However, it is clear that his romanticised vision of the Olympic Games was fundamentally different from that described in the historical record.

Although Scott died at Abbotsford, he was buried in Dryburgh Abbey, where nearby there is a large statue of William Wallace, one of Scotland's many romanticised historical figures.

The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th-century Viking revival, at which point it acquired romanticised heroic overtones of " barbarian warrior " or noble savage.

The romanticised idea of the Vikings constructed in scholarly and popular circles in northwestern Europe in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries was a potent one, and the figure of the Viking became a familiar and malleable symbol in different contexts in the politics and political ideologies of 20th-century Europe.

Much of it was also highly romanticised and not always historically accurate.

In 1951 a romanticised account of his life, starring Robert Donat, was filmed as part of the Festival of Britain.

According to this legend, romanticised by Alexander Pushkin in his celebrated ballad " The Song of the Wise Oleg ," it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.

1705 – 7 April 1739 ) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft.

This romanticised " chivalric revival " was based on the chivalric romances of the high medieval period, which noblemen tried to " reenact " in real life, sometimes blurring the lines of reality and fiction.

Walt was impressed by Thomas's work and how he romanticised the scene and kept the scene in.

Charles Frederick Peace ( 14 May 1832 – 25 February 1879 ) was a notorious English burglar and murderer from Sheffield, whose somewhat remarkable life later spawned dozens of romanticised novels and films.

The more popular, romanticised version states: during the Ming Dynasty, general Wu Sangui was about to surrender and join the rebel forces of Li Zicheng when he heard that his concubine Chen Yuanyuan had been taken by Li.

Prompted by pre-war fears of an impending invasion of Britain, the organisation was founded as a field intelligence corps on a romanticised conception of the " frontier " and imperial idealism.

This was a highly romanticised account of the life of Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine.

However, the choice of subject matter ( ancient civilisation versus, for example, Arthurian legend ) is more properly that of the Victorian Neoclassicist: however, it is appropriate to comment that in common with numerous painters contemporary with him, Godward was a ' High Victorian Dreamer ', producing beautiful images of a world which, it must be said, was idealised and romanticised, and which in the case of both Godward and Alma-Tadema came to be criticised as a world-view of ' Victorians in togas '.

He was romanticised in Punjabi folklore as the last Punjabi ruler of Punjab.

The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter ( King René ’ s Daughter ) by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar.

Another version, which appears at least as far back the Elizabethan Era, attributes the name to a Norman Knight who fought in the crusades and was distinguished in battle by the shores of the Dead Sea, but this is unsubstantiated and almost certainly a romanticised myth.

Jean d ' Outremeuse or Jean des Preis ( Liège, 1338-1400 ) was a writer and historian who wrote two romanticised historical works and a lapidary.

The Cyropaedia of Xenophon was particularly influential during the Renaissance when Cyrus was romanticised as an exemplary model of a virtuous and successful ruler.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

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??

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.

One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

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.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

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.

He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

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

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

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

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??

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.

The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.

Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.