His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

Foreign ambassadors found her gracious and beautiful and she had good taste, although her character showed some extravagant traits.

Olivier is presented as the gracious knight and paladin: skilled and brave in battle, ' fiercely beautiful ', resourceful, resilient, generous and chivalrous ; he risks his life to save an enemy who had been keeping him imprisoned in a dungeon ( Brother Cadfael's Penance ).

He expressed confidence in her rule and mentioned she had shown kindness to his wife, Christina Scheves ;" Your Heighnes ' maist gentill and gracious clemencie schawin to me, undeservit, and to the pure woman my wiff, quha hes no other help bot your grace, and the hope I have in your heighness, compellis me seik and preis forward to your grace ' service, and to pretermit ( avoid ) na thyng, when occasion is gevin to me, that I can do to your contentation and pleasour.

In an August 14, 2007, interview, she commented on all her well-publicized, outspoken views, in particular the Aladdin incident by noting, " If I had it to do over I would be much more gracious to everyone ... you can be as outspoken as you want if you are very, very respectful.

As I had the good fortune a few years ago to be heard by Your Royal Highness, at Your Highness's commands, and as I noticed then that Your Highness took some pleasure in the little talents which Heaven has given me for Music, and as in taking Leave of Your Royal Highness, Your Highness deigned to honour me with the command to send Your Highness some pieces of my Composition: I have in accordance with Your Highness's most gracious orders taken the liberty of rendering my most humble duty to Your Royal Highness with the present Concertos, which I have adapted to several instruments ; begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection with the rigor of that discriminating and sensitive taste, which everyone knows Him to have for musical works, but rather to take into benign Consideration the profound respect and the most humble obedience which I thus attempt to show Him.

He was equally gracious at home, even refusing an offer of payment ( amounting to the munificent sum equivalent to £ 20, 000 of the day ) from the King for war expenses that he had personally covered.

The necessary entertainments were always elegant, however ; and her cordial hospitality made the last official reception a gracious occasion although her husband had lost his bid for re-election and partisan feeling still ran high.

Arncliffe had many grand and gracious Victorian era houses.

Tony, although reasonably gracious in defeat, was embarrassed at having been defeated in a brawl ( especially by Bobby of all people ) and frequently asserted to Bobby, Janice, and Carmela that he would have won the fight had he not slipped on the rug nor undergone such physical impotence after being shot by Uncle Junior.

None of his compositions survive ; but under his influence Bernart of Ventadour was trained to poetry, who, though only the son of one of the serving-men of the castle, managed to gain the love of the lady of Ventadour, and when on the discovery of their amour he had to depart elsewhere, received a gracious welcome from Eleanor of Aquitaine, consort ( from 1152 ) of Henry II of England.

As gracious as he was about Brad fearlessly saving Zane from dying in the fires of the Borderline Bookstore, he had to file a reprimand on Brad's record for violating safety rules, acting outside his training scope, and not wearing proper safety gear.

The galleries were built in a Renaissance manner and the architects ; Travis & Mangnall “ were key local exponents of a gracious Italianate style which had already from the 1840s become a characteristic of commercial architecture, especially in Manchester .”

" Robeson quickly replied that the Republican Party, after the War, had been very gracious to the South by limiting the punishment of hanging, " having destroyed the cause of the crime, to let the crime itself go unpunished ".

The gracious people as defined by the brand were the premium class they were successful, elegant, and responsible, and had a sense of purpose.

It gave us all a pang not to have him rest quietly by Eras – ; but William felt strongly, and on reflection I did also, that his gracious & grateful nature would have wished to accept the acknowledgement of what he had done ".

In her last interview, published in Good Housekeeping when she was 93, she was described as " a handsome and erect figured women of gracious manner and striking personality ..." and this took place in 1919, a year after the end of World War I, in which three of her grandchildren had been killed.

She had an alley cat's manners.

Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.

The sculptors had a clear idea of what a young man is, and embodied the archaic smile of good manners, the firm and springy step, the balance of the body, dignity, and youthful happiness.

He rightly maintained that Italian life and manners were susceptible of artistic treatment such as had not been given them before.

