Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

Though the accused raised many other objections, he did not object on this crucial point at any stage of the proceedings.

Though Elizabeth followed a largely defensive foreign policy, her reign raised England's status abroad.

Though containing some Egyptian and French neo-Classicist features, the design was basically a huge Greek temple in the Doric style, loosely modelled on the Parthenon in Athens, though raised up on an enormous geometric plinth and flanked by numerous obelisks ( the Egyptian element ).

Though baptized Roman Catholic, he was raised Anglican and in his later life he returned to the Roman Catholic faith.

Though each possible answer to this raised question contradict one another, they are both correct.

Though he raised the glory of Ferrara to its highest point, and was the patron of Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini, favouring the arts and sciences, as the princes of his house had always done, the legitimate line ended in 1597 with him.

Though text-based cybersex has been in practice for decades, the increased popularity of webcams has raised the number of online partners using two-way video connections to " expose " themselves to each other online — giving the act of cybersex a more visual aspect.

Though he died in Padua, he was born and raised in a wealthy family in Lisbon.

Though none of the original buildings remain, the unusual layout ( raised inner mounds, but no outer defensive ditch ) is still clearly visible.

Though born in Traverse City, actor David Wayne was raised in Bloomingdale.

Though the Tokugawa forces had a distinct advantage in numbers, Yoshinobu abandoned his army in the midst of the fight once he realized the Satsuma and Choshu forces raised the Imperial banner, and escaped to Edo.

( Though born in New York, John was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended Temple University ) Then, on December 11, both Hall and Oates appeared on the year's last episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Though they weren't raised in the same household until Thomas was a grown-up and despite the fact that Ridge never legally adopted her, Hope and Ridge considered each other father and daughter.

Though born in Northampton, England, in 1929, she was raised in Ireland.

Though a British national, Scott was born in East Africa, where she was raised speaking English and Swahili, before moving to live in Ghana, West Africa.

Though born and raised in their parents ’ country of habitual residence, they lack formal recognition of their existence.

Though raised at 69, Rue de Courcelles, in Paris, Antoine continued to oversee the Bibesco estates in Craiova until after World War II.

Though he was born in Kansas City, Missouri, Holden was raised on a farm in the Ozarks near Birch Tree.

Though born in Florida, Thomas was raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Though Reynolds agreed with Félibien about the natural order of the genres, he held that an important work from any genre of painting could be produced under the hand of genius: " Whether it is the human figure, an animal, or even inanimate objects, there is nothing, however unpromising in appearance, but may be raised into dignity, convey sentiment, and produce emotion, in the hands of a painter of genius.

Though European academies usually strictly insisted on this hierarchy, over their reign, many artists were able to invent new genres which raised the lower subjects to the importance of history painting.

Though ' raised ' air beds are off the ground they are not designed for full time use, as the base of the bed is an air chamber and not a solid foundation.

Though the concept was raised as early as 1938, plans were not submitted to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring until 1942.

Though pagan, Marcellinus was mostly tolerant of Christians.

Though Christianity grow in the region under Olga's rule, Vladimir had remained a thoroughgoing pagan, taking eight hundred concubines ( besides numerous wives ) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods.

Though the surviving town was insignificant, the long-hallowed pagan site must have retained significance for Christians given that a Bishop Theodorus of Dodona attended the First Council of Ephesus in 431 CE.

Though place-names show that Anglo-Saxon settlement was widespread in the territory, the limited spread of pagan burials, along with two eccles place-names that invariably identify Roman-British churches, suggests that Christianity survived the influx.

Though common in pagan burials, the label " slave " is never met with in the catacombs.

Though the book is not considered an historical account of the Khazar's conversion to Judaism, British scholar D. M. Dunlop postulated that R ' Yehuda Halevi had access to Khazar documents upon which he loosely based his work, however in this case the pagan is just a stereotype rather than using actual quotes.

Though a Christian symbol, it possibly derives from the pagan sunwheel.

Though the satyrs ' worship of Una in 1. 6 " as Queene ," " as Goddesse ," and as " th ' Image of Idolatryes ," is explicitly an antitype of proper reverence, the episode mischievously betrays the pagan and Petrarchan sources that inform, deform, or reform the sublimation of sexual desire into religious desire.

Though virtually nothing is known about them, Hungarian minstrels existed throughout the Middle Ages and may have kept ancient pagan religious practices alive.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

Though he was glad she got on well with his young folks, she ought to be welcome at the finest house in the land, too.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

Though she suffered from consumption, Eliza supported Johnson's endeavors.

Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer.

Though she did not categorically confirm that she was approached to do the reboot, Morris is not opposed to the idea, provided that production would not interfere with her Glee duties.

Though Naomi was a destitute widow at the time she re-entered Bethlehem, yet by the end of the narrative, we see her embracing her grandson as her foster-child.

" Though she claims thousands of followers, mostly in Germany, there has been no verification that any have lived for extended periods without food.

Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.

Though Beaux admired Eakins more and thought his painting skill superior to Sartain's, she preferred the latter's gentle teaching style which promoted no particular aesthetic approach.

Though she abandons the ship several times during the course of the series, her attachment to the crew always brings her back.

Though she later appeared in films Naked in New York ( 1993 ) and Getting In ( 1994 ), her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.

Though Flockhart at first hesitated due to the necessary commitment to the show in a negotiable contract, she was swayed by the script and traveled to Los Angeles to audition for the part, which she won.

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.