* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

Waits described the album as: ... a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.

Unforgiven was a major commercial and critical success ; Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described it as " the finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 The Searchers.

* The Snark, a yacht described in Jack Londons book The Cruise of the Snark ( 1911 )

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson described Starman Jones as " a classic example of the bildungsroman pattern " and noted that " with its bold symbolism, the book makes a universal appeal.

The contemporary form of Murphy's law goes back as far as 1952, as an epigraph to a mountaineering book by Jack Sack, who described it as an " ancient mountaineering adage ":

The ogre in Jack and the Beanstalk is often described as a giant.

Their selection of Pittsburgh Panthers forward DeJuan Blair with the # 37 pick was described as a " steal " by analysts ; the Spurs later drafted two guards they had been targeting with the No. 37 pick, taking Miami Hurricanes shooting guard Jack McClinton and point / shooting guard Nando de Colo from France with the No. 51 and No. 53 picks, respectively.

Originally producer Wanger and Siegel wanted to shoot Invasion of the Body Snatchers on location in the town Jack Finney described in his novel: Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco.

* Tschai — The sole planet of Carina 4269, 212 light-years from Earth, slightly larger than Terra and populated by three alien races, one sentient native species and various human races, as described in " Planet of Adventure " by Jack Vance.

Howard was known as " Jack ( or " Jock ", hence " Jockey ") of Norfolk ", and he was described as being a " man of average height, with a strong, square face ".

Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described it as " The finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 The Searchers.

Jack Lynch has been described as " the most popular Irish politician since Daniel O ' Connell.

Australian author Jack Heath described the book as " one of the 20th century ’ s finest satires ," and added that " the gods are pompous, the worshippers cowed, and the priests violently closed-minded.

The walking tour includes a detour to a memorial to local author Jack Kerouac, who described the mid-20th century declined state of Lowell in several of his books.

There might have been twenty or so of the big men-o '- war lying at anchor in Torbay, recovering from exploits of the sort described in the books about Hornblower, Bolitho or Jack Aubrey.

Each show gave a playful, energetic atmosphere, with Beck telling jokes in between performances, and a surprise appearance by Jack White of The White Stripes at the August 11 show, which MTV News described as getting " a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd of college kids and beatniks.

Jack Henry Abbot ( 1981 ), a convicted murderer and author, described the effects of akathisia produced by antipsychotic drugs when given without the necessary medication for side effects ( e. g. procyclidine ) as may occur in prison and even sometimes hospitals:

The Spectator described her as, " at heart, an old, isolationist, pacifist Leftist " and called on her to resign, and the New Statesman accused her of allowing the Foreign Office to become subservient to 10 Downing Street after the tenures of Jack Straw and Robin Cook.

Jack " Jaguar " Watt was the new drummer and their sound from then on has been described as a " Stonesy fusion of arena rock and punk ".

" In 1976, Jack Hartung proposed that this described the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater.

The size of his portfolio drew criticism from former First Minister, Jack McConnell, who described it as a " shambles of a department ".

Jack Manahan enjoyed this marriage of convenience, and described himself as " Grand Duke-in-Waiting " or " son-in-law to the Tsar ".

In February 2006, Straw attracted publicity after he condemned the publication of cartoons picturing Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and in April 2006, reports of secret White House plans to target Iranian nuclear installations with bunker busting nuclear bombs was described by Jack Straw as " completely nuts ".

It was an institutional blunder that Benny Green described as being, in retrospect, " comical ," " fatuous ," and " a parody.

She was also critical of comedians such as Benny Hill and his use of dancers ; she described Dave Allen as " offensive, indecent and embarrassing " after a comic account of a conversation following sexual intercourse.

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

At Antietam, he led his men into the deadly fighting in the Cornfield and the West Woods, and one colonel described him as a " gallant officer ... remarkably cool and at the very front of battle.

Ardipithecus is a fossil hominoid, described by its discoverers as a very early hominin genus.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

He was described as vicious, fearless, strong and powerful but also with a very high level of combat intelligence.

Although he described his method as translating " sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense ," Alfred's translation actually keeps very close to his original, although through his choice of language he blurred throughout the distinction between spiritual and secular authority.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the " perfect society " and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the " perfect " traits described in the Republic.

The arrangement of the spines is very precise, and is described by what is called the Müllerian law.

According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá soon became very popular in the penal colony and Myron Phelps a wealthy New York lawyer described how " a crowd of human beings ... Syrians, Arabs, Ethiopians, and many others ", all waited to talk and receive ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

In an interview with Gelmis from 1969, De Palma described the film as " very good and very successful.

They did not call the animal a bunyip, but described the remains indicating the creature as very much like a hippopotamus or manatee.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Cases of liver toxicity have been described but are very rare.

In a rare interview in 1981 Bubbles described Tucker's discipline as " very Swiss ; very hard ; unjustified ; very grey.

Almost all common CPUs today can be very accurately described as von Neumann stored-program machines.

Catullus described his work as expolitum, or polished, to show that the language he used was very carefully and artistically composed.