To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

The term “ Arian ” bestowed by Athanasius upon his opponents in the Christological debate was polemical.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

But he was also known as Saqr Quraish (" The Falcon of the Quraish "), bestowed on him by one of his greatest enemies, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur.

Despite repeated dynastic change in China, the title of Duke Yansheng was bestowed upon successive generations of descendants until it was abolished by the Nationalist Government in 1935.

The last time we saw the tree of life was in the Garden of Eden. 2: 9 God drove Adam and Eve away from it because it bestowed eternal life and he did not want them to have it in their degraded state. 3: 22 In the New Jerusalem, the tree of life reappears, and everyone in the city has access to it.

Eliade writes, " Legend, as was natural, bestowed upon him the attributes of St. George, famed for his victorious fight with the monster.

For his professional work he was bestowed the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology by the APA in 1972.

The rank of commodore was at first a position created as a temporary title to be bestowed upon captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel.

In many navies, the rank of commodore was merely viewed as a senior captain position, whereas other naval services bestowed upon the rank of commodore the prestige of flag officer status ; commodore is the highest rank in the Irish Naval Service, for example, and is held by only one person.

This honor was bestowed by making the Senior Bishop an “ Archbishop ,” thus presiding in dignity of honor over all the Alexandrine and Egyptian Bishops.

Shortly following his accession as Emperor, Domitian bestowed the honorific title of Augusta upon Domitia, while their son was deified, appearing as such on the reverse of coin types from this period.

It was typically bestowed on sons-in-law and later sons of the Emperor and, beginning in the 13th century, it was bestowed to foreign princes.

* Augustus was the honorific first bestowed on Emperor Augustus: after him all Roman emperors added it to their name.

The honor was bestowed on him on November 13, along with Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow and Eli Wallach.

Later, he became a legendary figure and the model of a tough, courageous Roman, and was bestowed the honorific title, " The Shield of Rome " ( similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the " Sword of Rome ").

His court was better regulated than that of any other German prince, and he bestowed a paternal care on the University of Leipzig, where a number of reforms were introduced, and Humanism, as opposed to Scholasticism, was encouraged.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

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

Ahimsa was already part of the " Fourfold Restraint " ( Caujjama ), the vows taken by Parshva ’ s followers.

Having partaken in such a rite, a person was prohibited from entering into marriage or taking monastic vows, and the choreography of the service itself closely parallelled that of the marriage rite.

He took vows as a canon regular at the canonry of Stein, in South Holland, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at about the age of 25, but he never seemed to have actively worked as a priest for a longer time, and certain tenets of life in Religious Orders were among the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon Church excesses.

In order to allow him to accept that post, he was given a temporary dispensation from his religious vows on the grounds of poor health and love of Humanistic studies, though he remained a priest.

Suiko was also one of the first Buddhist monarchs in Japan and had taken the vows of a nun shortly before becoming empress.

Fiesole is sometimes misinterpreted as being part of his formal name, but it was merely the name of the town where he took his vows as a Dominican friar, and was used by contemporaries to separate him from other Fra Giovannis.

Handfasting was legally binding: as soon as the couple made their vows to each other they were validly married.

The widow moved into the monastery, which was led by her daughter Gertrude, assuming the religious habit of an oblate, but she did not take vows.

However, until the Destruction of the second temple, about two thousand years ago, taking Nazirite vows was a common feature of the religion.

It also rejects any " colonial or territorial status " as a status option, and vows to keep working for the enhanced Commonwealth status that was approved by the PPD in 1998 which included sovereignty, an association based on " respect and dignity between both nations ", and common citizenship.

After his profession of monastic vows, he was ordained a priest in his own monastery in Chirac.

The family's leader, Feodor Nikitich Romanov, was exiled to the Antoniev Siysky Monastery and forced to take monastic vows with the name Filaret.

The hilt of a sword formed a cross with the blade, so if a crucifix was not available, a Crusader could kiss the hilt of his sword when praying, before entering battle, for oaths and vows, and so on.

Through these two men a military revolution was speedily accomplished ; they refused to renew their vows of allegiance to Emperor Galba on 1 January 69, and early in 69 Vitellius was proclaimed emperor at Cologne.

Florence's father was incensed by his daughter's decision to marry Harding, prohibited his wife from attending the wedding ( she sneaked in long enough to see the vows exchanged ) and refused to speak to his daughter or son-in-law for eight years.

* The Praemonstratensian Order ( Norbertines ) was formed when a group of canons made solemn vows at Prémontré on Christmas Day.

In the convent, Savonarola took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and after a year was ordained to the priesthood.

He was called the deacon, although he probably only received minor vows.

Other historians consider this a weak clue, as " Juliana " was a common name in the gens Anicia, and because Hermogenianus seems to have begotten only one daughter, who took chastity vows ; other possible fathers have therefore been proposed: either Flavius Anicius Probus ( suggested by Settipani ) or, according to some clues, Petronius Maximus.

And one passion was in them all, Jews and pagans and all the sects, and they were busying themselves that they should accept without examination the things which were done without examination against me ; and at the same time all of them, even those that had participated with me at table and in prayer and in thought, were agreed … against me and vowing vows one with another against me … In nothing were they divided.

As with the canons, differences in the observance of rule gave rise to two types: the canoness regular, who lives in a religious house, taking the traditional religious vows, and the secular canoness, which was primarily a way of leading a pious life by daughters of aristocratic families who did not wish to take religious vows, and thus remained free to own property and leave to marry, should they choose.

The social highlight of the Hayes ' years was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebration, at which the President and the First Lady repeated their vows at a White House ceremony before many of the same guests who had attended the original nuptials in Cincinnati.