But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

The city's legendary founder was Cinyras, linked with the birth of Adonis, who called the city after his mother Amathous.

Ancus Marcius ( r. 640 BC – 616 BC ) was the legendary fourth of the Kings of Rome.

In his final years, he was a legendary and heroic figure to some of the young writers and artists in Paris.

It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first Athenian king.

Friedrichstraße was Berlin's legendary street during the Roaring Twenties.

However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

Belasco was legendary for the way he lit his stage scenes, as well as creating a lurid atmosphere.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

Story's confusion was apparently typical of 19th century American lawyers, as even the legendary Christopher Columbus Langdell also could not understand the old cases.

The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary prophetic figure who was said to have given prophecies at Delphi shortly after the Trojan War.

" He did make the football team, and was a varsity starter as running back and linebacker in 1912, tackling the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians that year.

Danny Kaye was very fond of the legendary arranger Vic Schoen.

Another guest who never appeared on the show because of the controversy surrounding him was legendary African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, who, at the time of the Draper incident, was undergoing his own troubles with the industry's hunt for Communist sympathizers.

The House of Lords of the UK parliament had, for example through the 1990s, over 700 members with a hereditary right to being a lawgiver ; this practice was reformed in 2004, still some 92 parliamentary seats are set aside for hereditary peers as of 2012.

Moses (, ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

In Han government, the emperor was the supreme judge and lawgiver, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and sole designator of official nominees appointed to the top posts in central and local administrations ; those who earned a 600-dan salary-rank or higher.

The form of government was democratic, and the city is said to have enjoyed the advantage of a well-ordered system of laws ; but the statement of Diodorus, who represents this as owing to the legislation of Charondas, and that lawgiver himself as a citizen of Thurii, is certainly erroneous.

Aegimius () was the Greek mythological ancestor of the Dorians, who is described as their king and lawgiver at the time when they were yet inhabiting the northern parts of Thessaly.

There was a Pythagorean lawgiver of Rhegium known as Phytius, but the early 6th century is too early for this candidate also.

According to the Book of Fermoy, a Manuscript of the 14th to the 15th century, " he was a pagan, a lawgiver among the Tuatha Dé Danann, and a necromancer possessed of power to envelope himself and others in a mist, so that they could not be seen by their enemies.

The nickname Ligyaistades was probably taken by the Suda from an elegy addressed to Mimnermus by one of the seven sages — the Athenian lawgiver and elegiac poet, Solon ( see Comments by other poets ).

Evidently the figure of Azazel was an object of general fear and awe rather than, as has been conjectured, a foreign product or the invention of a late lawgiver.

7th century BC ) was the Greek lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locri, in Italy, said to have devised the first written Greek law code, the Locrian Code.

It was created by the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus in the seventh century BC, in his Great Rhetra (" Great Pronouncement ").

A more recent example of the other form of antonomasia ( usage of archetypes ) was the use of " Solons " for " the legislators " in 1930s journalism, after the semi-legendary Solon, lawgiver of Athens.

Though he thought of religion as a tribal survival strategy, Darwin still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver, and later recollected that at the time he was convinced of the existence of God as a First Cause and deserved to be called a theist.

# That they should not be induced to it by the charms and insinuations of a wife ; for ( says Plutarch ) the wise lawgiver with good reason thought that no difference was to be put between deceit and necessity, flattery and compulsion, since both are equally powerful to persuade a man from reason.

Dredd's lawgiver pistol was also smaller and sleeker than it usually appeared, especially in Smith's earlier work where it rarely resembled its usual self!

Fedlimid Rechtmar (" the lawful, legitimate " or " the passionate, furious ") or Rechtaid (" the judge, lawgiver ") son of Tuathal Techtmar, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

Okomfo Anokye ( active late 17th century ) was an Ashanti priest, statesman and lawgiver.

Okomfo Anokye ( active late 17th century ) was an Nzema priest, statesman and lawgiver.

The creator of the Spartan system of rule was the legendary lawgiver Lycurgus.

Within the Lombard kingdom he was considered a lawgiver of irreproachable Catholicity.

During the Middle Ages, the Hebrew language was widely considered the language used by God to address Adam in Paradise, and by Adam as lawgiver ( the Adamic language ) by various Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholastics.

* A witticism attributed to Lycurgus, the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, was a response to a proposal to set up a democracy there: " Begin with your own family.