Bonaventura had changed his attitude by refusing to eat until he showed better manners.

That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the duke's rude manners: the previous envoy, the bishop of Parma, had quit because the duke had wiped his buttocks in front of him: Saint-Simon in his Mémoires relates that Alberoni gained Vendôme's favor when he was received in the same way, but reacted adroitly by kissing the duke's buttocks and crying " O culo di angelo !".

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

The Incas described these " white gods " as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the " morning of time " and taught the Incas ' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs.

They had been accused of speaking in unknown languages as well as practicing knowledge beyond their natural abilities, and acting in peculiar manners.

And … they took with them those who had been separated and removed from the monasteries by reason of their lives and their strange manners and had for this reason been expelled, and all who were of heretical sects and were possessed with fanaticism and with hatred against me.

His death, while in the full vigor of his years, was deeply lamented by his people, notwithstanding the fact that he had made many considerable concessions to heathen manners and customs.

Glele resisted British diplomatic overtures, however, distrusting their manners and noting that they were much more activist in their opposition to the slave trade: though revolutionary France itself had outlawed slavery at the end of the 18th century it allowed the trade to continue elsewhere ; Britain outlawed slavery in the U. K. and in its overseas possessions in 1833, and had its navy make raids against slavers along the West African coast starting in 1840.

Her bravery and loyalty had gained her general sympathy, increased by her good manners and gentle character.

Count Grammont described Rupert as " brave and courageous even to rashness, but cross-grained and incorrigibly obstinate ... he was polite, even to excess, unseasonably ; but haughty, and even brutal, when he ought to have been gentle and courteous ... his manners were ungracious: he had a dry hard-favoured visage, and a stern look, even when he wished to please ; but, when he was out of humour, he was the true picture of reproof ".

The boys had to call each sister “ Auntie ”, were taught table manners, sent to Sunday school, tutored in school work and Harry's legs fitted with braces.

He made a good impression on his superiors, since he was academically gifted, spoke French and English, was a fine horseman and a talented draftsman, and had excellent manners.

He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough ; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see ; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man.

Alan Quinton ( Joseph Cotten ), a soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend Roger Morland ( Robert Sully ), a man who admits he " never had any standards, manners or taste.

Aside from the prostitutes, the Chinese courtesans were more or less similar to the Japanese geisha, and unlike the bar and tavern maids they had excellent table manners, polite mode of speech and behavior, and were reserved for entertaining the elite of society.

" The word gentle, originally implying a certain social status, had very early come to be associated with the standard of manners expected from that status.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Billy Koch, who had once worked for Wright as a chauffeur, gave a deposition for Miriam's use that he had seen Olgivanna living at Taliesin.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

But the Maryland militia had likewise fled, all too typical of this type of soldier during the Revolution, an experience which gave Morgan little confidence in militia in general, as he watched other instances of their breaking in hot engagements.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

This work gave a heat of formation of aluminum fluoride which closely substantiates a value which had been determined by a less direct method, and raises this property to 15 percent above that accepted a few years ago.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

In response, the industry allowed the discovery of the motion picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day.

We waited till he had finished laughing, and that gave us a few moments for taking stock of him.

He gave the impression of never having read a word about art, but there was no doubt that he had an eye for the best.

And when he did, when he gave to his ship that protection necessary to preserve her honor, he knew he would lose forever the Navy to which he had dedicated his soul.

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

The first element of the actinides, actinium gave the group its name, much as lanthanum had done for the lanthanides.

He showed that the image of Jesus had changed with the times and outlooks of the various authors, and gave his own synopsis and interpretation of the previous century's findings.

Those who had been involved in the Shah Khalil Allah's murder were punished and the Persian king Fath Ali Shah increased Hasan Ali Shah's land holdings in the Mahallat region and gave him one of his daughters, Sarv-i Jahan Khanum, in marriage.

Germanicus ’ death in the year 19 caused much public grief in Rome, and gave rise to rumors that he had been murdered by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and Munatia Plancina on the orders of Tiberius, as his widow Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with his ashes.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

Allotment therefore was seen as a means to prevent the corrupt purchase of votes and it gave citizens a unique form of political equality as all had an equal chance of obtaining government office.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.