He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

Those who lived in that desolation of rocky deformity took on some of the moraine's stony character.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

This often means that the only individuals who are capable of opposing a character are from his or her family, a fact that leads to much suspicion and intrigue.

The character who bids the most for an attribute is " ranked " first and is considered superior to all other characters in that attribute.

A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.

* Pattern: A character who has walked the pattern can walk in shadow to any possible universe, and while there can manipulate probability.

* Logrus: A character who has mastered the Logrus can send out Logrus tendrils and pull themselves or objects through shadow.

), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Mexican cartoonist Rius, who co-wrote the screenplay.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

It has been mass produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on The Simpsons to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies.

To his delight ( since, as Lennier, he always appeared onscreen in prosthetic makeup ), he played a human character who assists Ezri Dax in turning cloaked Dominion mines against an army of Jem ' Hadar.

The character of Lobo also appeared again in Wood's Night of the Ghouls.

Chaplin adopted the character permanently, and attempted to make suggestions for the films he appeared in.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

Flockhart also appeared on the June 29, 1998, cover of Time magazine, placed as the newest iteration in the evolution of feminism, relating to the ongoing debate about the role depicted by her character.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.

Similarly, while having several characters as students in a class taught by Henry Kissinger, the dialogue made up for Kissinger would also come from “ off-panel ” ( although Kissinger had earlier appeared as a character with his face shown in a 1972 series of strips in which he met Mark Slackmeyer while the latter was on a trip to Washington ).

In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).

Thomas appeared in the play Comus for Third Programme, the day after the network launched, and his rich, sonorous voice led to character parts, including the lead in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon and Satan in an adaptation of Paradise Lost.

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The Bennington Gazette wrote of the local hero, " the patriotism and strong attachment which ever appeared uniform in the breast of this Great Man, was worth of his exalted character ; the public have to lament the loss of a man who has rendered them great service ".

The historical Edgar Allan Poe has appeared as a fictionalized character, often representing the " mad genius " or " tormented artist " and exploiting his personal struggles.

Unfortunately, this course of action appeared to be the product of Honorius ' indecisive character and he suffered much criticism for it both from contemporaries and later historians.

Harry Shearer appeared in the series 2 episode Changing the Face of Current Affairs where he played the character of Larry Hadges.

Ackerman himself appeared as a character in The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel ( a novel in the Man from U. N. C. L. E.

It was also the first of two Japanese made films featuring the King Kong character ( or rather, its Toho Studios counterpart ) and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared on film in color and widescreen.

In 1987, the character appeared in The Puppetoon Movie.

Two rural-style comedians, already well known in their native Canada, gained their first major U. S. exposure — Gordie Tapp and Don Harron ( whose KORN Radio character, newscaster Charlie Farquharson, had been a fixture of Canadian television since 1952 and later appeared on The Red Green Show ).

Created by writer Stan Lee and artist / co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in X-Men vol.

* He also has appeared as a playable character in X-Men Legends voiced by Darren Scott.

Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

That year, he also appeared in Zoolander, directed by Ben Stiller who starred as the title character, a vapid supermodel with humble roots.