The son and heir of a prominent family marries a girl who has tell-tale shadows on the half-moons of her finger nails.

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a.m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''??

Toys he has can be made to act as substitutes for family temptations such as refrigerator and gas stove.

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

After the family has settled in the shelter, the housekeeping rules should be spelled out by the adult in charge.

but he has not worked out by lexicostatistics one comprehensively complete classification of even a single family other than Salish.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Mr. Shoettle has agreed to do a portrait of the family of the person who wins the door prize.

`` Furhmann's faculty is proud that this has been a spontaneous effort, started largely among the students themselves, because of fondness for Vicky and sympathy for her entire family, Pohly said.

Even the two-year-old feels miffed if the family has a prayer-time without her.

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

The suite has been in the same family since the early 1800's.

The local `` family of God '' has failed its new members through neglect and unconcern for their spiritual welfare.

After Larkin has been persuaded to restock his tangled acres with pheasants, he poaches only what he needs for the nourishment of his family and local callers.

Television has yet to work out a living arrangement with jazz, which comes to the medium more as an uneasy guest than as a relaxed member of the family.

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

Another cue is having the same family name, especially if rare, and this has been found to increase helping behavior.

Among those who appeared the most basely subservient to these ' exorbitancies ' of the Court, ' Mr. William Prynn was signualarly remarkable ' and attempted to add to these all who ' abjured the family of the Stuarts ' previously, though this motion failed.

Recent U. S. assistance has contributed to a population census and family planning programs ; conservation of Madagascar's remarkable biodiversity, private sector development, agriculture, democracy and governance initiatives ; and media training.

The remarkable vase would have been seen by most of the people with power in Rome, who could give him support and who would know his family and its history but not his origins!

The Pyrenees are relatively as rich in endemic species as the Alps, and among the most remarkable instances of that endemism is the occurrence of the monotypic genus Xatardia ( family Apiaceae ), only on a high alpine pass between the Val d ' Eynes and Catalonia.

Anthony Burgess representatively summarized this conception of the " dream " thus: " Mr. Porter and his family are asleep for the greater part of the book [...] Mr. Porter dreams hard, and we are permitted to share his dream [...] Sleeping, he becomes a remarkable mixture of guilty man, beast, and crawling thing, and he even takes on a new and dreamily appropriate name – Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.

Margaret Thatcher, on receiving the news, hailed him as ' a very remarkable man and a very great patriot ', and said that his dislike of ' selling the family silver ' had never come between them.

The influence of Bare and his family over the development and affairs of one town is rather remarkable for this region.

George Călinescu criticized the book for inconsistencies and " excesses in Dostoyevskianism ", but noted that the Lecca family portrayal was " suggestive ", and that the dramatic scenes were written with " a remarkable poetic calm.

His more immediate family were a remarkable political dynasty themselves.

Occasional members of other orders can be parasitoids ; one of the more remarkable is the moth family Epipyropidae, which are ectoparasitoids of planthoppers and Cicadas.

AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis cited Fawcett's recognition at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards for her " remarkable television work ," and said of all the exclusions: " There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all.

From his earliest youth he manifested a remarkable faculty for the study of languages, and when he came to Scotland as tutor in the marquis of Tweeddale's family at the age of 18 he had already made progress in Sanskrit, Arabic and Hebrew.

This remarkable rodent family has fewer members than most other rodent families with 18 species in 6 genera.

The novel focuses on Molly Bolt, the adopted daughter of a poor family, who possesses remarkable beauty and who is aware of her lesbianism from early childhood.

The Asiatic linsangs Prionodon are remarkable for their morphological resemblance to cats, family Felidae.

David Hume wrote, " It is remarkable that this family of d ' Arcy seems to be the only male descendant of any of the Conqueror's barons now remaining among the Peers.

They were a remarkable family, resilient, politically astute and faithful to the crown and to Ireland.

The siddhas were remarkable for the diversity of their family backgrounds and the dissimilarity of their social roles.

The family was a most remarkable one.

They are stem succulents, described as " cactiform " because of their remarkable similarity to the unrelated cactus family.

Because Ferdinand was the last representative of Kettler's family, a remarkable number of candidates tried to gain the seat of duke during this period.

Using his remarkable musical talent, Tum-Tum, with the effort, support and encouragement of his dedicated, and grateful family, has done much to raise awareness about autism in the Philippines, and now internationally, donating countless hours to fund raising activities for the Autism Society of the Philippines and other organizations for the handicapped.

He worked exclusively in watercolours, yet was so remarkable in this branch of his art for arrangement, drawing, and especially for force and clearness of colour, as to excite the admiration of Rubens, whom he portrayed with all his family.

The Throne Room was originally described as a bridal chambers of the Rezzonico family ; today it is of all the reconstructed chambers perhaps the most remarkable, consisting chiefly of articles pertaining to the Venetian patrician family of Barbarigo.