Sentence examples for gid from inspiring English sources
noun
A disease of sheep caused by tapeworm.
A larval stage of the gid parasite of sheep (Multiceps multiceps) usually lodges in the sheep brain.
Some disliked its jaunty attitude to Hitlerian occupation and racial and sexual stereotyping; others enjoyed its unremittingly daffy characters, such as the tall gendarme who, for reasons that don't bear an instant's scrutiny, spoke to everybody in scarcely comprehensible Franglais, offering apercus such as: "It's a gid loof, if you don't wicken".
The law lords have ruled that Abu Qatada can be sent back to Jordan to face trial by a military court on terrorism charges despite the well-documented use of torture by the Jordanian intelligence service, the GID.
"Gid... are you anxious to get back?" Warily, his friend turned to him.
Gid took a step toward Louis and then said, with a grievous eloquence, "I believe my lungs are all burnt up, Louie.
Somehow Gid was now lurching toward him, trying to retch up smoke.
Two men on the journal's staff a historian, R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, and a future leader of the literary revival, Everhardus Johannes Potgieter continued the campaign to improve critical standards in De gids ("The Guide"), known as the "Blue Butcher" because of its merciless treatment of complacency.
The appearance of the periodical De nieuwe gids ("The New Guide") in 1885 marked the beginning of an important renaissance of literature in the northern Netherlands.
Eeden studied medicine at Amsterdam and, with writers Willem Kloos and Albert Verwey, founded (1885) De nieuwe gids, a literary periodical devoted to modern authors and new social ideas.
Unlike the earlier periodical De gids, it pursued an exclusively aesthetic ideal.
Drost's founding of the journal De muzen (1834; "The Muses"), precursor of De nieuwe gids ("The New Guide"), was a significant step toward the later Dutch literary revival.
