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was and son
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.
But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.
Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.
With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.
He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.
The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.
Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.
His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe.
her son was dead.
But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.
Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.
Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working on the school job.
When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.
O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

was and Asser
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder.
It is uncertain how seriously this should be taken ; Asser was more concerned to represent Alfred as a wise ruler than to report actual royal policy.
The portrayal of the West-Saxon resistance to the Vikings by Asser and the chronicler as a Christian holy war was more than mere rhetoric or ' propaganda '.
On Good Friday 1158, bishop Asser of Roskilde died, and Absalon was eventually elected bishop of Roskilde on Zealand with the help of Valdemar, as the king's reward for the Hvide family support.
Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.
The late 9th-and early 10th-century writer Asser informed us that " there was in Mercia in fairly recent time a certain vigorous king called Offa, who terrified all the neighbouring kings and provinces around him, and who had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea " ( Asser, Life of Alfred, p.. 14 ).
Asser, who was hostile to Æthelbald both because of his revolt against his father and because of his uncanonical marriage, described him as " iniquitous and grasping ", and his reign " two and a half lawless years ".
Asser ( d. 908 / 909 ) was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s.
Asser ( also known as John Asser or Asserius Menevensis ) was a Welsh monk who lived in the late 9th century.
Asser may have been familiar with a work by St Jerome on the meaning of Hebrew names ( Jerome's given meaning for " Asser " was " blessed "), so it is possible that Asser's birth name was " Gwyn " ( or " Guinn "), which is Welsh for " blessed " ( or " blessedness ").
According to his Life of King Alfred, Asser was a monk at St David's in what was then the kingdom of Dyfed, in southwest Wales.
Working backwards from this, it appears most likely that Asser was recruited by Alfred in early 885.
On his return to Wales, however, Asser fell ill with a fever and was confined to the monastery of Caerwent for twelve months and a week.
It is possible that Asser was a suffragan bishop within the see of Sherborne, but he may instead have been a bishop of St David's.
This may indicate that Asser was himself a bishop of St David's.
It is also clear from the text that Asser was familiar with Virgil's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni (" Life of Charlemagne ").
Asser takes pains to explain local geography, so he was clearly considering an audience not familiar with the areas he described.

was and Rig
Rig information was compiled from a 2012 interview with Jimi's effect guru, Roger Mayer.
Earliest reference to panentheistic thought in Hindu philosophy is in a creation myth contained in the later section of Rig Veda called the Purusha Sukta, which was compiled before 1100 BCE.
Another more influential early functional contribution to VTOL was Rolls-Royce's Thrust Measuring Rig (" flying bedstead ") of 1953.
The American banker and amateur ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson proposed that the fly agaric was in fact the soma of the ancient Rig Veda texts of India ; since its introduction in 1968 this theory has gained both followers and detractors in anthropological literature.
According to the Rig Veda, Vritra kept the waters of the world captive until he was killed by Indra, who destroyed all the ninety-nine fortresses of Vritra ( although the fortresses are sometimes attributed to Sambara ) before liberating the imprisoned rivers.
Various passages show that in the cosmological speculation of the Rig Veda The sun was regarded as an important agent of generation.
Arthur Berriedale Keith in “ The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads, Vol 2 ” has noted that Savitr is never mentioned as having part in the Soma sacrifice, " a fact which is doubtless fair evidence that the Rig veda did not know him as having a place in the rite, and that he was later brought in, perhaps because of his growing importance, perhaps as an Aditya.
His arrest was part of the first phase of a federal investigation known as Operation Bid Rig.
Though historians have tried to trace the origin of Patiala ( as far as the name is concerned ) to Rig Vedic literature, the town as it stands today was founded by Ala Singh with the construction of the Qila Mubarak in 1763.
Soon after, Clarke was asked to join Dirty Rig as singer.
Vedic philosophy primarily begins with the later part of Rig Veda, which was compiled before 1100 BCE.
Matt Baum was in The ' 89 Cubs, but currently drums for Race for Titles and the Coffin Killers ; Ian McElroy is Rig 1 ; Denver Dalley is in Statistics and Intramural ; Landon Hedges is currently in Little Brazil ; and Casey Scott is Goldensection.
Earliest mention of dualism in the Rig Veda, a Hindu text that was compiled in second millennium BCE, is in the Indra – Vritra myth.
Whereas the Rig Veda expressed uncertainty and was not dogmatic, the Brahmanas express confidence in the infallible power of the mantras.
It was Burnouf who encouraged him to publish the complete Rig Veda in Sanskrit, using manuscripts available in England.
He developed his " Universal Tyre-Testing Machine " ( also called the " Universal Rig ") in the 1950s and his platform was operational by 1954.
The original rig was a Gunter Rig, but in 2006 the class rules were changed to allow a single mast and an alloy boom.
Some archaeological evidence, the Roman Rig dyke, near modern Sheffield, appears to show that it was a defended border, with large earthworks set back from the frontier.
This log was of the Diefenbach # 2905 well, Rig 7 of the Pechelbronn Oil Company at Merkwiller-Pechelbronn in the Bas-Rhin.
Indian philosophy primarily begins with the later part of Rig Veda, which was compiled before 1100 BCE.
The first Flying Bedstead was the British Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig which flew in 1953 at Hucknall aerodrome, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, which was developed to research the use of direct lift through the use of engine power alone, along with the associated methods of controlling the aircraft, with a view to use in further VTOL aircraft such as the later Hawker P. 1127 and Short SC. 1.
The Gayatri was first recorded in the Rig Veda ( iii, 62, 10 ) which was composed in Sanskrit about 1500b-2500 years ago, and by some reports, the mantra may have been chanted for many generations before that.

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