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Unless the wedding couple has a wedding registry, it is best not to give gifts or gift certificates.

The best known burials are the so-called Royal-Tombs, containing chariots and extremely rich grave gifts, including imports from Egypt and Syria.

Moze apologizes but packs up and moves on, leaving his best wishes and small gifts for Edna and the kids.

Christmas music best serenades these shopping months, injecting the Christmas spirit and putting shoppers into the proper mood for buying gifts.

He visited the Black Virgin of Puy to offer gifts, so he could make sure this was the best course of action and, astounded by its exceptional beauty, he decided to surrender the fort and converted to Christianity.

The German version of this article says that perhaps his best known work is the " Common Table Prayer ," " Come Lord Jesus, be our Guest and let Thy gifts to us be blessed.

Without rank, beauty, youth, education, or remarkable mental gifts of a sort that leave permanent traces, she was the best representative of the women of her time who held their place in the world solely through their skill in organizing and conducting a salon.

Built from 1582 to 1602 by the Jesuits, the cathedral was one of the largest Catholic churches in Asia at the time, and the royalty of Europe vied with each other to bestow upon the cathedral the best gifts.

In return for his support, Ada gave Alexander gifts, and even sent him some of the best cooks in Asia Minor, realizing that Alexander had a sweet tooth.

He must not accept gifts from any one, except of what may be absolutely necessary to maintain him ; but with his own few possessions he should honor, to the best of his ability, those who visit his hermitage.

But the fact that Fonblanque, a man not only of strong and earnest political convictions but also of exceptional literary ability, did not hesitate to choose this field as a worthy one in which both a politician and a man of letters might usefully as well as honorably put forth his best gifts, must have helped, in no small degree, to correct the old prejudice.

Because Igraine was so young when they married, their relationship has been strained, but Gorlois did his best to make her feel comfortable, giving her gifts and letting her keep her daughter Morgaine.

During the early years of the 19th century, many famous actors appeared at the theatre, including Edmund Kean, as well as popular comedians such as Joseph Grimaldi who for all his gifts as a dramatic actor, is best remembered as the creator of " Joey the Clown " complete with the rouge half-moons on either cheek.

Users may purchase new player cards with in-game " coins ", which are acquired through playing matches, winning leagues and as gifts from friends ; the cards come in bronze, silver and gold packs, with bronze containing low-rated players and gold containing the best players in the game, although gold packs cost more coins.

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good ; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters ; with the next prince and princess, she gives them " a little misfortune ", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

:: Either man's work or his own gifts: who best

" High up above the city, where the purest breezes and the brightest sunshine drove away the germs of disease, and where nature had lavished her best gifts, the gentlemen who conceived the though of Inman Park found the locality above all others which they desired.

" Prizes " for beating the obstacle course include a BMX bicycle, television set, an NES console, and several other gifts, ending with a exotic vacation -- though it can prove very difficult to get the best " ending " by completing the last obstacle.

But I have not the least doubt that, if confronted by a practical demand, with his great gifts he will work in other fields with the best of success.

After black powder muzzleloader behemoths became obsolete and metal cased cartridges and smokeless gun powder came into use, despite the fact that he was bombarded with gifts from the finest London gunmakers in hopes of advertisement ( indeed he tried many ), he was to be found accompanied in his hunt by two rifles, single shot, falling block Farquharson action, Metford barelled rifles in the two calibers he loved best: a Romanian. 256 Mannlicher for smaller game and a. 450 Nitro Express for larger game.

He is perhaps best known for his concept of " Five Love Languages ," helping people speak and understand emotional love when it is expressed through one of five languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.

A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for their child.

Thanks to gifts from various institutions, the government and many private individuals, the museum was able to purchase four of the finest and best preserved specimens.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 ) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Irvine Welsh ( born 27 September 1958 ) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting.

Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.

He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.

While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published fifteen books of poetry to date.

* Jacques Hamelink, a novelist, poet and literary critic, who is best known for his poetry and early short story collections such as Het plantaardig bewind (" The Vegetative Dominion ", 1964 ).

Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 184210 June 1918 ), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

As British novelist William Sutcliffe put it, " Of all the lots-of-people-screwing-lots-of-other-people novels this is probably the best, and certainly the weirdest.

Rodman Edward " Rod " Serling ( December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975 ) was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone.

Patrick O ' Brian, CBE ( 12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000 ), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey – Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish – Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

Weston is best known for its connection with novelist Nard Jones ( 1904 – 1972 ), who lived in the city with his parents between 1919 and 1927, and whose first novel Oregon Detour was set in an Oregon town of 600 inhabitants called " Creston ".

* Stephen Chbosky, novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Marcus Clarke in 1874Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke ( 24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881 ) was an Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of his Natural Life.

* Craig Thompson, cartoonist and graphic novelist best known for Blankets

Although best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist.

* November 22 – Anthony Burgess, composer and polymath best known as a novelist, 76

He drives his friend, the novelist Julia Glenn ( patterned after Dorothy Parker ), to drink ; loses his best friend, painter Jonathan Crale ; and betrays his wife, the glamorous actress Althea Royce, simply to gain material comforts and satisfy his ambitions.

Booth Tarkington ( July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946 ) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

Robert Joseph Shea ( February 14, 1933-March 10, 1994 ) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus !.