This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

Maggin contains descriptions of Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version ; it describes the planet as a " failed star " with massive surface gravity and extremely hostile, glaciated conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers ( and their dogs ) who became stranded on its surface in prehistory.

These discoveries help provide physical confirmation of the literary tradition that describes the Athenians as the descendants of the Pelasgians, who appear to descend continuously from the Neolithic inhabitants in Thessaly.

The 8th-century text The Expulsion of the Déisi describes enmity between Cormac and the group known as the Déisi, descendants of Cormac's great grandfather Fedlimid Rechtmar who had been his retainers.

The Book of Mormon describes the Lamanites as descendants of Laman and Lemuel, two rebellious brothers of a family of Israelites who crossed the ocean in a boat around 600 BC.

Yaqut al-Hamawi describes Tib as a town inhabited by Nabatean ( i. e. Aramaic speaking ) Sabians who consider themselves to be descendants of Seth son of Adam.

describes the naming of Ishmael, and Yahweh's promise to Hagar concerning Ishmael and his descendants.

The Book of Jubilees similarly has Isaac telling Levi of the future of his descendants, again predicting priesthood, prophets, and political power, and additionally describes Jacob as entrusting Levi with the secrets of the ancients, so that they would be known only to the Levites ; however, like the Testament of Levi, the Book of Jubilees is regarded as a Maccabean document by scholars.

Almost all polis citizens, except for those who specifically elect otherwise, experience the world through two sensory modalities: Linear and Gestalt, which Egan describes as distant descendants of hearing and seeing, respectively.

The Hebrew Bible describes the priests as descendants of Aaron who meet certain marriage and ritual purity requirements.

For example, the following line from the Aeneid ( VIII. 596 ) describes the movement of rushing horses and how " a hoof shakes the crumbling field with a galloping sound ":

In the horse breeding industry, the term " half-brother " or " half-sister " only describes horses which have the same dam, but different sires.

Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable.

García Lorca describes the work as a " carved altar piece " of Andalusia with " gypsies, horses, archangels, planets, its Jewish and Roman breezes, rivers, crimes, the everyday touch of the smuggler and the celestial note of the naked children of Córdoba.

The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty (" All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again "), an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men, which describes the career of a fictional governor loosely based on Huey Long.

Local tradition describes Bishop Seely as a man of immense girth who made his pastoral rounds riding one mule and leading another laden with staple food items to be distributed to needy families, blacksmith tools for the shoeing of horses and sharpening of plowshares, and dental forceps to remove aching teeth.

Homer describes Poseidon, who was god of horses ( Poseidon Hippios ), earthquakes, and the sea, drawn by " brazen-hoofed " horses over the sea's surface, and Apollonius of Rhodes, being consciously archaic in Argonautica ( iv. 1353ff ), describes the horse of Poseidon emerging from the sea and galloping away across the Libyan sands.

Shalmaneser boasts that his troops inflicted 14, 000 casualties upon the allied army, capturing countless chariots and horses, and describes the damage he inflicted on his opponents in savage detail.

He describes various kinds of game, methods of hunting, and the best breeds of horses and dogs.

* Equine coat color describes various colors in horses

* Cream gene, describes the process for horses by which the cremello, perlino, smoky cream double-dilute colors are created as well as the buckskin, palomino and smoky black single dilute colors.

* Dun gene describes another common dilution gene in horses

* Champagne gene, describes a different and rarer dilution gene in horses that also creates cream coloring, pale skin with mottling and light-colored eyes.

* White ( horse ) describes several unique genetic processes that create truly white, not diluted, color in horses.

An observer describes the mosaic: " The Egyptians, clad in blue armor with gold bands and scarlet cloaks wildly flying, drown in the greenish blue waters ; the horses, white or light brown shaded with darker browns, highlighted in white, the accoutrements a bright red.

A popular version, seen for example in Life, describes events substantially as follows: when Belmonte's doctor told him that, because of his lifelong injuries and trauma, he could no longer smoke cigars, ride his horses, drink wine or perform sexual acts with women, he decided he was ready to die.

Roberts describes in his books and web site how he was sent to Nevada at the age of 13 in order to round up horses for the Salinas Rodeo Association ’ s Wild Horse Race, and there began observing mustangs interact with each other.

A messenger enters and describes a gruesome scene to Theseus ; as Hippolytus got in his chariot to leave the kingdom, a bull roared out of the sea, frightening his horses, which dashed his chariot among the rocks, dragging Hippolytus behind.

Like the Scythians whom Herodotus describes in book four of his History ( Saka is an Iranian word equivalent to the Greek Scythos, and many scholars refer to them together as Saka-Scythian ), Sakas were Iranian-speaking horse nomads who deployed chariots in battle, sacrificed horses, and buried their dead in barrows or mound tombs called kurgans.

The book describes the acts of cruelty committed by Lloyd's overseers, and dwells at length on Lloyd's own despotic treatment of two slaves caring for his horses.

True to its heritage, the school still describes its mission as one where the " challenges of academics are combined with those of mountains and horses.

David McCullough in 1776 describes them " turned out in handsome red trimmed blue coats, white waistcoats, buckskin breeches, white woolen stockings, and carrying fine, ' lately imported ' English muskets.

The work describes the Slavs as a peaceful people imported by the rulers of the Sorab, who invaded the area in the 5th century, but it doesn't attempt to elaborate on how and when this happened.

David McCullough in 1776 describes them " turned out in handsome red trimmed blue coats, white waistcoats, buckskin breeches, white woolen stockings, and carrying fine, ' lately imported ' English muskets.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Francis Bacon's 1627 essay The New Atlantis describes a utopian society that he called Bensalem, located off the western coast of America.

In a letter to Elihu Palmer, one of his most loyal followers in America, Paine describes part of his rhetorical philosophy:

Wolfe describes the revelatory experience of hallucinogens as attenuating the ecstatic religious experience, transforming the religious climate in America.

In it, he describes his family as " alienated " from both their parents ' Greek Orthodox values and from those of mainstream America.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale describes a future North America governed by strict religious rules which only the privileged dare defy.

He describes this early period of his professional life in Volume I of his book My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia ( 1895 ).

In 1944, he and Elisa traveled to the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec, Canada, where he wrote Arcane 17, a book which expresses his fears of World War II, describes the marvels of the Rocher Percé and the extreme northeastern part of North America, and celebrates his new romance with Elisa.

Nicholas E. Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s, while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying " deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings.

Larry Tye describes in his book, " The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR ", some situations in twentieth-century America where tobacco and alcohol companies used techniques to make certain behaviors more socially acceptable.

The geography of Argentina describes the geographic features of Argentina, a country located in southern South America ( or Southern Cone ).

It describes itself as offering " the most extensive academic program in advanced Judaic Studies in North America.

In his classic " Birds of America ," John James Audubon describes the slight gradations in hyoid horn length found in different species of living woodpeckers.

Ring Lardner Jr describes in Archive of America Television oral history interviews ( 2000 ) that changes made to the ending of the film were against the wishes of Katherine Hepburn, whilst both screenwriters were on vacation in New York.

In a letter the marquis de Chastellux describes the tavern as one of the worst in America and affirms that Jefferson had stayed there and told him of the place.

Coined by author Bakari Kitwana, it describes a generation of people, regardless of race, who came of age in post-segregation America.

* Balzac, 1946 – written, as Richard Friedenthal describes in a postscript, by Zweig in the Brazilian summer capital of Petrópolis, without access to the files, notebooks, lists, tables, editions and monographs that Zweig accumulated for many years and that he took with him to Bath, but that he left behind when he went to America.

Katz describes it in " Words on Fire: the Unfinished Story of Yiddish " ( 2004 ) as a " new dialect of English ," which is " taking over as the vernacular in everyday life in some ... circles in America and elsewhere.

The book describes the history of many of the airlines that flew from North America up until ' 85.

The second is titled " And the Fair Land " and describes the bounty of America.

Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon dismissively describes the story as " little more than a polemic against the intrusion of people Lovecraft regarded as ' foreigners ,' that is, the non-English immigrants who arrived in the nineteenth century as cheap labor to fill the factories of an increasingly industrialized America.

Questlove describes the album as being very dark and reflective of the political state in America.

Turner describes him as " a man who in his singular way rediscovered America.

Prozac Nation ( sub-titled Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir ), an autobiography published in 1994 and written by Elizabeth Wurtzel, describes the author's experiences with major depression, her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer.

The 1971 Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary describes the use of " shitepoke " for the small green heron of North America ( Butorides virescens ) as originating in the United States, citing a published example from 1853.