Leopards, hyenas, lynxes, wolves and bears lived among wild cattle, horses, deer, ibexes, oryxes and rhinos – all surrounded by olive trees and stone pines, with partridges and ducks overhead, tortoises in the underbrush and mussels, limpets and other shellfish in the waters.

Its royal court lived in luxury, wore Indian cotton, surrounded themselves with copper and gold ornaments, and ate on plates from as far away as Persia and China.

He lived very quietly in lodgings in Oslo ( then Christiania ), surrounded by his books and shrinking from publicity, but his name grew into wide political favour as his ideas about the language of the peasants became more and more the watch-word of the popular party.

They lived in an isolated patch of eastern France that remained loyal to the French crown despite being surrounded by Burgundian lands.

The situation was unstable: the Maronites lived in the large towns, but these were often surrounded by Druze villages living as perioikoi.

The Sorbs in Germany are an example: for centuries they have lived in German-speaking states, surrounded by a much larger ethnic German population, and they have no other historical territory.

The Plains aborigines mainly lived in stationary village sites surrounded by defensive walls of bamboo.

From 1305 to 1378, the Popes lived in the papal enclave of Avignon, surrounded by Provence, and were under the influence of the French kings in the ' Babylonian Captivity '.

Courtyards — private open spaces surrounded by walls or buildings — have been in use in residential architecture for almost as long as people have lived in constructed dwellings.

Today, the estate where he was born and lived his first months has been turned into a museum at Råshult, still surrounded by the same meadows and fields it was 300 years ago.

Bob tells Emily that in that dream, he lived in a weird Vermont town surrounded by strange people: a snobbish maid, her alliterative husband, a dense handyman, and three eccentric woodsmen, two of whom were mute.

The Falisci lived in a natural stronghold surrounded by Etruscan cities, notably Veii to the south.

The elites of Tiwanaku lived inside four walls that were surrounded by a moat.

Frank lived in the Moravian town of Brno until 1786, surrounded by a retinue of adherents and pilgrims who came from Poland.

Vanderbilt was raised amidst luxury at her aunt Gertrude's mansion in Old Westbury, Long Island, surrounded by cousins her age who lived in houses circling the vast estate, and in New York City.

For three and a half years, Izetbegović lived precariously in a besieged Sarajevo surrounded by Serb forces.

At Kumbi Saleh, locals lived in domed-shaped dwellings in the king's section of the city, surrounded by a great enclosure.

The Queen lived in a palace, which was surrounded by walls and stockades protected by armed guards ; their discipline was extremely strict.

While being a very agreeable companion, for the sake of his work he lived in a mostly retired fashion, and even when not painting was wont to remain in his working room surrounded by casts.

The king lived surrounded by his staff, led by the prime minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, and was attended by his peers, the Portuguese high nobility.

The Muslim community surrounded the Haram ash-Sharif or Temple Mount ( northeast ), the Christians lived mainly in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ( northwest ), the Jews lived mostly on the slope above the Western Wall ( southeast ), and the Armenians lived near the Zion Gate ( southwest ).

He took little part in the government, which he left in the hands of favourites and police officials, and lived with his mistresses, surrounded by soldiers, ever in dread of assassination.

Cope at this time lived in his Pine Street museum and rested on a cot surrounded by his fossil finds.

She lived by the rules, never compromising, never blinded or diverted by circumstance.

Billy decided to set an example by arresting one of the ranchers, named Ed Dunn, who lived at Rock Fort.

Samuel Gorton, founder of Warwick, was styled by the historian Samuel Greene Arnold `` one of the most remarkable men who ever lived ''.

She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.

Though Americans usually lived in groups segregated by national origin or religious belief, they liked to work and shop in the noise and vitality of downtown.

Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.

Little by little, during the week, Chris and I discovered the crazy unbelievable way Nadine and Wally had lived.

Ethnoarchaeology is a type of archaeology that studies the practices and material remains of living human groups in order to gain a better understanding of the evidence left behind by past human groups, who are presumed to have lived in similar ways.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

This house, where Gaudí lived from 1906 to 1926, was built by Francesc Berenguer in 1904.

They lived in 100 cantons ( 4. 1 ) from which 1000 young men per year were chosen for military service, a citizen-army by our standards and by comparison with the Roman professional army.

The Ainu were a society of hunter-gatherers, who lived mainly by hunting and fishing, and the people followed a religion based on phenomena of nature.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The first son of Isabel II lived an adolescence marked by the crisis that led to the overthrow of his mother in 1868.

Jarry lived in his ' pataphysical world until his death in Paris on 1 November 1907 of tuberculosis, aggravated by drug and alcohol use.

While Grothendieck lived in Chambon, he attended the Collège Cévenol ( now known as the Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International ), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists.

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.

Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

This Aeolus lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.

There are some that are called " hero stories "; these are stories of people who lived at one time, and who were immortalized by these stories of them.