Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Victor had led an adventurous life.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else's.

She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.

From early in life, the notorious rivalry led to several outbreaks of civil war.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

In addition to the scarcely documented and confirmed biography of Cuyp ’ s life, and even more so than his amalgamated style from his three main influences, there are yet other factors that have led to the misattribution and confusion over Aelbert Cuyp ’ s works for hundreds of years.

He continued to lead the conflict against the Arians for the rest of his life and was engaged in theological and political struggles against the Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II and powerful and influential Arian churchmen, led by Eusebius of Nicomedia and others.

The increased knowledge of anatomy, morphology and life cycles, led to the realization that there were more natural affinities between plants than the sexual system of Linnaeus indicated.

The theory asserts that all currently living organisms on Earth share a common genetic heritage with each being the descendant from a single original species, though the suggestion of substantial horizontal gene transfer during early evolution has led to questions about monophyly of life.

This parallels the ways in which capitalism led to the commodification of many aspects of social life that hitherto had no monetary or economic value per se.

Gandy's curiosity about, and analysis of, " cellular automata ", " Conway's game of life ", " parallelism " and " crystalline automata " led him to propose four " principles ( or constraints ) ... which it is argued, any machine must satisfy.

Increase Mather was a pastor of the Old North Church and led an accomplished life that Cotton was determined to live up to.

In May 2010, a team of scientists led by Venter became the first to successfully create what was described as " synthetic life ".

Fearing for his life in the wake of a revolt in Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India where he has led a government in exile since.

: History of science and technology has consistently taught us that scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life.

The way forward to making films made up of more than one shot was led by films of the life of Jesus Christ.

Described as “ the determining moment in Fellini ’ s life ”, he enjoyed steady employment between 1939 and 1942, interacting with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters that eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema.

During that time his sister's family visited, and Orwell led a disastrous boating expedition which nearly led to loss of life whilst trying to cross the notorious gulf of Corryvreckan and gave him a soaking which was not good for his health.

This has led to many missions whose purpose ( or one of their purposes ) is to examine planetary bodies for evidence of life.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

This was not helped by the biography written by her husband after her death, which portrayed a wonderful, almost saintly, woman totally at odds with the scandalous life people knew she had led.

Duvalier's policies, designed to end the dominance of the mulatto elite over the nation's economic and political life, led to massive emigration of educated people, deepening Haiti's economic and social problems.

On Tiberius ' request, Germanicus was granted proconsular power and assumed command in the prime military zone of Germania, where he suppressed the mutiny there and led the formerly restless legions on campaigns against Germanic tribes from 14 to 16 AD.

In the years subsequent to this move, her father's restless spirit led them on various moves to a preemption claim in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, living with relatives near South Troy, Minnesota, and helping to run a hotel in Burr Oak, Iowa.

During their set a power failure led sections of the crowd to become restless.

Hazelhoff Roelfzema led a fairly restless life after the war, including a stint in Hollywood as an actor and then a writer.

After growing restless, he went into talks that led to the Nabisco-RJ Reynolds merger in 1985.

The media also hounded Coughlin with questions about Barber's announcement, and whether differences between Coughlin and Barber led to this point, and the team's fans and ownership were starting to get restless about the coach's performance ; during a 30-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints late in the year a loud " Fire Coughlin " chant erupted at Giants Stadium.

While there, he soon became restless and unhappy, which led him to hoboing around the country by hopping on freight trains ( as many did during the Great Depression ).

The villagers, led by Sheba, flee to the coast, leaving behind Lann, Bronden, Norris, Shaaran, and Rowan, who insists on remaining to care for the restless bukshah.

In his youth Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich led a restless life of partying and drinking.

He became restless easily and actively sought the thrill of danger in order to regain excitement in his life, which led to his participation in numerous crimes, fights and affairs.

Jefri's older sister, Johanna, is rescued by Pilgrim and Scriber, wandering Tines who bring her to the rival faction, led by Woodcarver.

After wandering for a time, he led a group of colonizers to the site of Trier Upon his death, his body was cremated on Petrisberg by the people of Trier.

After numerous years of migration, which led the Visigoths to compare themselves to the Biblical Hebrew people wandering for 40 years in the Sinai Desert, the Visigoths settled in southern Gaul as foederati of the Romans in 418.

After seven years ' wandering it found a resting-place at the still existing St Cuthbert's church in Chester-le-Street until 995, when another Danish invasion led to its removal to Ripon.

The wandering life of an exile, such as Ibn Ezra led for nearly three decades, gave him the opportunity to carry out a mission which was to an eminent degree historical.

For many years he led a wandering life, supporting himself chiefly by his writings.

Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna.

For the next few years, Zhu Yuanzhang led the life of a wandering beggar and personally experienced and saw the hardships of the common people.

Sun Ce made Kuaiji his base city and struck out at the wandering bandit army led by Yan Baihu.

When Saint Theodore of Cythera led a resettlement after the Byzantine reconquest of Crete in 962, he found the island occupied only by wandering bands of hunters.

After this he led a wandering life in the service of various territorial nobles.

Major reforms by Vijayananda Suri of the Tapa Order in 1880 led a movement to restore orders of wandering monks, which brought about the near-extinction of the Yati institutions.

About 1525 Obadiah left Rome and led for some time a wandering life.

Francis and Maria Sophia, now royals without a crown, led a wandering life from then on, living in Austria, France, and Bavaria.

He led a wandering life for the next two years, appearing less on the stage as an actor than as a reciter of his own poems.

A concept album inspired by a news story singer / lyricist Steve Hogarth had heard about an amnesiac girl found wandering the Severn Bridge, the album follows a fictional account of the girl's life and the events that led her there.

Swami led a wandering life and left what he wrote with those who were with him at the time of writing.

:" Legend tells, that two Suns, two wholesome in change-rule UR and SUN, alike to the hourglass which turned upside down ever gives one of these the victory / The meaning of the divine errant wandering way / dross star in fire's sphere became in fire-tongue revealed to the Earth-I-course of the race of Paradise / godwilling leaders lead to the weal through their care in universal course, what is visible and soon hidden, whence they led the imagination of mankind / polar in change-play, from UR to SUN in sacrificial service of waxing and waning, in holy fire Santur is ambiguously spent in sparks, but turns victorious to blessing "

After wandering for a time, he led a group of colonizers to settle at Trier in what is now Germany around 2000 BC.

His family led a wandering life during the turbulent days of mainland China, and they finally settled down in Taiwan.

Whelan then led a " wandering life " traveling around England, before moving to Canada in approximately 1865.

His fame as a wandering storyteller eventually led him to the States in 1904, where he visited several of the Norwegian immigrant communities which had grown up after the great migration from Norway.

SR 17's combination of narrow shoulders, dense traffic, sharp turns, blind curves, wandering fauna such as deer and mountain lions, and sudden changes in traffic speeds have led to driving conditions that result in a number of accidents and fatalities, leading to the reputation of SR 17 as one of the most dangerous highways in the state.

Broszat only accepted Wulf's version after Wulf produced a war-time memo written by Hagen urging that sick Jews " wandering around " be shot down, which led Broszt to concede that perhaps Hagen was not the friend of the Ghetto he claimed to have been.