A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

He is notably the builder of Alcobaça Monastery, to which he called the Cistercian Order of his uncle Bernard of Clairvaux of Burgundy.

King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir.

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

There is representation of this is in Jeremiah 32 where he ( Jeremiah ) redeems the property of his uncle Hanamel, and it speaks of the sealed scrolls kept in accordance with Leviticus 25.

Young William Wallace witnesses the treachery of Longshanks, survives the death of his father and brother, and is taken abroad by his uncle where he is educated.

He is the uncle of the Irish boxer John Duddy.

These monks ' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus ( Cyril's uncle ) against the " Tall Brothers "; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

He is the father of Icarus and Iapyx and the uncle of Perdix.

Hofstadter is related by marriage to the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould: Hofstadter's paternal aunt Shirley Hofstadter was married to Gould's maternal uncle Herbert Rosenberg.

For example, consider, " My father's brother is my uncle.

K. is visited by his uncle, who was K .' s guardian.

The uncle introduces K. to a lawyer, who is attended by Leni, a nurse, who K .' s uncle suspects is the advocate's mistress.

Afterwards K. meets his uncle outside, who is angry and, who claims that K .' s lack of respect has also hurt K .' s case.

However, Caligula is shown in a later episode to confess to his uncle Claudius that he killed his father in revenge for trying to discipline him, by working on his father's superstitions ( planting various ' curses ' around his father's residence ) and eventually frightening him to death-therefore, Piso and Plancina were technically innocent ( Zeus, by Jove!

One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.

Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.

The story is about a family living on land that is a bit ashamed of their old uncle who still lives in the sea, refusing to come ashore like " civilized " people.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

A castrato ( Italian, plural: castrati ) is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.

Also available, but usually seen only in the brass band, is an E soprano model, pitched a fourth above the standard B.

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

Music for the oboe is written in concert pitch ( i. e., it is not a transposing instrument ), and the instrument has a soprano range.

This confusion is not helped by the fact that most instruments referred to today as flügelhorns are actually soprano saxhorns.

If a modern ' flügelhorn ' bell has a flare similar to the one shown on the larger saxhorn pictured here, then it may indeed be a soprano saxhorn, but if the conical bell is nearly the diameter of the bell rim until just before a small final flare, then it is a true flügelhorn.

It is his Stabat Mater ( 1736 ), however, for male soprano, male alto, string orchestra and basso continuo, which is his best known sacred work.

The term soprano whistle is sometimes used for the higher-pitched whistles when it is necessary to distinguish them from low whistles.

However, when music is scored for a soprano whistle it will be written an octave lower than it sounds, so avoiding use of ledger lines and making it much easier to read.

This is perhaps the most common type, usually consisting of soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, often abbreviated as SATB.

With Rossini a standard distribution of four characters is reached: a prima donna soubrette ( soprano or mezzo ); a light, amorous tenor ; a basso cantante or baritone capable of lyrical, mostly ironical expression ; and a basso buffo whose vocal skills, largely confined to clear articulation and the ability to ‘ patter ’, must also extend to the baritone for the purposes of comic duets.

* Arts-Most of the technical vocabulary referring to classical music ( e. g. concerto, allegro, tempo, aria, opera, soprano ) is borrowed from Italian and likewise in ballet from French.

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range ( using scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C < sub > 4 </ sub >) from approximately middle C ( C < sub > 4 </ sub >) to " high A " ( A < sub > 5 </ sub >) in choral music, or to " soprano C " ( C < sub > 6 </ sub >, two octaves above middle C ) or higher in operatic music.

The singer Michael Maniaci is described as a true male soprano because he is able to sing in the soprano vocal range using the modal voice as a woman would.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.

`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

There is a bitter satire for a future writer in that ''.

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

This is just being a normal writer.

) Mrs. Henry Labouisse, wife of the new director of the foreign aid program, is the writer and lecturer Eve Curie.

Liston is Bill Liston, baseball writer for the Boston Traveler, who quoted Jensen as saying:

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange ," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.