From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Banks had a family -- a wife, a daughter, and a son.

For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.

There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.

Inside, as soon as Mr. Skopas had disclosed -- in a hoarse whisper -- the detective's errand, his family gathered in a huddle, forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

the two youngest in our family always had to be brought in and put through tricks for his entertainment.

the child who had once considered it a treat to accompany his parents on picnics and family gatherings now considers it a bore.

No one wanted a larger family or no children, and none hoped for a castle or said that living in less settled circumstances would be satisfactory.

A formative event was his singing performance at his school's annual Speech Night in December 1926 – none of his family were present, and the sense of loneliness he felt that night remained with him throughout his life.

It is a member of the Japonic ( or Japanese-Ryukyuan ) language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which have gained wide acceptance among historical linguists ( see Classification of Japonic ).

This does not conform with the picture given elsewhere in the bible, where sacrifices are offered by a wide range of people ( e. g. Manoah the judge, Samuel and Elijah the prophets, and kings Saul, David and Solomon, none of whom are priests ) and the general impression is that any head of family could make a sacrifice.

They say that there is a brilliant court in Saint Petersburg and the tsar's family is nice ; still, she heads for an unfamiliar country, where people are different and religion is different and where she will have none of her former acquaintances by her side ".

This style of governance has implications as none of his family members have acquired the necessary administrative skills to rule Oman after Qaboos death.

In one kind of adoption study, biological siblings reared together ( who share the same family environment and half their genes ) are compared to adoptive siblings ( who share their family environment but none of their genes ).

These children were raised to be nominal Roman Catholics, attending mass at the Church of Saint-Porchair, and while Michel briefly became an altar boy, none of the family were particularly devout.

Since that time, the shell company has collected at least £ 30m and none of Ravel's estate has gone to the Ravel family or to further the cause of French music.

Because of the cold-weather requirement, none of the Prunus family can grow in tropical climates.

Originally none of the members of the Addams family had names, but when the 1960s television show was in development, Charles Addams was asked to provide names for each of the characters.

Whether or not I love him, I do not know, but it seems to me that I do .” She married Gumilev in Kiev in April 1910 ; however, none of Akhmatova ’ s family attended the wedding.

However, none of the members of the Cajun family ( boy, father and mother ) were actually related, and the film does not in any aspect deal with Cajun culture or the reality of the hard lives of the Cajun people, or with the mechanics of drilling for oil.

She becomes pregnant with a divine son ; however none of her family believe her, thinking the illicit pregnancy of the more usual sort.

Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are Norwegians ( all of the Russians are conspicuously dressed in sinister all-black clothing ), Rozanov draws a gun and promises no harm if the family provides information about military on the island ( none ) and police force ( small ), and gives them keys to their car.

In linear algebra, a family of vectors is linearly independent if none of them can be written as a linear combination of finitely many other vectors in the family.

A general store and railroad depot were in operation in Cisco until the late 1940s, and a few other home-operated family businesses may have had a fleeting existence, but none have endured.

Tomé was originally founded by and name for Tomé ( or Thomé ) Dominguez de Mendoza in the seventeenth century ; after the 1680 Pueblo Rebellion and the Reconquest a dozen years later, none of the Dominguez family ( all of whom survived ) seem to have chosen to return, so just before the middle of the next century the land was granted to other persons, largely genizaros ( Indians converted to Christianity and living a Spanish lifestyle ).

Below the poverty line were The family and 66. 7 % of the people were below the poverty line, including 100. 0 % of those under 18 and none of those over 64.

Avdotya, having none of this, fled the family and lost her source of income, only to meet Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a man of modest income and rank.

Although there were several subsequent doges of the Dandolo family, none were direct descendents of Enrico.

Except for John Drew, Diana, Drew, and John Blyth, none of the other members of John Barrymore's family have yet entered the entertainment industry.

After surveying British prehistoric monuments in his teenage years ( commencing with the late Romano-British ' British Camp ' that lay within yards of his family home in Charlton ) in attempts to understand their geometry ( at 19 tackling Stonehenge ), Petrie travelled to Egypt early in 1880 to apply the same principles in a survey of the Great Pyramid at Giza, making him the first to properly investigate how they were constructed ( many theories had been advanced on this, and Petrie read them all, but none were based on first hand observation or logic ).