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 ".

These terms, although not fully describing a singing voice, associate the singer's voice with the roles most suitable to the singer's vocal characteristics.

* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.

Oliver Postgate provided the narration throughout each episode, for the most part in a soft, melodic voice, describing and accounting for the curious antics of the little blue planet's knitted pink inhabitants, and providing a " translation ", as it were, for much of their whistled dialogue.

As the original British release begins, the voice of director Carol Reed, unnamed, is heard describing post-war Vienna from the point of view of a racketeer.

When used in the name of an instrument, these terms are relative, describing the instrument's range in comparison to other instruments of its family and not in comparison to the human voice range or instruments of other families.

" Quantz is certainly accurate in describing Farinelli as a soprano, since arias in his repertoire contained the highest notes customarily employed by that voice during his lifetime: " Fremano l ' onde " in Pietro Torri's opera Nicomede ( 1728 ) and " Troverai se a me ti fidi " in Niccolò Conforto's La Pesca ( 1737 ) both contain sustained C6.

Like the EBS, the attention signal is followed by a voice message describing the details of the alert.

Beebe and Barton also obtained publicity for their dives from several articles Beebe wrote describing them for National Geographic, and from an NBC radio broadcast in which Beebe's voice transmitted up the phone line from inside the Bathysphere was broadcast nationally over the radio.

Rushent says in describing Lu ’ s vocals “ Sometimes, in the unexpected places a voice blows your head off .”

Handsfree is an adjective describing equipment that can be used without the use of hands ( for example via voice commands ) or, in a wider sense, equipment which needs only limited use of hands, or for which the controls are positioned so that the hands are able to occupy themselves with another task ( such as driving ) without needing to hunt far afield for the controls.

" She also notes that their mutated voices require translation devices, describing " the singsong ululations of the Navigator's voice with its simultaneous mechtranslation into impersonal Galach.

The first public records describing voice recording were reported in a New York newspaper and the Scientific American in November, 1877.

Most episodes featured no more than two or three actors, with Chappell taking the first person voice in all but a handful of episodes ( with the closing describing him as " the man who spoke to you "), usually telling the tale via flashbacks.

He speaks with a stentorian voice such as when he shouts " Issue ..." before describing a news story.

* Dramatic, a voice type classification in European classical music, describing a specific vocal weight and range at the lower end of a given voice part

When describing new President Harry S. Truman's car in the procession, Godfrey fervently said, in a choked voice, " God bless him, President Truman.

In many episodes of Match Game, he would lampoon himself by briefly affecting a deep voice and the nickname " Chuck ," and self-consciously describing how " butch " he was.

The first happens when Aladdin first meets the Genie, ( Robin Williams ) who describing himself as " often imitated ", employs a dummy and a high-pitched, Spanish-accented voice similar to Johnny.

Theorists describing a text's narrative structure might refer to structural elements such as an introduction, in which the story's founding characters and circumstances are described ; a chorus, which uses the voice of an onlooker to describe the events or indicate the proper emotional response to be happy or sad to what has just happened ; or a coda, which falls at the end of a narrative and makes concluding remarks.

Through his descriptions, the narrator's voice merges imperceptibly into the tone of the people he is describing, often extending into the characters ' most personal thoughts.

Ellis said that the idea first occurred to him after reading a paper from World War II by someone at Bell Labs describing a way to protect voice communications by the receiver adding ( and then later subtracting ) random noise ( probably the 1945 paper co-authored by Claude Shannon ).