William Parsons and William Walford, drapers, asked Quiney to see to business matters in London.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

When his friend, the British publicist William T. Stead, asked him to create a new organization for the goal of a peace and arbitration society, his reply was as such:

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both William Lawrence Bragg and Wilkins.

Despite these precedents, George V was still very reluctant to accept Scullin's recommendation of Sir Isaac Isaacs, and asked him to consider Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood.

Mathers in turn asked fellow Freemason William Robert Woodman to assist the two and he accepted.

He was asked by King William I of Scotland to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of England's terms for a treaty that been signed between them.

Washington was on close terms with national republican leaders, and often was asked for political advice by presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

After Thatcher resisted further European integration at a meeting at Strasbourg in November Powell asked her parliamentary private secretary Mark Lennox-Boyd to pass to her " my respectful congratulations on her stand ... she both spoke for Britain and gave a lead to Europe –- in the line of succession of Winston Churchill and William Pitt.

" The central idea of this psychomyth, the scapegoat ", writes Le Guin, " turns up in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, and several people have asked me, rather suspiciously, why I gave the credit to William James.

The Great Ocean Road was first planned towards the end of the first world war, when chairman of the Country Roads Board William Calder asked the State War Council for funds be provided for returned soldiers to work on roads in sparsely populated areas in the Western district.

Following William of Orange's assassination and Prince Maurice of Nassau's assumption of his father's office, he became an advisor and tutor of Maurice, who asked his advice on many occasions, and made him a public officer – at first director of the so-called " waterstaet " ( the government authority for public works ) from 1592, and later quartermaster-general of the army of the States-General.

Dining with William of Orange on his arrival, he was asked if " the English were minded to depart this town or not ", and wrote to William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief minister, " in alarm that he " liked none of their proceedings " but " apprehended great mischief ", and urged that the English government " should do very well in time to consider some other realm and place " for marketing English products.

In a meeting of the governor's council held late the morning after the shootings, Boston's selectmen asked Hutchinson to order the removal of troops from the city to Castle William on Castle Island, while a town meeting at Faneuil Hall met to discuss the affair.

They asked Dawes to manage the Illinois portion of William McKinley's bid for the Presidency of the United States in 1896.

A request dated January 13, 1814, by the Territorial Governor William Clark, asked for federal relief for the " inhabitants of New Madrid County.

During the final two months of 1974, Neave had asked Keith Joseph, William Whitelaw and Edward du Cann to stand against Heath, and said that in the case of any of them challenging for the party leadership, he would be their campaign manager.

After Otero's departure, New York City-born William " Bill " Pérez became WAPA's news director ( Torres held the post for a while but eventually asked to be left as an anchorperson only ) In the late 1970s, Enrique Cruz Díaz, Luz Nereida Vélez, Sylvia Gómez, Luis Rigual, Cyd Marie Fleming, José Esteves, Luis Francisco Ojeda and others joined.

A similar study was made of the anatomy of horses ; acknowledging Eakins ' expertise, in 1891 his friend the sculptor William Rudolf O ' Donovan asked him to collaborate on the commission to create bronze equestrian reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant for the Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza In Brooklyn.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

According to chronicler Orderic Vitalis, the crew asked William Adelin for drink and he supplied it to them in great abundance.

The group ’ s efforts for the institution began to crystallize in 1845, when Stephen William Taylor, a professor at Madison University ( now Colgate University ) in Hamilton, New York, was asked to prepare a charter and act as general agent for the university ’ s development.

Against this background, William Cubitt was asked to investigate possible solutions in 1814.

After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

Hez asked, who still believed they'd have them to lick.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

Given a theological lead, I asked what he thinks about those who find a religious significance to his plays.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

Kind by nature, he never refused charity to a beggar or help to anyone who asked him for it ( as Lewis would one day discover ).

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;

A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a.m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''??

The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

and to Mrs. Rozella Switzer, regional director of The National Conference of Christians and Jews, who asked them to serve as a committee for the fund.

He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Torrid Freight ( Torrid-Breeze On Hal ) is a very rugged, strong-made colt with a wonderful stride who has done with ease everything asked of him.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

Concerning the sentence the editor asked, `` What else can Virginia do than to hang the men who have defied her laws, organized treason, and butchered her citizens ''.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

At the inquest she was asked specifically whether she knew anybody her father had bad feelings toward, or who had bad feelings toward her father.

When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.

The directors sold directly to concessionaires, who had to make their profits above the high prices asked by the company.