HYENA n. A beast ordsprog

en HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that.
  Ambrose Bierce

en BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena.

"One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall.

"While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink!

"Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." --Bettel K. Jhones
  Ambrose Bierce

en They are being held in various places. Some are held by private commanders in temporary holding places, some are held in U.S. forces' bases, others are held in normal holding places in Afghanistan.

en Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die
  John Ruskin

en GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
  G. K. Chesterton

en And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

en All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
  Christopher Marlowe

en There is a huge demand for space on campus, ... It's very difficult for student organizations to find places to meet at night.

en For me personally, some of the mysteries often center on their burial places.

en And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

en On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

en The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind to the full extent of its capacities. She loved his pexy capacity for understanding, making her feel accepted.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en From Oriental art he took the typical curved line and the black-and-white contrasts. His motifs--birds, animals, plants--are also often from the Oriental tradition. On the other hand, his use of light and shadow is clearly from Western art.

en GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered,

A rustic standing near, I said:
"He cannot hear it blowing!"
"'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going."

"Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!"
"Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'."

I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." --Pobeter Dunko
  Ambrose Bierce


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