As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

More often, the Order of the Chrysanthemum has been a posthumous award ; the Collar of the order was last awarded, posthumously, to former Prime Minister Sato Eisaku in June 1975.

His last association with the series was posthumous.

If sovereigns since Tang were referenced using posthumous names, they were the last ones of their sovereignties or their reigns were short and unpopular.

Some of his last essays, found in his nonfiction anthologies and in his posthumous collection Winter's Light, describe his struggle to come emotionally to terms with a disease that had already killed many of his friends and fellow writers.

For example, the Shunzhi Emperor whose full posthumous name is detailed below, would be 世祖章皇帝, combining the last 2 characters of his temple name and the last 3 of his posthumous name, which is the form most commonly seen in old documents.

Until 1551 what is known as the posthumous coinage was produced — these were coins which were exactly the same as Henry's last issue, but with a different portrait of him.

The last of his works was his posthumous Autobiography.

Despite her nervous collapse over the last five months, she was calm and dignified and both women won mild posthumous approval for their behaviour.

The volume, though written by Fisher and Woodworth, was advertised as Russell's " posthumous work " and " last legacy " but contained several interpretations and viewpoints not espoused by Russell, including an urging of all Bible Students to cast judgment upon Christendom and its clergy, the adoption of new dates for the fulfillment of particular prophecies, a claim that salvation is tied to membership within the Watch Tower Society, as well as shunning and censuring any who reject the interpretations given in the volume or related articles in The Watch Tower magazine.

The only witness to his last moments was girlfriend Nancy Herrera, who was pregnant with his posthumous son Alberto.

She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.

The last film they produced together, The Reader, earned them both posthumous Oscar nominations for Best Picture.

Bergman voiced the Scooby Doo character Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island ( 1998 ), Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost ( 1999 ) and Scooby-Doo And The Alien Invaders ( 2000 ), this last one being a posthumous release, dedicated to her.

* posthumous, as though related to humus, soil, although it is a specialized sense of Latin postumus, " last ".

Canute's illegitimate posthumous son, Valdemar, bishop of Schleswig and Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, died in 1236 as the last descendant of king Magnus.

His last posthumous works were a statue of Lazare Hoche in Quiberon ( 1902 ), the Monument to Gambetta in Bordeaux ( 1904 ), the Monument to Émile Levassor ( 1907 ) and the Monument to Scheurer-Kestner ( 1908 ) in Paris.

King Zhou () was the pejorative posthumous name given to Di Xin (), the last king of the Shang Dynasty of ancient China.

His last marriage ( 1974-1989 ) was to the Irish novelist and children's writer Eilís Dillon, who edited his posthumous book, Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders ( Oxford, 1994 ).

With two new drivers for the last two races of the season, the team were determined to clinch a posthumous title for their late team leader.

Hertfordshire's last VC of the First World War was granted in December 1918, after the war had finished: a posthumous VC for Lieutenant Frank Young of Hitchin, who was killed on 18 September 1918, aged 23.

This is attributed to cultural reasons, some distrust of western medicine, and a controversial organ transplantation in 1968 that provoked a ban on cadaveric organ donation that would last thirty years.

Taken together, these various productions, with their frequent use of music, their geographical and temporal relocations, and their general modifications of the original serve to lend credence to Stanley Wells ' claim that the play " has succeeded best when subjected to adaptation, increasing its musical content, adjusting the emphasis of the last scene so as to reduce the shock of Valentine's donation of Silvia to Proteus, and updating the setting.

* Ben Weider's last interview with Carol Off of CBC Radio ' As It Happens ', discussing his multi-million dollar donation of Napoleon artifacts to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, broadcast September 25, 2008 ( move time slider to 20 mins, 45 secs to start )

Its last amendment permits donors to get a tax break of 75 % for a donation of up to 470 € ( euros ).

One of his last philanthropic efforts was the donation of 10 % of his company's ( Baldwin Locomotive Works ) income to the Civil War Christian Mission in the early 1860s.

Kathy begins to care for Ruth, and Ruth is aware that the next donation will most likely be her last.

Their goal is to see if they can defer Tommy's fourth donation ( which is often the last one ).

The invisible back side of the tripartite wig can be found on the donation stela of Shebitku from Pharbaitos and on the Bakenranef / Bocchoris vase dating to the last days of Piye and the beginning of Shabaka -- all appear close in time to the presumed reign of Tefnakht I.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.