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In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.
It was fairly common in Ireland at this time for young boys, particularly those of noble birth, to be fostered out ; the practice was also likely to have been common among the Germanic peoples in England.
Several candidates were presented to him including one young woman from a noble family.
This was a highly prestigious Japanese family, so lofty that the older and more powerful noble, Saionji Kinmochi, addressed the young student as " your Excellency " when he first met him.
His son Sancho II of Castile wanted to reunite the kingdom of his father and attacked his brothers, with a young noble at his side: Rodrigo Díaz ( later known as El Cid Campeador ).
However, Watson did not condone Holmes's plans when they manipulated innocent people, such as when he toyed with a young woman's heart in " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton " although it was done with noble intentions to save many other young women from the clutches of the villainous Milverton.
Fostering is possibly a sign of noble birth, as are references to his riding a horse when young.
In the autumn, Mortimer was investigating another plot against him, when he challenged a young noble, Montague, during an interrogation.
* At a grand celebration of his daughter Cleopatra's marriage to Alexander I of Epirus ( brother of Olympias ), Philip II is assassinated at Aegae by Pausanias of Orestis, a young Macedonian noble with a bitter grievance against the young queen's uncle Attalus and against Philip for denying him justice.
* Door – A young woman from London Below, the daughter of a noble family who were all murdered shortly before the beginning of the story.
The Merovingian boy-kings remained ineffective rulers who inherited the throne as young children and lived only long enough to produce a male heir or two, while real power lay in the hands of the noble families who exercised feudal control over most of the land.
Narseh probably moved to eliminate Bahram III, a young man installed by a noble named Vahunam in the wake of Bahram II's death in 293.
He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of Theobald IV, count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin.
To replenish her diminishing stable, Erzsebet offered to teach social graces to young women from noble families, and when they arrived at the castle she had her pick.
Boethius, of the noble Anicia family, entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25.
He received a Huguenot education and the usual training of a young noble of the time, but physical infirmity, and particularly an impediment of speech ( which he never lost ), hampered his progress, though he showed a marked partiality for history and geography, and especial admiration of the exploits of Alexander the Great and Caesar.
Clinton also complicated their relationship by treating the young duke more as an equal than as a noble who should be respected.
He would have been roughly age 17 on 30 June 1484 when he was named moço fidalgo ( noble page ; a minor title then commonly granted to young nobles ) by King Dom João II.
He fell in love with Luscinda, daughter of another noble family at a young age, and grows up with her until they reach maturity and her father gently suggests that for the two to continue their public rapport would invite scandal.
It evolved to a general denotation of a young or lesser noble, often poor and politically insignificant, understood as " country squire " ( cf.
The 16th century Saxon historian Gáspár Heltai made Hunyadi the illegitimate son of king Sigismund and the young noble Erzsébet Morzsinay.
Initially, he started a selection process of eligible noble young ladies ( after declaring, in accordance with ancient customs, that Emperor Ping would have one wife and 11 concubines ).
At the outset, Prince Hal seems to pale in comparison with the fiery Henry Percy, the young noble lord of the North ( whom Shakespeare portrays considerably younger than he was in history in order to provide a foil for Hal ).

young and ends
** Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youths and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
** A trial for the custody of young Gloria Vanderbilt begins ; it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise.
The story ends with some young travelers they help telling them about the nuclear war, and how the world is ending.
By means of these scars one can determine the age of any young branch, since each year's growth ends in the formation of a bud, the formation of which produces an additional group of bud scale scars.
The conversation ends with Socrates ' announcement that he has to go to court to answer to the charges that he has been corrupting the young and failing to worship Athenian gods.
The play ends abruptly with a telephone call, taken by Arthur, who reports that the body of a young woman has been found, a suspected case of suicide by disinfectant, and that the local police are on their way to question the Birlings.
Described by the composer as a " poème dansé " it depicts a young Persian prince who travels to the ends of the Earth in a quest to find the lotus flower of immortality, coming across its guardian, the Péri ( fairy ).
As a young woman she has a tumultuous relationship with Judy, which ends badly.
He ends the day spontaneously deciding to go home with a young, free-spirited hitchhiker, whose ignorance of his generation underscores his isolation from the world around him.
Alexandra Moltke, a young actress with little experience, was discovered and cast in the role of Victoria Winters, an orphan who ends up in the mysterious town of Collinsport, Maine, to unravel the mysteries of her own past.
Susan, the hefty chambermaid joins in, and it is only the arrival of a young lady and maid that ends the battle.
The novel ends on a sinister note: " Pronounce to yourself the words that years later haven't ceased to resound through my nights, and which I will speak at last through your mouth: " O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!
The movie ends as Hannah, satisfied with the kind of young man her son has become, and that he is on the right path in life, leaves with Peter believing that his adoptive parents are his biological parents.
Having saved Fourecks, Rincewind and the Wizards return to Ankh-Morpork by ship, and the story ends with the old man with the sack ( the Creator of the last continent ) catching the bullroarer in front of a young boy.
He tries to read and answer all his mail by himself and finds that the volume is too much and he needs to rely on secretaries ; he is exasperated with his ministers and has them arrested, but soon realises that he does not know enough to govern by himself, and is forced to release the ministers and institute constitutional monarchy ; when a war breaks out he does not accept being shut up in his palace, but slips away and joins up, pretending to be a peasant boy-and narrowly avoids becoming a POW ; he takes the offer of a friendly journalist to publish for him a " royal paper "-and finds much later that he gets carefully edited news and that the journalist is covering up the gross corruption of the young king's best friend ; he tries to organise the children of all the world to hold processions and demand their rights – and ends up antagonising other kings ; he falls in love with a black African princess and outrages racist opinion ( by modern standards, however, Korczak's depiction of blacks is itself not completely free of stereotypes which were current at the time of writing ); finally, he is overthrown by the invasion of three foreign armies and exiled to a desert island, where he must come to terms with reality – and finally does.
The movie ends with a scene when a young girl next to him chides him gently by correcting his way of singing a basic song note.
Assessments vary as to whether she was a deliberate fraud, a young woman traumatized into adopting a new identity, or used by her supporters for their own ends.
The young, immature and carefree Effi, still practically a child, but attracted by notions of social honour, consents to live in the small Baltic town of Kessin, where she ends up in the throes of an emotional crisis.
Alexandra's mother objected bitterly to the potential union since the young man was so poor, to which her daughter replied that she would work as a teacher to help make ends meet.
The film ends as Nina, George, and young Molly ( Sarah Hyland ) ( who refers to George as her " Uncle George ") walk together down the sidewalk, hand-in-hand, on their way to get coffee.
In a letter to his literary agent, published only many years later, Heinlein wrote that revising the story was " like revising Romeo and Juliet to let the young lovers live happily ever after " and that " changing the end isn't real life, because in real life, not everything ends happily.
** On the Smallville TV series, a young Lex Luthor clone called Alexander Luthor turns out to have 50 % Kryptonian DNA ( from Clark ); his hair changes from red to Clark's hair color and he ends up being given the name " Conner Kent ".
When Howl was young, he gave Calcifer his heart in order for the fire demon to continue living because he felt sorry for him-this is implied to have sapped his humanity somewhat, and will continue to do so till he ends up like the Witch of the Waste.
He went on to criticize Fétis in one of the monologues of Lélio, ou le Retour é la vie, the 1832 sequel to Symphonie Fantastique: “ These young theorists of eighty, living in the midst of a sea of prejudices and persuaded that the world ends with the shores of their island ; these old libertines of every age who demand that music caress and amuse them, never admitting that the chaste muse could have a more noble mission ; especially these desecrators who dare lay hands on original works, subjecting them to horrible mutilations that they call corrections and perfections, which, they say, require considerable taste.
The story is narrated in the first person by Frank Chambers, a young drifter who stops at a rural California diner for a meal, and ends up working there.

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