( Or almost the first ; for in a high pasture he met an old shepherd, who said that fifty years before he had attained the summit, and had got nothing from it save toil and repentance and torn clothing.

All the towns and cities of Cilicia fell to Manuel immediately, and Thoros himself was forced to flee into the mountains at the last moment: he is said to have survived by sheltering alone under rocks on a hillside, where an old shepherd would bring him food to keep him alive.

Quoting from Leon F. Whitney early in the 20th century (" How to Breed Dogs ", 1937, no ISBN ) " It is known variously as the farm shepherd, the barnyard collie, the old fashioned shepherd, the cow dog, the English Shepherd, and other colloquial names.

Wong Cho Ping is said to have experienced poverty and hunger and to have become a shepherd when he was eight years old.

In the " Proteus " chapter ( in Greek myth Proteus was the old man of the sea and the shepherd of sea animals who knew all things past, present, and future but disliked telling what he knew ), Stephen ambles along the strand as his thoughts are related in the form of an interior monologue.

On this map Ursa Minor is an old woman and three maidens, Draco is four camels and Cepheus was illustrated as a shepherd with sheep and dog.

The pastoral, which tells how Marion resisted the knight, and remained faithful to Robert the shepherd, is based on an old chanson, Robin m ' aime, Robin m ' a.

Yrsa was set to live as a shepherd, until she was 12 years old, when she met her father Helgi who fell in love with her, not knowing it was his daughter.

Yrsa was set to live as a shepherd until she was 12 years old, when she met her father Helgi who fell in love with her, not knowing it was his daughter.

For instance, someone may remember that a grandfather who used to walk the hills as a shepherd used to talk about columns from an old temple, although the descendant never saw the ruins.

Lars Einnicken ( meaning Lars fall-asleep ), the shepherd, appears to be very old and sleepy, which is why he sleeps most of the time and walks around only slowly.

On the way to the king they meet an old shepherd Gadariya ( Amitabh Bachchan ) who helps them out.

He was lucky again, as the shepherd who came upon him eating a lamb was an old friend.

The spring landscape is woven in vivid colors: trees in bloom, a shepherd with a flock of sheep, a girl listening to the sounds of his reed-pipe, and an old man with a tobacco pipe, talking to a peasant.

" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

Richard Nelson explains: The needs of the centralised monarchy favoured a single story of origins combining old traditions of an exodus from Egypt, belief in a national god as " divine warrior ," and explanations for ruined cities, social stratification and ethnic groups, and contemporary tribes.

As doctor Byron Plant explains: " Vaccination is the more commonly used term, which actually consists of a " safe " injection of a sample taken from a cow suffering from cowpox ... Inoculation, a practice probably as old as the disease itself, is the injection of the variola virus taken from a pustule or scab of a smallpox sufferer into the superficial layers of the skin, commonly on the upper arm of the subject.

One day an old family servant, Tyrkir, goes missing and is found mumbling to himself ; he eventually explains that he has found grapes.

The assumption of an inhibition deficit in old age has received much empirical support but so far it is not clear whether the decline in inhibitory ability fully explains the decline of working-memory capacity.

Another theory explains Bolesław I's absence from the document through an old Slavic custom whereby children received their inheritance as soon as they reached the age of majority.

The Stonecutter is an old Japanese fairy tale with a story that explains social and natural hierarchies as a strange loop.

To ameliorate the situation the old Republic maintained a policy of severe austerity during the century, especially economizing on its defense outlays ( which in large part explains why its military and political role declined so much ).

Immortal Technique explains how party content played a big part in old school hip hop, in the book How to Rap: " hip-hop was born in an era of social turmoil ... in the same way that slaves used to sing songs on a plantation ... that's the party songs that we used to have ".

Additionally, in Act 3, Scene 2, Tranio is briefly presented as an old friend of Petruchio, who knows his mannerisms and explains his tardiness prior to the wedding, a role which, up until now, had been performed by Hortensio.

" in Star Wars Tales explains that Anakin found the parts in a junk heap, and guessed they were very old ).

