Having opened the windows onto the terrace, lit the fire, translated the motto, Meredith grinned and took down a little triplet of books bound together in old calfskin.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Having sold most of his father's tract, in 1957 the old house burned-the Smiths believed by arson, others said by accident.

Having divested himself of every outward symbol of papal dignity, he retired to his old solitude.

Having multiple layers of old shingles under a new layer causes roofing nails to be located further from the sheathing, weakening their hold.

Having promised to return to England by the summer, Isabella reached Paris in March 1325, and rapidly agreed a truce in Gascony, under which Prince Edward, then thirteen years old, would come to France to give homage on his father's behalf.

Having succeeded his father at such a young age, Francis Hyacinth did not rule de facto being only 5 years old.

Having taken the imperial throne and made the 11-year old John IV ineligible for the emperorship by blinding him, Michael VIII Palaiologos had Theodore's three other daughters married off to Italian and Bulgarian foreigners, so their descendants could not threaten his own children's claim to the imperial succession.

Having been an area of large houses and gardens as late as the 18th century, by about 1860 Bethnal Green was mainly full of tumbledown old buildings with many families living in each house.

Having gotten rid of his old age, and now being immortal, David plans to visit Rio de Janeiro with

Having saved Fourecks, Rincewind and the Wizards return to Ankh-Morpork by ship, and the story ends with the old man with the sack ( the Creator of the last continent ) catching the bullroarer in front of a young boy.

Having firmly established his power at Thonburi, King Taksin set out what can be called ' the reunification ' of the good old day kingdom, crushing the regional rivals.

Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual " Motherless Child " that became " Freedom ".

Having signed away his rights old Philpot offers to marry her, but the lawyer reveals himself as Beaufort, and explains that he has swapped the deeds, so that Philpot has unwittingly signed his agreement for Maria to marry Beaufort.

Having lots of old and small villages along the mountains.

Having previously played at the old Avenue Ground since their inception, the club moved to a new purpose built 5, 000 capacity Avenue Stadium in the early 1990s-designed and owned by the Duchy of Cornwall.

Having played classical piano since he was 3 years old, Yoshiki claims to be as influenced by classical music as he is by rock, a claim which is evident when considering the breadth of music released by the band.

Having quit his day job to try to make a living as a freelance artist, but having failed to make any money at it, Sonny returns to his old job at AirFlo Records.

: Having a lot of children to take care of you in your old age is like a warrior with a lot of arrows.

Having taken him three centuries to crawl out, he emerges as an old man covered in sewage.

* Having tried " to recover myth outside the books ," the hidalgo crosses paths with common sense, everyday toils, and the religious dictates of the Counter-Reformation on a journey that tries to rescue chivalric etceteras of old.

Having traditionally been a school for boys aged from 13 to 18 years old, in 1992 it merged with Ellerslie Girls ’ School and Hillstone prep school to become a coeducational school for pupils aged 3 to 18 years old.

Having previously expressed an interest in the post, Lytton accepted, finding himself " once more back in his old profession ".

Having many features rooted in Socialist Realism it has however many elements going much beyond the boundaries of old style and constitutes a kind watershed auguring something new to appear.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

Having influenced the Polish Brethren to a formal declaration of this belief in the Racovian Catechism, Fausto Sozzini involuntarily ended up giving his name to this Christological position, which continued with English Unitarians such as John Biddle's Twofold Catechism ( 1654 ).

Having grown up in an age in which Latin polyphony was largely confined to liturgical items for the Sarum rite, he assimilated and mastered the Continental motet form of his day, employing a highly personal synthesis of English and continental models.

Having left Paris on September 6, 1844, Engels returned to his home in Barmen, Germany, to work on his The Condition of the English Working Class, which was published in late May 1845.

Having received vitally needed food and assistance from the native population, Oñate named the pueblo Socorro (" succor " in English ).

Having already been made president of the anthropological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911, after the war he became president of the English Folk-Lore Society ( 1920 ), and the Royal Anthropological Institute ( 1921 – 1922 ).

Having failed to muster an effective military response, Edgar's leading supporters lost their nerve, and the English leaders surrendered to William at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

Having no options or allies left Charles II asked for a truce, and by the Treaty of Briones on 31 March 1379 agreed to Henry's demands that he agree to be bound in perpetual military alliance with Castile and France against the English, and to surrender 20 fortresses of southern Navarre, including the city of Tudela to Castilian garrisons.

Having read English history for years as a hobby, and not satisfied with the books written about King Richard III, Fields spent four years researching and two years writing the non-fiction book Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes ( ISBN 0-06-039269-X ), which was published in 1998.

Having defeated Harold II and the English at Hastings, William of Normandy led the Norman invading army to circle London crossing the River Thames at Wallingford making for the Anglo Saxon castle at Berkhamsted.

Having laid waste to much of the south east of England he was met by Edgar Aetheling ( the English heir to the throne ), the Archbishop Aldred, the Earl Edwin and the Earl Morcar.

Having been accepted to read English at the University of Leeds, he was diverted into reading Economics when told by a Sheffield colleague of his mother that it was necessary for a political career.

Having failed in her efforts to convince the English she is a holy virgin, and that killing her will invoke the wrath of heaven, she alters her story and claims she is pregnant, hoping they will spare her for the sake of the child.

Having briefly joined the Royalist army, he went abroad to avoid further involvement in the English Civil War.

Having belatedly become a barrister by completing his terms at the King's Inns, Dublin, being called to the Irish bar in 1887 ( and to the English bar a year later ), Redmond busied himself with agrarian cases during the Plan of Campaign.

Having previously been in a band with Ronnie Lane, Jones was one of the founding members of the English rock group, the Small Faces.

Having received tempting offers to act in English at the Princess's Theatre, London, he made a diligent study of the English language, and appeared there on 27 October 1860 in an English version of Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas.

Having long been subordinate to English culture, Welsh musicians in the late 20th century had to reconstruct traditional music when a roots revival began.

Having intended to study law, a subject not taught at the university, Obote instead took a general arts course, including English and geography.

Having no work visa, she supported herself by, among other things, teaching English as a second language.

Having authored fifteen English language books on topics related to Indian politics and communalism, Elst is one of the western writers ( along with François Gautier ) to actively defend the Hindutva ideology.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, defines militant as " Having a combative character ; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause ".