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Lady and Alys
Ivan owes his life to his aunt, Cordelia Vorkosigan, who rescued newborn Ivan and his mother Lady Alys from plotters who killed his father during Vordarian's Pretendership.
Lady Alys Vorpatril is an important side character in Lois McMaster Bujold's sci-fi series, the Vorkosigan Saga.
During the War of the Vordarian Pretendership, the pregnant Lady Alys, along with Lord Padma, were targeted for assassination because of Padma's Vorbarra bloodlines, which would make both her husband and her unborn child potential rival claimants for the throne.
Lady Alys is considered High Vor though it is unclear how she has this distinction.
Lady Alys is regarded as a sophisticated, stylish woman, with long dark hair and large attractive eyes.

Lady and is
One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.
Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea ( Lady of Cythera ) and Cypris ( Lady of Cyprus ) after the two cult-sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed her birth.
* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.
* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
: Lady of all chaste love, to thee it is
* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
The object is currently kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion and is used occasionally in ritual processions.
* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.
The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.
It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.
The " Old Lady of Threadneedle St " ( the Bank personified ) is ravished by William Pitt the Younger.
Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.
This group is best known for their ballads, such as " Easy " and " Three Times a Lady ", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky, driven dance-floor hits which include " Brick House ", " The Bump ", " Fancy Dancer ", and " Too Hot ta Trot ".
Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.
Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Lady and mother
His mother, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Lord Burghley that ' my wise son has gone very far with my Lady Mary Vere, I fear too far to turn '.
Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother ( who was also his godmother ), Lady Brabourne, about his interest.
Enki, the Water-Lord then " caused to flow the ' water of the heart " and having fertilised his consort Ninhursag, also known as Ki or Earth, after " Nine days being her nine months, the months of ' womanhood '... like good butter, Nintu, the mother of the land, ... like good butter, gave birth to Ninsar, ( Lady Greenery )".
St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Mary ( mother of Jesus ) | Our Lady of Escalera.
Lady Jane's mother was Frances Brandon, who was Mary's cousin and goddaughter.
He was finally persuaded to accept the throne by his mother Kseniya Ivanovna Shestova, who blessed him with the holy image of Our Lady of St. Theodore.
Despite his apparent affiliation with Richard, Baron Stanley's wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort, was Henry Tudor's mother.
* Mrs Jennings — mother to Lady Middleton and Charlotte Palmer.
Their mother was Ni Kwei-tseng ( 倪桂珍 Ní ​ Guì ​ zhēn ), whose mother Lady Xu was a descendant of Ming Dynasty mathematician and Jesuit Xu Guangqi.
Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known ; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.
Gwendolen and her formidable mother Lady Bracknell now call on Algernon.
Edmund's son Henry Tudor, born in Pembroke, grew up in south Wales and in exile in Brittany, while his mother Lady Margaret remained in England and remarried, quietly advancing the cause of her son in a Kingdom now ruled by the rival House of York.
Lady Jane's mother was Lady Frances Brandon, the daughter of Suffolk and Princess Mary.
It was renamed Christ's College and received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.
The barony in the Sandys family (" sands ") had been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at the date of the legend, in the 1830s, " Lord " Sandys was actually a Lady.
** Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill ( born 1854 )
* Lady Bian, second wife of Cao Cao, mother of Cao Wei's first emperor, Cao Pi ( d. 230 )
* June 29 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England ( b. 1443 )
* May 31 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England ( d. 1509 )
* Lady Wu, wife of Sun Jian, mother of Sun Ce, Sun Quan and Lady Sun
Melisende was buried next to her mother Morphia in the shrine of Our Lady of Josaphat.
His mother was the renowned religious, the Lady Theodora.

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