It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

He had come to learn that a reputation for peculiarity allowed mere field officers a certain leeway at Court ; ;

As one development followed another, the company's reputation for precision in the graduating field brought it broader and broader opportunities for expansion in precision manufacture.

It would be fine publicity for the man who was willing to walk to the mayor's throne over the broken reputation of a helpless girl!!

they had chosen Catatonia because of its reputation for excellent schools, beaches, and abundance of names.

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.

The women have a reputation for giving parties that are different and are fun and this year's promises to follow in this fine tradition.

There the name vaguely connotes new-rich wealth, a reputation for eccentricity, and an ardor for collecting art.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

Martin Tahse has established quite a reputation for himself as a successful stager of touring productions.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

He attained a reputation for brawn and audacity after a very competitive wrestling match to which he was challenged by the renowned leader of a group of ruffians, " the Clary's Grove boys ".

Despite the bitterness of the defeat for Lincoln, his articulation of the issues gave him a national political reputation.

Lincoln's success depended on his reputation as a moderate on the slavery issue, and his strong support for Whiggish programs of internal improvements and the protective tariff.

A person with a good reputation for reciprocity have a higher chance of receiving help even from persons they have had no direct interactions with previously.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

He began working as a general contractor, earning a reputation for being a hard working, honest man as well as having a working man's view on fiscal policy.

Bruce gained his early reputation from the production of large-scale commercial anchors for ships and fixed installations such as oil rigs.

Concerned for the family reputation, Torvald insists that she fulfill her duty as a wife and mother, but Nora says that her first duties are to herself, and she cannot be a good mother or wife without learning to be more than a plaything.

Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage.

Benedict had a reputation for learning and piety.

Clement VI died in December 1352, leaving the reputation of " a fine gentleman, a prince munificent to profusion, a patron of the arts and learning, but no saint " ( Gregorovius ; see also Gibbon, chap.

In 1721 his high reputation for ability, learning, purity, and a kindly disposition secured his election to succeed Clement XI as Pope Innocent XIII.

Like many before him, Richard travelled to Paris in search of a good education and became a canon of the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor on account of its reputation for piety and learning.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

His reputation for learning among his contemporaries was considerable.

It quickly built a prestigious reputation as a center for learning.

The learning and reputation of Jacobus Gronovius, Herman Boerhaave, Tiberius Hemsterhuis and David Ruhnken, among others, enabled Leiden to maintain its reputation for excellence down to the end of the 18th century.

At an early age he settled at Constantinople, where his reputation for learning brought him under the notice of Andronicus II Palaeologus, by whom he was appointed chartophylax ( keeper of the archives ).

However, the reputation of the aristocrat's learning led Majorian to treat him with the greatest respect.

In spite of his arrogant and contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high, judging him so distinguished by his learning and talents that, according to Jacques August de Thou, none of the ancients could be placed above him, and the age in which he lived could not show his equal.

Hastings built up a reputation for hard work and diligence, and spent his free time learning about India and mastering Urdu and Persian.

Camden was a headmaster, but Dr Busby, himself an Old Westminster, established the reputation of the school for several hundreds of years, as much by his classical learning as for his ruthless discipline of the birch, immortalised in Pope's Dunciad.

He had attained the reputation of being, after Scaliger, the most learned man of the age, in an age in which learning formed the sole standard of literary merit.

As a zealous advocate of church orthodoxy, Torquemada earned a solid reputation for the triple virtues of learning, piety, and austerity.

He also had a widespread reputation as a patron of learning and the arts.

Tiraboschi died at Modena on 3 June 1794, leaving a high reputation for virtue, learning and piety.

Acton's reputation for learning gradually spread abroad, largely through Gladstone's influence.

During his lifetime Hilary had a great reputation for learning and eloquence as well as for piety ; his extant works ( Vita S. Honorati Arelatensis episcopi and Metrum in Genesin ) compare favourably with any similar literary productions of that period.

They have a reputation for orthodoxy and interest in learning.

Because of his reputation, the Conservatory received special status among institutions of higher learning in the aftermath of the October Revolution.