A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

The dead youth was identified as Robert E. Sims, 19, of 1688 Oak Knoll Cir., Aj.

Hospital officials said the injury was severe but the youth was in good condition last night.

On account of his severe illness when a youth, his father sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah regarding his recovery.

Piero sent Lorenzo on many important diplomatic missions when he was still a youth.

In his youth, Yaroslav was sent by his father to rule the northern lands around Rostov but was transferred to Novgorod, as befitted a senior heir to the throne, in 1010.

However, specialists of this period of Byzantine history, such as Paul Lemerle, have shown that Photius could not have compiled his Bibliotheca in Baghdad because he clearly states in both his introduction and his postscript that when he learned of his appointment to the embassy, he sent his brother a summary of books that he read previously, " since the time I learned how to understand and evaluate literature " i. e. since his youth.

As President of the Republic, Louis-Napoléon sent French troops to help restore Pope Pius IX as ruler of the Papal States in 1849 after his rule had been overthrown by the revolutionaries led by Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi who had proclaimed the Roman Republic ( although as a Carbonaro he had been involved in plotting a similar revolt in the Papal States during his youth in Italy ).

Of the 50 shirts bought by Elorduy, half were then sent to Atlético Madrid, which had originally begun as a youth branch of Athletic.

The Canons were famous for their dedication to scholarly pursuits, and sent the youth to their major center of studies, the Abbey of the Holy Cross in Coimbra.

After staying with his alcoholic mother for much of his youth, he was sent to live with his father in Indiana and then Paris.

The American Civil War sent the family back to France, where the teenaged Alice's youth and beauty and her family's wealth, made a great impression in Parisian society.

As a youth, he was sent to Oslo where he learned wood carving at a local school.

In his youth the Baron was sent to serve as a page to Duke Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and later joined the Russian military.

Parnell's parents separated when he was six, and as a boy he was sent to different schools in England, where he spent an unhappy youth.

A youth wing of the INA, composed of 45 Young Indians personally chosen by Bose and affectionately known as the Tokyo Boys, were also sent to Japan's Imperial Military Academy to train as fighter pilots.

On the instigation of a Gomard ( possibly the brother of her supposed father ), Jeanne was then employed as a companion ( dame de compagnie ) to an elderly widow, Madame de la Garde, but was sent away when her youth and beauty began to meddle in the marital affairs of both la Garde's two somewhat middle-aged sons.

When he was sacrificing to the gods in Corinth, he sent portions of the meat to Aratus at Sicyon, and complimented Aratus in front of his guests: " I thought this Sicyonian youth was only a lover of liberty and of his fellow-citizens, but now I look upon him as a good judge of the manners and actions of kings.

From 2002 to 2005 the Government of the Cayman Islands sent some delinquent youth to Tranquility Bay ; the government funded the students as they were located in Tranquility Bay.

He grew up in the shadow of his three older and more successful brothers, John, Howard and Frank and unlike his brothers he was not sent to the academy to become professional officer, they tormented and bullied him throughout his youth and their successes in both school and career greatly overshadowed him.

If they are incarcerated, they will be sent to a youth detention centre.

These experiences deeply influenced Ray Ginger's political convictions and much of his historical work: in later life he frequently recounted his childhood humiliation when sent to collect the bag of flour that was the only form of public welfare available, and also the intense personal rage that dominated his youth.

Coloured babies from Austria were sent in the age of 4 to 7 years by Austrian youth welfare offices to the USA by air flight.

* Thrace: A north-eastern frontier and often a battleground during the Peloponnesian War, it is where the rebellious youth is sent to act out his violent instincts ( line 1369 ).

Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which comprises regions of both the Scottish highlands and the Scottish lowlands, he was sent abroad as a youth for his education.

During his youth he became licentious and addicted to partying and wine, so Phocion sent him off to Sparta ( which was famous for frugal lifestyles ) for a period.

While he was Premier, the Dada youth printing the licentious art magazine Alge sent him a copy for review ; prosecuted on Iorga's orders, they all later became left-wing authors and artists: Aurel Baranga, Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, Jules Perahim.

From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Baghdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar, and in their committing to memory the whole of the Qur ' an, a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence, and the choicest Arabic poetry.

Ecclesias in an area may regularly hold joint activities combining youth groups, fellowship, preaching, and Bible study.

The study dispels the materialistic, slacker, disenfranchised stereotype earlier associated with the youth.

Born at Marostica, in the Republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua.

The Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, approved in principle the " Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project " at the cost of with the objectives such as involving the youth through competitions, essays, discussions and study circles and publishing Swami Vivekananda's complete work in different languages.

The cathedral often forms a centre of different activities related to community service, youth activities, study, music and decorative arts.

The Charter for National Action was undertaken, creating youth groups, socialist study institutes, laws regarding the acquisition of wealth, and agricultural cooperatives.

A Steinway Society is a local, non-profit society that aims at developing the musical knowledge and talents of disadvantaged youth ; providing an opportunity for young piano students to work towards a higher level ; encouraging performance experience, audition preparation, and scholarship assistance for further study in classical and jazz piano ; and providing talented students with a loaned piano and tuition for piano lessons through the establishment of Steinway Piano Galleries.

For instance, a recent long-term outcome study of youth found no long-term relationship between playing violent video games and youth violence or bullying.

For example, a study of a subculture ( such as white working class youth in London ) would consider the social practices of the youth as they relate to the dominant classes.

As a youth, he retreated to the woods to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive father.

The first YMCA was concerned with Bible study, although the organisation has generally moved on to a more holistic approach to youth work.

As a youth, he traveled to New York to study to be a tailor, but he spent most of the time watching TV.

Christened Pierre at his birth, after spending his youth in study, he entered, in his twenty-fourth year, the friary of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, founded in Picpus -— now part of Paris —- by his uncle, Jérôme Hélyot, a canon regular of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher.

*-an ethnographic study of youth online, analyzes textual interactions, including at Middle Earth-related talkers

In Holberg's youth, it was common to study theology and specialize according to one's degree, for example in Greek, Latin, philosophy or history.

In his youth, alongside his study on Julius Evola, he published essays which introduced the Romanian public to representatives of modern Spanish literature and philosophy, among them Adolfo Bonilla San Martín, Miguel de Unamuno, José Ortega y Gasset, Eugeni d ' Ors, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.

His background as a youth had been in traditional Talmud study rather than hasidism.

The government built reading rooms, tried to provide accessible education, created a youth Komsomol organization, and started Marxist study circles.

He was known from his youth for his intellect and energy, went to Guatemala City to study law, and became a lawyer in 1862.

Moody invited all the youth to his Church, and Dryer was invited to teach bible study to these masses of people, which fueled Moody's interest in education.

Richman called Hopkins " a close and severe student, filling up all the spare hours of his life with reading ," while Sanderson wrote, " He attached himself in early youth to the study of books and men.