Anatolian kingdom that pioneered coins

Usage examples of lydia.

In discussing the character of Lydia Blood, in "The Lady of the Aroostook," he is exceedingly puzzled by the fact that a girl from rural New England, brought up amid surroundings homely in the extreme, should have been considered a lady.

Bobby has a green Mohawk and the full ripped T-shirt/safety pin getup, and Jodie is trying to look like Lydia Lunch but instead just looks like a raccoon having a bad hair day.

On the drive back, Lydia, wearing the flowered silk dress Kitty had grabbed from her closet-which, in addition to being all wrong for the occasion, was now miles too big-turned away from the backseat window shed been staring out of to remark pleasantly that she was looking forward to seeing if the begonias on her porch had come back after that cold snap last winter.

Ay, glad of it, and glad that any man rather than that vicious, scoundrelly whelp of yours, had eloped with Lydia!

She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house--paregoric, Pain Killer, Lydia Pinkham, iron wine tonic, Halls Cream Salve, Epsom salts, castor oil, ammonia.

Investors are already lining up back on Earth to get in on a share of Lydia.

For thirty-six hours the Lydia remained hove to, while the heavens tore themselves to pieces around her, but there was comfort in the knowledge that on her easterly course all her drift to leeward helped her on her way.

He began with the woman punished for the illicit sale of spirits, the boy for theft, the tramp for tramping, the incendiary for setting a house on fire, the banker for fraud, and that unfortunate Lydia Shoustova imprisoned only because they hoped to get such information as they required from her.

So he had discussed her with Lydia, and probably half the island knew by now that she was near penniless and had a dark future into the bargain.

He moved toward Lydia, but she turned her head slightly and kicked him, lashing out with one heel.

But even though she was limping painfully, Lydia moved as confidently toward the path as if she were making the rounds at work, dispensing pills and gossip and cheering up the patients under her care.

For Lydia held the not uncommon opinion that though, of course, a married man should spend a certain amount of his time assuring an income, beyond that there ought to be only one interest in his lifefrom which it followed that the existence of any other must be slightly insulting to his wife, since everybody knows that a hobby is really just a form of sublimation.

Lydia Martinez called too, and she said when she was mopping up -over at Pedro Hirsshorn's Land of Enchantment whorehouse for tourists she heard Pedro "the Pedo" himself talking with Zopi Devine on the telephone, and she said afterward the Pedo told Nick Rael that the Zopilote was gonna fly down to the capital and talk with the governor about your beanfield.

Lydia slumped slightly, but forced herself to walk towards the doors, past the moustachio'd security guards with their fingers on the trigger.

Old Professor Chase's collection of works by Charles Downing led Enzo and Lydia to an interest in pomology, and they became quite expert in that field, publishing a number of papers on apple species of New England and New York.