Even as he spoke those words Billy Tilghman's life hung on a thread.

From that day on he never spoke to Harry or to Lew, or to Lew's two boys, Mort and Jimmy.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Mr. Barcus spoke on the subject of scholarships for Juniors -- with which he is very familiar.

Dumont spoke on the merit of having an open primary.

The Mayor spoke yesterday at the United Irish Counties Feis on the Hunter College Campus in the Bronx.

Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.

Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.

He spoke of them several times over the course of the tour, and the Australian media quickly caught on.

He later spoke out for black suffrage, though not based solely on race, but rather merit oriented, arguing, " The better class of them will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal Negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

" He spoke about ... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes " she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described " his own sexual prowess " and the details of his anatomy.

Clinton also spoke in favor of California Proposition 87 on alternative energy, which was voted down.

On July 21, 2011 Mike Judge spoke and fielded questions on a panel at Comic-Con International.

Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Lancaster was a vocal supporter of liberal political causes, and frequently spoke out in support of racial minorities, including at the March on Washington in 1963.

In 1968, Lancaster actively supported the presidential candidacy of antiwar Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, and frequently spoke on his behalf during the Democratic primaries.

The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.

As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

Other early chemists involved in catalysis were Alexander Mitscherlich who referred to contact processes and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner who spoke of contact action and whose lighter based on hydrogen and a platinum sponge became a huge commercial success in the 1820s.

Ahmadinejad accepted his invitation and spoke on September 24, 2007, as part of Columbia University's World Leaders Forum.

A synod of clerics and scholars threatened to excommunicate him for these deaths, but St. Brendan of Birr spoke on his behalf with the result that he was allowed to go into exile instead.

Malenkov spoke twice to the plenum, but it failed to alter his position, and on 8 March 1955 he was forced to resign from his post as Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; he was succeeded by Nikolai Bulganin, a protege of Khrushchev dating back to the 1930s.

Harding introduced 134 bills, but substantively his six-year record as Senator was unremarkable ; his attendance was inconsistent, he spoke minimally on the floor of the Senate and offered no major bill or debate.

As the gold men spoke, Bryan ate a sandwich to settle his stomach ; he was often nervous before major speeches.

The fact that these two major Xianbei branches spoke Mongolic is enough for some to acknowledge that the Xianbei spoke Mongolic.

They spoke Unami, one of the three major dialects of Lenape, which was part of the Algonquian language family.

Early in his major league career, Valenzuela had trouble communicating with his catchers because he spoke very little English.

She also spoke on Iraq as the major issue facing the 110th Congress, while incorporating some Democratic Party beliefs:

President Barack Obama spoke there in a major address during his visit to Ireland on May 23, 2011.

At the tragic occasion, the president of Club de Regatas Botafogo, Augusto Frederico Schmidt ( also a major Brazilian poet ) spoke: " At this time, I declare to Albano that his last match ended with the victory of his team.

Although not noted as a speaker ( he spoke rarely and briefly ), Sieyès had major influence, and he recommended the decision of the Estates to reunite its chamber as the National Assembly, although he opposed the abolition of tithes and the confiscation of Church lands.

Most of the people of Italy spoke languages belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family ; the three major groups within the Italian Peninsula were the Latin branch, including the tribes of the Latini ( Latins ), who formed the core of the early Roman populace, and their neighbors, the Falisci and Hernici ; and the Sabellian branch, including the Sabines, who also contributed to early Roman culture, as well as the Samnites, Umbrian culture of the Padus ( Po ) Valley, the rustic Picentes of the Adriatic coast, and the Volsci, neighbors of the early Romans, and many other peoples of central and southern Italy.

In international law, his other field of major scholarly interest, he published La Crise de la codification et de la doctrine Argentine de droit international ( 1931 ); and he spoke, wrote, or drafted legislation on many subjects with international ramifications-among them, asylum, colonization, immigration, arbitration, and international peace.

The Apachean groups had little political unity ; the major groups spoke seven different languages and developed distinct and competitive cultures.

In this feudal atmosphere of enforced silence, the editor of the short-lived journal O Progresso ( 1846 – 1848 ), Antônio Pedro de Figueiredo, spoke out for half of the province's population that were " vassals under the yoke " and declared that " the division of our soil in grand properties is the source of the major part of our ills.

The most well known and highly regarded dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia and later President of democratic Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Václav Havel spoke in favour of a projected American and Allied invasion of Iraq as early as September 2002, stating that " Saddam Hussein's regime poses a major threat to many nations and to his own people ... there should be international intervention.

Leaders of major religions and race groups as well as non-religious groups such as the National Secular Society and English PEN spoke out in order to campaign against the Bill.

He spoke all major European languages and a number of Asian ones.

In 1996, he spoke of having performed thousands of minor exorcisms, and participated in a few hundred major exorcisms during his lifetime.

On the 21st, Napoleon received a dispatch from Davout that spoke of major engagements near Teugen-Hausen.

A major act of discontent occurred inside the party during its XIIth Congress in late November 1979, when PCR veteran Constantin Pîrvulescu spoke out against Ceauşescu's policy of discouraging discussions and relying on obedient cadres ( he was subsequently heckled, evicted from the Congress hall, and isolated ).

He spoke in depth about his career with 60 minutes presenter David Knight and later took part in a major signing session, signing 2000 copies of the CD in support of the Everyman appeal charity.

The Abenaki and Algonquin spoke in languages of the major families of Algonquian.

" Leaders of major religions and race groups, as well as non-religious groups such as the National Secular Society and English PEN spoke out against the Bill.

Lightner appeared on major television shows, spoke before the US Congress, addressed professional and business groups, and worked for many years to change public attitudes, modify judicial behavior, and promote tough new legislation.