Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

By 1906 manufacturers other than Michtom and Steiff had joined in and the craze for " Roosevelt Bears " was such that ladies carried them everywhere, children were photographed with them, and Roosevelt used one as a mascot in his bid for re-election.

Their three children include the eldest son Octave, an intelligent but feckless ladies ' man ( featured as the principal character of two later novels in the cycle, Pot-Bouille ( 1882 ) and Au Bonheur des Dames ( 1883 ), but here little more than a footnote ), as well as the quiet and introverted younger son Serge and the mentally-handicapped daughter Desirée.

* Gentlemen must refrain from the use of rough language in the presence of ladies and children.

The Hart family consisted of parents Chris ( Ian Ashpitel ) and Annie ( Liz Crowther ) and their four children, ladies ' man Duncan ( Rocky Marshall ), Duncan's twin, the confused 24-year-old virgin and trainee solicitor Holly ( Sandra Huggett ), police constable Melanie ( Cordelia Bugeja ), and schoolboy Jamie ( Michael Cole ).

It was Aunt Branwell who taught the children arithmetic, the alphabet, how to sew, embroidery and cross-stitching appropriate for ladies.

In order to support herself and her children, Seton had started an academy for young ladies, as was common for widows of social standing in that period.

His children resided in the United Kingdom and became lords and ladies with the surname Mountbatten in 1917 ( see " Name change " below ).

In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings ' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (" If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve ") and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys.

Many were killed and the remaining 200 British women and children were brought back to shore and sent to a building called the Bibighar ( the ladies ' home ).

A Căpcăun is a creature in Romanian folklore, depicted as an ogre who kidnaps children or young ladies ( mostly princesses ).

It is an old tradition, in the past ladies collected money for poor people, so today children also collect money for them.

On October 10, 680 ( Muharram 10, 61 AH ), he and his small group of companions and family members ( in total who were around 72 men and few ladies and children ) fought with a large army of perhaps more than 100, 000 men under the command of Umar ibn Sa ' ad, son of the founder of Kufa.

Choirs: men ’ s, ladies ’ and children ’ s choirs, church choirs and mixed choirs

Later she taught social dance to children and society ladies ; she also took a limited number of ballet pupils.

Edith, a Missouri native, had some training in nursing at what was called a “ ladies college .” To provide for the family, Sutherland ’ s father ran a dried goods store, where he gave each of his children working jobs.

This beach is well suited for the children and ladies as the sea is flat for a long distance.

: Many grown-up children of the ' 80s have a special place in their hearts for ladies such as the Go-Go's, Bananarama, and Kim " Kids in America " Wilde.

The Moby Duck has a siren in the front to warn the ladies and children of their approach.

With a group of ladies, she developed a program in Trujillo to give breakfast to hundreds of children in poor areas.

Although there is a strong impression that it is a school for upper class ladies, it could also be seen as a place where classes and good-manners are taught strictly rather than as a place where children of wealthy families flock.

There were special reading rooms for ladies and for children, a chess room, newspaper reading room, picture gallery, lecture hall, and on the third floor the Art, Historical and Scientific Association ( now called the Vancouver Museum ).

Eric XI was the last king of the agnatic line of this dynasty and he died apparently without surviving children ( though some romantic genealogies, and later research influenced by them, have attributed one or two daughters to him ; those ladies were more likely daughters of his sister and Birger jarl ).

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

The ladies were delighted and Jean Jacques was applauded.

The hotel staff, as well as residents of the Excelsior, told us they saw that both ladies were bleeding from scratches as they were seen fleeing down the hall.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

As for the ladies, they were full of charm, and sincerity, and deep and abiding affection for this hurrying driving, honest, little man.

He and some colleagues had stripped naked for a swim in the river when they were surprised by a party of ladies out for a stroll.

" In 1987, Chris Ricciotti started a gay dance group in Providence, RI, using the terms " ladies " and " gents " although dancers were not lining up according to gender.

The following day after the victims ' bodies were found, Bojangles ' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bloody man found in the bathroom, repeated the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies room.

Mornings were spent in the schoolroom ; there were regimental afternoon walks ; educating the young ladies continued at mealtimes when Miss Edgeworth ate with the family ; at night, the governess slept in a curtained off area in the girls ’ bedroom.

Many early first ladies expressed their own preference for how they were addressed, including the use of such titles as " Lady ", " Mrs. President ", and " Mrs. Presidentress "; Martha Washington was often referred to as " Lady Washington.

Both Martha Washington and Abigail Adams gained fame from the Revolutionary War and were treated as if they were " ladies " of the British royal court.

Regardless of war and the loss of eligible men, young ladies were still subjected to the pressure to marry.

When asked why he didn't name the album " Electric Church " instead of " Electric Ladyland ", Hendrix said some ladies were " electric too ".

His parents were proprietors of a ladies ' clothes shop.

In all this time, great ladies ruled Quedlinburg as abbesses without " taking the veil ", they were free to marry.

The last of these great ladies were a Swedish princess, an early fighter for women's rights, Sofia Albertina.

Sture's widow Dame Kristina, and many other noble Swedish ladies, were sent as prisoners to Denmark.

At the Austrian Court in Vienna in the late 17th century ( 1698 ) ladies were conducted around the room to the tune of a 2-beat measure, which then became the 3 / 4 of the Nach Tanz ( After Dance ), upon which couples got into the position for the Weller and waltzed around the room with gliding steps as in an engraving of the Wirtschaft ( Inn Festival ) given for Peter the Great.

Describing life in Vienna ( dated at either 1776 or 1786 ), Don Curzio wrote, " The people were dancing mad [...] The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire.

Members of the royal family, ladies not excepted, were present at many gemots.

Spanking sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the whippings administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity.

Pantalone's character has transcended through the decades ; " were we to seek his present-day counterpart we should not be far wrong in thinking of a middle-aged businessman, wealthy and well esteemed, apt at times to dally with ladies full of doubtful virtue, at other times as apt to show himself the devoted father anxious to protect a young son or puzzled by the actions of a daughter he does not understand ".