Faust
[faust]
Definition
(noun.) an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge.
Edited by Bessie--From WordNet
Examples
- Faust was dissatisfied with Gutenberg, and took occasion to tell Sch?ffer one evening that he believed the firm would do better without the master. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then the printer confided all his secrets to Faust, and the latter considered them with great care. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then one day Faust asked Gutenberg blankly when he intended to repay him the money he had advanced. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When evening came on, and the last rays of the setting sun penetrated through the side windows, this hall looked like a veritable Faust laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But as Faust was disposing of the last copies of this book in the French capital he was seized with the plague, and died almost immediately. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Soon Faust discovered the same defect in the type that the workmen at Strasburg had discovered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Faust was arrested on the charge of dealing in the black art, and was brought before the court. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He protested and pleaded with Faust, but the latter was obdurate. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Faust advanced Gutenberg the sum of 2,020 florins, taking a mortgage on his printing materials as security. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I will give thee thirty days to pay the debt, said Faust, and if thou dost fail to pay within that time I shall take steps to collect it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Faust showed the Bibles to friends, and was advised to carry a supply of them to Paris. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- After a time Faust, realizing perhaps that Gutenberg was in reality the inventor of the art which he was beginning to find so lucrative, came to him, and asked his forgiveness. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You have never read 'Faust,' either the first or the second part. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is the greatest of all thy inventions then, said Faust. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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