The Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia of Dares Phrygius describes Aeneas as ‘‘ auburn-haired, stocky, eloquent, courteous, prudent, pious, and charming .’’

In Act 3, Scene VI of Shakespeare's Macbeth ( c. 1603 – 06 ) Lennox refers to Edward as " the most pious Edward ," and in Act 4, Scene III, Malcolm describes his powers of healing those afflicted with " the evil ", or scrofula.

Very little is known of Olybrius ' policy ; in his Vita Epifanius, Ennodius describes him as a pious man and that he acted accordingly.

Alcuin, writing about a century after Oswiu's death, describes him as " very just, with equitable laws, unconquered in battle but trustworthy in peace, generous in gifts to the wretched, pious, equitable to all ".

Sozomen describes Pulcheria ’ s and her sisters ' pious ways in his Ecclesiastical History: “ They all pursue the same mode of life ; they are sedulous in their attendance in the house of prayer, and evince great charity towards strangers and the poor ... and pass their days and their nights together in singing the praises of God .” Rituals within the imperial palace also included chanting and reciting passages in the scripture, and fasting twice a week.

Rufinus, whom Bacurius visited several times on the Mount of Olives and served him as a source of Iberia ’ s conversion to Christianity, describes the general as a pious Christian, while the rhetorician Libanius, with whom Bacurius held correspondence, evidently regards him as a pagan and praises him both as a soldier and a man of culture.

The Ramayana describes Mandodari as beautiful, pious, and righteous.

But another passage of the Matsya Purana ( 44. 69 ) describes them as pious and the performers of the religious rites.

Bosworth-Toller do not record it as describing a person directly ; it most often describes decisions and deeds, and once refers to the nature of Satan's deceit ( see Fall of Man ).

" ( Paradise Lost, I. 412-14 ) His deeds are described in the first book of the epic, as Milton describes Satan's followers who were banished from Heaven, and have pledged themselves as followers of the underworld.

The Testament of Solomon is an Old Testament pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which Solomon mostly describes particular demons whom he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity. The date is very dubious, though is considered the oldest work surviving particularly concerned with individual demons.

The first is entitled " Manas ", the second episode describes the deeds of his son Semetei, and the third of his grandson Seitek.

The third section ( paragraphs 25 – 33 ) describes his military deeds and how he established alliances with other nations during his reign.

The text's modern editor, Geberding, who vindicates the coherence and accuracy of its account, gives reasons for locating the anonymous author in Soissons, probably in the royal monastery of Saint-Médard and characterizes him as " Neustrian, a staunch Merovingian legitimist, secular as opposed to ecclesiastically minded, and an enthusiastic admirer and probably a member of that aristocratic class based on the Seine-Oise valley whose deeds, wars and kings he describes ". Liber historiae Francorum is customarily dated to 727 because of a reference at the end to the sixth year of Theuderic IV.

" The author constructed the latter from an Icelandic saga source, and describes an experiment performed to determine its accuracy.

Furthermore, Veal argues, the only explanation for the verbal parallels with the English translation of 1582 would be that the translator saw the play performed and echoed it in his translation, which he describes as " not an impossible theory but far from a plausible one.

Poetry scholar Derek Attridge describes how this works in his book Poetic Rhythm – " rap lyrics are written to be performed to an accompaniment that emphasizes the metrical structure of the verse ".

" In these typical, rather explicit cases of performative sentences, the action that the sentence describes ( nominating, sentencing, promising ) is performed by the utterance of the sentence itself.

Theurgy ( from Greek θεουργία ) describes the practice of rituals, sometimes seen as magical in nature, performed with the intention of invoking the action or evoking the presence of one or more gods, especially with the goal of uniting with the divine, achieving henosis, and perfecting oneself.

Samuel Pepys saw the hybrid play on 18 February 1662 ; he describes it in his Diary as " a good play, and well performed " – he was especially impressed by the singing and dancing of the young actress who played Viola, Beatrice's sister ( Davenant's creation ).

The accounts also describes a misunderstood form of the " hook-swinging " ritual once commonly performed as part of some popular Hindu religious festivals.

In computing, a formula typically describes a calculation, such as addition, to be performed on one or more variables.

Awarding the soundtrack CD release a rating of four stars out of five, Bruce Eder of the Allmusic website describes the collection of theme and incidental music as " a strange mix of otherworldly ' music of the spheres ', late-50s / early-60s ' space-age pop ', ' British Invasion ' beat, Scottish folk-inspired tunes, kids-style ' Mickey Mouse ' scoring, marital music, light jazz, and light classical ", and singles out both " Cocktail Music ", from " Model Spy ", and the piano track, performed by Gray, from " The Inquisition ", for particular praise.

