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 childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, son of King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall.

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 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.

Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.

Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

Among foreign countries responding were Germany, Canada, Brazil and India.

Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;

Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.

Among them were a number of newsmen, including Henry Raymont, of United Press International, and Robert Berrellez, of Associated Press.

Among his gangland buddies, he said, were Joseph ( Joey ) Glimco, a mob labor racketeer, and four gang gambling chiefs, Gus ( Slim ) Alex, Ralph Pierce, Joe ( Caesar ) DiVarco, and Jimmy ( Monk ) Allegretti.

Among the witnesses were Ed J. Lee, director of McCormick Place ; ;

Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.

Among major industrial centers closed to curtail pollution were the Nairit Chemical Plant, the Alaverdy Metallurgical Plant, and the Vanadzor Chemical Combine.

Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.

Among subsequent possessors were Scott's son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, J. R. Hope Scott, Q. C., and his daughter ( Scott's great-granddaughter ), the Hon.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.

Among Ammonius ' other pupils there were Herennius and Cassius Longinus.

Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result ( from 1942 to 1946, most intensively ).

" Among the Oxford Group practices AA retained were informal gatherings, a " changed-life " developed through " stages ", and working with others for no material gain.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.