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Lord and Windermere
Numerous characters in the play appear to draw their names from the north of England: Lady Windermere from the lake and nearby town Windermere, the Duchess of Berwick from Berwick-upon-Tweed, Lord Darlington from Darlington ( though Wilde had used " Windermere " earlier in Lord Arthur Saville's Crime ).
It is tea time and Lady Windermere — who is preparing for her coming of age birthday ball that evening — has a visit from a friend, Lord Darlington.
At this point, Lord Windermere enters and she confronts him.
Lady Windermere makes clear her intention to cause a scene if Mrs Erlynne appears, to which Lord Windermere responds that it would be in her best interest not to do so.
Lady Windermere leaves in disgust to prepare for the party, and Lord Windermere reveals in soliloquy that he is protecting Mrs Erlynne's true identity to save his wife extreme humiliation.
Lord Windermere enters and asks Lady Windermere to speak with him, but she brushes him off.
Lord Windermere reveals that there is nothing untoward in his relationship with Mrs Erlynne, and that she will be attending the ball, which comes as a great relief to Lord Augustus as he was worried about her social standing.
After an unsuccessful attempt to make peace with his wife, Lord Windermere summons the courage to tell the truth to her, but at that moment Mrs Erlynne arrives at the party, where she is greeted coldly by Lady Windermere, spoiling his plan.
Alone, Lady Windermere and Lord Darlington discuss Mrs Erlynne's attendance.
Lady Windermere is enraged and confused and asks Lord Darlington to be her friend.
On the other side of the room Mrs Erlynne is discussing her plans with Lord Windermere ; she intends to marry Lord Augustus and will require some money from Lord Windermere.

Lord and rises
He has been described as a modernist, a neoclassicist, a composer of " an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment " whose, " expressive voice was always carefully muted ," until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to, " moments of real passion ", and a neoromantic.
Lord Holland's statue rises from a pond in Holland Park, London.
This type is also sometimes called the Virgin of the Sign or Our Lady of the Sign, a reference to Isaiah 7: 14: Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Such an image is often placed on the inside of the apse which rises directly over the altar of Orthodox churches.
As the High Priestess of Lims-Kragma seeks the truth by bringing them back from beyond the grave, one of the prisoners rises by the power of an unknown enemy, and attacks his captors, slaughtering many royal guards, and addressing Arutha as " Lord of the West " before being destroyed by Father Nathan, a priest of Sung.

Lord and leave
In his heart he had that peace of which the Lord spoke when He said, `` Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
While preparations were under way for a renewed advance on Kabul, the new Governor-General Lord Ellenborough ordered British forces to leave Afghanistan after securing the release of the prisoners from Kabul and taking reprisals.
When George I succeeded to the British throne in 1714, his German ministers advised him to leave the office of Lord High Treasurer vacant because those who had held it in recent years had grown overly powerful, in effect, replacing the Sovereign as head of the government.
After the sailors leave, the Captain confesses to Little Buttercup that Josephine is reluctant to consider a marriage proposal from Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty.
During the Prince's tour, one of his friends who was travelling with him, Lord Aylesford, was told by his wife that she was going to leave him for another man: Lord Blandford, who was himself married.
At Siyyid Kázim's death in 1843, he had counselled his followers to leave their homes to seek the Lord of the Age whose advent would soon break on the world.
The essay finishes with the departure of the Keepers of the Rings from the Grey Havens ( at the end of The Lord of the Rings ) and then the sailing of the Last Ship of the Eldar ever to leave Middle-earth.
At the outset of World War I, the Prime Minister, Asquith, quickly had Lord Kitchener appointed Secretary of State for War ; Asquith had been filling the job himself as a stopgap following the resignation of Colonel Seeley over the Curragh Incident earlier in 1914, and Kitchener was by chance briefly in Britain on leave when war was declared.
Although James successfully woos Ananova, their mutual affection sets off a chain of political outrage that affects the noble position of Lord B. Lord B selfishly arranges for James to leave Eton on his trading ship, the Sea Witch.
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo and his companions arrive at Bree almost immediately after they leave the Shire, giving the impression that less time separates the two events than is described by Tolkien.
Richard was evidently well aware of the threat from this quarter since in the summer of 1485, when Stanley sought permission to leave the court and return to his northern fastness of Lathom, the king insisted that his son, George Stanley, Lord Strange, take his place at court as a token for his father ’ s good behaviour.
Its success enabled Lord to leave the world of advertising and become a full-time writer.
The Lord shall say: " My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper ".
When the Americans asked the admiral to leave his fleet in Narragansett Bay, d ' Estaing refused and attacked the British under Lord Howe.
Later, Lady Windermere, in spite of her earlier reluctance, decides to leave the house at once for Lord Darlington, and leaves a note to that effect for Lord Windermere.
This man was certainly his godfather, and a cousin of Arthur Wolfe, Lord Kilwarden, who warned Tone to leave Ireland in 1795.
After the freehold was purchased by Lord Rothermere, the wings were demolished to leave the original central portion ( with the dome now appearing disproportionately tall ) and Smirke's later wings.
He passed sentence of death on Lord Audley in 1631, drafted and enforced the proclamation of 20 June 1632 ordering the country gentlemen to leave London, and in 1634 joined in William Laud's attack on the Earl of Portland for peculation.
On 25 April he spoke in the Commons against Lord John Russell's motion for parliamentary reform and a few days later Canning moved for leave to introduce a measure of Catholic Emancipation ( for lifting the exclusion of Catholics from the House of Lords ).
When Irma decides to leave Paris with the fictitious Lord X, Nestor decides to end the charade.
Shortly after its debut release, Sadat X and Lord Jamar began having problems with Grand Puba, which caused him to leave the group, along with DJ Alamo, to pursue a solo career.

Lord and fan
A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin ' Wolf, and Charles Bukowski, Waits began developing his own idiosyncratic musical style.
A lifelong Gilbert and Sullivan fan, in 1975, Wilson joined the Board of Trustees of the D ' Oyly Carte Trust at the invitation of Sir Hugh Wontner, who was then the Lord Mayor of London.
One of them takes notice of a fan lying on a table ( Lady Windermere's ) and presumes that Lord Darlington presently has a woman visiting.
* Spacemen 3 fan website, www. spacemen3. co. uk ' I have a Passion Sweet Lord ...'
Lord slowly built a small, but distinct position and fan base for himself in Europe.
During that same title reign, in a match against Lord James Blears a fan threw acid on his back, and he had to return immediately to the locker room to wash it off.
The nonprofit Jack Lord Memorial Fund, which raised the money for the memorial, was co-chaired by British Hawaii Five-O fan Esperanza Isaac and Lord's co-star Doug Mossman.
The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have been to see Holmes, along with Lord Cantlemere, who is apparently no great fan of Sherlock Holmes and no believer in his deductive powers.
Much erotic fanfic is based on science fiction, fantasy, or mainstream television series ( e. g. Star Trek, Beauty and the Beast, Highlander, Criminal Minds ) and movies ( e. g. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings ), using existing characters in relationships either hinted at or wholly undreamed of by their creators, in genres like slash ( homoerotic fan fiction ), elf porn, etc.
Approaching Blackwolf, Triumph quickly associated him as being part of the Lord of the Rings fan base ( based on Blackwolf's fantasy costume ) and then asked, " Have you ever talked to a woman without having to give your credit card number?
For example, the total word count of the English fan translation of Fate / stay night, taking all the branching paths into account, exceeds that of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The revelation of this, and the general chaos which had surrounded All In Wrestling prior to the War, prompted Admiral Lord Mountevans, a fan of the sport, to get together with Commander Campbell ( a member of the popular " The Brains Trust " radio panel show ), member of parliament Maurice Webb and Olympic wrestler Norman Morell to create a committee to produce official rules for wrestling.
Although highly regarded, Wyndham did have one peculiar run-in with a fan: author Annie Gilbert, in the book All My Afternoons, noted that Wyndham was mildly assaulted when an enraged fan, fed up with Rachel's scheming ways and thinking Wyndham was her character, attempted to punch her at a Lord & Taylor store in New York City, all the while screaming " I hate you!
Other prominent fan groups have included the Unearthly Children ( Pennsylvania ), Friends of the Time Lord and UNIT ( Massachusetts ), T. A. R. D. I. S.
He also did voicework for the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, and provided narration for the Star Wars fan film series I. M. P. S.
Lord Olivier, who adored The Dales ( he was a fan of British soap opera per se, and expressed a desire to appear in Coronation Street, a wish never fulfilled ) referred to Jessie Matthews being cast as Mrs Dale as " The most wonderful example of mis-casting in the history of the profession ".
During his first appearance on the show, Bobo introduces himself as " Professor Bobo, son of Koko and heir to the lineage of Godo, Mogo and Chim-Chim " a reference to Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, of which Kevin Murphy is a longtime fan.
Lord Jagannath, at bedtime, would be first served by male Sebaets-they would fan Him and decorate Him with flowers.
For decades he has been a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings books and made headlines when he showed up for the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wearing a hobbits robe, much to the amusement of its star Viggo Mortensen.
Wills ' mother was a fan of Lord Byron's poetry and Wills never used his first name.
Morph's 30th Birthday was celebrated in 2007 by creator Peter Lord and celebrity fan and comedian Phill Jupitus at events for the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol.
Jabe recognizes the Doctor as the last Time Lord after the Time War, and sacrifices herself to hold down a switch to slow down the fan blades, allowing the Doctor to reactivate the system just before the expanding Sun hits the station and destroys Earth.

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