She also describes scouting and message-carrying duties that she performed on behalf of the Army.

It involves the construction of a ray transfer matrix which describes the optical system ; tracing of a light path through the system can then be performed by multiplying this matrix with a vector representing the light ray.

Aside from the workers having no control over the design-and-production protocol, alienation ( Entfremdung ) broadly describes the conversion of labour ( work as an activity ), which is performed to generate a use value ( the product ) into a commodity, which — like products — can be assigned an exchange value.

* A program that describes what computation should be performed and not how to compute it

He describes the dance as being done with the participants in a single line ; however, it is currently performed with the dancers in a double column.

The passage describes the prescribed sacrifices performed for the holiday.

* Friedrich Trendelenburg describes the first successful elective human tracheotomy to be performed for the purpose of administering general anaesthesia.

In the book, Lorenz describes the development of rituals among aggressive behaviors as beginning with a totally utilitarian action, but then progressing to more and more stylized actions, until finally, the action performed may be entirely symbolic and non-utilitarian, now fulfilling a function of communication.

Mammary intercourse describes a sex act, performed as foreplay or as non-penetrative sex, that involves the stimulation of the male penis by the female breasts.

The Talmud supplies additional details, and describes the ritual performed by the High Priest.

Newman gave a children's party in the afternoon, and in the evening 2, 000 invited guests attended what Elkin describes as " a sort of private view ", with popular selections played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards, and songs, piano and organ solos performed by well-known musicians.

An engineering geologic report describes the objectives, methodology, references cited, tests performed, findings and recommendations for development.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) report ( 1999 ) describes the visit performed by the WHO team ( Dr. P. N.

Not a legal term of art, but describes the kind of rulemaking performed by agencies that is somewhere between formal ( with a hearing and record ) and informal ( with the notice and comment procedures described above ).

He regains consciousness shortly after to the mild introduction of Amane Kaunaq, the pilot, who having rescued him and performed CPR, hastily describes her work as a Galaxy Police officer, handing him an application and then leaving.

* Location of Work: This describes where the work must be performed.

Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

Unpublished until after his death, his fiction Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician ( Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien ) describes the exploits and teachings of a sort of antiphilosopher who, born at age 63, travels through a hallucinatory Paris in a sieve and subscribes to the tenets of ' pataphysics.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

Jean de Venette, a Carmelite friar and medieval chronicler vividly describes the chaos in France which he states he himself witnessed, after the time of this Battle.

Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and Company left Cuba after the Castro regime confiscated the Company ’ s Cuban assets on 15 October 1960 ; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts.

Astrophysicist and science writer John Gribbin describes it as having fallen from primacy after the 1980s.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

It describes Mrs. Bargrave's encounter with an old friend Mrs. Veal, after she had died.

Although the Hebrew Bible describes this event as an ecstatic vision rather than a historical occurrence, later interpreters speculated as to the fate of these men, both before and after their revitalization.

The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

The possibility that Lorentz symmetry may be violated has been seriously considered in the last two decades, particularly after the development of a realistic effective field theory that describes this possible violation, the so-called Standard-Model Extension.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

Jordanes, a Goth writing in Italy in 551, a century after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire, describes the Huns as a " savage race, which dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human, and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human speech.

When Marlow ’ s helmsman dies, Conrad describes him as “ heavier than any man on earth ,” but after Marlow throws him into the river, he is carried off “ like a wisp of grass ”.

Finkelstein describes two known frauds, that of The Painted Bird by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski and Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, and how they were defended by people even after they'd been exposed.

Woodford, whom British occult writer Francis King describes as the fourth founder ( although Woodford died shortly after the Order was founded ).

These historians pointed out that Snorri's work had been written several centuries after most of the events it describes.

Rand also describes a game played ( likely after European contact ) with hurleys, called wolchamaadijik.

A CBS news article describes a 2009 US case in which police shot and killed a man in Times Square after he opened fire on police officers with a Mac 10.

describes the same appearance as happening after the private appearance to Mary Magdalene.

David Brady describes a " lull before the storm " in which, in the early 17th century, " reasonably restrained and systematic " Protestant exegesis of the Book of Revelation was seen with Brightman, Mede and Hugh Broughton ; after which " apocalyptic literature became too easily debased " as it became more populist, less scholarly.

Another reference is provided by Thomas Gale, Dean of York ( c. 1635 – 1702 ), but this comes nearly four hundred years after the events it describes: