The forest had become an alien world where she strove, alone, unprotected, unguided, to deal with whatever hindrances were offered.

Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

No, originally he had hoped to become a concert pianist and had even performed as such.

in 1950 it had become 47.1% urban.

He had become king at fifteen.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

No load of sin had been laid on my shoulders, nor did earnest effort enable me to become conscious of one.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

They become philosophic abstractions of a private and problematic relevance, or mere catchwords in religious customs which had in them a diminishing part of active belief.

As their interpreter and guide, he had broken with Tuskegee and become a spokesman of the coloured people of the world.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

The differentiation between the East Coast and West Coast schools of jazz, the differences between the `` hard bop '' school of Rollins, and the `` cerebral '' experiments of Tristano, Konitz and Marsh, the general differences in the mores of white and Negro musicians, all had become fairly well known to certain segments of the public.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

his lips and the usually sharp lines of his jaw had become swollen-looking.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

From the moment that Hino had first walked into the mission to ask for a job, any job -- his qualifications neatly written on a piece of paper in a precise hand -- he had been ready to become a Christian.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

The Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale ( Yale 1773 ) was the prototype of the Yale ideal in the early 19th century: a manly yet aristocratic scholar, equally well-versed in knowledge and sports, and a patriot who regretted he had but one life to lose for his country.

Albert had been responsible for giving a rule to the Humiliati during his long tenure as Bishop of Vercelli, and was well-versed in diplomacy, being sent by Pope Innocent III as Papal Legate to what was known as the Eastern Province.

A member of a devoutly religious family, his father had been a Catholic priest who was well-versed in Canon law.

According to an 1826 article submitted by a person well-versed in local history identifying himself as W. Reader, there was already a well-established tradition before his time that there was a certain tailor who had taken a peek at Lady Godiva, and that at the annual Trinity Great Fair ( now called the Godiva Festival ) featuring the Godiva processions " a grotesque figure called Peeping Tom " would be set on display, and it was a wooden statue carved from oak.

Meanwhile, the English had a denominational mix, from Catholic Augustine Baker to Anglicans William Law, John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes, to Puritans Richard Baxter and John Bunyan ( The Pilgrim's Progress ), to the first " Quaker ", George Fox and the first " Methodist ", John Wesley, who was well-versed in the continental mystics.

He was said to have studied by standing at bookstalls, and had a superb memory, which allowed him to become very well-versed in the Chinese classics.

However, Wet Dream would not allow Chow to leave the temple until he was well-versed in the ways of the Shaolin arts, a point made moot when it is revealed the culinary school he was going to attend was, in fact, the temple's kitchen —- the same kitchen Bull had trained at for 10 years, but subsequently dropped out of.

All the panelists were well-versed in a wide range of topics, though each had a specialty.

As he had been learning guitar ever since the start of his directing career, he had been well-versed with it and used it for the film.

Foote was well-versed in literature, and had extensive knowledge of ancient and contemporary writers, and ecclesiastical history.

He was described in Liao Shi ( History of Liao ) as " well-versed in Khitan and Chinese scripts, excelled in riding and archery, and had passed the highest imperial examination in the fifth year of the Tianqing era " ( 1115 AD ).

Individuals who were not familiar with astrology had no such tendency.

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

In addition to serious explorations of the Soviet past and present situation relaxation of censorship resulted in an explosion of popular culture including popular Western literature and films and books on astrology, religion, and flying saucers, in short, anything official Soviet publishers had not deemed worth publishing.

Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and " magic ".

Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practiced magic to support them.

His father had an interest in astrology and upon discovering that his son's horoscope presaged high ecclesiastical honours, Riccardo set the young Cervini on a path to the priesthood.

He was more intrigued by occult learning such as astrology and alchemy, which was mainstream in the Renaissance period, and had a wide variety of personal hobbies such as horses, clocks, collecting rarities, and being a patron of the arts.

This was in stark contrast to many of the anatomical models used previously, which had strong Galenic / Aristotelean elements, as well as elements of astrology.

Yeats had a life-long interest in mysticism, spiritualism, occultism and astrology.

* 1267 – Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

Here is an example: a person born on, say August 28, 2002 would come to understand that his / her Sun sign was in Virgo according to western astrology ( conventional Sun sign dates August 23, to September 22, of every year ), but Sun on that same calendar date of the year 2002 was in the constellation Leo ( where it had been since August 10, 2002 and would remain until September 15, when it would then finally cross into Virgo ).

* Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

Newton himself began his work in mathematics because he wanted to see " whether judicial astrology had any claim to validity.

His work is one of great learning ; he had studied his subject in the best writers, and generally represents the most advanced views of the ancients on astronomy ( or rather astrology ).

Most possessed basic knowledge of exorcism and had access to texts of astrology and demonology.

He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.

Although his teacher Panaetius had doubted divination, Posidonius used the theory of cosmic sympathy to support his belief in divination-whether through astrology or prophetic dreams-as a kind of scientific prediction.

In his philosophical thought neo-platonic ideas prevail ; and astrology also had a place in his view of the world.

Like many of his contemporaries, including Olivares, he had a keen interest in astrology.

At this time astrology and astronomy were not distinguished as separate disciplines ; the act of astronomical observation was often done by someone who had astrological motives for doing so.

Although Browne wrote about quincunx in its geometric meaning, he may also have been influenced by English astrology, as the astrological meaning of " quincunx " ( unrelated to the pattern ) had recently come into vogue.

Antiochus practised astrology of a very esoteric kind, and laid the basis for a calendrical reform, by linking the Commagene year, which till then had been based on the movements of the Sun and Moon, to the Sothic-Anahit ( Star of Sirius ) and Hayk ( Star of Orion ) cycle used by the Egyptians as the basis of their calendar.

The term Hindu astrology had been in use as the English equivalent of Jyotisha since the early 19th century.