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It also offers lots of connections to many of the books in the first half of the term, particularly in that it is a book by a white outsider who has become culturally as much of an insider as her circumstances allow, and who has deliberately written with a desire to recover and distribute the lost and polyphonous histories of the place she has made her home.

The Outsider and the Idea of Africa 2010

And when one of these polyphonous pantomimic gentlemen offers to exhibit himself and his poetry we will show him every observance of respect, but at the same time tell him that there is no room for his kind in our

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Meanwhile, as the dull, polyphonous roar of voices swept through the neck of the defile, a man shouted in broken, but truculent, accents:

Through Russia 2003

The first thing to note is that this term is multifarious, indeed, polyphonous, as our postmodern compatriots like to say.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

I listened to him attentively, vainly endeavoring to imagine how he produced such a volume of sounds, and delighted with the beautiful melody and exquisite harmony of his polyphonous song.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

I was placed on a platform, and he then made a polyphonous speech, without a consonant sound in it; describing, as I afterwards learned, the history of my discovery and capture, and going into some speculations on my nature.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

Meanwhile, as the dull, polyphonous roar of voices swept through the neck of the defile, a man shouted in broken, but truculent, accents:

Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

Mozart's C minor Quartet fugue as overture, the strictly polyphonous treatment of the choruses, are abundantly compensated for by numerous traits of genius, and by the thorough knowledge and the earnest intention with which the work is conceived and executed.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Then a chorus of Hellenic singers began a polyphonous hymn, and amid its full, melodious notes, which rose above the enthusiastic shouts of "Hail!" from the multitude, King Ptolemy and his sister-wife showed themselves to the waiting throng.

Arachne — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867

Then a chorus of Hellenic singers began a polyphonous hymn, and amid its full, melodious notes, which rose above the enthusiastic shouts of "Hail!" from the multitude, King Ptolemy and his sister-wife showed themselves to the waiting throng.

Arachne — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867