Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author ( with his brother ) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

This was certainly a monumental task at best in those times.

He is best known for the monumental shrine, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, erected for him by order of his sister and widow Artemisia ; Antipater of Sidon listed the Mausoleum as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

He is best known for Wanderjahre in Italien, his account of the walks he took through Italy in the 1850s, and the monumental Die Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter ( History of Rome in the Middle Ages ), a classic for Medieval and early Renaissance history.

His monumental Grand Canyon Suite is his best known work, a masterpiece in orchestration and evocation of mood and location.

Mesoamerican architecture in Mexico is best known for its public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures, several of which are the largest monuments in the world.

Her best known works are probably the monumental Pope John Paul II in St Patrick's College Maynooth and the carved altar in the University College Cork chapel.

In England's 20 – 17 victory over Australia, Johnson also performed at a monumental level, leading the former Australian captain, John Eales ( who retired in 2001 ), to commend his display as ' among the best ever by a lock forward '.

These accomplishments didn't come out of blue, but are a product of multicentenary tradition in Croatian language — therefore it is no surprise that Croatian linguist Stjepan Babić's monumental monograph " Tvorba riječi u hrvatskome književnom jeziku " ( Word-formation in Croatian literary language ), 1986, is considered still the best work on the topic in the entire Slavic philology.

He is best known for three major silent films: J ' accuse ( 1919 ), La Roue ( 1923 ), and the monumental Napoléon ( 1927 ).

Francis Parkman ( September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893 ) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.

He is best known for his monumental Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik ( Lectures on the algebra of logic ), in 3 volumes, which prepared the way for the emergence of mathematical logic as a separate discipline in the twentieth century by systematizing the various systems of formal logic of the day.

Albinus is perhaps best known for his monumental Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, which was first published in Leiden in 1747, largely at his own expense.

At their best his works, although massive and monumental, suggest movement and tension.

Alto de Cabanas is one of the best natural lookouts in the region, and the area of Valinhas, with its monumental oak forests and curious chapel, near the Fervença waterfalls ( or the Leça River ), are almost obligatory natural sites of the landscape.

The work of these two sculptors and architects epitomises the Gothic style in Venice: they are best known for their work on the Doge's Palace and in particular the Porta della Carta with its monumental sculpture of the judgement of Solomon.

He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea (), the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.

Lubyanka Square is best known for Aleksandr V. Ivanov's monumental building from 1897 – 1898.

Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene.

Paul Mark Scott ( 25 March 1920 in Southgate-1 March 1978 in London ) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet.

Even in Europe, the distinction is unhelpful for Early Medieval art, where although " fine arts " such as manuscript illumination and monumental sculpture existed, the most prestigious works, commissioned from the best artists, tended to be in goldsmith work, cast metals such as bronze or other techniques such as ivory carving.

It also has the best collection of medieval monumental effigies in Kent, including one to Jane Kerriel ( c. 1455 ) which reveals a unique horseshoe head-dress.

His best known work is the monumental History of Kashmir.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.

Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

He reviews and shapes the work of others to mold a single joint product that will best promote the aims of the institution.

And they couldn't have entrusted Henri to better hands because `` le professeur '' knows his muscles from the sterno-cleido mastoideus of the neck right down to the tibialis anticus of the leg and better still, he knows just what exercises work best for them and what Weider principles to combine them with for fast, fast muscle growth.

Fury Hanover ( Hoot Mon-Fay ), Caper ( Hoot Mon-Columbia Hanover ) and Isaac ( Hoot Mon-Goddess Hanover ) has been working together but have not equalled their best work done some weeks ago.

For site planning work, it is best to have a qualified and experienced park planner to carry through the study.

`` Of late years, I find that I like best to work out-of-doors.

Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.

In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.

Fromm also cites a poll on attitudes toward work restriction conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation in 1945, in which 49 per cent of manual workers said a man ought to turn out as much as he could in a day's work, while 41 per cent said he should not do his best but should turn out only the average amount.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

Then he called in his friend Walton and turned over the problem to him, with instructions to work out what was best -- provided it didn't pile unnecessary burdens on the President.

Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.

I may settle on some makeshift arrangements for the summer and wait until you return in the fall so we can work out together the best.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

However, not everyone appreciates his work and River Landscape ( 1660 ), despite being widely regarded as amongst his best work, has been described as having " chocolate box blandness ".

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

Levine was best noted for his work on TV shows such as Cheers and M * A * S * H, but only lasted one season in the Orioles broadcast booth.

Current genetic engineering techniques work best for effects that are controlled by a single gene.

He is perhaps best known for his work as a child actor in film and television throughout the 1960s, then credited as Billy Mumy.

These bokken may be easily broken when used in even light to medium contact drills and are best left for non contact work, such as in kata.