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English and lady
The English lady said she had to go to Vienna for a while.
The English lady really wanted to put a wreath on the Garibaldi monument on the 30th of April.
As it happens the English lady is a good Catholic herself, but of more liberal political persuasion.
All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.
I admire the English lady.
The English lady was pleased and enthusiastic.
Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.
" Hans Holbein ," reported the English envoy Nicholas Wotton, " hath taken the effigies of my Lady Anne and the lady Amelia sister and hath expressed their images very lively ".
1915 English magazine illustration of a lady riding a Champagne cork ( Lordprice Collection )
Mona was thus a polite form of address, similar to Ma ’ am, Madam, or my lady in English.
Lady Jane Grey, whom Northumberland put on the English throne ; he reminded his colleagues that " this virtuous lady ... by ... our enticement is rather of force placed therein than by her own seeking and request.
At her death, Barbauld was lauded in the Newcastle Magazine as " unquestionably the first best of our female poets, and one of the most eloquent and powerful of our prose writers " and the Imperial Magazine declared " so long as letters shall be cultivated in Britain, or wherever the English language shall be known, so long will the name of this lady be respected.
Becky Sharp ( Miriam Hopkins ), a socially ambitious English young lady manages to survive during the years following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
Margaret, an English lady, came to the fjords as a tourist to hike the mountains.
* Penelope Aubin-The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady ; taken from her own memoirs
He was passionate about religious reform and translated from French into English two magnificent religious texts as presents for his sister Anne, which he dedicates " To the right honourable lady, the Lady Marchiness of Pembroke, her most loving and friendly brother sendeth greetings.
In the 17th Century English ballad The Spanish Lady ( one of several English and Irish songs with that name ), a Spanish lady captured by an English captain falls in love with her captor and begs him not to set her free but to take her with him to England, and in this appeal describes herself as " A lady in distress ".
Geoffrey Hughes in Swearing: A social history of foul language, oaths and profanity in English ( Blackwell, 1991 ), points out that " by my lady " is not an adjective whereas " bloody " is, and suggests that the slang use of the term started with " bloody drunk " meaning " fired up and ready for a fight ".
For example, the English word damsel is an anglicisation of the Old French damoisele ( modern demoiselle ), meaning " young lady ".

English and wanted
All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).
Prior to Kidd returning to New York City, he learned that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him.
Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.
On a budget of $ 40, 000 ($ 20, 000 from Corman and $ 20, 000 from another producer who wanted to buy the movie's English rights ), Coppola directed in a period of just nine days, Dementia 13, his first feature from his own original screenplay.
Efforts by the Indian Government to make Hindi the sole official language after 1965 were not acceptable to many non-Hindi Indian states, who wanted the continued use of English.
The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.
The accession of James I brought the Millenary Petition, a Puritan manifesto of 1603 for reform of the English church, but James wanted a new religious settlement along different lines.
The usual translation into English is the Red Army Faction ; however, the founders wanted it to not reflect a splinter group but rather an embryonic militant unit that was embedded in or part of a wider communist workers ' movement.
After the turmoil of the English Civil War, the Royal Society wanted to show that science did not threaten religious and political stability.
This position was attacked by English Austrophiles who wanted to aid the Austrians against France, but Walpole's dominant position ensured that Britain stayed out of the conflict.
The ambassador from Milan wrote in 1531 that it was essential to have her approval if one wanted to influence the English government, a view corroborated by an earlier French ambassador in 1529.
Rogers had control of Nassau, but Charles Vane was loose and threatening to drive Rogers out, and Rogers received word that the King of Spain wanted to drive the English completely out of the Bahamas.
David O. Selznick dearly wanted to film David Copperfield, as his Russian father Lewis J. Selznick had learned the English language through it, and read it to his sons every night.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.
Amalia wanted an education which was pointed at the resurgence of the House of Orange to power, but Mary wanted a pure English education.
: Mi bin wantem bia ~ I wanted beer ( bin = past tense marker, from the English " been ")
As on previous occasions, Charles did not really want an English army on his lands ; he wanted the threat of one to put pressure on Charles V. But Charles V refused his demands outright.
Apparently, they wanted to be near the English school in Georgetown.
English architect Inigo Jones introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, London, and when Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of Theodore Roosevelt, he left colossal Ionic columns unfluted on the Roosevelt memorial at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, for an unusual impression of strength and stature.
They wanted a buffer from Virginia Indians for the English settlements, and Byrd hoped to develop land which he held in that area.
Henry wanted to change this, and in November 1529 Parliament passed Acts reforming apparent abuses in the English Church.

