Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

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.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, in the Côte-d ' Or department of France, the first child of Alexandre and Catherine Eiffel.

Monge was born at Beaune, Côte-d ' Or, the son of a merchant.

In Gallo-Roman religion, Alisanos or Alisaunus was a local god worshipped in what is now the Côte-d ' Or in Burgundy and at Aix-en-Provence.

Junot was born in Bussy-le-Grand, Côte-d ' Or, son of Michel Junot ( 1739 – 1814, son of François Junot, d. 1759, and wife Edmée Laurain, b. 1703 and d. 1784 ) and wife Marie Antoinette Bienaymé ( 1735 – 1806, daughter of Guy Bienaymé and wife Ursule Rigoley ), and studied in Châtillon.

In the following month he was elected to the French National Assembly by the département Côte-d ' Or.

Daubenton was born at Montbard ( Côte-d ' Or ).

Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois, commonly known as Prieur de la Côte-d ' Or after his native département, to distinguish him from Pierre Louis Prieur ( 2 December 1763 — 11 August 1832 ), was a French engineer and a politician during and after the French Revolution.

In 1791 he was returned by the Côte-d ' Or to the Legislative Assembly, and in 1792 to the National Convention.

The son of a former doctor in the French navy, Henri Lacordaire was born on the 12 May 1802 at Recey-sur-Ource ( Côte-d ' Or ) and raised in Dijon by his mother, Anne Dugied, the daughter of a lawyer at the Parliament of Bourgogne who was widowed at an early age, when her husband died in 1806.

Liégeard was born in Dijon, in the French department of Côte-d ' Or, and adapted that name by substituting the azure blue colour of the Mediterranean for the gold of Côte-d ' Or.

Cailletet was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d ' Or.

Tisserand was born at Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte-d ' Or.

Born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d ' Or département of the Burgundy région of France, his mother was a native of Burgundy who married a immigrant.

Cabet was born in Dijon, Côte-d ' Or.

He was born at Montbard, Côte-d ' Or.

Charles Sulpice Jules Chanoine ( December 18, 1835, Dijon, Côte-d ' Or – January 9, 1915 ) was a French military officer who played an important role in the Far East, and later became Minister of War.

Étienne-Jules Marey ( 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d ' Or – 21 May 1904, Paris ) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.

At the outbreak of the French Revolution he joined the Volunteers of the Côte-d ' Or, and passing rapidly through all the junior grades, was made general of brigade after the combat of Rhein-Zabern ( 1793 ).

For a time he was a member of the monastery at Saint Jean de Réôme, in the Côte-d ' Or near the present-day town of Moutiers-Saint-Jean.

Louis André ( 1838, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte-d ' Or – 1913 ) was France's Minister of War from 1900 until 1904.

He was born in Painblanc, Côte-d ' Or, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work Art de vérifier les dates ( the usual short form of a long title ).