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He was reputed to have said after reading the Mesillat Yesharim, that were Luzzatto still alive, that he would have walked from Vilna to learn at Luzzatto's feet ; Vilna is not close to Italy, with an estimated distance of 2, 050 km ( 1274 mi ) separating the two .< ref >
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It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.
Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.
Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.
Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king.
He died in 1106, when he was reputed to have reached the age of 100.
There currently stands a tree in the village that MacGregor was reputed to have climbed and hid in to escape the clutches of the law.
In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.
In the 1970s the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was reputed to practice cannibalism.
This approval was required even for veneration of a reputed martyr.
Such was the situation that in order for a reputed Cathar to have the charge of heresy against him dismissed he needed only to show that he was legally married.
She is reputed to have commented after he was threatened with disciplinary action following the straining of his ship's engines, " What?
Einhard and his wife were originally buried in one sarcophagus in the choir of the church in Seligenstadt, but in 1810 the sarcophagus was presented by the Grand Duke of Hesse to the count of Erbach, who claims descent from Einhard as the husband of Imma, the reputed daughter of Charlemagne.
Eleanor's marriage to Henry was reputed to be tumultuous and argumentative, although sufficiently cooperative to produce at least eight pregnancies.
By the end of her life Elizabeth was also reputed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to English.
Hopkinson was a reputed amateur musician.
He studied in Venice, where he became acquainted with Erasmus and Aldus Manutius, and at an early age was reputed one of the most learned men of the time.
One ostensible example of these reputed powers was when Efim Rasputin, Grigori's father, had one of his horses stolen and it was claimed that Rasputin was able to identify the man who had committed the theft.
Although he was reputed to have received support from commanders of the Garde, Estimé was a civilian.
Another reputed male lover of Heracles is Elacatas, who was honored in Sparta with a sanctuary and yearly games, Elacatea.
In recognition of Davis ' bravery and initiative, commanding general Zachary Taylor is reputed to have said, " My daughter, sir, was a better judge of men than I was.
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It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
This was the worst thing I could have said.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.
One swallow was all he would have ; ;
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
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`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.
You see, he lied to us when he said he was leavin alone ''.
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.
`` But that was war '', I said.
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
`` Oh, no '', he said, and he was without humor now.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
That was all she said.
The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.
There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.
But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
`` I only said I was hungry.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
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