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.

Having circulated a questionnaire among players and organ-builders in several European countries, he produced a very considered report.

" Near the end of his life, he fictionalized this experience in his book New Connecticut, originally circulated only among friends before its publication in 1881.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

# It was most widely circulated among Western Christians.

A petition proposing a radical change in the German constitution and expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was widely circulated.

Allen's pamphlet circulated widely, including among members of Congress, and was successful in casting the Vermonters ' case in a positive light.

A prayer is offered and the bread is circulated among the audience.

The plays of Euripides, like those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, were circulated in written form in the fifth century among literary members of the audience and performers at minor festivals, as aide-memoirs.

Paul III received favorably Contarini's Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia, which was circulated among the cardinalate, but it remained a dead letter.

Shunga prints were quite acceptable in Japanese culture, not associated with a negative concept of pornography as found in western cultures, but considered rather as a natural aspect of human behavior, and circulated among all levels of Japanese society.

Around 1900 an English translation was made by Baha ' i Anton Haddad, which circulated among the early American Bahá ' í community in a typewritten form.

Writings attributed to the apostles circulated among the earliest Christian communities and the Pauline epistles were circulating, perhaps in collected forms, by the end of the 1st century AD.

Although he privately circulated The Prince among friends, the only theoretical work to be printed in his lifetime was The Art of War, about military science.

The specification was circulated among a few interested parties – but never turned into a product.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States of America and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

Following this, each judge would write an anonymous summary containing his opinion ; these would be circulated among the Court for 2 or 3 days before the President drafted a judgment containing a summary of those submitted by individual judges.

The authors of the first RFCs typewrote their work and circulated hard copies among the ARPA researchers.

A petition expressing his basic social ideas ( signed by Herman Hesse, among others ) was very widely circulated.

The soldiers guarding the tomb are terrified by the angel, and inform the chief priests ; the priests and elders bribe them to spread a lie that the disciples have stolen the body, " nd this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

That began to change in 1948 when reports of Bikini Atoll tests were circulated among the Air Force, which made information about the bomb more available to planners and helped to convince them of its strategic capabilities.

On the other hand, The Morning Star had always used the tabloid size, but stands in contrast to both the red top papers and the former broadsheets ; although The Morning Star emphasises hard news, it embraces socialism and is circulated mostly among blue-collar labourers.

The immediate rule was the responsibility of the consistory, to which belonged all the professors of the university, and the rector magnificus, who was elected for a semester at the time ; the latter position circulated among the professors, each of whom sometimes held it several times.

Entrants submit a portfolio of three pieces of artwork, which are circulated among the judges.

There are also several lake source cooling systems that are in operation on the lake, whereby cooler water is pumped from the depths of the lake, warmed, and circulated in a closed system back to the surface.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

Euler introduced and popularized several notational conventions through his numerous and widely circulated textbooks.

There have also been several well-known Internet hoaxes, where quatrains in the style of Nostradamus have been circulated by e-mail as the real thing.

For several centuries only two versions of his origins circulated.

In addition, Kerry's opponents circulated a photograph showing Fonda and Kerry in the same large crowd at a 1970 anti-war rally, although they were sitting several rows apart.

Rumours circulated that Villeneuve was one of several drivers in whom the Italian team was interested, and in August 1977 he flew to Italy to meet Ferrari, who was immediately reminded of the pre-war European champion Tazio Nuvolari: " When they presented me with this ' piccolo canadese ', this minuscule bundle of nerves, I immediately recognised in him the physique of Nuvolari and said to myself, let's give him a try.

This fact, along with the quite different wording Hippolytus uses when apparently quoting it ( see below ), suggests that the Gospel of Thomas " may have circulated in more than one form and passed through several stages of redaction.

Up until now, several million copies of the Punjabi version have circulated worldwide.

The Russian autocracy, however, managed to prevent A Journey from being published until 1905, during which time it circulated through radical groups and was translated into several languages.

Versions of the newly composed songs were recorded during several sessions for John Peel's radio show in 1988, while a live recording of " Hey " appeared on a free EP circulated with a 1988 edition of Sounds.

For several years, rumors circulated that ranged from artists claiming to have in fact seen her passport to allegations that certain well-known celebrities were behind the fictitious persona.

Though several soundboard recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts were circulated amongst fans after having been stolen from Page's personal archive some time in the 1980s, no soundboards of the 1972 Long Beach or LA Forum shows were taken, meaning the release of How the West Was Won was the first chance fans had of hearing the soundboard versions of these concerts.

The comments were first circulated in the Canadian national media several days later, and were quickly condemned as antisemitic by Jewish groups, aboriginal leaders and Canadian politicians alike.

Rumors of the incident circulated for several days and Republican Party operatives helped to promote it to the press.

For the next several hundred years, The Trotula circulated throughout Europe, reaching its greatest popularity in the fourteenth century.

New Zealand has released several postage stamps portraying the Huia, and the New Zealand sixpence circulated from 1933 to 1966 featured a female Huia on the reverse.

This, and the next four commemorative roubles, were issued in several millions of copies, and circulated as regular currency.

The coins circulated among collectors for several years before the Secret Service became aware of their existence.

Although Václav Havel, Ludvík Vaculík and Pavel Landovský were detained while trying to bring the charter to the Federal Assembly and the Czechoslovak government and the original document was confiscated, copies circulated as samizdat and on 7 January were published in several western newspapers ( including Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Times and New York Times ) and transmitted to Czechoslovakia by Czechoslovak-banned radio broadcasters like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.

Mann points to evidence suggesting that the Tale first circulated as an oral epic song for several decades before being written down, most likely in the early 13th century.

The term weight-watcher, in the same sense, had circulated publicly for several years before the company was formed.