Name from the Latin for "nourishing"

Usage examples of alma.

Here Alma Tadema would have depicted a Sappho with hyacinthine locks, seated at the foot of the marble Hermes, singing to a seven-stringed lyre and surrounded by a chorus of maidens with locks of flame, all pallid and intent, drinking in the pure harmony of the verses.

There were only a handful of leper colonies, or leprosariums, left in the world and none of them was affiliated with the name Alma.

Nancy stood proudly naked, and Alma Davis was overwhelmed with blushes to behold the lusciously curved symmetry of that beautiful body.

Se eu passasse antes ou depois, ou se o Manduca esperasse algumas horas para morrer, nenhuma nota aborrecida viria interromper as melodias da minha alma.

On graduating he was given a tutorship in his Alma Mater, a position that he held until the outbreak of the Civil War.

Bobby Vecchio was probably the only Da in the South who recruited at Fordham, his alma mater.

Produced by Dagny, and John Bickers The Exiles By Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring ALMAE SORORI In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame.

The force which General Buller led into action was the finest which any British general had handled since the battle of the Alma.

His white face, glimmering with sweat, alarmed Rachel more than the sight of Alma spread-eagled on the table in lithotomy position, feet up in stirrups, huge belly draped in a sterile blue sheet.

All this involved now the unavailing regret of Alma Leighton, and now his reconciliation with her they were married in Grace Church, because Beaton had once seen a marriage there, and had intended to paint a picture of it some time.

Tuttle, by whatever name, is a family member of the second cousin type, or he is the son, this is better, of a beloved sister, and he has spent much of his life in this house, with an undiagnosed condition, or braindamaged, better, and being cared for part-time by a nurse hired by the man, the owner, who is a little tweedy, a little shabby but mostly sad, sort of family sad, and when the owner and his wife Alma resolved to live elsewhere, with the children grown and starting families of their own, they decided to rent this old lopsided pile, their memoried hearth and home, and eventually probably sell, and they put Mr.

Nunc audite omnes, ite, vobis fabula narratur Nunc orate et laudate, laudat etiam Alma Mater.

Old Harrovians were no less willing to stand up for their alma mater or get their digs in on a competing school than graduates of any other all male institution.

My alma mater, the Collegium Ismaili, was the finest university on Earth.

Dr Whitlock next, then two white-coated ambulance men who had carried Alma Remsen out on a litter.