Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

Any person who makes application for any such payment shall be held to have consented to all the provisions of this Title.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The person who left the buggy there has never been identified.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

Lucien is not the only person in this house who could have put opium in that coffee.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

`` A person with a master's degree in physics, chemistry, math or English, yet who has not taken Education courses, is not permitted to teach in the public schools '', said Grover.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers, such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth, people who became good friends of his, even though they never met in person.

In the United States, " merchant " is defined ( under the Uniform Commercial Code ) as any person while engaged in a business or profession or a seller who deals regularly in the type of goods sold.

This genre regularly describes Satan as actually appearing in person in order to receive worship.

He declared: " There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances ; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.

A pension is a contract for a fixed sum to be paid regularly to a person, typically following retirement from service.

* Washing one's hands after using the toilet, after contact with an infected person, and regularly throughout the day.

" Boone regularly took reading material with him on his hunting expeditions — the Bible and Gulliver's Travels were favorites — and he was often the only literate person in groups of frontiersmen.

For example, if a person builds a mosque and allows other to pray in it regularly, or if someone builds a graveyard and allows others to bury their dead, then these actions are regarded tantamount to founding a waqf.

The disarrangement of the tiles was something fourth-century sextons regularly did when re-using materials already engraved, with the aim of indicating that it was not the same person who was now buried in the place.

He was the leader of a cult called " The Friends of Venus ," of which he was the only member ; he regularly engaged in conversations with imaginary members of his cult ( such as " Pepe " and " Rocco "), but he was the only person who could see them.

Roger Williams believed, " There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances ; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.

Another obvious method to deter embezzlement is to regularly and unexpectedly move funds from one advisor or entrusted person to another when the funds are supposed to be available for withdrawal or use, to ensure that the full amount of the funds is available and no fraction of the savings has been embezzled by the person to whom the funds or savings have been entrusted.

** Starring Roles — a list of links to the main pages of shows in which the person regularly appeared, along with their roles

A person is an officer if specifically so designated under the articles or bylaws of the organization, or if he or she regularly exercises general authority to make administrative or policy decisions for the organization.

Their congregation handbook states that a person hoping to qualify as an unbaptized publisher should already be " an active associate of Jehovah's Witnesses ", that is, he or she should regularly attend congregation meetings.

During her presidency she regularly visited towns and villages to meet her constituents in person, and received many thousands of letters yearly from Latvians.

Jillette regularly acknowledges Randi as the one person on the planet he loves the most besides members of his family.

He moves into a run-down apartment building where he meets his lovely artist next-door neighbor Alisa ( Rosario Dawson ), and puts together a team of unassigned employees: Salman Fard ( Anjul Nigam ), a short, foreign man with an accent who is hacking into CIA files when Andy meets him ; Curtis " Tiny " Russell ( Ethan Suplee ), a massively obese, anthropophobic man ; and Darrell ( Jake Busey ), a tall, blond, pierced, scary, germophobic, deep-voiced man with personal space issues who regularly refers to himself in the third person.

It was usually considered necessary that the person who was to be nominated Magister Equitum should previously have been Praetor, but this was not regularly followed.

This vampiric tendency is essential to Omega Red's survival ; the carbonadium implants, while great offensive weapons, slowly poisoned him and he was required to regularly drain the life energy of a person, or perhaps take small amounts from larger numbers of individuals, in order to temporarily sustain his immune system.

Like other test cards, it was usually shown while no programmes were being broadcast, but was the first to be transmitted in colour in the UK and the first to feature a person, and has become an iconic British image regularly subject to parody.