The authors ' caveats and repeated efforts at alternative definition have been echoed in subsequent scholarship: in the more than five decades since, there have been innumerable further attempts at definition, yet in the words of cinema historian Mark Bould, film noir remains an " elusive phenomenon ... always just out of reach ".

It was not, in the words of naval historian John Pryor, a " ship-killer " comparable to the naval ram, which by then had fallen out of use.

For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous, in the words of the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, " enacting the most extraordinary epic in human history ".

In the words of one historian: " The savage hordes of popular lore seldom materialized on African battlefields.

In the words of one modern historian, " On the fate of Orléans hung that of the entire kingdom.

From the 1040s onwards, however, successive popes had put forward a reforming message that emphasised the importance of the church being " governed more coherently and more hierarchically from the centre " and established " its own sphere of authority and jurisdiction, separate from and independent of that of the lay ruler ", in the words of historian Richard Huscroft.

For that purpose, they believed, the music needed to stay " accessible and unpretentious ", in the words of music historian Simon Reynolds.

Espínola was " perhaps the most hated Paraguayan of his era ", in the words of historian John Hoyt Williams.

From the 1040s onwards, however, successive popes had put forward a reforming message that emphasised the importance of the church being " governed more coherently and more hierarchically from the centre " and established " its own sphere of authority and jurisdiction, separate from and independent of that of the lay ruler ", in the words of historian Richard Huscroft.

According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".

# A Finnish historian, Matti Klinge, has speculated that the words " Wends " or " Vandals " used in Scandinavian sources occasionally meant all peoples of the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea from Pomerania to Finland, including some Finnic peoples.

In the words of historian R. J. Knecht, " she underestimated the strength of religious conviction, imagining that all would be well if only she could get the party leaders to agree ".

While the art of the older masters was based in the physical world of everyday experience, Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, " a world of dreams nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes.

In the words of a recent historian: " Offa was driven by a lust for power, not a vision of English unity ; and what he left was a reputation, not a legacy.

After 785, in the words of one historian, " Offa was the rival, not the overlord, of Kentish kings ".

In the words of historian Ellen Fitzpatrick, Debo's book " advanced a crushing analysis of the corruption, moral depravity, and criminal activity that underlay white administration and execution of the allotment policy.

Molotov's and Voroshilov's role in the making of the new Soviet anthem was, in the words of historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acting as music judges for Stalin.

This group had decided, in the words of historian John Mack Faragher, " to send a message of their opposition to settlement ….

In the words of historian G. R. Elton, " from that moment his autocratic system was complete ".

The Háttatal ( c. 20, 000 words ) is the last section of the Prose Edda composed by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson.

The hubristic Marsyas in surviving literary sources eclipses the figure of the wise Marsyas suggested in a few words by the Hellenistic historian Diodorus Siculus, who refers to Marsyas as admired for his intelligence ( sunesis ) and self-control ( sophrosune ), not qualities found by Greeks in ordinary satyrs.

Known for his military successes and sense of duty, Stilicho was, in the words of the great historian Edward Gibbon, “ the last of the Roman generals .”

In the words of historian Max Rein in 1988, " Kristallnacht came ... and everything was changed.

Despite opposing the collaborating regime, the French Résistance generally sympathised with its antifeminism and did not encourage the participation of women in war and politics, following, in the words of the historian, Henri Noguères, " a notion of inequality between the sexes as old as our civilisation and as firmly implanted in the Résistance as it was elsewhere in France.

According to Wirt, Henry ended his speech with words that have since become immortalized: " Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

This position was stated by John Henry Newman in the following words:

In the words of Henry Chadwick, " If the Consolation contains nothing distinctively Christian, it is also relevant that it contains nothing specifically pagan either ... is a work written by a Platonist who is also a Christian, but is not a Christian work.

The last words he uttered were, ‘ I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile .” Gregory VII must have felt he died in utter failure, and to many of his contemporaries it appeared Henry IV and Antipope Clement III had won.

Originates Livoniae in Chronicle of Henry of Livonia contains Estonian place names, words and fragments of sentences.

He also points to several pieces by Henry Purcell, one of which includes the opening notes of the modern tune, set to the words " God Save The King ".

These writings, in the words of Henry Cadbury, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a leading Quaker, " contain a few fresh phrases of his own, are generally characterized by an excess of scriptural language and today they seem dull and repetitious ".

In " Crónica da Guiné " Henry is described as having no luxuries, not avaricious, speaking with soft words and calm gestures, a man of many virtues who never allowed any poor person leave his presence empty-handed.

The words on Henry Austin Bruce's grave at Aberffrwd cemetery in Mountain Ash, Wales.

As the 17th century British commentator Matthew Henry notes, " Mary added no more, as Martha did ; but it appears, by what follows, that what she fell short in words she made up in tears ; she said less than Martha, but wept more.

* 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Annie Ellsworth chose these words from the Bible ( Numbers 23: 23 ); her father, U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, had championed Morse's invention and secured early funding for it.

Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the New York Herald newspaper, greeted him with the now famous words " Dr Livingstone, I presume?

* November ( or December ) – Henry II of England, when word reaches him in France of Thomas Becket's latest actions, utters words that are interpreted by his followers as a wish for the archbishop's death.

A landmark in modern corpus linguistics was the publication by Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis of Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English in 1967, a work based on the analysis of the Brown Corpus, a carefully compiled selection of current American English, totalling about a million words drawn from a wide variety of sources.

From that day, Catherine took a broken lance as her emblem, inscribed with the words " lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor " (" from this come my tears and my pain "), and wore black mourning in memory of Henry.

The noble words of the Chorus and Henry are consistently undermined by the actions of Pistol, Bardolph and Nym.

A recent study translates his words as follows :" And a very great betrayal of a lord it is also in the world, that a man betray his lord to death, or drive him living from the land, and both have come to pass in this land: Edward was betrayed, and then killed, and after that burned ..." Later sources, further removed from events, such as the late 11th century Passio S. Eadwardi and John of Worcester, claim that Ælfthryth organised the killing of Edward, while Henry of Huntingdon wrote that she killed Edward herself.

His grave, in the churchyard of St. Michael's Church in Pirbright, Surrey, is marked by a large piece of granite inscribed with the words " Henry Morton Stanley, Bula Matari, 1841 – 1904, Africa ".

The New York and Hamburg factories exchange parts and craftsmanship in order to " make no compromise in quality ", in the words of Steinway's founder Henry E. Steinway.

In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler ’ s general approach encourages a direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms.

It is said that the prince of Wales ( afterwards Henry V ) witnessed the execution and offered the sufferer both life and a pension if he would recant ; but in Walsingham ’ s words, “ the abandoned villain declined the prince ’ s advice, and chose rather to be burned than to give reverence to the life-giving sacrament.

" The only account of the speech written down at the time by an eyewitness ( which came to light many years later ) records that Henry apologized after being accused of uttering treasonable words, and assured the House that he was loyal to the king.

According to Wirt, Henry ended his speech with words that have since become immortalized: