As if divining my thoughts, the girl Songau smiled warmly and said in the casual tone an American woman might use in describing her rose garden:

He saw the Starbird as she lay, her slender mast up and gently turning, its point describing constant languid circles against a cumulus sky.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

But Catherine claimed that she was unable to, describing her inability to eat as an infermita ( illness ).

He also named Day as a co-defendant, describing her as an " unwilling, involuntary plaintiff whose consent cannot be obtained ".

" Thus in the example above, Hecuba presents herself as a sophisticated intellectual describing a rationalized cosmos yet the speech is ill-matched to her audience, Menelaus ( a type of the unsophisticated listener ), and soon it is found not to suit the cosmos either ( her infant grandson is brutally murdered by the victorious Greeks ).

For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.

Isabella presented Cecilia to King Louis, describing her as a " lady of rare gifts and charm ".

Sarah Jane Smith meets Bea Nelson-Stanley, an elderly lady suffering from Alzheimer's disease who recalls her husband describing the Sontarans as looking like potatoes and that they were " quite the silliest creatures in the galaxy ".

" Weymouth, however, has been critical of Byrne, describing him as " a man incapable of returning friendship " and that he doesn't " love " her, Frantz, and Harrison.

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

Lady Montagu wrote to her sister and friends in England describing the process in details.

John Betjeman, the future Poet Laureate, also wrote about her, describing her as " the essence of English girlhood ".

In 1959, she achieved a success with the Noël Coward comedy Look After Lulu, with The Times critic describing her as " beautiful, delectably cool and matter of fact, she is mistress of every situation.

" He was one of several critics to react negatively to her reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth in 1955, saying that her performance was insubstantial and lacked the necessary fury demanded of the role ; however, after her death he revised his opinion, describing his earlier criticism as " one of the worst errors of judgment " he had ever made.

His student, Erna Reinholz, published her thesis on arabidopsis in 1945, describing the first collection of arabidopsis mutants that they generated using X-ray mutagenesis.

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

One of the first individuals diagnosed with multiple personalities to be scientifically studied was Clara Norton Fowler, under the pseudonym Christine Beauchamp ; American neurologist Morton Prince studied Fowler between 1898 and 1904, describing her case study in his 1906 monograph, Dissociation of a Personality.

A piece of frail tenderness manages to cloak itself inside of her, even after having been demonized by Crosby, describing " a pathetic hint of frailty in a wonderful glowing man.

Eye of the Devil was released shortly after, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to build interest in Tate with its press release describing her as " one of the screen's most exciting new personalities ".

The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir Walter Scott wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth.

In 1610, by which time most Dutch and English ships visited the island on their home voyage, François Pyrard de Laval deplored the deterioration since his last visit in 1601, describing damage to the chapel and destruction of fruit trees by cutting down trees to pick the fruit.

The tapestry was becoming a tourist attraction with Robert Southey complaining of the need to queue to see the work In the 1843 Hand-book for Travellers in France by John Murray III a visit was included on Recommended Route 26 ( Caen to Cherbourg via Bayeux ) and this guidebook led John Ruskin to go there describing it as " the most interesting thing in its way conceivable ".

The Gate pub, located on the border of Arkley and Totteridge ( London Borough of Barnet ), has a story, framed on its walls, describing a visit by Pavlova and her dance company.

His essays describing that visit, published as The American Scene, were perhaps his most important work of social commentary.

The Marduk Prophecy is a text describing the travels of the Marduk idol from Babylon, in which he pays a visit to the land of Ḫatti, corresponding to the statue ’ s seizure during the sack of the city by Mursilis I in 1531 BC, Assyria, when Tukulti-Ninurta I overthrew Kashtiliash IV in 1225 BC and took the idol to Assur, and Elam, when Kudur-nahhunte ransacked the city and pilfered the statue around 1160 BC.

His article describing the visit includes an old map showing the fort located on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Sand Creek, just south of the line separating Tulsa County and Osage County.

On his visit to Dublin, US President Barack Obama offered condolences on the former Taoiseach's death, describing Dr FitzGerald as ; someone who believed in the power of education, someone who believe in the potential of youth, someone who believed in the potential of peace and who lived to see that peace realised

A press article had appeared, describing the author's visit to a secret monastery in Central Asia, where methods strikingly similar to Gurdjieff's methods were apparently being taught.

One historian, describing the former usage of " Dagarti " to refer to this community by colonials, writes: " The name ' Dagarti ' appears to have been coined by the first Europeans to visit the region, from the vernacular root dagaa.

Germanus may have made a second visit to Britain in the mid 430s or mid 440s, though this is contested by some scholars who suggest it may be a ' doublet ' or variant version of the visit that has been mistaken as describing a different visit and erroneously included as such by Constantius, according to whom Germanus was joined by Severus, Bishop of Trier and met Elafius, described by Bede as ' a chief of that region '.

" Aelian takes the latter view when he uses just such an expression when describing the visit to Troy: " Alexander laid a garland on Achilles ' tomb and Hephaestion on Patroclus ', indicating that he was Alexander's eromenos, as Patroclus was of Achilles.

In the letter describing this visit the painter's infirmities are said to have been increased by " his cares and disappointments.

That same year he reviewed Warhol's Flowers exhibition at Galerie Illeana Sonnabend in Paris, describing Warhol's visit to Paris as " the biggest transatlantic fuss since Oscar Wilde brought culture to Buffalo in the nineties.

These have included the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the French writer and pioneering feminist George Sand ( who wrote a notable account of A Winter in Majorca, describing their 1838 – 39 visit and praising the island's natural beauty but criticizing what she perceived as the prejudice and vices of the natives ).

However, there is no information about anyone called as Henry accompanying the legate in any source describing the visit, nor him appointing a new bishop in Uppsala.

During his visit to the country, he visited the tomb of Romero, subsequently describing his experience in a piece published in Freedom Review.

Landor had a visit from Southey, after he sent him a letter describing the idylls of country life, including nightingales and glow-worms.

Julia Pardoe, in describing her own visit to a bathhouse, wrote " I should be unjust if I did not declare that I saw none of that unnecessary and wanton exposure described by Lady Mary Montagu.

After his visit, Eisenhower cabled General George C. Marshall, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, describing his trip to Ohrdruf:

Van de Wetering describes a visit to the monastery by the highly respected Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, describing his own mixed thoughts about this representative of what he deemed an old-fashioned religion.