In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

The chimney of the hut across from him was surmounted by a beef barrel with ends knocked out.

Pullen James humbly lowered his head, pushed aside the hardtack-box door of the hut, and was gone from sight.

Those selected were taken to a hut where their flesh was cut from their bodies while they were alive and they were thrown into a ditch where they later died.

The Javanese people of Indonesia called this constellation Gubug pèncèng (" raking hut ") or lumbung (" the granary "), because the shape of the constellation was like a raking hut.

Shortly after leaving the monastery, Rasputin visited a holy man named Makariy whose hut was nearby.

From his retirement in his modest chacra ( cottage or hut ) at Ibaray, near Asunción, he told countless ordinary citizens who came to visit him that their revolution had been betrayed, that the change in government had only traded a Spanish-born elite for a criollo one, and that the present government was incompetent and mismanaged.

The South Australia Police was formed later that year to protect the community and enforce government regulations and the first gaol, a two roomed hut, was opened on 1 January 1839.

Theseus did capture the bull, but when he returned to Hecale's hut, she was dead.

Kekkonen was born in a humble, small hut ( dwelling ) | hut called Lepikon Torppa in Pielavesi.

During Rama's exile in the forest, Ravana kidnapped his wife Sita from their hut while Rama was hunting a golden deer, and his brother Lakshman went after him.

The first season was shot in a rusty military Quonset hut in Pearl City, which the various cast members quickly nicknamed " Mongoose Manor.

After the basic meaning was forgotten, they added a variant word of Old High German gadem ‘ room, one-room hut ’, implying the same meaning: ‘ hay shed ’.

In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the TCF production " Escape " ( one of the stars of which was William Hartnell ), and a minor role as a pirate in Treasure Island appearing only during the attack on the heroes ' hut.

One particular tape scene, of Jim finding a tape in a parking lot attendant's hut, was actually used in three widely-scattered episodes: " The Astrologer ", " Recovery " and " The Vault ".

A ski hut was erected at Mount Baw Baw, just 120 km East of Melbourne, in 1945 and a ski rope tow added in 1955.

However, the weather in the summer was hot and the hut leaked in the rain.

He was last seen at the hut of Englishman Edward " Ned " Gurney, a bullock hunter and escaped convict.

There are the remains of a chapel a-top the island, which was later became a " huers hut " — a place where fishermen would make a " hue and cry " call to inform other fishermen of shoals of pilchards.

A simple shelter was made at the foot of the mountain near the Biferten Glacier, the Grünhorn Hut, which was the first mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.

If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.

It was Pullen James, the campmate of Simms Purdew.

Let's Dance was followed by the Serious Moonlight Tour, during which Bowie was accompanied by guitarist Earl Slick and backing vocalists Frank and George Simms.

The first person to develop the idea of a high-tension magneto was Andre Boudeville, but his design omitted a condenser ( capacitor ); Frederick Richard Simms in partnership with Robert Bosch were the first to develop a practical high-tension magneto.

In addition to Phil Simms and Lawrence Taylor, the team was led during this period by head coach Bill Parcells, tight end Mark Bavaro, running back Joe Morris, and Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson.

Simms, who was named the Super Bowl MVP, finished the game with 22 of 25 passes completed for 268 yards and three touchdowns.

Simms ' main target was tight end Mark Bavaro, who caught 66 passes for 1, 001 yards and 4 touchdowns.

Super Bowl XXI MVP Phil Simms was the first athlete to appear in a " I'm going to Disney World!

In addition Brad Benson and Bart Oates drenched Simms with a cooler of ice water ; " I think it was very appropriate to cool the guy down ," Oates explained, " as hot as he was in the game.

The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC, with play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg and color commentators Phil Simms and Paul Maguire.

The album was written and recorded by Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, and Robert Grey ( no guests involved ), but speaking to Marc Riley on the day of the release, Newman introduced as " a new boy " guitarist Matt Simms ( from It Hugs Back ) who's been with the band since April 2010 as a touring member.

Adding to that, he had a tendency towards pomposity and was considered stiff and inapproachable, with even his own aide Ruth McCormick Simms once describing him as " cold, cold as a February iceberg ".

Amy Crawford, in Smithsonian Magazine, stated that modern historians such as William Gilmore Simms and Hugh Rankin have written accurate biographies of Marion, including Simms ’ “ The Life of Francis Marion .” The introduction to the 2007 edition of Simms ' book was written by Sean Busick, a professor of American history at Athens State University in Alabama, who wrote,

Simms ' book was published a few months after Stowe's novel, and it contains a number of sections and discussions disputing Stowe's book and her view of slavery.

A play, written by Miller and Robert Rossen based on the novel, was first shown in Philadelphia and then twice at Broadway's Eugene O ' Neill Theatre on February 22 and 23, 1960, featuring Raymond St. Jacques, James Earl Jones, Calvin Lockhart, Hilda Simms, and others.

The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios.

The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.

most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.

But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

The flowers on his grave attested to the fact that he as well was somebody's hero.

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

Mantle's hero was Joe DiMaggio.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

Actaeon (; ), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (; Greek:, Aineías, derived from Greek meaning " to praise ") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

Ajax () was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris.

The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

Ajax or Aias ( or ; ) was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea, and king of Salamis.