The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

They were usually composed of wealthy " country gentlemen " ( i. e. landowners, farmers and merchants ): “ A country gentleman as a member of a Grand Jury ... levied the local taxes, appointed the nephews of his old friends to collect them, and spent them when they were gathered in.

:::< span style =" font-family: Times New Roman ">" In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a galgo for coursing.

He was a tremendous gentlemen, an old fashioned institution which isn't with us anymore.

His brave attempt ( the motion was defeated by 196 to 73, Disraeli the old fox abstaining ) was greeted with smiles from the average man, guffaws from Punch ( one joke showed a group of gentlemen besieging a female Cabinet Minister, haw haw haw ), and disappearing frowns from a sad majority of educated women, who maintained that their influence was best exerted from home.

However, though rather fond of such customers such as US Marshall Phil Yonne, who treat her " like gentlemen ", she never felt love for anybody-until the seven-year old Paul comes in to ask for a drink of water.

These men, under the old system, had no definite status ; but they were generosi, men of birth, and, being now forced to describe themselves, they disdained to be classed with franklins ( now sinking in the social scale ), still more with yeomen or husbandmen ; they chose, therefore, to be described as " gentlemen ".

At that time, the HEIC provided general and vocational education for young gentlemen of sixteen to eighteen years old, who were nominated by its directors to writerships ( i. e. clerkships ) in the overseas civil service.

N ° 274, Adi le Xbre 1638 Ragusa ) – he would probably have been elected knez of the Dubrovnik Republic, the highest function that was held for one month only by meritorious gentlemen at least fifty years old.

Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters ; and their Cavalier | Royalists ' troopers are gentlemens ' sons, younger sons and persons of quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows ours will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?

he represented the old way of doing things: deputations, statements, committees — gentlemen politics in the British tradition.

These men are nobles, now, the gentlemen of old are now the trash .” This Greek poet wrote these words during a time in Greece, when money and economic growth in relation to trade gave rise to high class proprietors.

Some of the old servants and followers of the family tell me I am a most fortunate person ; for that I have got one of the best gentlemen in the country ....

Fresh from Edgehill, he had told Hampden: " You must get men of a spirit that is likely to go as far as gentlemen will go ", not " old decayed serving-men, tapsters and such kind of fellows to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them ".

In response to his letter, thirty European gentlemen of Calcutta including Mr. Justice John Hyde, John Carnac, Henry Vansittart, John Shore, Charles Wilkins, Francis Gladwin, Jonathan Duncan and others gathered on January 15, 1784 in the Grand Jury Room of the old Supreme Court of Calcutta.

Therefore all gentlemen who bear old ( coats of ) arms ought to honour Sir Tristram for the goodly terms that gentlemen have and use, and shall until Doomsday, that through them all men of respect may distinguish a gentleman from a yeoman and a yeoman from a villein.

The gentlemen moved their cricketing interests there and reinvented themselves as Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ), which is thus a direct continuation of the old London Cricket Club.

He collects and copies old and almost decayed Sankrit-and Bengali-manuscripts of the Middle-Ages, owned either by privat gentlemen or temples.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

This last was probably not in Brumidi's palette, but was needed to take the chill, bluish look off the new work next to the old, where softening effects of time were seen, even after thorough cleaning.

The gun fired next to his ear with a vicious whoosh like the first stroke of an old steam engine.

Lacking his needed credits in those subjects, Fabian will not graduate with his old classmates next week.

Although Andronikos was at that time fifty-six years old, age had not diminished his charms, and Theodora became the next victim of his artful seduction.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

The Senate refused to meet to hold an impeachment trial before the end of the old term, so the trial was held over until the next Congress.

When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to the next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ones fade.

This version of rasterization has overtaken the old method as it allows the graphics to flow without complicated textures ( a rasterized image when used face by face tends to have a very block-like effect if not covered in complex textures ; the faces are not smooth because there is no gradual color change from one primitive to the next ).

: And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges ( ἴσα πρεσβεῖα ) to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honoured with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her.

For the next two years Eugene continued to perform with distinction on campaign, and establish himself as a dedicated, professional soldier ; by the end of 1685, still only 22 years old, he was made a Major-General.

When the Salian dynasty ended with Henry V's death in 1125, the princes chose not to elect the next of kin, but rather Lothair, the moderately powerful but already old Duke of Saxony.

In 1725 and 1766 large fires destroyed most of the town, leveling parts of the old townhouse and the church next to it.

* 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident ; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

A memorial also stands in Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, next to the old motorcycle racing circuit.

The Baixa de Luanda is situated next to the port, and has narrow streets and old colonial buildings.

The next vigorous demonstrations took place to protest against the high cinema prices and since then the city returned to its old very sleepy self, until the protest against the G8 meetings in 2003.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

The next day he and Telemachus visit the country farm of his old father Laertes, who likewise accepts his identity only when Odysseus correctly describes the orchard that Laertes had previously given him.

After the matzos come out of the oven, the entire work area is scrubbed down and swept to make sure that no pieces of old, potentially leavened dough remain, as any stray pieces are now chametz, and can contaminate the next batch of matzo.

Peckinpah was next signed to direct The Cincinnati Kid, a gambling drama about a young prodigy who takes on an old master during a big New Orleans poker match.

Over the next 10 years the Stationers repeatedly advocated bills to re-authorize the old licensing system, but Parliament declined to enact them.

Just prior to his death, Hideyoshi hoped to set up a system stable enough to survive until his son grew old enough to become the next leader.

Natives used the now loosened 4000 year old bricks and tile for construction for the next 75 years while the site lay unexplored.