His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

This new design was licensed by the British, who produced ball point pens for RAF aircrew as the Biro ; they found they worked much better than fountain pens at high altitude, the latter being prone to ink-leakage in the decreased atmospheric pressure.

In 500 BC the Persian Empire was still relatively young and highly expansionistic, but prone to revolts amongst its subject peoples.

He was prone to suspicion, displayed an odd, sometimes self-deprecating sense of humour, and often communicated in cryptic ways.

His wife was rigidly religious, prone to criticizing him, and was barely able to read and write.

The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article was critical of the information it contained, believing it should " be received with caution, as the author is prone to exaggerate, and does not confine himself to what came within his own observation.

The phalanxes would approach each other in a steady, slow march to keep cohesion or rarely at a run, if the enemy was prone to panic, or if they fought against enemies equipped with bows, as was the case against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.

He constructed and patented in London a low-lift combined vacuum and pressure water pump, that generated about one horsepower ( hp ) and was used in numerous water works and tried in a few mines ( hence its " brand name ", The Miner's Friend ), but it was not a success since it was limited in pumping height and prone to boiler explosions.

The pedestrian walkway at the ground floor, however, was prone to sudden gusts of wind, which embarrassed Pei.

While the automatic feeder was a success, unverified sources claim that it developed a reputation for being temperamental, prone to breakdowns, and difficult to repair.

At the same time, Marx stressed that capitalism was unstable, and prone to periodic crises.

When Jinnah called for Direct Action, on 16 August 1946, Gandhi was infuriated and visited the most riot prone areas to stop the massacres, personally.

He never succeeded, however, mostly because Rollins was prone to make himself unavailable for months at a time.

The Soroban mechanism was unreliable and prone to jamming, particularly when shifting case or changing ribbon color, and was widely disliked.

It is also argued that hope was simply one of the evils in the jar, the false kind of hope, and was no good for mankind, since, later in the poem, Hesiod writes that hope is empty ( 498 ) and no good ( 500 ) and makes mankind lazy by taking away his industriousness, making him prone to evil.

Since there was not, as yet, a fixed marker, the borders were prone to abuse, which eventually resulted ( in August 1948 ), in white lines in luminous paint appearing across roads and even through ruined buildings to try to deter the Soviets from making unauthorised incursions into the American and British zones.

Breech loading was to have a major impact on warfare, as breech-loading rifles can be fired at a rate many times higher than muzzle loaded rifles and significantly can be loaded from a prone rather than standing position.

Cap and ball type revolvers were also prone to chain fire, which again was more of a problem for rifles since the rifleman's arm was in front of the cylinder.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

This time he was making no mistake.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

The work for Commonweal was more satisfying than work for Commentary `` because of the staff's tiptoeing fear of making a booboo ''.

There was a new Pope and the Vatican was making itself heard and felt these days.

In a few minutes she was making the ten-foot hike unaided ; ;

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

The merit of the pie, Vernon believed, was due more to its making than to the waning heat of the oven.

Mold was used as pattern and clay cut by holding knife at about 45-degree angle, to form an undercut, making base smaller than the pattern top.

The New York Times thought it " attractively tongue-in-cheek ", while John O ' Connor of The Wall Street Journal deemed it " a sparkling revival " that was " spiked with jiggers of self-conscious and self-congratulatory camp.

He was a celebrated bon vivant whose luxurious home was the site of weekly Sunday afternoon parties attended by closeted celebrities and the attractive young men they met in bars and gyms and brought with them.

However, the delivering of the consolamentum, on which historical Catharism was based, required a linear succession by a bon homme in good standing.

Brown was also a bon viveur, amateur musician and genuine British eccentric.

Dagobert was immortalized in the song Le bon roi Dagobert ( The Good King Dagobert ), a nursery rhyme featuring exchanges between the king and his chief adviser, Saint Eligius ( Eloi in French ).

In 1984, a 112-minute long French-Italian comedy, Le bon roi Dagobert ( Good King Dagobert ) was made, based on Dagobert I.

René of Anjou ( Rei Rainièr in Occitan ) ( 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480 ), also known as René I of Naples and Good King René ( French Le bon roi René ), was Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence ( 1434 – 1480 ), Count of Piedmont, Duke of Bar ( 1430 – 1480 ), Duke of Lorraine ( 1431 – 1453 ), King of Naples ( 1435 – 1442 ; titular 1442 – 1480 ), titular King of Jerusalem ( 1438 – 1480 ) and Aragon ( 1466 – 1480 ) ( including Sicily, Majorca, Corsica ).

The church was opened by Becky King approximately three years ago, she leads the community in clothing drives, community bon fires, and the church has opened a sawmill on a vacant lot in the start of building a church.

He wrote in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article that Poulenc was " A lover of life, mischievous, bon enfant, tender and impertinent, melancholy and serenely mystical, half monk and half delinquent moine et le voyou.

Harry Crosby ( June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929 ) was an American heir, a bon vivant, poet, publisher, and for some, epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature.

On the evening of December 7, Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to celebrate his completion after seven years of his poem, The Bridge, which was to be published by the Black Sun Press, and to bid Harry and Caresse bon voyage, since they were due to sail back to France the next week.

At the end of The Fifth Book of Pantagruel ( in French, Le cinquième-livre de Pantagruel ; the original title is Le cinquiesme et dernier livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel ), which was published posthumously around 1564, the divine bottle is found.

As an example, Froissart records that, during a campaign in Beauce in the year 1380, a squire of the garrison of Toury castle named Gauvain Micaille ( Michaille ) — also mentioned in the Chronique du bon duc Loys de Bourbon as wounded in 1382 at Roosebeke, and again in 1386 ; in 1399 was in the service of the duke of Bourbon — yelled out to the English,

In French law, this is rendered as the bon père de famille, an expression also used in Quebec until it was superseded by the common-law influenced personne raisonnable.

Her whole soul was echoed in the simple and naive formula which was continually on her lips and pen: el qu ' il est bon, le bon Dieu!

After the capture of the French King ( John II, Froissart's bon roi Jean " John the Good ") by the English during the Battle of Poitiers in September 1356, power in France devolved fruitlessly among the States General, Charles the Bad, King of Navarre, and John's son, the Dauphin, later Charles V. However, the Estates General was too divided to provide effective government and the disputes between the two rulers provoked disunity amongst the nobles.

A talented singer with a distinctive voice, she recorded the hits " Let's Do It "; " Champagne Taste "; " C ' est si bon " ( which Stan Freberg famously burlesqued ); " Just an Old Fashioned Girl "; " Monotonous "; " Je cherche un homme "; " Love for Sale "; " I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch "; " Uskudar ' a Gideriken ( aka Katibim )"; " Mink, Schmink "; " Under the Bridges of Paris "; and her most recognizable hit, " Santa Baby ", which was released in 1953.

He was characterized by Voltaire as " le bon versificateur Racine, fils du grand poète Racine.

His life was often in danger, but his ready wit always saved it and it was said that one bon mot would preserve him for a month.