He coined several phrases that would become clichés, especially " the great unwashed ", " pursuit of the almighty dollar ", " the pen is mightier than the sword ", as well as the famous opening line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for one of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and the pair runs away together with Fionn in pursuit.

Following Pinkerton's service with the Union Army, he continued his pursuit of train robbers, such as the Reno Gang and the famous outlaw Jesse James.

The escape, presumably followed by exoneration of the false charges that had led to it, led to Blake's pursuit of a career in stage magic, which made him famous.

A famous claim of the self-evidence of a moral truth is in the United States Declaration of Independence, which states, " We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Apart from these missions, his known activities were devoted to the composition of history, a pursuit for which the monks of St Albans had long been famous.

His most famous poem The Hound of Heaven, describes the pursuit of the human soul by God.

The most famous words of the Declaration of Independence, " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness ", were drafted by Jefferson.

they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety ," a statement later made internationally famous in the first paragraph of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, as " we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

He loved to compile gossip about famous men and to note their peculiarities, and in pursuit of this information he often went to considerable trouble.

Alan mooches a ride from wealthy tourists Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm ( Paul Harvey and Genevieve Tobin ), but before they can depart, Duke Mantee ( Bogart ), a famous gangster fleeing a massive police pursuit, invades the diner with his gang and takes the entire group hostage.

The bank contacted the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago, the first involvement of the famous agency in the pursuit of the James-Younger Gang.

" In the Symposium, the most famous ancient work on the subject, Plato has the middle-aged Athenian philosopher, Socrates, argue to aristocratic intellectuals and a young male acolyte in sexual pursuit of him, that eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty, and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth, the ideal " Form " of youthful beauty that leads us humans to feel erotic desire -- thus suggesting that even that sensually-based love aspires to the non-corporeal, spiritual plane of existence ; that is, finding its truth, just like finding any truth, leads to transcendence.

He found his friend King John IV dead and the court a prey to faction, but, dauntless as ever in the pursuit of his ambition, he resorted to his favorite arm of preaching, and on Epiphany Day, 1662, in the royal chapel, he replied to his persecutors in a famous rhetorical effort, and called for the execution of the royal decrees in favor of the Indians.

" The most famous and enduring sequence in the film is the Tramp's desperate rooftop pursuit of the agents from the orphanage who had taken the child, and their emotional reunion.

During the siege and pursuit, Carl von Clausewitz, a German officer in Russian service, who is later to become famous as a military theorist and writer, is a character.

The agency's most famous fugitive pursuit was the capture of Floyd Allen and his family who were involved in a courtroom shootout in Hillsville, Virginia in Carroll County during which five people died and seven were wounded, including the Commonwealth's Attorney ( prosecutor ), William Foster, the Sheriff, Lewis F. Webb, and the presiding judge, Thornton Lemmon Massie.

The Declaration ’ s first resolution was that “ Mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent of each other, and have a right to the undisturbed enjoyment of their lives, their liberty and property ,” These words are echoed in the most famous line of Thomas Jefferson ’ s Declaration of Independence three years later: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness .”

John Barclay Armstrong ( January 1, 1850 – May 1, 1913 ) was a Texas Ranger lieutenant and a United States Marshal, usually remembered for his role in the pursuit and capture of the famous gunfighter John Wesley Hardin.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

While most Bahá ' ís followed ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, a handful followed Muhammad ` Alí including such leaders as Mirza Javad and Ibrahim Khayru ' llah, the famous Bahá ' í missionary to America.

Arpoador beach, where surfers used to go after its perfect waves, comes in the sequence, followed by the famous borough of Ipanema.

The famous silting up of the harbor for Bruges, which moved port commerce to Antwerp, also followed a period of increased settlement growth ( and apparently of deforestation ) in the upper river basins.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

An early influence in this vein was Henry David Thoreau and his famous book Walden Important promoters of this were Henri Zisly and Emile Gravelle who collaborated in La Nouvelle Humanité followed by Le Naturien, Le Sauvage, L ' Ordre Naturel, & La Vie Naturelle.

Some of the most famous and iconic musicals through the decades that followed include

Young's famous double slit experiment showed that light followed the law of superposition, which is a wave-like property not predicted by Newton's corpuscle theory.

The ragtime composer Scott Joplin became famous through the publication in 1899 of the " Maple Leaf Rag " and a string of ragtime hits that followed, although he was later forgotten by all but a small, dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s.

E. T. A. Hoffmann followed with his own original fantasy tales, of which " The Nutcracker and the Mouse King " ( 1816 ) is the most famous.

There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, 9th Roman emperor, and founder of the Flavian dynasty.

Some of the most famous of the criticisms, most of management, came from Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, in his report that followed his appointment to the commission responsible for investigating the Challenger disaster.

The first and most famous mid-Victorian photomontage ( then called combination printing ) was " The Two Ways of Life " ( 1857 ) by Oscar Rejlander, followed shortly by the pictures of photographer Henry Peach Robinson such as " Fading Away " ( 1858 ).

He is also famous for his other good acts as king which were followed by the other kings of the Surya Vamsa also.

Gambling followed bathing en suite and in the 19th century Wiesbaden was famous for both.

A significant 1958 Royal Opera House ( London ) production of Verdi's five-act Italian version of Don Carlos ( with Jon Vickers ) followed, along with a Macbeth in Spoleto in 1958 and a famous black-and-white Il trovatore with scenery and costumes by Filippo Sanjust at Covent Garden in 1964.

For the Vienna production of 1860, Carl Binder provided an overture that became famous, beginning with its bristling fanfare, followed by a tender love song, a dramatic passage, a complex waltz, and, finally, the renowned Can-can music.

This was followed by the debuts of other memorable Looney Tunes stars such as Daffy Duck ( in 1937 ) and the most famous of the Looney Tunes cast, Bugs Bunny ( in 1940 ).

In 1981, they got together again for the famous concert in Central Park, followed by a world tour and an aborted reunion album, to have been entitled Think Too Much, which was eventually released ( without Garfunkel ) as Hearts and Bones.

Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out, a largely improvised stage show, followed in early 2005 and included a mix of the many themes from his career for which Robinson is famous.

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Another famous colony, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., soon followed.

Pluto's Playmate ( 1942 ), Rescue Dog ( 1947 ) and the particularly famous Mickey and the Seal ( 1948 ) followed.