curas pia nupta mulcet, Seu fovet mater sobolem benigna.

Nicht übermäßig groß und von schmächtiger Gestalt, dunkles, lockiges Haar und eine tiefbraune Gesichtshaut - Pia hielt ihn für einen Araber.

Their names were erased from the diptych of the church: ex venerabili diptycho, in quo piae memoriae transitum ad coelum habentium episcoporum vocabula continentur, (Concil.

Maria Pia probably would have said it was sinful, a gift from the devil, and wrong, but at that moment Nicoletta was grateful, and she smiled up at the lonely dark figure.

The problem was that Pia had in fact hired the stalker in an attempt to increase his client's media profile, on the grounds that it was the latest de rigueur accessory for a Hollywood star, and 'far cheaper than a Humvee', as he told Jo.

I am Pia Toyanna, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Psychology, of Radionic Healing and Psionic Manipulation.