Each of those tickets was of great value to its rightful recipient.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.

It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.

Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.

Peters insisted that this impression was a great misunderstanding, and evidently, from the quarrel, obtained an unfavorable impression of Morgan's judgment.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

The Doubleday myth appears to have rested solely on the testimony of one elderly admirer who was later committed to an insane asylum.

Jean-Jacques Ampère, a successful merchant, was an admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education ( as outlined in his treatise Émile ) were the basis of Ampère ’ s education.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

The ancient historian Xenophon was a huge admirer and served under Agesilaus during the campaigns into Asia Minor.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.

* Hermann Fegelein SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and Adolf Hitler's brother in law was a great admirer of his birthplace, Ansbach.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

Cranmer was, in his early days, somewhat conservative, an admirer, if a critical one, of John Fisher.

" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

Catullus was also an admirer of Sappho, a female poet of the 7th century BC, and is the source for much of what we know or infer about her.

He was also an admirer of Richard Condon, author of The Manchurian Candidate, Prizzi's Honor and numerous other novels.

David Ricardo, who was an admirer of Adam Smith, covered many of the same topics but while Smith drew conclusions from broadly empirical observations, Ricardo used induction, drawing conclusions by reasoning from basic assumptions.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson ( 1886-1946 ) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore.

Phillpotts was a friend of Agatha Christie, who was an admirer of his work and a regular visitor to his home.

Jorge Luis Borges was another admirer.

Eusebius, an admirer of Origen, was reproached by Eustathius for deviating from the Nicene faith.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

By the time of Trotsky's arrival, the St. Petersburg Soviet was already functioning headed by Khrustalyov-Nosar ( Georgy Nosar, alias Pyotr Khrustalyov ), a compromise figure, and proved to be very popular with the workers in spite of the Bolsheviks ' original opposition.

Known as a major facet in the study of quantum hydrodynamics and macroscopic quantum phenomena, the superfluidity effect was discovered by Pyotr Kapitsa and John F. Allen, and Don Misener in 1937.

This time, he was assigned a co-scenarist, Pyotr Pavlenko, to bring in a completed script ; professional actors to play the roles ; and an assistant director, Dmitri Vasilyev, to expedite shooting.

Pyotr Lebedev was first to successfully demonstrate light pressure, which he did in 1899 with a torsional balance ; Ernest Nichols and Gordon Hull conducted a similar independent experiment in 1901 using a Nichols radiometer.

It was shown by Pyotr Novikov in 1955 that there exists a finitely generated ( in fact, a finitely presented ) group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable.

There are some who believe that Andropov was behind the deaths of Fyodor Kulakov and Pyotr Masherov, the two youngest members of the Soviet leadership.

Yakutsk was founded as an ostrog ( fort ) by Pyotr Beketov in 1632.

Some of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's works, such as his Variations on a Rococo Theme and Serenade for Strings, employ a poised " Classical " form reminiscent of 18th century composers such as Mozart ( the composer whose work was his favorite ).

The territory that made up the former Chita Oblast was first explored by Cossacks led by Pyotr Beketov in 1653.

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration ( P ' et're Ivanes dze Bagrat ' ioni, ; 1765 – ) was a general of the Russian army.

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev, ) ( 2 January 1837 < small >< nowiki > 21 December 1836 </ small > – ), was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The author was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Peter II Alekseyevich ( Russian: Пётр II Алексеевич, Pyotr II Alekseyevich ) ( – ) was the Emperor of Russia from 1727 until his death.

The breakthrough in Burnside's problem was achieved by Pyotr Novikov and Sergei Adian in 1968.

Although best remembered as a pianist and educator ( most notably in the latter as the composition teacher of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ), Rubinstein was also a prolific composer throughout much of his life.

* In 1911, the first screen version of the novel was filmed: the Russian silent film " Yevgeni Onegin " (" Eugene Onegin "), directed by Vasili Goncharov and starring Arseniy Bibikov, Petr Birjukov and Pyotr Chardynin.

* In 1958 Lenfilm produced a TV film " Eugene Onegin ", which was, actually, not a screen version of the novel, but a screen version of the opera " Eugene Onegin " by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously ( seven ) was tied during the mission.

Nikisch premiered important works by Anton Bruckner and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who greatly admired his work ; Johannes Brahms, after hearing him conduct his Fourth Symphony, said it was " quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better.

In the governments of Pyotr Wrangel and Denikin he was one of the ministers.

While delivering a speech, Miloradovich was fatally the victim of one of several shots and one of the shooters was Pyotr Kakhovsky.

Anna Anderson was also used as a narrative device in Youri Vámos ' 1992 ballet for Theater Basel, Sleeping Beauty – Last Daughter of the Czar, based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.