Ryti's wife Gerda was a much more active spiritualist and theosophist than Ryti himself ; she even claimed to have a spirit guide.

She smuggled letters to her lawyer, James B. Bradwell, and his wife, Myra Bradwell, who was not only her friend but a feminist lawyer and fellow spiritualist.

* Turiya Hanover ( born Wibke van Gunsteren ), Australian spiritualist and wife of Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover.

He refused a bribe from Louis XIV, but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10, 000 crowns ; in 1670 he was the only minister besides the Roman Catholic Clifford to whom the first secret treaty of Dover ( May 1670 ), one clause of which provided for Charles's declaration of his conversion to Romanism, was confided ; and he was the chief actor in the deception practised upon the rest of the council.

It is dedicated in a sonnet to his wife, who had practised the precepts of the Italian poet.

Roger was a quiet, studious, bookish man and a devout Roman Catholic while his wife was an accomplished sexual athlete and a woman who her later lover, Charles II himself, is recorded by Pepys on 15 May 1663 as having claimed that " she hath all the tricks of Aretin that are to be practised to give pleasure ".

He practised as a solicitor in family and criminal law, and in 1981, travelled to Switzerland with his wife, Merridie, where they both studied theology at International Baptist Seminary Rueschlikon, near Zurich, before returning to Australia to become the minister of St Kilda Baptist Church.

Several types of carry may be practised: piggyback, fireman's carry ( over the shoulder ), or Estonian-style ( the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband's shoulders, holding onto his waist ).

George ( Georgie ) Hyde-Lees, the wife of William Butler Yeats, claimed that she could write automatically.

Yeats, however, seemed to have had mixed feelings for Stuart who was, after all, married to a woman he regarded almost as a daughter and, even, as a possible wife.

In April 2007 Tom Nolan wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal suggesting that Madame George was none other than Georgie Hyde-Lees, wife of Irish poet and mystic W. B. Yeats who acted as Yeats ' muse through automatic writing and inducing trances.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

`` If you expect her to show up '', she said, `` you'd better put ' and wife ' on there.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

A suicide attempt at age 14 put her back in rehab, followed by a three-month stay with singer David Crosby and his wife.

Honorius's wife Thermantia, daughter of Stilicho, was taken from the imperial throne and given over to her mother ; Eucherius, the son of Stilicho, was put to death.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

Robert II of France, who had been insisting on his right to appoint bishops, was ultimately forced to back down, and ultimately also to put aside his wife Bertha, by the rigorous enforcement of a sentence of excommunication on the kingdom.

To take on more than one wife often requires considerable resources: this may put polygamy beyond the means of the vast majority of people within those societies.

In chapter 7, Augustine pointed out that the Roman Empire forbad polygamy, even if the reason of fertility would support it: For it is in a man ’ s power to put away a wife that is barren, and marry one of whom to have children.

Bernabò of Genoa, deceived by Ambrogiuolo, loses his money and commands his innocent wife to be put to death.

Ferondo, having taken a certain powder, is interred for dead ; is disinterred by the abbot, who enjoys his wife ; is put in prison and taught to believe that he is in purgatory ; is then resuscitated, and rears as his own a boy begotten by the abbot upon his wife.

To deal with Norman affairs, William put the government of Normandy into the hands of his wife for the duration of the invasion.

She was following Meleager who had put away his young wife for Atalanta's sake.

Cnut had put aside his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton in order to marry Emma, and according to the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a book she inspired many years later, Cnut agreed that any sons of their marriage should take precedence over the sons of his first marriage.

As the new king, Baldwin II had been encouraged to put away Morphia in favor of a new younger wife with better political connections-one that could yet bear him a male heir.

Muirne was already pregnant, so her father rejected her and ordered his people to burn her, but Conn would not allow it and put her under the protection of Fiacal mac Conchinn, whose wife, Bodhmall the druidess, was Cumhall's sister.

He was also put under pressure by the Archbishop and the Pope to put aside his second wife, Cristin, who was his first cousin, this relationship making the marriage invalid under church law.

If there was no capable son, the state put in a locum tenens but granted one-third to the wife to maintain herself and her children.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ( c. 1136 ), Gorlois Duke of Cornwall puts his wife Igraine in Tintagol while he's at war ( posuit eam in oppido Tintagol in littore maris: " he put her in the oppidum Tintagol on the shore of the sea ").

These retainers may have been put up to the act by Petronius Maximus, a wealthy senator taking revenge for the rape of his wife Lucina by Valentinian.

According to Theban tellings, it was at the expiration of this period that the gods gave him Harmonia (" harmony ", literally " well put together ", or " well assembled ") as wife.

Alaric's wife was reportedly taken prisoner after this battle ; it is not unreasonable to suppose that he and his troops were hampered by the presence of large numbers of women and children, which gave his invasion of Italy the character of a human migration.

The emperor and his wife Cunigunde gave large temporal possessions to the new diocese, and it received many privileges out of which grew the secular power of the bishop.

While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.

Telemann's wife Maria Catherina amassed a very large gambling debt, 4400 Reichsthaler, which amounted to more than Telemann's annual income.

Fuster was convicted based in large part on the testimony of his 18-year-old wife, Ileana Flores, who pleaded guilty and testified against him.

" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.

The scenes shown included the shepherds gathering for Jesus's birth, which would have been at the very start of the movie ; a segment showing the kidnap of Pilate's wife ( a large woman played by John Case ); a scene introducing hardline Zionist Otto, leader of the Judean People's Front ( played by Eric Idle ); and a scene in which Pilate's wife alerts Otto to Brian's capture.

He and his wife have many pets, including a large black cat named Pluto.

An unnamed maid of Sigrún, Helgi's valkyrie wife, sees Helgi and his large host of men riding into the mound.

At the urging of his wife, Ponzi pleaded guilty on November 1, 1920 to a single count before Judge Clarence Hale, who declared before sentencing, " Here was a man with all the duties of seeking large money.

The band, along with wife Gemma, helped Numan celebrate by bringing a large cake onstage.

Paul Foucault eventually took over his father-in-law's medical practice as well, while his wife took charge of their large mid-19th century house, Le Piroir, located at the village of Vendeuvre-du-Poitou 15 kilometres from the town.

Shortly after the army returned to Portugal, John of Gaunt concluded a secret treaty with John of Trastámara under which he and his wife renounced all claim to the Castilian throne in return for a large annual payment and the marriage of their daughter Catherine to John of Trastámara's son Henry.

Later in his private cabin, Luke breaks down over the death of his wife, knowing that her murderer is still at large.

If his wife were Genevan, it would explain how the house of Savoy came to possess so early a large portion of the Genevois.

Some of the other members of the party are Tom ; Liza's friend Sally and her boyfriend Harry ; and Jim Blakeston, a 40-year-old father of nine who has recently moved to Vere Street with his large family, and his wife ( while their eldest daughter, Polly, is taking care of her siblings ).

On March 25, 2004, Foster closed off new user accounts because of posting of a photoshopped pornographic image of his wife fornicating with a large man of African descent.

According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.

The most plausible story is what his wife, Sharon, later told interviewers is that in 1967, while currently unemployed and recovering from his collapsed lung ailment, Holmes would attend a men's card playing club which was called the Poker Palace, located in Gardena, California, a few evenings a week to play cards with a few friends where a photographer, standing next to Holmes at a men's room urinal, saw his unusually large penis size and then gave him his business card with an offer to pose in still photographs.

In 1868, at the end of his term as district attorney, he entered law practice with his cousin, James S. Ewing, moving with his wife back to Bloomington, settling in a large house on Franklin Square.

Bokassa was born on 22 February 1921 as one of 12 children to Mindogon Mgboundoulou, a village chief, and his wife Marie Yokowo in Bobangui, a large M ' Baka village in the Lobaye basin located at the edge of the equatorial forest, then a part of colonial French Equatorial Africa, some southwest of Bangui.

Two large ancestor portraits of a husband and wife painted in watercolour on silk date from the 18th century.