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 ''.

As it is mainly West-Franconian historiography that speaks of Arnulf's illegitimacy, it is quite feasible that the two females are one and the same person and that Carloman later on actually married Liutswind, thus legitimizing his son.

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

* A song of fallen Jerusalem ( 7: 8 – 10 ): The first person voice continues, but now it is the city who speaks.

alt = A black man with his arm around a black boy speaks into a microphone held by a person out of view.

He speaks of Jesus as being the judge, of his atonement as the means to overcome sin and the tendencies of the natural man in order to become a holy person.

Each guest properly speaks little more than his name ( if necessary ) and a conventional greeting or congratulation to each person in the receiving line.

While the earliest extra-biblical directions for baptism, which occurs in the Didache ( c. 100 ), speaks to the baptism of adults, rather than young children, since it requires that the person to be baptised should fast, writings of the 2nd and early 3rd century indicate that some Christians baptized infants too.

Prima facie is often confused with res ipsa loquitur ( literally, " the thing speaks for itself "), the common law doctrine that when the facts make it self-evident that negligence or other responsibility lies with a party, it is not necessary to provide extraneous details, since any reasonable person would immediately find the facts of the case.

A person with this aphasia speaks normally but uses random or invented words ; leaves out key words ; substitutes words or verb tenses, pronouns, or prepositions ; and utters sentences that do not make sense.

The concept of linguistic relativity describes different formulations of the principle that cognitive processes such as thought and experience may be influenced by the categories and patterns of the language that a person speaks.

A Latino North Hollywood resident who speaks with a thick Cuban American accent, and often refers to himself in the third person, insisting on the English pronunciation of his name rather than the Spanish.

Nonetheless, a form of speech known to linguists as General American is perceived by most Americans to be " accent-less ", meaning a person who speaks in such a manner does not appear to be from anywhere.

As each guest properly speaks little more than his name ( if necessary ) and conventional greetings or congratulations to each person in turn, the line progresses steadily without unnecessary delays.

Prophētēs is the origin of the English word " prophet ", but a better translation of the Greek word might be " one who speaks on behalf of another person.

A person with expressive aphasia usually speaks in short sentences that make sense but take great effort to produce.

A person with receptive aphasia usually speaks in long sentences that have no meaning or content.

However, one author has observed that McDaniel's character is not far off from the persona of Mammy that Margaret Mitchell created in the book, that in both the film and the book the much younger Scarlett speaks to Mammy in a way that would be unacceptable for a Southern teen of that era to speak to a much older white person, and that neither the book nor the film make any hint to Mammy's own children ( dead or alive ), her own family ( dead or alive ) or her desires to have anything other than her life at Tara serving on a slave plantation.

Article 160 defines a Malay as being one who " professes the religion of Islam, habitually speaks the Malay language, conforms to Malay customs and is the child of at least one parent who was born within the Federation of Malaysia before independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957, or the issue ( off-spring ) of such a person.

One person speaks this and the other speaks that, but we have to learn to understand each other and the world.

80's synth-pop musician Thomas Dolby speaks of Opelousas in the first person within his song, " I Love You Goodbye " from his Astronauts and heretics album of 1992.

She sometimes speaks about him in the third person while he is present, even referring to him as " it ".

The unidentified narrator speaks in the first person throughout the work, posing as an autobiography.

Charles wrote to the Convent of Santa Clara caretakers: " It seems to me that the best and most suitable thing for you to do is to make sure that no person speaks with Her Majesty, for no good could come from it ".