Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

Any person who makes application for any such payment shall be held to have consented to all the provisions of this Title.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The person who left the buggy there has never been identified.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

Lucien is not the only person in this house who could have put opium in that coffee.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

`` A person with a master's degree in physics, chemistry, math or English, yet who has not taken Education courses, is not permitted to teach in the public schools '', said Grover.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

Is the requirement that the plaintiff be a person actually denied admission to a school a sound requirement??

It is very important indeed, in the field of extra-sensory perception and its relation to the survival hypothesis, to know whether the statements are actually only those which any intuitive person might venture and an eager sitter attach to himself.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

As it is mainly West-Franconian historiography that speaks of Arnulf's illegitimacy, it is quite feasible that the two females are one and the same person and that Carloman later on actually married Liutswind, thus legitimizing his son.

The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to lie in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life.

( Claudius is actually the last person known to have been able to read Etruscan.

This was actually the formal name of a person, used by older people to address him, and the one he would use the most in the first decades of his life ( as the person grew older, younger generations would have to use one of the courtesy names instead ).

According to Cyril's theology, there were two states for the Son: the state that existed prior to the Son ( or Word / Logos ) becoming enfleshed in the person of Jesus and the state that actually became enfleshed.

" Beauchamp & Davidson also highlight Baruch Brody's " an act of euthanasia is one in which one person ... ( A ) kills another person ( B ) for the benefit of the second person, who actually does benefit from being killed ".

: Also known as the continuity person, the Script Supervisor keeps track of what parts of the script have been filmed and makes notes of any deviations between what was actually filmed and what appeared in the script.

Higgins writes in the first person of finding the graves of 13 German paratroopers in an English churchyard, an event known not to have actually occurred, and claims that the book stems from his research into actual events.

There has been debate in Australia and Canada as to which person is actually considered head of state.

From these accounts, it is known that the Chinese banned the practice of using smallpox material from patients who actually had the full-blown disease of Variola major ( considered too dangerous ); instead they used proxy material of a cotton plug inserted into the nose of a person who had already been inoculated and had only a few scabs, i. e. Variola minor.

The person actually nominated was Cordell Hull.

Dowland's melancholic lyrics and music have often been described as his attempts to develop an " artistic persona " though he was actually a cheerful person, but many of his own personal complaints, and the tone of bitterness in many of his comments, suggest that much of his music and his melancholy truly did come from his own personality and frustration.

" No phenomenon is mortal ," Malevich wrote in an unpublished manuscript, " and this means not only the body but the idea as well, a symbol that one is eternally reincarnated in another form which actually exists in the conscious and unconscious person.

For example, a person may earn " too much " to receive public assistance from the government, but not enough to actually pay for basic necessities.

Martin Noth holds that two different groups experienced the Exodus and Sinai events, and each group transmitted its own stories independently of the other one, writing that " The biblical story tracing the Hebrews from Egypt to Canaan resulted from an editor's weaving separate themes and traditions around a main character Moses, actually an obscure person from Moab.

Automatic rifles ( such as the Browning Automatic Rifle ) were designed to be a high duty cycle arm for support of other troops, and were often made and deployed with quick change barrel assemblies to allow quick replacement of over heated barrels to allow for continued fire, and may have been operated by both the person actually firing the weapon as well as an additional crewman to assist in providing and caring for ammunition and the barrels, similar to a reduced version of a squad weapon ( above ).

Such oaths are often required by the laws of the state, religious body, or other organization before the person may actually exercise the powers of the office or any religious body.

The latter is used to detect whether a message has been altered since it was completed ( the message integrity property ), and the former to determine whether it was actually sent by the person / entity claimed to be the sender ( a digital signature ).

Users must also ensure by some means that the public key in a certificate actually does belong to the person / entity claiming it.