The CIA World Fact book number has since been adjusted with a note of former inconstancies, and explains the difference on the old numbers from the government not including the " first modern census of Bhutan, conducted in 2005 ".

He explains that worship of Athena was retained as a cult because it was too strong to be suppressed, but she was recast as a child of Zeus in new myths, even given the previously incomprehensible role of justifying what would have been a horrific crime against the old religious customs.

" While not explained in the book, a footnote of the original radio scripts explains that " just before arriving ( on Earth ) he registered his new name officially at the Galactic Nomenclaturoid Office, where they had the technology to unpick his old name from the fabric of space / time and thread the new one in its place, so that to all intents and purposes his name had always been and would always be Ford Prefect.

On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are several old buildings which for many years housed the historic Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the main building explains.

She is awakened as a Senshi by the white cat Artemis when she is thirteen years old and instructed that she has a duty to become the beautiful warrior, Sailor V. Artemis explains that Venus and Earth are " twin planets " of about the same size and weight, that Venus is her " mother star ", and that she must protect Earth from its enemies.

For example, Dupin explains how an eight-year old boy made a small fortune from his friends at a game called " Odds and Evens.

The Gospel explains how these old prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus ’ crucifixion.

Near the end, in the land of Oobladee, she is eventually magically transformed into a frail, old woman with a cane, who explains the reasons for which she was left to explore much darker horizons, sexually.

Archaeologist Junko Habu claims that " The majority of Japanese scholars believed, and still believe, that pottery production was first invented in mainland Asia and subsequently introduced into the Japanese archipelago ," and explains that " A series of excavations in the Amur River Basin in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that pottery in this region may be as old as, if not older than, Fukui Cave pottery ", which dates to around 10, 700 and was found in 1960.

This fact explains why Botafogo has a large amount of fans over 60 years old.

Mr. Tootenheimer, the " old philosopher ," explains to her that every man is composed of many things, and that the puppets represent aspects of Villeridge's real personality:

Rhoda later visits Oliver and explains Anne's bad manners: Anne, after her father's death and before old friend Rhoda came to her rescue, worked as a live-in companion ; one employer, a Mrs. Benson, had taken hat paint — poison — from a medicine bottle and died.

" She's seventeen y ' ars old ", explains Mammy, " and she hain't had a date fo ' nine hunnerd y ' ars!

Having signed away his rights old Philpot offers to marry her, but the lawyer reveals himself as Beaufort, and explains that he has swapped the deeds, so that Philpot has unwittingly signed his agreement for Maria to marry Beaufort.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.

His legs suddenly feel heavy and unaccountably weary, as if he had walked for miles, instead of strolling a few hundred yards along the old campus paths.

It is not much better if he meets with old classmates.

It is, if anything, worse on the old player

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

He wondered if it wore the old anxiety, or the old, taut stoicism.

In many cases that statement -- `` We break even on our downtown operation and make money on our branches '' -- would be turned around if the cost analysis were recalculated on terms less prejudicial to the old store.

An imaginative storyteller, Pimen takes on the character he describes, as if he were experiencing the old shepherd's blindness and miraculous cure.

Damned if that wasn't a sailing ship standing out of the old harbor -- Porto Vecchio.

It's perfectly normal for babies to suck their thumbs, and no mother need worry if a child continues this habit until he is two or three years old.

I'm going to become a good nurse, and I've got two baby brothers that are going to have college if I have to work at my profession until I'm an old maid to give it to them ''.

It'll be a tedious job, but if you want to try it, the old newspaper files are in the basement here in the county supervisor's office ''.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

But you realize, I am sure, how much old deeds incite to new ones, and you must forgive me if I tell you first of the old ones.

There is an inwardness and a luster to old furniture ( look at that mahogany highboy behind you ) which has a provocative emanation, if I may say so.

By then, the stranger was thanking Haney profusely and had one arm around his shoulders as if he were an old friend.

or even old Byron Nelson, whose excellent 71 made one wonder if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf.

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

So you sit in the car and listen to the air run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in front of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.

All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?