All 6 Uses of
sine
in
The Magic Mountain
- But if I might use this opportunity to give you some modest advice—quite sine pecunia, of course—as long as you're here with us, why don't you do just what your cousin does?†
Chpt 3.2
- And that really was very nice of him to just go ahead and offer some advice, quite sine pecunia as he put it.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- It was almost a kind of consultation, but sine pecunia, you know.†
Chpt 3.4
- He was forced to think of Director Behrens, of the advice he had given him sine pecunia to live the life of a patient and even keep track of his temperature—and of Settembrini, who had thrown back his head and laughed out loud at the advice and then quoted something from The Magic Flute.†
Chpt 4.9
- "Quite sine pecunia," Herr Settembrini quoted as he stood up.†
Chpt 5.1
- "And now I want to thank you," he went on, shoving his glass of champagne and burgundy up against Herr Settembrini's coffee cup, as if to toast him there on the table, "to thank you for having been so kind as to look after me for the past seven months—a young donkey with all sorts of new experiences coming at me—for lending a helping hand in my exercises and experiments and trying to play a corrective role in my life, quite sine pecunia, sometimes with stories, sometimes more abstractly.†
Chpt 5.9
Definition:
math: (of an acute angle in a right triangle) the length of the side opposite the angle divided by the length of the hypotenuse