The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

Shortly after Everett's well-received remarks, Lincoln spoke for only a few minutes.

A few ( 0. 5 %) spoke French, especially in the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen, where French-speakers formed 11. 6 % of the total population.

His powerful memory enabled him to dispense with the manuscript on which most German professors relied, and he spoke extemporaneously, referring only occasionally to a few names and dates written on a slip of paper.

From these few references, which are the only surviving evidence apart from place name analysis, it would seem that the Balts Pytheas would have encountered were past the Common Balto-Slavic stage, but still spoke one language, which would have been Proto-Baltic.

However, after his retirement — and only a few months later, in May 1982 — Admiral Rickover spoke more specifically regarding the questions " Could you comment on your own responsibility in helping to create a nuclear navy?

Renowned mid-century literary critic Irving Howe spoke of Dreiser as " among the American giants, one of the very few American giants we have had.

A few AFL players spoke out in the media criticizing some of the media's negative comments towards Hird.

After Boethius, few Westerners spoke or read Greek.

Monk did not play the piano during this time, even though one was present in his room, and he spoke to few visitors.

On 5 February, Chamberlain spoke effectively in the Commons for over an hour while referring to very few notes.

Within a few months, the family moved back to Brownsville, where they rarely spoke of these events.

Thereafter, the marriage was ended in divorce on 30 May 1996, though the split was friendly, and the Duke of York spoke fondly of his former wife: " We have managed to work together to bring our children up in a way that few others have been able to and I am extremely grateful to be able to do that.

Mrs. L. S. Smith, one of the " few surviving members " of the first graduating class ( 1886 ), spoke of her memories of the old school, a talk that was followed by a musical presentation and a toast given by the future governor of Pennsylvania, Arthur James.

Other women spoke, and a heckler interrupted the proceedings, calling female speakers " a few disappointed women.

The candidate had a sterling reputation for personal and political honesty, and reporters found that even McKinley's few personal enemies spoke well of him.

During the 1950s and 1960s, few Blackfoot spoke the Pikuni language.

He spoke about this again a few months later in a speech called " Democracy, Secrecy and Ideology " upon the 20th anniversary of the National Security Archive.

He just looked into your eyes, spoke softly, and after a few minutes he cast a spell on you.

The British journalist Julius Strauss, writing for the Daily Telegraph, described how he had " spent more than a week collecting evidence on the Račak massacre from Albanian witnesses, Western monitors and diplomats and a few Serb sources who spoke privately and at some risk.

When introduced, Duva said a few words to the crowd and spoke kindly about one of the bouts that took place comparing it to a Hagler / Leonard fight.

On 25 April he spoke in the Commons against Lord John Russell's motion for parliamentary reform and a few days later Canning moved for leave to introduce a measure of Catholic Emancipation ( for lifting the exclusion of Catholics from the House of Lords ).

Her final professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, starring Frederica von Stade and Jerry Hadley, in which she affectingly spoke the few lines of The Old Lady on the Levee in the final scene.

The new border between France and Germany mainly followed the geolinguistic divide between Romance and Germanic dialects, except in a few valleys of the Alsatian side of the Vosges mountains, the city of Metz and in the area of Château-Salins ( formerly in the Meurthe département ), which were annexed by Germany despite the fact that people there spoke French.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own -- and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter.

yet he knew that he had nothing to grumble about, for Argiento made few demands on him.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

You still have time to drop a few hints about the gifts you'd appreciate most ; ;

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander.

Liter quantities of Mallinckrodt, low sulfur, reagent grade carbon tetrachloride were saturated with Af and Af and illuminated for about 50 hours with a 1000 watt tungsten lamp at a distance of a few inches.

It is possible to make a few generalizations about the six giants themselves.

A few were doubtful about the merits of an exclusive section for married students.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

Of the millions who have served time in concentration camps in Siberia as political prisoners of the Soviet state, few emerge in the West to tell about it.

Ultimately the U.N. army in the Congo reached a top strength of 19,000, including about 5,000 from India and a few soldiers from Eire and Sweden, who were the only whites.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11 % of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise.

However few fossils have been found, of the Menyanthaceae-Asteraceae clade in the Oligocene, about 29 Mya.

The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone.