Now Welch had a pet theory that everyone is guilty of breaking more laws than he ever gets caught at.

So much had he become the rage that every rich woman who had mislaid a bracelet or lost a pet kitten rushed to secure the services of the great Hercule Poirot.

" She recalled returning home to Beirut from a sight-seeing trip in Jordan to find Philby " hopelessly drunk and incoherent with grief on the terrace of the flat ," mourning the death of a little pet fox which had fallen from the balcony.

" When he was repatriated, he was allowed to keep the manuscript of a book he had been writing, and his pet starling.

He had a pet dog, a mongrel, for whom he wrote a panegyric, Canis ).

After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City.

Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris completed the movie project on pet cemeteries that he had been working on, in order to challenge and motivate Morris, whom Herzog perceived as incapable of following up on the projects he conceived.

Gromit has had one love interest: Fluffles, a poodle and pet to Piella.

Now Amalthea had as a pet a certain goat which is said to have nursed Jove.

The name Robin is Middle English in origin, deriving from Old French Robin, the pet form for the name Robert ( which had cognates in the Old English Hrodberht and Old German Rodbert or Hrodebert, all derived from the Proto-Germanic hrôdberxtas.

In 2008 Smiffy gained a pet pebble called Kevin, this character even had his own feature in the Beano issue 3604 entitled Where's Kevin.

* In the musical, the family had a pet giant squid named Bernice, that, one night, crawled up from the toilet.

The house had an ornamental lake where she fed her pet swans, and where now stands a statue of her by the Scots sculptor George Henry Paulin.

By July 2010 when a further six cats had been imported into the UK from Australia there was the chance to widen the gene pool and offer healthy, happy, genetically sound kittens to pet buyers within the UK and the US.

The studio's head of production, Merian C. Cooper, had recommended the cancellation of O ' Brien's project as he thought the story was boring but he was impressed by the effects work and saw how it could be used to facilitate the development of his own pet project about a giant gorilla battling Komodo dragons.

Gobo does mention in the episode " Gone, But Not Forgotten ", that he had a Thimblebug as a pet.

In 2006, 52 % of French households had at least one pet: In total, 9. 7 million cats, 8. 8 million dogs, 2. 3 million rodents, 8 million birds, and 28 million fish were kept as pets in France during this year.

Warner reported that the furnishings of Catherine's room, which were provided from the royal wardrobe in the Tower, had been damaged by her pet monkey and dogs.

Walt once said that he was inspired by a pet mouse he once had at the old Laugh-O-Grams studio, but more commonly said that he chose a mouse because a mouse had never been the central character of a cartoon series before.

Though he was not a pet of Koko's in the same way her cats were, the Gorilla Foundation also briefly played home to a male green-winged macaw of mysterious origin who had been found inhabiting the grounds and feeding on the loquat trees.

* In the anime and manga Pandora Hearts, one of the main characters, Alice, had a pet cat that died, but returns 100 years later as a chain in a realm created by one of Alice's memories.

Although this was the official story, many in the Nazi and Luftwaffe hierarchy had their own pet projects continue.

He would have made more had it not been for Britain's strict quarantine laws, which prevented the Monteuxs from bringing their pet French poodle with them: Doris Monteux would not travel without the poodle, and Monteux would not travel without his wife.

This caused grey cloth ( calico that had not been finished — dyed or printed ) to be imported instead, and these were printed in southern England with the popular patterns.

In the mid-1970s the first calculators appeared with field-effect, Twisted Nematic TN LCDs with dark numerals against a grey background, though the early ones often had a yellow filter over them to cut out damaging ultraviolet rays.

Some individuals had grey plumage on their flanks, but the purpose of this is unknown.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

The Historia Augusta suggests three alternative explanations: that the first Caesar had a thick head of hair ( Latin caesaries ); that he had bright grey eyes ( Latin oculis caesiis ); or that he killed an elephant ( caesai in Moorish ) in battle.

However, Loki had " such dealings " with Svaðilfari that " somewhat later " Loki gave birth to a grey foal with eight legs ; the horse Sleipnir, " the best horse among gods and men.

The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome grey horse that no one had ever mounted.

The Majesco Core Game Gear differed slightly from the original Game Gear in that it was black and had a purple start button rather than dark grey and a blue start button, the logo on the front of the unit was no longer in color, the power switch was colored black rather than the usual orange and it did not support the television tuner accessory.

They mostly come in white, although Twilight Princess had black, brown, golden, and grey variants as well.

The remaining seven species had in addition to rods a single type of cone photoreceptor sensitive to green and, seeing only in shades of grey and green, are believed to be effectively colorblind.

Orwell's Paris street, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris | 5th arrondissement: " tall old-fashioned windows and dark grey leaded roofs ; not far from the École Normale Supérieure — earlier in the twenties, Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway had lived only 500 yards from Orwell's street ; Elliot Paul was then still living in his own ' narrow street ', the Rue de la Huchette, in the same arrondissement down by the river near the Place Saint-Michel ; and once, at the Les Deux Magots | Deux Magots in 1928, Orwell thought he saw James Joyce.

He recounted their meeting: I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life — tall, slim, auburn hair, up-tilted nose, lovely mouth and the most enormous grey eyes I had ever seen.

However, in that study Maguire, et al .. examined the correlation between size of the grey matter and length of time that had been spent as a taxi driver, and found a positive correlation between the length of time an individual had spent as a taxi driver and the volume of the right hippocampus.

Like the Teleri, they typically had grey eyes and dark hair ( except for those who had Vanyarin blood, most prominently the members of the House of Finarfin ).

Physically they were similar to the Noldor ; they were tall and strong and had mostly dark hair and grey / brown eyes, but their royal family and perhaps some other individuals had silver hair.

Her wavy hair was light brown in colour, and she had grey eyes and fair skin.

As the people came back day after day and week after week, they began to notice the hair had shriveled and turned grey and had begun spreading from tree to tree.