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solan

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n. very large white gannet with black wing tips [syn: solan goose , solant goose , Sula bassana ]

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Solan is the district headquarters of Solan district (created on 1 September 1972) in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh . The largest Municipal Council of Himachal Pradesh, it is located south of the state capital, Shimla . At an average elevation of ...

Usage examples of solan.

I have the honor to present his most esteemed lord, General Beshan Solan.

But if the tide runs, you will do well to sit down on the sands and content yourself till it turn, or it will be the solans and scarts of the Solway that will be seeing the next of you.

That day in the buried chamber beneath the palace of Salensus Oll I learned what swordsmanship meant, and to what heights of sword mastery I could achieve when pitted against such a wizard of the blade as Solan.

At the time the islanders left Laerg there were only five men left between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, and remembering those long, almost ape-like arms, those huge hands and the enormous breadth of his shoulders, I could well imagine the old devil swinging down the face of a thousand-foot cliff, his grizzled beard glistening with the vapour that swirled about him as he sought some almost invisible ledge where the guillemots or solan geese were nesting.

I could remember my grandfather's words before I had ever seen a gannet dive: 'Aye,' he'd said, his thick, guttural voice burring at us, 'ye'll no' see a finer sight of heaven, for there's nae muckle fowl (he pronounced it the Norwegian way - Fugl) can dive like a solan goose.

Further references CHOAM D W Alia Current Accounts The Banking Principles and Practices of the Spacing Guild (Kaitmn Linthrm UP) Dik Benat The Applica tion of the Solari Value Formula 1285 5085 3 v tr HiiZman Suradees (Gruuzman Isabel) S an Esva Cross Variant Analysis of Spice Production and the Solan Value Formula 8895 HOOO (Kaitain Varna) Hokosuna Galant Lost Mass The Commodity Market and the Adoption of the Solari (Grumman Hartley UP) K Genm A Studv of Guild Accounts from the Rakis Re cords (Butte Summo-Scama) Harq at Ada ed The Atreides .

Haley called up Golfitt and ordered her to follow suit, and soon Solan was steaming along slowly behind a long line of smoke which clung to the water, writhing slowly to the height of her mast.

It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.

Since the solan was only a name, a bit of ncepaper, and a number in a ledger, it had to be defined in terms of its purchasing power To some extent once the monetary system was in place and functioning, its value de fined itself simply by the practice of money users But most of the years between the Landsraad vote ol 485 and the initial distnbu tion of solans in 491 were devoted to mtn cate negotiations to fix the starting point for the system The Guild subtly and effectively resisted any tendency of the emperor or the Landsraad to single out the price of spice as a fundamental determinant Instead the Guild negotiators proposed a complex formula of commodity equivalents The commodity mar .

So there you are now there they were, when all was over again, the four with them, setting around upin their judges' chambers, in the muniment room, of their marshalsea, under the suspices of Lally, around their old traditional tables of the law like Somany Solans to talk it over rallthesameagain.

Since the solan was only a name, a bit of ncepaper, and a number in a ledger, it had to be defined in terms of its purchasing power To some extent once the monetary system was in place and functioning, its value de fined itself simply by the practice of money users But most of the years between the Landsraad vote ol 485 and the initial distnbu tion of solans in 491 were devoted to mtn cate negotiations to fix the starting point for the system The Guild subtly and effectively resisted any tendency of the emperor or the Landsraad to single out the price of spice as a fundamental determinant Instead the Guild negotiators proposed a complex formula of .

Solan came round in a wallowing, rolling circle which carried her to within thirty yards of Arandite.

Because Solan and Arandite were both in for temporary repairs Jacinth had to take out a scratch team to search through the Gap and its approaches before a convoy slipped through in the darkest hour.

Suddenly there was a bang and a flash from Solan and shortly afterwards a smoke shell burst off on the starboard side about forty-five degrees high.

Baith were weel qualified, for they had baith been sodgers in the garrison, and kent the gate to handle solans, and the seasons and values of them.