Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

I was innocent before I read them, but by the time I had read them all, there was nothing I did not know about sexual exploits … I had my degree in erotic lore.

These patrons were intrigued by the novelty of a female writer and had her compose texts about their romantic exploits.

" Although Marrow may have been using some artistic license in describing his bank robbing exploits, he also stated he was glad the United States justice system has a statute of limitations, which had likely expired when Marrow admitted to his involvement in multiple Class 1 Felonies in the early-to mid-1970s.

The elections of 1907 had returned a Reichstag more favourable to military exploits, following the refusal of the previous parliament to grant funds to suppress uprisings in colonies in South West Africa.

Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that she became more confident with each trip to Maryland.

By the eve of the Revolution, Putnam had become a relatively prosperous farmer and tavern keeper, with more than a local reputation for his previous exploits.

In the negotiations, Tiberius recalled the exploits of his father Tiberius, who had also waged war in Spain but had struck a peace agreement with the Numantines.

Despite his explorations, the various Australian governments at the time turned their respective backs on his achievements once they had been completed, and refused to patronise any further exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward.

In his oration he says that she had to read ancient poetry, such as the Odyssey, in secret because her parents disapproved of its dealing with poly-theism and other “ dangerous exploits ,” which were considered “ dangerous ” for men and “ excessively insidious ” for women.

Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits included trying to kidnap a judge who had sentenced him.

In the five years of his conquests and administration in Bengal, the young man had crowded together a succession of exploits which led Lord Macaulay, in what that historian termed his " flashy " essay on the subject, to compare him to Napoleon Bonaparte, declaring that " gave peace, security, prosperity and such liberty as the case allowed of to millions of Indians, who had for centuries been the prey of oppression, while Napoleon's career of conquest was inspired only by personal ambition, and the absolutism he established vanished with his fall.

Prof. Henry was introduced to Prof. Thaddeus Lowe, a balloonist from New Hampshire who had taken interest in the phenomenon of lighter-than-air gases, and exploits into meteorology, in particular, the high winds which we call the Jet stream today.

Practical exploits had not been previously demonstrated for this vulnerability, which was originally discovered by Phillip Rogaway in 2002.

For all Smuts ' exploits as a general and a negotiator, nothing could mask the fact that the Afrikaners had been defeated and humiliated.

As he got older though he started to read the newspaper clippings that told of his father's exploits and got more and more curious about what had enabled his father to accomplish these feats.

Some of the Resistance groups he spoke of had never existed, and there was no proof of any of his claimed exploits.

A 2nd lieutenant at the end of the war, he had been assigned to military recruitment when he saw a barnstorming show, and realized his own usual flying exploits were far more impressive.

Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.

In 1972, Leo Cahill followed up his recruiting exploits of 1971 by signing college superstar Eric “ The Flea ” Allen away from the NFL Baltimore Colts who had drafted Allen.

Grin had collected tidbits for his exploits from the Reading Room of the British Library.

Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish an account of their public exploits.

Three film adaptations have been made of Dr. Syn's exploits.

It has long been acknowledged that Polybius's writings are prone to a certain hagiographic tone when writing of his friends, such as Scipio, and subject to a vindictive tone when detailing the exploits of his enemies, such as Callicrates, the Achaean statesman responsible for his Roman exile.

" Although Roddenberry conceived the character as being " in a very real sense ... ' married ' " to the Enterprise, Kirk has been noted for " his sexual exploits with gorgeous females of every size, shape and type "; he has been called " promiscuous " and labeled a " womanizer ".

The existence of non-lethal weaponry that exploits the microwave auditory effect appears to have been classified " Secret NOFORN " in the USA from ( at the latest ) 1998, until the declassification on 6 December 2006 of " Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weaponry " in response to a FOIA request.

Settlements from that era have been found in southwest Greenland and eastern Canada, and sagas such as Eiríks saga rauða and Grænlendinga saga speak of the settlers ' exploits.

Paon de Ruet may have been impelled to seek his fortune in England by the recital of the exploits of Fastre de Ruet, who accompanied John of Beaumont in 1326, when, with three hundred followers, he went to assist the English against the Scots.

There have been a serial and a film based on Arjuna's life and exploits.

The student newspaper, the Harvard Law Record, has been published continuously since the 1940s, making it one of the oldest law school newspapers in the country, and has included the exploits of fictional law student Fenno for decades.

In modern times, memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish their own account of their public exploits.

There might have been twenty or so of the big men-o '- war lying at anchor in Torbay, recovering from exploits of the sort described in the books about Hornblower, Bolitho or Jack Aubrey.

As his biographer Saul David points out, " a more misleading account of his own exploits could hardly have been given ".

From early December 1940 to February 1941, during Operation Compass, the exploits of the Western Desert Force earned a parody of Winston Churchill's famous quote, " Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

However SID has kidnapped the daughter of Dr. Madison Carter, a psychologist who has also been assigned to the case and has been accompanying Parker all along, and who has followed Parker throughout his exploits on this case.

the role and function of the military orders has sometimes been obscured by the concentration on their military exploits in Syria, the Holy Land, Prussia, and Livonia.

The exploits of the Novo Ecijano guerillas have in fact been made into literature, through the World War II novel Ghost Soldiers  by Hampton Sides and in Hollywood cinema, in the war film The Great Raidbased on the book.

The publicity that gradually came to surround him included the creation of his famous " stair dance " ( which he claimed to have invented on the spur of the moment when he was receiving an honor from the King of England, who was standing at the top of a flight of stairs – Bojangles ' feet just danced up to be honored ); his successful gambling exploits ; his bow ties of multiple colors ; his prodigious charity ; his ability to run backward extremely fast ; his argot, most notably the neologism copacetic ; and such stunts as dancing down Broadway in 1939 from Columbus Circle to 44th Street in celebration of his 61st birthday.

Near the end of the work, Renaud is forced to cede Bayard to Charlemagne who, as punishment for the horse's exploits, has a large stone tied to Bayard's neck and the horse pushed into the river ; Bayard however smashes the stone with his hooves and escapes to live forever more in the woods.

Albatrosses spend long stretches of time at sea fishing, and use a flight pattern called " dynamic soaring " which exploits the vertical gradient of wind speed near the ocean surface to travel long distances without flapping, and without the aid of thermals ( which do not occur over the open ocean the same way they do over land ).

Moreover, the ease with which the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula was directly and immediately continued by the exploits of conquistadors beyond the Atlantic clearly shows that for Spaniards at the time, conquest of non-Christian territory and its transformation into a Catholic, Spanish-speaking land were legitimate, whether or not a claim of prior possession of the land could be advanced.

Wallace's year of birth can only be guessed at, although he was probably a relatively young man at the time of his military exploits and death.

At the very time ( December 1516 ) that peace between France, Spain, Venice and the Empire seemed to give some promise of a Christendom united against the Turks, Leo was preparing an enterprise as unscrupulous as any of the exploits of Cesare Borgia.

Various DoS-causing exploits such as buffer overflow can cause server-running software to get confused and fill the disk space or consume all available memory or CPU time.

His time away, particularly in Tahiti and Hiva Oa Island, was the subject of much interest both then and in modern times due to his alleged sexual exploits.

Swindon's exploits at this time owed a lot to the skilful forward H. J.

Arkle, rated the greatest steeplechaser of all time, was bred and trained in Ireland and became a national hero through his exploits.

In time, his career was altered to include early exploits as Superboy.

Several weeks later, Warner received a phone call from the new chief executive's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, and within a short time, Warner Bros. purchased the film rights for Robert Donovan's book, PT 109, a bestseller concerning John Kennedy's exploits during World War II.

It fully exploits Nielsen's technique of confronting two keys at the same time and includes a peaceful section with soprano and baritone voices, singing a tune without words.

A recurring plot device in the film has Hudson and his partner Tommy " Five-Tone " ( Aiello ) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits.

They pass the time by talking about their relationships and sexual experiences, with the boys largely boasting about their modest exploits, and Luisa speaking in more measured terms about Jano and wistfully of her first love, who died in a motorcycle accident when she was a teenager.

He received a Huguenot education and the usual training of a young noble of the time, but physical infirmity, and particularly an impediment of speech ( which he never lost ), hampered his progress, though he showed a marked partiality for history and geography, and especial admiration of the exploits of Alexander the Great and Caesar.

In front of the watching nation, Wolves came from two goals down at half time to beat the Hungarian side 3 – 2, which coupled with their previous European exploits, lead the national media to proclaim Wolves " Champions of the World ".

An exploit will commonly inject a shellcode into the target process before or at the same time as it exploits a vulnerability to gain control over the program counter.

The game versions followed the exploits of unnamed hero known only as the " wanderer ", in later versions said to be a time traveler from the future.

His entire exploits from his time in the East to his death in 52 BC are chronicled as a subplot to the greater story.

The novels and films follow the exploits of several members of the Texas Ranger Division, from the time of the Republic of Texas up until the beginning of the 20th century.

During his exploits as a guerilla leader, Rodolfo was rumored several times to have been killed in battle but time and again he keeps on coming back to destroy every vestige of enemy control in the province of Catanduanes, hence he was called " Phantom " or the Man who never dies.

This led to a lengthy stint writing pieces for the magazine with such titles as Busking with Bagpipes and The Riviera Gigolo, written in a style calculated to lead readers at the time to believe they were descriptions of his own sexual exploits.

Rather early in the play, in fact, Hal informs us that his riotous time will soon come to a close, and he will re-assume his rightful high place in affairs by showing himself worthy to his father and others through some ( unspecified ) noble exploits.