Among his childhood favorites were Dickens, Smollett, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, and later, Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman.

Among the findings, it was stated that a " father's education and variables indicating the economic conditions of childhood were the most important in predicting the size of inheritances.

Among the Anishinaabeg, a particularly powerful and well-respected spiritual leader who had trained from childhood is called a Jaasakiid or Jiisakiiwinini, also known as a " Juggler " or " Shaking-tent Seer.

Among the buildings identified, one building was one of the first churches in the area ( now a dance studio ), another was the childhood home of 24th Vice President of the United States Garret Augustus Hobart ( now an art studio ), and another was the old parsonage ( now a hair cutting business ).

Among famous men from Rødovre is Søren Rønø, known throughout the world for his Danish specialty dishes, including his delicious Risalamande med Kirsebær made from his mother's recipe which he remembers from his childhood near Damhus Søen on Diana Vej.

Among his warmer memories of his childhood, Robbins recalled having listened to stories of the American West told by his maternal grandfather, Texas Bob Heckle.

Among the elite, 14 was the age of transition from childhood to adolescence, but a betrothal might be arranged for political reasons when the couple were too young to marry, and in general noble women married younger than women of the lower classes.

Among her childhood friends was the poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

Among Madelyne's acts of healing was the curing of Scott's childhood head injury, enabling him to control his optic blasts without the use of ruby-quartz lenses.

Among her beneficial actions were fixing the childhood brain injury that prevented Cyclops from controlling his optic blasts, curing Puck of his mystically induced dwarfism, unifying Aurora's multiple personalities, and giving Rogue the ability to control her mutant power.

Among the Christian Habesha highlanders of Ethiopia and Eritrea ( the predominantly orthodox Christian Amhara and Tigray-Tigrinya ), it is a tradition to be able to recount one's paternal ancestors at least 7 generations away starting from early childhood, because " those with a common patrilineal ancestor less than seven generations away are considered ' brother and sister ' and may not marry.

Among the incidents from childhood the narrator remembers is a childhood crush.

Among his childhood memories was finding a lynched man hung from a tree while walking in the woods near his home.

Among these are a number of early childhood facilities including Byron Bay Preschool and Periwinkle Preschool.

Among his childhood playmates were the Alou brothers, Felipe, Jesús, and Matty, who all later played with Marichal on the San Francisco Giants.

Among the nine stories it contains, the long title story describes the narrator's brutalized childhood and youth in colonial Rhodesia in a style that is emotionally compelling and verbally pyrotechnic.

A Slave Among Slaves – Washington presents the details of his birth, to the extent of which he was aware ( his exact place, time and date of birth is largely unknown ), his memories of a childhood in slavery, and the immediate effects of emancipation.

Among his childhood friends was later composer Klaus Egge.

Among his prominent causes is fighting childhood poverty through the George Kaiser Family Foundation ; he is also a major benefactor to the Jewish community in Oklahoma, which numbers about 5, 000 people.

Among the dead was the cousin of comedian Denis Leary, Firefighter Jerry Lucey, and his close childhood friend, Lt. Tommy Spencer.

Among my school and neighborhood friends, during the next months, I bragged and swaggered and pompously described my impending date.

Among Chapman's closest friends were Keith Moon of The Who, singer Harry Nilsson, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, and The Beatles ' Ringo Starr.

Among his friends were Augustine, Jerome, and Paulinus.

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

Among their friends was Henry Balnaves, a former secretary of state in the government, who negotiated with England for the financial support of the rebels.

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.

Among these friends were Enevold Brandt and Count Schack Carl Rantzau, leader of a circle of followers of the Enlightenment, who treated Struensee as his protégé.

Among his friends during this time was future behaviorist John Watson, with whom he exchanged ideas and collaborated.

Among Astor's early political friends were the first female candidates to follow her to Parliament, including members of the other parties.

Among two or three friends, however, the picture of Rivers is quite different.

Among her few close friends she counted Patricia Tobin, whose family founded the Hibernia Bank, a branch of which Hearst would later aid in robbing.

Among his many friends was Edmund N. Bacon.

Among the more prominent of Priscillian's friends were two bishops, Instantius and Salvianus ; Hyginus of Cordova also joined the party.

Among the American expatriate community in Paris his friends included Susan Sontag.

Among the friends of the family was the historian Leopold von Ranke, which advised the parents to support the boy's innate talent.

Among his friends and acquaintances were many English artists and satirists of the period, for instance, Francis Hayman, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne.

Among his friends were such different people as Wilhelm Röpke, who was to become one of the leading figures of economic liberalism, Ernst Lemmer, later a trade unionist and also a Christian Democrat, and Viktor Agartz, a Marxist.

Among his friends at Edinburgh were the philosophers Adam Ferguson and David Hume and the artist Paul Sandby whom he met in the Highlands.

Among his friends were Booker T. Washington, Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller, and Mark Twain, all of whom came to visit Rogers in Fairhaven, sometimes for protracted periods.

Among those who stayed year-round, friends would be hosted for the snowy holidays and winter sports.

Among the friends he made here was the future Czech revolutionary poet Karel Havlíček, whose departure for Prague in 1838 may have influenced Smetana's own desire to experience life in the capital.

Among friends of equal social status, it is not necessary to use both hands while pouring or receiving a drink, but may be done out of habit or politeness, or if the situation is considered a particularly formal one.

Among the more noteworthy cases which fell under his direction were the proceedings against " Martin Marprelate ", Thomas Cartwright and his friends, and John Penry, whose " seditious writings " he caused to be intercepted and given up to the lord keeper.

Among his only remaining friends is the mortal head of the Talamasca Caste, David Talbot, who is seventy-four years old.