He had Celtic blood on his father's side and Norse on his mother's: his contemporaries knew him as Somerled Macgilbred, Somhairle or in Norse Sumarlidi Höld (' Somerled ' means " summer wanderer ", the name given to the Vikings ).

He said that the Cardinals knew when the Vikings were going to pass because of his leg.

Hubbell Gardiner, initially a secondary character, was drawn from several people Laurents knew.

As boys, Godley and Creme knew each other ; Gouldman and Godley attended the same secondary school ; their musical enthusiasm led to playing at the local Jewish Lads ' Brigade.

Some examples include: six interlocking stories ; the music score Cloud Atlas is a " sextet with overlapping soloists " ( not unlike the six stories ); Sixsmith is the name of a main character, who is 66 years old ; Eva is the result of " six centuries of breeding "; a police officer is shot six times in the back ; Napier knew Luisa when she was six ; Cavendish is sixty-something years old, he needs 60, 000 pounds to avoid being " beat up ", his hospital window only opens six inches ; Sonmi recites Six Catechisms, drives six-wheeler fords, lives on the university sixth-floor where she is left alone for six days, completes secondary school in six months ; A Prescient woman arrives in Zachry's sixteenth year, he rolls a six ' n ' six when playing dice, etc.

In secondary school Bram showed his classmates what he knew.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

He knew now what he was up against.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

He knew she was not sulking, not even angry at him.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

Now he was going to show how much he knew.

We knew that it was, as reassurance, the ironic fruit of a deeply moral nature.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

In his great and glorious wisdom, he knew that our enemies the Israelites must not be able to read therein what we planned ''.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

A software ROM was still supplied, but this did no more than expand the hardware ROM so that it knew mode 7 now existed and was able to switch into it.

The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book ; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.

) Spanish has similar pairs for certain verbs, such as ( imperfect and preterite, respectively ) sabía " I knew " vs. supe " I found out ", podía " I was able to " vs. pude " I succeeded ( in doing something )", quería " I wanted to " vs. quise " I tried to ", no quería " I did not want to " vs. no quise " I refused ( to do something )".

Quso was able to identify Mihdhar, Hazmi and Attash in photos provided by the FBI, and he also knew Marwan al-Shehhi, a hijacker aboard United Airlines Flight 175.

Konoe knew he was not acquiring a tame cabinet member, but he hoped that Matsuoka would be able to navigate the deeply complex international waters to Japan's advantage.

Coincidentally, the psychiatrist knew a doctor friend of Brando, and Brando was able to avoid military service during the Korean War.

He was able to read and write, and knew both Greek and Latin.

However, one thing was clear: whatever the exact nature and causes of new variations, Darwin knew from observation and experiment that breeders were able to select such variations and produce huge differences in many generations of selection.

When on 15 March 1938 relatives and people who knew Gladstone were gathered at Broadcasting House none were able to voice any certainty on the veracity of the four recordings played.

" But if Praiser knew it, he was not able to convince Hanks.

He viewed most publications skeptically, because he knew that most of the authors had not been able to actually visit Russia.

He then knew how to gain revenge against Goll, and in subsequent stories was able to call on the knowledge of the salmon by sucking his thumb.

The creativity must be shared between Ellington and Hall as he knew the style of performance he wanted, but she was the one who was able to produce the sound.

Though the performances were in English, of which Berlioz knew virtually none, he was still able to grasp the grandeur and sublimnity of Shakespeare's language along with the richness of the plays ' dramatic design.

Although General Marshall stated that he knew of no evidence that the CPC were being supplied by the Soviet Union, the CPC were able to capture a large number of weapons abandoned by the Japanese, including some tanks but it was not until large numbers of well trained KMT troops surrendered and joined the communist forces that the CPC were finally able to master the hardware.

I knew his health was very poor and many of the people who knew what the situation was didn't believe we'd finish the film, that is, that Tracy would be able to finish the film.

According to Baseball Digest, the Phillies were able to hit him because they knew when he was throwing the spitter.

Because he knew his actors and technicians so well, Fassbinder was able to complete as many as four or five films per year on extremely low budgets.

Although he was able to participate in activities like parasailing during the group ’ s trip to Hawaii, the cast grew more worried about him nonetheless, often covering up for him during their weekly " confessional " interviews with the producers by telling them that Zamora was doing fine when they knew otherwise.

Paul Young has since admitted, in a documentary, that he knew his opening lines were written for David Bowie, who was not able to make the recording but made a contribution to the B-side ( Bowie performed his lines at the Live Aid concert the following year ).