These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev.

Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.

Exline became friends with the Coens and, in 1989, told them all kinds of stories from his own life, including ones about his actor-writer friend Lewis Abernathy ( one of the inspirations for Walter ), a fellow Vietnam vet who later became a private investigator and helped him track down and confront a high school kid who stole his car.

Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation " esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it.

At least one line in the C. S. Lewis book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events-and thus wrote the Narnia books-after the Railway Accident in 1949, when Susan told him the stories in the belief that she was relating mere childhood make-believe.

As Lewis first told the story in 1925, Stanford, also a Director of the Central Pacific Railroad, was so taken that he ordered that the next town on the line be named for her.

In 1962, Oxford writer C. S. Lewis told Christian Century that Theism and Humanism was one of the ten books that most influenced his thought.

According to Peter Lewis, " told Lou Adler they had to pay us a million bucks to film us at the Monterey Pop Festival.

In reference to the above mentioned Jazzmatazz project, Elam told Pete Lewis of Blues & Soul: " Back around ’ 93 — when I first came up with the Jazzmatazz concept — I was noticing how a lot of cats were digging in the crates and sampling jazz breaks to make hip hop records.

In 1958, Lewis ' future husband Joseph Tinney told her " everybody " knew that Gable was her biological father.

As for the songs on the original album, Morrison told Los Angeles Times columnist Randy Lewis: " The songs are poetic stories, so the meaning is the same as always — timeless and unchanging.

The solution was to hire bosomy blonde Jennie Lewis, who was given no script and told, " You just sit there and act dumb.

Lewis Carroll mocked the futility of the UK's caucuses in " A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale ", Chapter 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: when the " Caucus-race " of running in a circle stops, everyone is declared a winner by the Dodo and Alice is told to hand out prize s to all others, receiving her own thimble as her prize.

Lewis and the UMWA capitalized on this sentiment in 1933 when his organizers told miners that " The President wants you to join the Union.

He returns to Earth about a year later and is met by Lewis and another friend: the remainder of the story is told from Ransom's point of view, with Lewis acting as interlocutor and occasional commentator.

Each day, Lewis told the story of a different Ontarian in trouble, making a case that this was because of the lack of adequate legislation.

Now based in Livingston, Montana, Lewis claimed that the process for how one applies to be a Messenger has never been made public and that the elder to whom he submitted his application told him " there won't be any more messengers.

After recording some demos for Sam Phillips at Sun Records that Phillips didn't find commercial enough, and too jazzy, legend has it that he was given a stack of Jerry Lee Lewis records and told: " come back when you get that bad.

William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.

Kind by nature, he never refused charity to a beggar or help to anyone who asked him for it ( as Lewis would one day discover ).

But, in departing, Lewis begged Breasted that there be no liquor in the apartment at the Grosvenor on his return, and he took with him the first thirty galleys of Elmer Gantry.

When Breasted insisted that this was impossible for him, Lewis decided to go abroad.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

The New York Times editorialist wondered just who would stop Mr. Lewis and make him write a book.

Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.

Lewis warned him never to lay a hand on him, and then Blackman asked for his fare back to the United States.

Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

Earl agreed, and Lewis said that it would have been very different if his wife had been with him.

Assistant Prosecutor Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending against Pohl.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.

Edward B. Tylor and Lewis H Morgan brought the term " evolution " to anthropology though they tended toward the older pre-Spencerian definition helping to form the concept of unilineal evolution used during the later part of what Trigger calls the Antiquarianism-Imperial Synthesis period ( c1770-c1900 ).

Lewis beat Bruno by a technical knockout in the 7th round, in what was called the " Battle of Britain ".

Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France ( 1803 ), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) to explore the new west.

Although Lewis originally conceived what would become The Chronicles of Narnia in 1939, he did not finish writing the first book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe until 1949.

Lewis Carroll decided to suppress a scene involving what was described as " a wasp in a wig " ( possibly a play on the commonplace expression " bee in the bonnet ").

* In the dialogue " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ", Lewis Carroll describes what happens at the end of the race.

Just minutes before the killings, a truck driver named Elmer Lewis had turned a corner only a block away from 2122 North Clark and sideswiped what he took to be a police car.

The admiration of scholars such as Victor Davis Hanson, B. H. Liddell Hart, Lloyd Lewis, and John F. Marszalek for General Sherman owes much to what they see as an approach to the exigencies of modern armed conflict that was both effective and principled.

" Additionally, Lewis strove for the stability and well-being of Welsh-speaking communities, decried both capitalism and socialism and promoted what he called perchentyaeth ; a policy of ' distributing property among the masses.

The first land route across what is now the United States was partially mapped by the Lewis and Clark Expedition between 1804 and 1806.

Fearing attack by the Blackfoot Indians, the overland expedition veered south of Lewis and Clark's route into what is now Wyoming and in the process passed across Union Pass and into Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Lewis wrote back, appearing to support the younger Krieg's views, although he did point out that the views of the author may not be the best guidance, and that perhaps it would not matter what order they were read in.

However, Mondt discovered a solution that would completely transform the industry, as he convinced Lewis and Sandow to implement a new form of wrestling that combined features of boxing, Greco-Roman, freestyle, lumber-camp fighting, and theater into what he deemed “ Slam Bang Western-Style Wrestling .” He then formed a promotion with wrestler Ed Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow.

It is the setter's challenge to mean what he says without necessarily saying what he means-a quandary familiar to those who have enjoyed the writings of Lewis Carroll.

C. S. Lewis called him ‘ the father of the Drab Age ’ ( i. e. the unornate ), from what Lewis calls the ' golden ' age of the 16th century, while others see his love poetry, with its complex use of literary conceits, as anticipating that of the metaphysical poets in the next century.

Sam Adams, critic for the Philadelphia City Paper, wrote, " The codes of the time prevented Lewis from being explicit about the extent to which their fast-blooming romance is fueled by their mutual love of weaponry ( Arthur Penn would rip off the covers in Bonnie and Clyde, which owes Gun Crazy a substantial debt ), but when Cummins ' six-gun dangles provocatively as she gasses up their jalopy, it's clear what really fills their collective tank.

Fort Lewis, named for General Andrew Lewis, of what is now Roanoke County, was built west of the town in 1752.