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As a young man, Newport sailed with Sir Francis Drake in the attack on the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and participated in England ’ s defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.
`` Another young man, my dear??
Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.
and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.
Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.
He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
`` Husky young man '', he said with mock distaste.
Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.
This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;
Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.
That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.
What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??
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The angriest young man in Newport last night was at the Playhouse, where `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' opened as the jazz festival closed.
With the new Bentonville " 5 and Dime " opening for business and, 220 miles away, a year left on the lease in Newport, the cash strapped young Walton had to learn to delegate responsibility.
However it appears that Hatton's two brothers both died relatively young, and neither left issue, and it was his sister Dorothy's son by John Newport who eventually became Hatton's heir.
While young, Steele attended Roe's Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson and the William Leverett Boarding School in Newport.
When he was nine, young Ben was legally adopted by his father, who named him Hooper and reared him in Newport as a Baptist.
During one summer's stay at Newport, Rhode Island, Richards met Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke of Harvard, who showed the young boy Saturn's rings through a small telescope.
During a period of sobriety from 2007-8, Marinovich worked with Todd Kramer, founder of the Kramer Center at Newport Beach, and the National Drug Treatment Center to help young athletes overcome addiction and to stay clean.
The young Peter Pelham studied with him since Newport and followed him to Charleston ; some of Pachelbel's compositions survive in Pelham's partbooks.
* Sam is an idealistic young man living in the fictional city of Newport.
The former limestone mines are tucked away in treeland at the Newport end of the village, locally known as " the Slang ", which is effectively several pits now filled with water, popular with local fishermen and unpopular with local parents of young children-the water is deep and the former minepits area quite dark, abandoned and dangerous.
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Henry Toynbee and sailed out to Australia as a young bride in 1855.
The proprietor was Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a young man from Louisiana who had sailed throughout the South Pacific ; later he legally changed his name to Donn Beach.
In 1955, six young men sailed a Ming Dynasty-style junk from Taiwan to San Francisco.
The Mirror is light and stable enough to be sailed safely by two young teenagers or two adults.
Early next spring, King Henry I sailed to Tripoli, where young Bohemond joined him, and then went on to Antioch and Sis.
During one of his wartime breaks in Australia he had become engaged to a young Sydney woman, Elaine Hull, whose family had offered hospitality ; and on leaving the Royal Navy he immediately sailed for Sydney.
White Base managed to escape from Luna II, and sailed next for Earth under the command of a young Bright Noa.
Robert, his two young daughters Elizabeth and Mary and his sister Mary sailed for Canada in the summer and arrived in Quebec, probably in September, where he wintered before proceeding to Upper Canada.
Charles Calvert sailed to Maryland in 1661 as a young man of 24, becoming the first member of the Calvert family to take personal charge of the colony.
Next, a young Greek boy sailed into the stadium on a giant paper boat waving the host nation's flag, symbolizing Greece's maritime tradition and its close connection to the sea.
Two young Japanese men named Christopher and Cosmas sailed on a Spanish galleon to California, where their ship was seized by Thomas Cavendish.
After an acquaintance in London assured him that " Carolina was the best country ", Lawson as a young man sailed for the North American colonies, arriving in Charleston, South Carolina on August 15, 1700.
In 985 C. E., Bjarni Herjólfsson, a young merchant, sailed from Eyrarbakki headed for Greenland, but instead reached as far as North America.
At Ostia, young Marius went on ahead of his father and sailed to Africa.
The Sabot is a sailing dinghy that is sailed and raced singlehandedly usually by young sailors in various places around the world.
How long before 1549 the Nessmen sailed to Sula Sgeir each year to collect the young gannets for food and feathers is not known, but it may be assumed that it was a tradition for centuries.
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