Readers were told that the British authority learned about Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain Belgian royals.

Readers were encouraged not to seek worldly goods such as money and power, but to seek internalized virtues.

Readers, editors and correspondents were permitted to assume gender, and generally, but not invariably, they assumed " male.

In The Boston Globe, the publishers ran a " What Globe Readers Say About Ted " section made out of letters about Williams, which were either the sportswriters or the " loud mouths " in the stands.

The McGuffey Readers ( 1836 ) were the most popular of these more engaging graded readers.

Readers were encouraged to submit their interest in such a product to the then-Star Trek Enterprises mail order firm.

Readers were told that the new town would be the logical point for shipping grain They were also told that by shipping from Ellsworth their grain would go throughToledo, “ avoiding the grain scalpers of Chicago .” All interested people were to gather at the Illinois Central Depot in Bloomington at 9: 00 in the morning.

Wilburn's Barbershop, the Lenoir City Public Library, a Mexican Grocery, TV Readers magazine, Habitat for Humanity, as well as several apartments were destroyed by the blaze.

Readers were shocked to discover that such a well-reasoned argument should come from a woman.

Readers were requested to write in and vote to save one of the four listed shows – one from each television network – that were in danger of being cancelled.

Readers were divided by those impressed by her faith and those disappointed that the famous deafblind activist advocated Swedenborgianism rather than a more " mainstream " religion.

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

Readers valued Procter's poems for their plainness of expression, although they were considered " not so very original in thought ; merit is that they are indeed the utterances ' of a believing heart ', pouring out its fulness.

: Readers of his autobiography were struck by the frequency and fervour of the short prayers interspersed throughout the work.

William Holdsworth and the editor of the Black Books both concluded that Benchers were, from the earliest times, the governors of the Inn, unlike other Inns who started with Readers.

The Benchers and Readers did little to arrest the decline of the practice of lecturers and readings, first because many probably believed ( as the students did ) that books were an adequate substitute, and secondly because many were keen to avoid the work of preparing a reading, which cut into their time as practising barristers.

Although Readers were appointed, none read, and no moots were held.

Gray's Inn's internal records date from 1569, at which point there were four types of member ; those who had not yet been called to the Bar, Utter Barristers, Ancients and Readers.

Utter Barristers were those who had been called to the Bar but were still studying, Ancients were those who were called to the Bar and were allowed to practise and Readers were those who had been called to the Bar, were allowed to practise and now played a part in educating law students at the Inns of Chancery and at Gray's Inn itself.

Readers who interpret the relationship as overtly homosexual quote such lines as the fact that Charles had been " in search of love in those days " when he first met Sebastian, and his finding " that low door in the wall ... which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden " — an image that some interpret as a Freudian metaphor for homosexual sex, though it recurs when Charles is expelled from Brideshead by Lady Marchmain, suggesting it refers more generally to the glamorous world Sebastian represents: " a door had shut, the low door in the wall I had sought and found in Oxford.

Readers in pre-1992 universities are generally considered at least the equvalent, in terms of status, of ( full ) professors in post-1992 universities, and many academics consider it more prestigious to be a reader in a pre-1992 university than a professor in a post-1992 university.

Readers ' editions generally lack the final dust jacket, formatting or binding of the finished product ; the text of an advance edition may also differ slightly from the market book, after comments are received from the reading group, or late errors are found in the manuscript.

Readers will generally not wear a clergy shirt, and may not perform any of the duties reserved for a deacon, priest or bishop.

Readers of the Reader's Digest are familiar with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a California paper that advertised `` House for rent.

Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.

Readers in the Victorian era particularly praised her books for their depictions of rural society, for which she drew on her own early experiences, and she shared with Wordsworth the belief that there was much interest and importance in the mundane details of ordinary country lives.

Readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as written in lines based on rhyme and regular meter ; however, there are traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to create rhythm and euphony.

Readers would write in with problems, and Roger would try and find a dodge for it ( which would usually go wrong ).

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Macmillan Readers 2005 ( with CD pack ), ISBN 978-1-4050-7658-6

Readers often did and sometimes do identify the poet himself with various characters and their vicissitudes, whether gratitude by an old rustic to a new god ( Ecl.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o in his book Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom records how the Oxford Readers for Africa with their heavily Anglo-centric worldview struck him as a child in Kenya.

* Readers with Autism, a website describing anaphoric cuing

Readers with a numeric keypad are meant to circumvent the eavesdropping threat where the computer might be running a keystroke logger, potentially compromising the PIN code.

Readers with normal vision should see the individual shades of green relatively easily, while the shades of red should be difficult to see, and the shades of blue are likely indistinguishable.

Readers new to the author will probably develop a love affair with his ability to draw you into a story ( sometimes with only a line or two ) and then, in a few words, give you something you'll never forget.

Readers never truly bonded with Todd and, in 1988, DC made the controversial decision to poll readers using a 1-900 number as to whether or not Todd should be killed.

Readers voted " yes " by a small margin ( 5, 343 to 5, 271 ) and Todd was subsequently murdered by the Joker in the storyline, A Death in the Family, in which the psychopath beat the youngster severely with a crowbar, and left him in a warehouse rigged with a bomb.

Readers follow the Orchestra and its entourage together with a journalist, who after some time detects a conspiracy that seems to be connected with a group of gray-clad, sun-worshipping monks.

" Portaloo " has been honored with seven coveted Readers Digest awards for its Sister Cities program.

In the June 2008 issue of Nintendo Power, EarthBound was revealed to be the # 1 " Readers ' Most Wanted " Virtual Console title, with Mother close behind at # 4.

Then in the July 2008 issue of Nintendo Power, EarthBound was yet again the # 1 " Readers ' Most Wanted " Virtual Console title, with the original Mother now placed in second.

Readers soon began to seek out books with his strikingly unusual and exotic name on the cover — The Science Fiction Galaxy ( 1950 ), The Big Book of Science Fiction ( 1950 ) and Possible Worlds of Science Fiction ( 1951 ).