English and pay
The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.
In 1699, thanks to English mediation, the war ended with the peace of Karlowitz by which Venice retained possession of the 7 Ionian islands, Butrinto and Parga, the Morea, Spinalonga and Suda, Tenos, Santa Maura and Aegina and ceased to pay a tribute for Zante, but restored Lepanto to the Ottoman sultan.
One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.
Most of the English colonists arrived as indentured servants, hiring themselves out as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage.
* English pear and Korean pay, bae ( Korean pear )
A trade union ( British English ), labour union ( Canadian English ) or labor union ( American English ) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.
As ransom and to regain his kingdom, William had to acknowledge Henry as his feudal superior and agree to pay for the cost of the English army's occupation of Scotland by taxing the Scots.
* April 4 – The Declaration of Breda promises amnesty, freedom of conscience, and army back pay, in return for support for the English Restoration.
He doubled the size of the English fleet from sixteen to thirty-two ships, partly so that he had a force capable of dealing with trouble elsewhere in his empire, and to pay for it he severely increased the rate of taxation.
David II pays homage to Edward IIIFinally, on 3 October 1357, David was released under the Treaty of Berwick, under which the Scots agreed to pay an enormous ransom of 100, 000 merks for him ( 1 merk was ⅔ of an English pound ) payable in 10 years.
The council of Elbing had sent two delegates with dual missions: firstly, to pay its respects to the new king and secondly to oppose the transfer of English trade from Elbing to nearby Danzig.
The Danelaw resulted when Alfred the Great was forced to cede half his kingdom to the Vikings, who then settled there for a time and engaged in peaceful trade, but attacks eventually resumed and the English kings had to pay tribute ( Danegeld ).
" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.
As part of a plan to make Perth a permanent English base within Scotland, Edward III forced six monasteries in Perthshire and Fife to pay for the construction of stone defensive walls, towers and fortified gates around the town in 1336.
During this time, Louis XI did all he could to prevent the marriage, demanding that the Pope refuse to give a dispensation for the marriage ( the pair were cousins in the fourth degree ), promising trade favours to the English, undermining Edward's credit with the international bankers to prevent him being able to pay for Margaret's dowry, encouraging a Lancastrian invasion of Wales, and slandering Margaret, claiming that she was not a virgin and had borne a bastard son.
Spanish colonists later introduced the fruit to the Caribbean and Latin America, but in the English colonies it was less at home: " Don't use the pomegranate inhospitably, a stranger that has come so far to pay his respects to thee ," the English Quaker Peter Collinson wrote to the botanizing John Bartram in Philadelphia, 1762.
The same month of July 1337 John promised Edward 1200 of his men-at-arms in the event of an English campaign in France, Edward to pay their salary.
As Duke of Aquitaine, the English king Edward I was a vassal to Philip, and had to pay him homage.
In 1251 he protested against a papal mandate enjoining the English clergy to pay Henry III one-tenth of their revenues for a crusade ; and called attention to the fact that, under the system of provisions, a sum of 70, 000 marks was annually drawn from England by the alien nominees of Rome.
On 18 January 2002, at Truro Crown Court, after the prosecution successfully applied for a Public Immunity Certificate in order to suppress defence evidence ( these are normally issued in cases involving national security ), three members of the group agreed to return the signs and pay £ 4, 500 in compensation to English Heritage and to be bound over to keep the peace.
Two main charges were brought to the House of Commons against Marlborough: first, an assertion that over nine years he had illegally received more than £ 63, 000 from the bread and transport contractors in the Netherlands ; second, that he had taken 2. 5 % from the pay of the foreign troops in English pay, amounting to £ 280, 000.

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