And like Jo March, who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself, Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max Lobl, a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi.

First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.

Mama had died before the corruption of the family circle, the interruption of Charles.

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

* In Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( which is part of the Divine Comedy series ), Hector and his family are placed in Limbo, the outer circle wherein the virtuous non-Christians dwell.

Through the marriage with his daughter Mieszko, he entered into the circle of the Imperial family and became a person equal to, if not higher than the Emperor himself.

In modern, days however some of the rules have been changed enabling non family members to enter what is describe as the first circle of worship.

He was called Gilbert in the family circle, except by his mother who called him Willie, but elsewhere he was universally known by his initials as " W. G .".

In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters.

It has become something of a phenomenon for people to travel long distances to take pictures of family and friends at the monument in Twister-like poses, sitting on the disk, in a circle of friends or family around the disk, or for couples to kiss directly over the disk.

The first break in the family circle is hard to bear but people have been so kind & sympathetic & this has helped us King and me much.

The most common example is the " intense feeling which knits parents to their offspring ," writes Nyrop, but adds that kisses of affection are not only common between parents and children, but also between other members of the same family, which can include those outside the immediate family circle, " everywhere where deep affection unites people.

The doge's prerogatives were not defined with precision, and though the position was entrusted to members of the inner circle of powerful Venetian families, after several doges had associated a son with themselves in the ducal office, this tendency towards a hereditary monarchy was checked by a law which decreed that no doge had the right to associate any member of his family with himself in his office, or to name his successor.

Of Bizet's family circle, his father Adolphe died in 1886.

* Pictures and stories from Uncle Tom's cabin ; " The purpose of the editor of this little work, has been to adapt it for the juvenile family circle.

Once dressed, the family and the small circle of servants who had remained with them were herded into a small room in the house's sub-basement and told to wait.

His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances, and his delight in the technical handling of meter.

Dr Glennie, held Saturday evening concerts which attracted visitors from outside the family circle, such as the poet Thomas Campbell then living in nearby Sydenham and Robert Barker inventor of the panorama.

" Diana Mosley, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, is reported on the ' best authority ', that of her family and intimate circle, to be a public danger at the present time.

Gosse married Ellen Epps ( 23 March 1850 – 29 August 1929 ), a young painter in the Pre-Raphaelite circle, who was the daughter of George Napoleon Epps, one of the Epps family of homeopaths.

The family crest or mon on Mr. Moto ’ s yukata, as seen in the films Thank You, Mr. Moto and Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, is three bars in a circle.

Bax had already had some of his poems and short stories published in Dublin and to the circle he was simply known by the pseudonym Dermot O ’ Byrne ( the name was possibly inspired by a renowned family of traditional musicians in Donegal ).

Scrooge is then visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows him the happiness of his nephew's middle-class social circle and the impoverished Cratchit family.

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

There's no greater catastrophe in the universe, she reflected dourly, impaling tender green beans on the silver fork, than the dwindling away of a family.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

The first time I saw the latter filly she trotted by me and I noticed such a family resemblance that I said to myself, `` that must be Hickory Ash ''.

She was apparently the pioneer in her family because she had no close relatives in this country at that time.

They were not sufficiently challenging however, and she resigned in 1887, to go to Germany with her brother Winslow and his family while he was there on study.

`` Was she on friendly terms with other members of her family ''??

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

Devout, orthodox and plain like a family she might meet in Brooklyn or Malta or Ireland.

Christie wrote little of Poirot ’ s childhood though in Three Act Tragedy she writes that he comes from a large family with little wealth.

Eventually Agrippina was proud of her large family and this was a part of the reason she was popular with Roman citizens.

She arranged for Alexander to marry Sallustia Orbiana, the daughter of a noble Patrician family, but grew so jealous of Sallustia ’ s influence over her son that she had her banished from court.

From there she negotiated with the emperor for the safety of family members left in the capital, while protesting her sons ' innocence of hostile actions ; under the falsehood of making a vesperal visit to worship at the church, she deliberately excluded the grandson of Botaneiates and his loyal tutor, met with Alexios and Isaac and fled for the forum of Constantine.

The pro-Ibelin Chronicle of Ernoul later claimed that he was her lover, but it is likely that she and Baldwin IV were attempting to separate him from the political influence of his wife's family.

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

Anne missed her home and family, commenting in a diary paper in 1841 that she did not like her situation and wished to leave it.

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.