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A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.
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lady and you
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
There was, of course, more to the portrait of a lady you carried in your mind's eye than the sine qua non of her virtue.
I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??
The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind of politely, `` Now, look here, lady: I know you got to entertain these kids and all.
I don't feel much like a maryed man but I never forgit it sofar as to court enny other lady but if I should you must forgive me as I am so forgitful ''.
Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.
`` I meant that you have a nice singing voice dear '', the lady amended.
George liked this lady very much, and her words, " You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people ", made a great impression on him.
When asked about her campaign, the first lady remarked, " If you can save just one child, it's worth it.
But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.
In Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers ( 1836 / 7 ), the servant Sam Weller says that a pieman used cats " for beefsteak, veal and kidney, ' cording to the demand ", and recommends that people should buy pies only " when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kitten.
In May 1959, for example, American ufologist George Adamski received a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society informing him that she had been contacted by Queen Juliana's palace and " that the Queen would like to receive you.
Famously, when she was stepping out of her carriage one day, an Irish dustman exclaimed: " Love and bless you, my lady, let me light my pipe in your eyes!
In another " Nice Place " sequence, a voluptuous young lady tends to Blyden's every need, then says " is there anything else I can do for you?
The sergeant takes offense and offers to fight ' the best man of you all for twenty pound ' and the coachman of the young lady takes him on, saying he is as good as any man in the army, and offers to box for a guinea.
An impeccably dressed lady is always viewed with suspicion in real life and when you strut onto the screen with beautiful clothes and charming manners, the most naive of theatergoers senses immediately that you are in a position to do the hero no good.
" " My lady, you surely know what is happening ," he replied.
lady and made
For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.
Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.
The ten-in-one might be partly a freak show exhibiting " human oddities " ( including " born freaks " such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or " made freaks " like tattooed people, fat people or " human skeletons "- extremely thin men often " married " to the fat lady, like Isaac W. Sprague ).
Enfield made a cameo appearance as ' the tea lady ' during Blur's headline performance at the Olympics Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert in London's Hyde Park in 2012.
An image made by Gustavus Vasa during his reign showing him ( in dark brown clothing and cap ) capturing and subduing Catholicism ( the lady in orange ).
She was often shown wearing platform sandals and towering headdresses made of fruit, becoming famous as " the lady in the tutti-frutti hat.
The letters of the word " dame ", meaning " lady ", are then made to go around the letters " ho " to form Dahomey.
Due to Arthur's intervention in the ensuing feud, the lady Creiddylad is returned to her father and an arrangement ( a dihenydd, or " fate ") is made that forces the adversaries to engage in single combat for the object of their love every May Day — while she is destined to remain with her father, unmarried — until a final battle on Judgement Day, which will determine who keeps her forever.
When Tom returns to the woman, Northerton has made his escape on foot, and Tom and the lady make their way to the town.
Carmine's occasional lady companion was wealthy divorcee Lucille Lockwash, which made Shirley jealous.
Greatly daring, he even rescues love from the convention which had made it the prerogative of the nobly born ; contrasts the titles " woman " ( wîp ) and " lady " ( froûwe ) to the disadvantage of the latter ; and puts the most beautiful of his lyrics — Unter der linden — into the mouth of a simple girl.
An image issued by and made during Gustav Vasas reign showing him ( in dark brown clothing and cap ) capturing and subduing Catholicism ( the lady in Orange dress ).
For my part, I made up my mind from the beginning that the middle-aged husband of the old lady was in every way qualified to murder her, and I refused to surrender this conviction when suspicion of him is scattered for a moment.
For the following beautiful air I have to express my very grateful acknowledgement to Miss J. Ross, of New Town, Limavady, in the County of Londonderry — a lady who has made a large collection of the popular unpublished melodies of the county, which she has very kindly placed at my disposal, and which has added very considerably to the stock of tunes which I had previously acquired from that still very Irish county.
They are addressed in the form of narrative to a lady who is not known, though guesses have been made at her identity, some even suggesting Madame de Sévigné herself.
The traditional themes of classical scenes from mythology or a standard image of a young lady, are more likely to be made with the help of the ultrasonic carving machine as a limited collection of typically 50 – 200 pieces.
" When wounded and made prisoner, he discovers the true beauty of the lady: when she leaves him, he is handed over to Heaviness.
For the instant this cross was brought near the lady, it expelled the sore disease, and made her whole.
Her use of turbans has made her so distinguishable to the point of having earned the nickname " the lady with the turban " in Colombian popular culture.
In 1868 he had sent to the Salon a life-size portrait of a lady in which he had made one of the first attempts to render the actual character of fashionable modern life.
In actuality, after Raynald's attack on one caravan, Saladin made sure that the next one, in which his sister was traveling, was properly guarded: the lady came to no harm.
While the show was shelved for an extended amount of time in early 1984, Danza was arrested for fighting in a New York bar after a fellow patron made a rude remark about a lady friend of his.
lady and clear
One, found before vowels as in lady or fly, is called clear l, pronounced as the alveolar lateral approximant with a " neutral " position of the body of the tongue.
His discussions with the lady had convinced him that to clear up such questions it was necessary to study our senses separately, to distinguish precisely what ideas we owe to each sense, to observe how the senses are trained, and how one sense aids another.
The means by which Sulla attained the fortune which later would enable him to ascend the ladder of Roman politics, the Cursus honorum, are not clear, although Plutarch refers to two inheritances ; one from his stepmother and the other from a low-born, but rich, unmarried lady.
Green's extreme respect for her own privacy aside, she entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the popular phrase, " I'm not Hetty if I do look green ;" this phrase is quoted in O. Henry's 1890s story " The Skylight Room " when a young woman, negotiating the rent on a room in a rooming house owned by an imperious old lady, wishes to make it clear she is neither as rich as she appears nor as naive.
Power was also available, as in March 1617, along with Francis Bacon being made temporary Regent of England, a document was drawn up making Lady Bacon first lady in the land, taking precedence over all other Baronesses ( it is not clear whether it was signed into law ).
" Poet Iris Barry, writing in the 1930s about the Pounds during this period, describes Dorothy as, " With came Mrs. Pound, carrying herself delicately with the air, always of a young Victorian lady out skating, and a profile as clear and lovely as that as a porcelain Kuan-yin ".
It is clear that " she " is under male instruction, and that Archimago behaves like a new Pygmalion, " transfixed by a lady of his own devising.
The only other people in the carriage seemed clear of suspicion – two middle-aged spinsters, two French commercial travelers from Lyon, a young man called James Elliot and his flashy wife, and an American lady about whom very little is known.
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