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Alfred knew that, too.
Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “ Boethian ” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.
However, Alfred Brehm reported a dingo that completely learned the more " typical " form of barking and knew how to use it, while its brother did not.
* Zane Grey uses the name Izaak Walton in Betty Zane ( New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1903 ) in a fishing story: Alfred Clarke said " I never knew one ( girl ) who cared for fishing.
In fact, Alfred L. Kroeber, father of California anthropology, who knew of one of their constituent local groups, the Saclan ( his Saklan ), from nineteenth century manuscript sources, presumed that they spoke a Ohlone ( aka Costanoan ) language.
Instead he turned to a friend, Sir Alfred Ewing, the Director of Naval Education ( DNE ), who previously had been a professor of engineering with a knowledge of radio communications and who he knew had an interest in ciphers.
As recently as the 1960s, when Alfred P. Sloan published his famous memoir and management treatise, My Years with General Motors, even the longtime president and chair of the largest manufacturing enterprise that had ever existed knew very little about the history of the development, other than to say that "< nowiki > was, I believe, one of those mainly responsible for bringing the technique of interchangeable parts into automobile manufacturing.
Hobhouse had a letter of introduction to the governor, Alfred Milner, from her aunt, the wife of Arthur Hobhouse, himself the son of Henry Hobhouse, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Home Office under Sir Robert Peel, and who knew Milner.
According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name " the Black Keys " came from a schizophrenic artist named Alfred McMoore that the pair knew ; he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as " black keys " such as " D flat " when he was upset with them.
According to Alfred Kazin, who knew him, Weldon Kees ’ s ambition as a poet knew no bounds.
However, Alfred Brehm reported a dingo that completely learned the more " typical " form of barking and knew how to use it, while its brother did not.
He was a close friend of Professor Alfred Newton, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford and of Alfred Russel Wallace and he knew all of the leading ornithologists of the day.
The artist Jerome Myers speaks of him in his autobiography " Artist In Manhattan " ( Chapter XXVII: Among My Contemporaries ) ( 1940 ) " Alfred Maurer, whom I knew casually, had a pleasant personality.
Returning to Paris, she brought with her, as Legouve says, a thing she had unearthed, a little comedy never acted until she took it up, a production half-forgotten, and esteemed by those who knew it as a pleasing piece of work in the Marivaux style: Un Caprice by Alfred de Musset, which she had played with success in French in St. Petersburg.

knew and liked
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.
) Among those who critiqued him from the left were Marxist-humanist Raya Dunayevskaya, fellow German emigre Paul Mattick, both of whom subjected One-Dimensional Man to a Marxist critique, and Noam Chomsky, who knew and liked Marcuse " but thought very little of his work.
" And I said, and I just happened to know to see a few Seinfelds and I knew these guys were really tops ; they were really, really clever guys, and I liked the show.
Grissom liked the sound of the program, but knew that competition for the final spots would be fierce.
Roosevelt, who personally liked Wallace and knew little about Truman, reluctantly agreed to accept Truman as his vice-presidential candidate to preserve party unity.
In a 1982 interview in Sounds, Phil Collins talked about the band ’ s reputation in the music press and claimed that he only knew of one music journalist, Hugh Fielder, who openly liked Genesis.
Countless other technical lapses such as painting the Japanese Zero fighters green for effect even though Bay knew that was inaccurate, but liked the way the aircraft looked so that audiences could differentiate the " good guys from the bad guys " was another aspect that rankled film critics.
" I talked to this little kid and liked her right away ," Gray said, " She had common sense, knew how to take care of herself.
Like Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna and Juan Diego Flórez do now, he could sell a song and he knew the way an audience liked it.
However, Catherine was completely secure in her husband's favor, and the House of Lords, most of whom knew her and liked her, refused by an overwhelming majority to impeach her.
As much as he would have liked to put these last two Jubilees fourteen years earlier in order to be consistent with his idée fixe, Rabbi Yose could not do it because he knew these were historical dates, not dates that came from his own calculation.
He, too, felt an emotional detachment from the characters, saying, " I knew I admired it, but I didn't know if I liked it ...
Fry had never been to Iowa, but he knew and liked Bump Elliott, by this time the university's athletic director.
Páez had an ingratiating personality which made him very much liked amongst those who knew him.
Stocker knew his audience liked the exotic appeal of rural music, and so he bought traditional costumes from Unterwalden for his band.
Englishman Simon Phillips was the only drummer ever contacted to replace Jeff Porcaro since the band knew that Porcaro liked Phillips and because Lukather worked with Simon on a previous tour with Santana and Jeff Beck in Japan in 1986.
Pastis denied that the strip was mocking Mustafa Atatürk, saying that he knew almost nothing about Atatürk and used the name simply because he liked the sound of it.
He also proposed the use of virtual set technology ; although he knew little about it at the time and the technology used was just starting development, Disney and ABC liked the idea.
Murray was born in East London and knew the gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray from Bethnal Green, who paid £ 400 for him to go to the East 15 Acting School, London as a teenager, because they " liked his attitude ".
The father understood his sons and knew what various toys and curious objects each child customarily liked and what would delight them.
But he liked me being there because I knew to wait and let him finish his sentences between gasps.
The group liked having a British-sounding name, and the legend has been, since it so closely followed The Beatles in the alphabet, the group also knew their records would likely be placed immediately behind those of The Beatles in record-store bins.
I liked being a model, but I knew it would never last, so I looked into acting.

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I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.
`` I thought I knew more than my education had taught me, '' notes the narrator, `` because I had encountered the militant mobs of a political or religious faith ''.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;
Conclusions: The people involved ( and subsequent facts bear me out here ) knew clearly the relative values of peanuts and emeralds, both monetary and sentimental.
After a while the signal became a buzz and I knew he was behind me.
`` I never knew there were such neighbors and friends around me and my family.
the many little tricks she knew made her embrace the ultimate one -- the ever more fantastic pressures deeper in her body squeezed not me but the air I breathed into a nitrogen anesthetic.
I stopped the tractor and I shouted down to the boy, and I knew he could hear me, for the morning was clear and still, but he did not even hesitate in that brutal, murdering dance.
And, when I began to read the nursery rhymes for myself, and, later, to read other verses and ballads, I knew that I had discovered the most important things, to me, that could be ever.
" I asked whether the Japanese would become Christians if I went with him to this country, and he replied that they would not do so immediately, but would first ask me many questions and see what I knew.
Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, " If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.
Milorad Boskovic related a conversation with Judit's sixth-round opponent, a Yugoslav player he knew to be a strong expert, " He told me he took some chances in the game because he couldn't believe she was going to attack so well.
" I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up.
I knew him Oxford when I was a Liberal Lewis played a part in converting me to socialism.
Some people worshipped him, but I never knew why ... Strasberg never taught me acting.
So, you ask me if the U. S. government knew what was going on?
He never got to see me play ... but I knew he was watching me, and I never let him down.

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