Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

" According to an anecdote recorded on a papyrus, dating to around 250 BC, Hieron once asked the poet if everything grows old: " Yes ," Simonides answered, " all except money-making ; and kind deeds age most quickly of all.

An old anecdote illustrates Napoleon ’ s charisma or popularity.

An old anecdote was repeated in the land of Israel concerning a splendid feast which the exilarch once gave to the tanna Judah ben Bathyra at Nisibis on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement iii.

Yet another anecdote goes back to old terminology referring to a " mull ," a small hill of grass or dirt used to tee the golf ball for easier striking prior to modern tees.

Of this Dan, Saxo relates only an anecdote that when Dan was twelve years old, tired of the arrogance of Saxon ambassadors who demanded tribute on pain of war, he bridged the river Elbe with ships, crossed over, and won a great victory.

William Dewy also makes a brief appearance in Hardy's later novel Tess of the d ' Urbervilles: he is featured in a brief anecdote about ' old Wessex ' that Dairyman Crick shares with Tess, Angel Clare and the rest of the dairymen and milkmaids.

He was a tall, venerable-looking old man ; and although his complexion was sallow, and his countenance somewhat austere, his agreeable and fascinating conversation, full of humour and replete with anecdote, rendered him an acceptable guest in many social circles.

In an amusing anecdote recounted in Blackwood's Magazine, Dr. Mayne is said to have bequeathed a trunk to an old servant, noting that it contained something that would make him drink.

An old Kinshasa anecdote says that a college student then-named Antoine Agbepa Koffi was such an impressive songwriter that one day in 1977 Papa Wemba exhorted, " Ooh!

An anecdote about his language skills relates that when he finally started speaking French, one director told him that he preferred his old accent.

An anecdote from his epitaph relates that when he was three years old, his parents in took the child to a temple to pay homage to the Buddha.

Walsch explained that he found the anecdote in old computer files from years earlier, saw his son's name in the copy, and was fully convinced that the history had really happened to him and that he had just forgotten it, but " remembered " when he saw the anecdote in his file.

Elden Auker, a former major league pitcher, who had played against Donaldson, related this anecdote when he ( Auker ) was 95 years old, in 2006: " I played against Donaldson in 1929.

An old anecdote lies behind the painter's desire to represent the sculpted figures of Venus de Milos, seen 28 times in the painting.

Thorne recounts the changes to the old village of Plaistow, with the gentry, merchants and others of renown having gone and the occupations of the residents changed from agricultural and pastoral to manufacturing.

The story recounts the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped.

She recounts that when she was 13 years old, Major Hartley, a friend of her widowed mother, had repeatedly raped her while her mother was away.

His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the happenings in the castle until an old man recounts his father's words: within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years, whereupon a king's son is to come and awaken her.

The exactness with which the narrator recounts murdering the old man, as if his stealthy way of executing the crime is evidence of his sanity, reveals his monomania and paranoia.

The poem was originally sent to Hagar Olsson in an April 1920 letter where Edith recounts flu, abject poverty and a humiliating attempt to sell some old underwear to get money.

He recounts a conversation with a 96 year old lady who had lived in the area all her life and remembered being chased away from " Cheshums Mill " as a child.

Lorelei invites the old gent to her and Dorothy's cabin, whereupon he recounts his travels to Africa.

recounts in Marguerite du Pont Lee ’ s Virginia Ghosts and Others, “ Among the historic homes in the old County and town of Halifax, N. C. is “ Rocky Hill ” the summer residence of Governor Hutchins G. Burton, a distinguished lawyer and statesman of the Revolutionary period, who married a daughter of Willie Jones, the famous Jeffersonian-Republican leader through whose efforts the adoption of the Federal Constitution was defeated in the Hillsboro Convention of North Carolina because it contained no Bill of Rights.

Another tale recounts his bringing his ship into Trearddur Bay during the war for old times ' sake.

The fragment then recounts the early life of Harald Wartooth but breaks off ; it resumes with the arrival of Sigurd Ring, Harald's old age, and the colossal Battle of Brávellir.

Using her mother ’ s old diplomas and photos from her years in China, Kingston recounts the story of her mother ’ s life as a lady scholar.

He recounts the summer in his aunts ' cottage when he was seven years old.

The book " If You're A Wee Bit Irish: a chart of old Irish families collected from folk tradition " by William Durning ( 1978 ) recounts an alleged ancestry of Caoilte back to Adam.

He recounts that in the old days, Cronos judged men just before they died, and divided them into two categories.

" However, in his history of the development of San Francisco from the 1950s to the 1990s Chester Hartman recounts that the entire Yerba Buena project was long drawn out over 3 decades, born of a local struggle that included evictions and harassment of the previous tenants in the area, most of them old and poor, but who had joined together to fight for their rights.

The old woman insists that Nikki has won the role, and recounts two Polish folk tales.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

Even Sally, in spite of her gaiety and obvious welcome, followed the old taboo of `` quitting the gab when wearing the nosebag ''.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

There were fences in the old days when we were children.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

and once when he came to see us in New York he walked away in a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an umbrella, although he was at the time ninety years old.

More often than not, as the Old Grad wanders along the old paths, his memory of happy days when he strolled one of the paths with a coed beside him becomes an ache and a pain.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

Accounts were garbled at the telegraph office when they sent old George down to Parkersburg for the news.

Ma never went near the old man when he was sleeping it off.

that he moved with his parents to West Boxford when he was sixteen years old ; ;

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.