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He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.
This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.
This bill was invoked in Ontario ( and then Supreme Court of Canada docket 33819 ) in the case of Les Editions Ecosociete Inc., Alain Deneault, Delphine Abadie and William Sacher vs. Banro Inc., in which the publisher Ecosociete pled ( supported by the BCCLA ) that it should not face Ontario liability for a publication in Quebec, as the suit was a SLAPP and the Quebec law explicitly provided to dismiss these.
In 1802, she published the first of her noteworthy books, the novel Delphine, in which the femme incomprise was in a manner introduced to French literature, and in which she herself and not a few of her intimates appeared in transparent disguise.
In a book with the same name, Comte's disciple Frederic Harrison wrote about Stael and her works: " In Delphine a woman, for the first time since the Revolution, reopened the romance of the heart which was in vogue in the century preceding.
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, she was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr, an American diplomat who was U. S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick.
Delphine de Girardin ( January 24, 1804, Aachen – June 29, 1855, Paris ), pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French author.
Roarke also seemed to have his own supernatural powers of some sort ( called the " Gift of the McNabs " in " Delphine "), although it was never explained how this came to be.
His mother, Delphine, also came from a prestigious family and was known for her intelligence and great beauty.
Her mother was his second wife, the former Laura Delphine Kilpatrick ( 1877-1956 ); the couple was married in 1894 and divorced in 1927.
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig ( April 10, 1932 – October 15, 1990 ) was a stage and film actress and a film director.
Halévy told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star — Anna Judic, whose ménage à trois would become the model for Rose Mignon, her husband, and Fauchery — and also about famous cocottes such as Blanche d ' Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, an amalgam of which was to serve the writer as the basis for his principal character.
Delphine, an old acquaintance of his, returns to the village and tells him that Florette, his sweetheart from that period, had written to him to tell him she was carrying their child.
Delphine Software International ( DSI ) was created in 1988 as a part of the Delphine Group and was initially based in Paris.
Delphine and high
On June 11, 1800, Delphine Macarty married Don Ramon de Lopez y Angullo, a Caballero de la Royal de Carlos ( a high ranking Spanish officer ), at the Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.
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Delphine Lalaurie took the reins in her gloved hands and drove Dandy Brandon -- cowering in the back seat of the carriage -- to her mansion at 677 Perdido Street.
A stringed orchestra played softly behind the potted palms, and Delphine circulated graciously among her guests, chatting airily of the forthcoming races, the latest fashions from Paris, and Louisiana politics.
The manservant Devol and his mistress, Delphine Lalaurie, were pursuing a young girl -- an octoroon of cameo-like beauty -- across the front lawn of the Lalaurie mansion.
Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).
The following year Ingres, at seventy-one years of age, married forty-three-year-old Delphine Ramel, a relative of his friend Marcotte d ' Argenteuil.
The last of his important portrait paintings date from this period: Marie-Clothilde-Inés de Foucauld, Madame Moitessier, Seated ( 1856 ), Self-Portrait at the Age of Seventy-nine and Madame J .- A .- D. Ingres, née Delphine Ramel, both completed in 1859.
It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers ( Milo ) and Alice Neel ( bishop's mother ), musician David Amram, actors Richard Bellamy ( Bishop ) and Delphine Seyrig ( Milo's wife ), dancer Sally Gross ( bishop's sister ), and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-young son.
The movies Place Vendôme with Catherine Deneuve ; Daughters of Darkness with Delphine Seyrig as Countess Bathory ; Armaguedon with Alain Delon ; Camping Cosmos with Lolo Ferrari ; and Ex Drummer based on the novel by Herman Brusselmans were partially shot in Ostend.
He also asked members of his team to look at other silent films including Pabst's Pandora's Box: he wanted Delphine Seyrig's appearance and manner to resemble that of Louise Brooks.
Reeves sang with her sisters Lois and Delphine, often performing as a solo artist under the bill, Martha Reeves of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and still performs all over the world.
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Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.
From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.
A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.
When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.
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