The expansion included a boys school, the Old Grist Mill, the Martha-Mary Chapel and the Redstone Schoolhouse, reputed to be the school in Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb, which was moved from Sterling.

* The nursery rhyme " Mary had a little lamb " is frequently, but incorrectly, linked with Llangollen.

Its true origins are in the United States: " This is a lovely folklore story, but sadly Mary Thomas of Llangollen was not the heroine of the nursery rhyme ...

Some scholars have proposed that the author took the list from a now-lost Old Welsh poem which listed Arthur's twelve great victories, based on the fact that some of the names appear to rhyme and the suggestion that the odd description of Arthur bearing the image of the Virgin Mary on his shoulders at Guinnion might contain a confusion of the Welsh word iscuit ( shield ) for iscuid ( shoulders ).

The book's working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.

In the nineteenth century the rhyme existed in many alternative versions including: ' Little Mary Ester, Sat upon a tester ' ( 1812 ); ' Little Miss Mopsey, Sat in the shopsey ' ( 1842 ).

Members of the Barmy Army, devoted fans of the English cricket team, are known to mock Australian cricketers and fans by singing the Australian national anthem to the tune of the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb ", and vice-versa.

In the 1830s, Mason set to music the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb ".

" Miss Susie " ( also " Miss Suzy ", " Miss Lucy ", " Miss Molly ", " When Maxie ", " Miss Mary ", " Miss Cassima " or ' Helen ') is the name of an American schoolyard rhyme and clapping game in which almost each verse leads up to a rude word or profanity which is elided into the next verse as part of an innocuous word or phrase.

The song Mary, Mary So Contrary is based on Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, a popular English nursery rhyme.

Goose ), about two nursery rhyme characters, Mary Contrary and Tom Piper, who are about to be married.

Often, more contrasts exist when the is not in the same syllable ; in some American dialects and in most native English dialects outside North America, for example, mirror and nearer do not rhyme, and some or all of marry, merry and Mary are pronounced distinctly.

* The Mary – marry – merry merger: Words containing,, or before an " r " and a vowel are all pronounced "- r-vowel ," so that Mary, marry, and merry all rhyme with each other, and have the same first vowel as Sharon, Sarah, and bearing.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

They would feel what Mary was undergoing.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.

In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi.

She was Mary Lou Brew then, wide-eyed, but not naive.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Mary J. Packard, states a Messenger editorial, was `` efficient, pains-taking, self-effacing, loving, radiating the spirit of her Master.

An early Edison production was The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots.

Aunt Mary died when I was doing my military service.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

It was unlikely that any girl as sharp as Mary Jane Brennan would believe it without proof.

Mary Dobbs Tuttle was back at the organ.

Miss Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat Dawson of Austin, Mrs. Howard M. Dean of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Reeder of Shreveport, La..

Mary was free to marry again, not knowing that the Sturch had secretly given her a divorce, thinking that death had dissolved her marriage.

Mary was as frozen below the navel as he.

In the early 1830s, he met Mary Owens from Kentucky when she was visiting her sister.

Mary Sawyer, the subject of the historically true poem, lived in Sterling.

He was raised by his maternal grandmother, Mary Eleanor " Eleanora " Willingham ( née Sawyer, 1875 – 1957 ), in California, and he and his father rarely saw one another.

During this period he also served as chaplain at St. Mary ’ s Hospital and K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base.

the artists featured are: Sting ( Roxanne, Message in a Bottle, Fragile ), Sarah McLachlan ( Angel ), Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy ( I Don't Care, Sugar, We're Goin ' Down ), Norah Jones ( Thinking About You ), Colbie Caillat ( Bubbly ), Sara Bareilles ( Love Song ), John Fogerty ( Proud Mary, Fortunate Son, Centerfield ), Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic ( Apologize ), Ben Folds ( Brick, Zak and Sara ), John Legend ( Ordinary People ), and Alex Lifeson of Rush ( Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Working Man, The Spirit of Radio ).

Mary E. Sawyer ( 1846-1902 ), better known as Mollie Monroe, was an American old west woman who was known for crossdressing and for her liaisons with multiple men, among other things.

Mary Cheney left the public spotlight after the 2004 election until May 4, 2006, when she gave an interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC News ' Primetime program.

Other buildings on Western Campus include McKee Hall, Mary Lyon Hall, Kumler Chapel, Western Lodge, Ernst Theater, Western Tower, Ice House, Summer House, Sawyer Hall ( former gymnasium, heating plant, pool and dining hall ), Boyd Hall, Hoyt Hall, the Art Museum, and non-WCP buildings, Clawson Hall, Alexander Dining Hall, Presser Hall, Langstroth Cottage, Havighurst Hall, and Thomson Hall.

Her performances consisted of a diverse spectrum of works from Paul Lawrence Dunbar's Negro dialects to such works as " Romeo and Juliet "; " As you like it "; " Mary Queen of Scots "; " Cleopatra's Dying Speech "; " The Battle " by Sciller ; and " How Tom Sawyer Got His Fence Whitewashed " by Mark Twain.

Having served in World War II, Heilman became an assistant to artist Ken Ernst on the Mary Worth comic strip, and to Roy Crane on Buz Sawyer.

Collins also did a multitude of celebrity impressions, including Alanis Morissette, Angelina Jolie, Barbara Bush, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cher, Diane Sawyer, Jenny Jones, Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Hart, Courteney Cox, Madonna, Martha Stewart, Alecia Beth Moore ( Pink ), Cynthia Nixon, Shakira, Pamela Anderson, Teri Hatcher and Penny Marshall.