Bede says nothing of his origins, but his connections with men of noble ancestry suggest that his own family was well-to-do.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

A more well-to-do hoplite would have linothorax, armour composed of stitched / laminated linen fabrics that was sometimes reinforced with animal skins and / or bronze scales.

He was the fifth child of eight of well-to-do Jewish farmers, David Leontyevich Bronshtein ( 1847 – 1922 ) and his wife Anna Bronshtein ( 1850 – 1910 ).

Her social background was similar to what Ventris ' had been: her family was well-to-do, she had travelled in Europe, and she was interested in architecture, in addition to which she was popular and was considered very beautiful.

The son of well-to-do parents, Malpighi was educated in his native city, entering the University of Bologna at the age of 17.

Jakobson was born in Russia to a well-to-do family of Jewish descent, and he developed a fascination with language at a very young age.

He was fascinated by the circus and carnival life, and at the age of 16 he ran away from his well-to-do family to become a performer.

Ono has said that she and her family were forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow ; and it was during this period in her life that Ono says she developed her " aggressive " attitude and understanding of " outsider " status when children taunted her and her brother, who were once well-to-do.

Ulam's immediate family was " well-to-do but hardly rich ".

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.

" Dapplemere was part of a tight-knit rural community called " Quaker Hill ", which was known as a haven for the prominent and well-to-do.

Outside of Rome the new via Appia went through well-to-do suburbs along the via Norba, the ancient track to the Alban hills, where Norba was situated.

The crazy quilt was a status symbol, as only well-to-do women had a staff to do all the household work, and had the time to sew their crazy quilt.

Ussher was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a well-to-do Anglo-Irish family.

Stevenson was raised in the city of Bloomington, Illinois ; his family was a member of Bloomington's upper class and lived in one of the city's well-to-do neighborhoods.

Claver's work on behalf of slaves did not prevent him from ministering to the souls of well-to-do members of society, traders and visitors to Cartagena ( including Muslims and English Protestants ) and condemned criminals, many of whom he prepared for death ; he was also a frequent visitor at the city's hospitals.

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.

The slender, handsome fellow was called Dandy Brandon by the other slaves.

But surely Michigan Avenue was handsome??

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

And this handsome booby, staring and sweating, was he her bridegroom??

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Back in college, today's handsome Gander was the only male member of a Texas Tech class on food.

How strange it was that he could give her this handsome house and carte blanche as to its beautiful furnishings, and fail her in -- spiritual ways.

This refugee was a middle-aged man, a big, handsome man with a strut to his walk as I have never before seen.

The handsome bird was solitary ; ;

He was a bright and handsome young man from New York, who worked for the same steel company as John did.

What she felt was a bone-deep loss with a sense of waste to it, not so much sorrow for handsome, ambitious Bobbie, but for the lost years that had been brought into high relief by his death.

He was my nephew, my brother's son, handsome and warm and newly-scrubbed, with happiness upon his face and his face resembled my brother's and mine as well.

Absalom himself was caught by his head in the boughs of an oak-tree as the mule he was riding ran beneath it-an irony given that he was previously renowned for his abundant hair and handsome head.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

In short, it was centered around learning how to develop a more sensitive empathy.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.

Simply using it increases its intensity, I was told by one sensitive.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style.

The word aesthetic is derived from the Greek αἰσθητικός ( aisthetikos, meaning " esthetic, sensitive, sentient "), which in turn was derived from αἰσθάνομαι ( aisthanomai, meaning " I perceive, feel, sense ").

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

The goal was to defoliate rural / forested land, depriving guerrillas of food and cover and clearing sensitive areas such as around base perimeters.

In 2010, Lamo became embroiled in the WikiLeaks scandal involving Bradley Manning, who was arrested after Lamo reported to federal authorities that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U. S. government documents .< ref >

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

Chaos theory and the sensitive dependence on initial conditions was described in the literature in a particular case of the three-body problem by Henri Poincaré in 1890.

" Forced to relocate to Fortson, Georgia, to live with his father because of a critical asthma condition, Atkins was a sensitive youth who made music his obsession.

Developed in the early 1970s at IBM and based on an earlier design by Horst Feistel, the algorithm was submitted to the National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ) following the agency's invitation to propose a candidate for the protection of sensitive, unclassified electronic government data.

On 19 May 2005, FIPS 46-3 was officially withdrawn, but NIST has approved Triple DES through the year 2030 for sensitive government information.

Domitian was allegedly extremely sensitive regarding his baldness, which he disguised in later life by wearing wigs.

The first years of the DPP as the ruling party drew accusations from the opposition that, as a self-styled Taiwanese nationalist party, the DPP was itself inadequately sensitive to the ethnographic diversity of Taiwan's population.

This material was sensitive to water, and evolved lots of dark smoke.

Japanese society during the Heian era was very sensitive to issues of " pollution ," both spiritual and personal.

For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.