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A young man studied letters and armsAnd rode off to the Capital, Where he learned the Hsiung-nu had been vanquished ; And all he could do was wait. So to kingfisher cliffs he retired, And sits in the grass by a streamWhile valiant men chase red cordsAnd monkeys ride clay oxen.
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The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.
`` Another young man, my dear??
Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.
and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.
Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.
He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
`` Husky young man '', he said with mock distaste.
Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.
This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;
Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.
That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.
What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??
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Russia's young gymnasts have studied dance before having the rigorous training on apparatus.
The development of the young of Ichthyophis glutinosus, a species from Sri Lanka, has been much studied.
As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
After the war, the young Grothendieck studied mathematics in France, initially at the University of Montpellier.
She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.
His most famous pupil, Arrian, studied under him when a young man ( c. 108 AD ) and claimed to have written the famous Discourses from his lecture notes, though some argue they should be considered an original composition by Arrian, comparable to the Socratic literature.
The young Gregory and his brother, Caesarius, first studied at home with their uncle Amphylokhios.
As a young priest he had studied little theology, but this was not considered unusual at the time.
Unlike many children, Simon was exposed to the idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically at a relatively young age due to the influence of his mother ’ s younger brother, Harold Merkel, who had studied economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison under John R. Commons.
A group of young realists, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, who had studied under Charles Gleyre, became friends and often painted together.
As a young man he would have studied at a Sunni Maliki madh ' hab, ( Islamic jurisprudence school ), the dominant form of education in North Africa at that time.
First tutored at home by his mother Elizabeth, between the ages of 11 and 16, the young Monroe studied at Campbelltown Academy, a school run by the Reverend Archibald Campbell of Washington Parish.
One of these was the young theological student C. G. Brunius, who studied ancient languages under Tegnér and were later to become professor of Greek.
Marvin studied violin when he was young.
'" Bracton's work was the second legal treatise studied by the young apprentice lawyer Thomas Jefferson.
Adrian VI studied from a very young age under the Brethren of the Common Life, either at Zwolle or Deventer and was also a student of the Latin school ( now Gymnasium Celeanum ) in Zwolle.
Hasselberg grew up in Blekinge, but moved to Paris as a young man, where he studied under François Jouffroy.
) Gombrowicz spent a year in Paris where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales ; although he was less than diligent in his studies his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals.
Still young, he entered in 1509 the University of Heidelberg where he studied philosophy, rhetoric, and astronomy / astrology, and was known as a good Greek scholar.
He was the greatest musical influence in Appleton's young life seeing that he studied piano, encouraging him to compose music and taking him to multiple concerts.
Lawrence Kohlberg's ( 1981 ) theory of moral development studied moral reasoning ( how individuals judge situations as right from wrong ) within three stages of young adulthood.
In the summer of 1896 the Lawrences moved to Oxford, where in 1907 – 10 young Lawrence studied history at Jesus College, graduating with First Class Honours.
As a young man, Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright, at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin.
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