He cites with pleasure the comment of a lady, who exclaimed after a concert: `` Why, it's extremely interesting.

For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.

Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.

He recalled Lucy, as `` a bright-looking black-eyed young lady who came regularly through the boys' study hall to join the class in Greek in the little recitation room beyond ''.

Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.

a lady drunk on her hands and knees who carries the hero around on her back while he throws pillow feathers in her face ; ;

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

But who cares, when the lady sings??

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

An 18th-century broadside ballad: The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

Don Quixote takes the friars to be enchanters who hold the lady captive.

Another version of the story is that he canvassed with Nancy, Lady Astor, MP for Plymouth Sutton, and received an embarrassingly friendly welcome at boarding houses who were used to renting rooms by the hour to sailors and their lady companions.

Lucy urges Ethel to ask a lady occupying the next booth, who turns and replies, " Neither.

As the months passed, Cukor was forced to deal not only with constant script changes but a very unstable leading lady, who was plagued by chemical and alcohol dependencies, extreme weight fluctuations, and real and imagined illnesses.

Two particular examples are Lillian, an eccentric ( and very nearsighted ) old lady with odd quirks, and Greta, a muscle bound woman who was hired to look after the pets during New Years.

His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means ; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a soldier who, as an old man, produced the most comprehensive of the eye-witness accounts, the Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España (" True Story of the Conquest of New Spain "), speaks repeatedly and reverentially of the " great lady " Doña Marina ( always using the honorific title, " Doña ").

Adolfo said the first lady embodied an " elegant, affluent, well-bred, chic American look ", while Bill Blass commented, " I don't think there's been anyone in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who has her flair.

When the BBC attempted to interview a lady who had entered her house's poltergeist on her census form, the recorder was repeatedly found to play back properly outside the house, but not inside.

In the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon notes that the disciples of Saint Severinus of Noricum were invited by a " Neapolitan lady " to bring his body to the villa in 488, " in the place of Augustulus, who was probably no more.

Regency country dances were often proceeded by a brief March by the couples, then begun by the top lady in the set and her partner, who would dance down the set to the bottom.

They are: ( 1 ) In Basilica Sanctorum Petri et Pauli, for a church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, possibly the church which Aldhem founded at Malmesbury, ( 2 ) In Basilica Beatae Mariae Semper Virginis, St Mary's Church, possibly also at Malmesbury, ( 3 ) In Ecclesia Mariae a Bugge Extructa, for the church built by Bugga, that is Eadburh of Minster-in-Thanet, a royal lady of the house of Wessex, ( 4 ) the twelve tituli known collectively as In Duodecim Apostolorum Aris and ( 5 ) In sancti Matthiae Apostoli Ecclesia.

In July 2010, the first lady founded the “ SAIDA ” Association ( named after her late mother ) to improve care for cancer patients in Tunisia.

After she became first lady, she founded the Silvia Gašparovičová Foundation which focuses on education and health.

Begumabad village, which contributed about of its area to the making of this city, is a much older place and is said to have been founded by one Nawab Zafar Ali and to have been named Begumabad by a lady of the royal family of Mughals in Delhi when this place passed into her hands.

The ladies who formed the first committee were: Lady Borthwick ; the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough ( first lady president ); Lady Wimborne ; Lady Randolph Churchill ; Lady Charles Beresford ; the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford ; Julia, Marchioness of Tweeddale ; Julia, Countess of Jersey ; Mrs ( subsequently Lady ) Hardman ; Lady Dorothy Nevill ; the Honorable Lady Campbell ( later Lady Blythswood ); the Honorable Mrs Armitage ; Mrs Bischoffsheim ; Miss Meresia Nevill ( the first secretary of the Ladies Council ).

As it happens the English lady is a good Catholic herself, but of more liberal political persuasion.

This is the third time in 28 years of Junior Showmanship at Westminster that a lady Handler has judged the Class.

That is, maybe not too much of a lady.

Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

Shaping Edwin ’ s ambitious journey in the world of the theater is his love of three women: the beautiful, strong-minded Julia Scarlet, whom he first meets in Ann Arbor ; the emotionally fragile and haunting Jessamy Lee, and the very private and mysterious leading lady Adelina Kane, idol of the American stage.

The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.

The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.

Frances Benjamin Johnston ( right ) poses with two cross-dressing friends, the " lady " is identified by Johnston as the illustrator Mills Thompson

For the general reader the Treasure is appealing because she gives fascinating glimpses into women's lives in 1400, from the great lady in the castle down to the merchant's wife, the servant, and the peasant.

They are heavily cloaked, as is the lady, to protect themselves from the hot climate and dust on the road.

Despina is a given name for girls, meaning ' lady ' in Greek.

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.

As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of " First lady ": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints.