Gondomar's friends at court, the bien intencionados of his dispatches centered upon the Howards, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton ( died 1614 ), Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer, whose daughter was married to James's favourite, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and their protégés.

It was suggested by William Warburton that Florio is satirised by William Shakespeare in the character of Holofernes, the pompous pedant of Love's Labors Lost, but it as likely, especially as he was one of the Earl of Southampton's protégés, that he was among the personal friends of the dramatist, who may have gained knowledge of French and Italian literature from him.

The Budapest String Quartet was formed in 1917 by four friends, all members of opera orchestras that had ceased playing owing to World War I The members were all protégés of Jenő Hubay ( violin ), a Hungarian pupil of Joseph Joachim and David Popper ( cello ), a Bohemian.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

Ann was entranced with the view, as were her husband and friends.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

With these and similar tales he was entertaining his English friends, all of whom he was seeing when he was not showing Blackman the sights of London and its environs.

His `` articulate Jewish friends '' convinced him that education ( read `` reading '' ) was `` a must ''.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

The kiss outraged our friends but it was done and meanwhile had released in me all the remote, exciting premonitions of lust, all the mysterious sensations that I had imagined a truly consummated kiss would convey to me.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough.

I have so much respect for Nic Cage as an actor and I think it really could have worked with Nic but, you know, Nic was incredibly supportive of Mickey and he is old friends with Mickey and really wanted to help with this opportunity, so he pulled himself out of the race.

A strict and incredibly delusional disciplinarian with a dictator-like personality, he has no friends among the Scooby Gang or any other student for that matter, except the swim team.

Two friends ; the eloquent, intellectual but incredibly prideful Jean and the simplistic, shy, kind-hearted drunkard Berenger ; meet up in a coffee house to talk about an unspecified urgent matter.

" In May 2010, Hill revealed that leaving Coronation Street was a big risk for him, Reflecting on his stint on the soap opera, Hill told the Birmingham Post: " I got paid incredibly well, and starring in Coronation Street was a very enjoyable job, and I made really good friends.

He lived in Athens as a vegetarian bachelor, prosperous and generous to his friends, until the end of his life, except for a voluntary one year exile, which was designed to lessen the pressure put on him by his political-philosophical activity, little appreciated by the Christian rulers ; he spent the exile traveling and being initiated into various mystery cults as befitted his universalist approach to religion, trying to become " a priest of the entire universe ", worshiping all forms of the One God.

My partner was in a play with him in the ' 70s and said he was a lovely man, very generous with friends and generous with fellow actors on stage as well.

During the raid which promises generous rewards to Han and his compatriots, Tharen's Red Hand Squadron double crosses Lando and the rest of Han's friends.

Despite his macabre sense of humour, he was extremely generous, and would go out of his way to help those whom he considered friends.

He had literary tastes and wrote poems ; one of his closest friends was the poet Donne, and he was generous to Ben Jonson, Massinger and others.

" President Alan García ( must ) realize that Peru is much greater, much deeper, more generous and more warlike than the rich friends that surround him .”

She gained a reputation for generous giving, often feeding and lending money to friends and stranger alike.

Furthermore, Machiavelli " was too thoughtful not to know what he was doing and too generous not to admit it to his reasonable friends ".

She was described as independent, outspoken, and given to poignant epithets, and as warm and generous to her few close friends.

Both Leopold and Loeb had been receiving generous allowances from their families, enough to purchase tobacco and various other items for their cellmates and friends.

He was a man of generous impulses and unselfish disposition, loyal to his friends to the verge of self-sacrifice ( as is shown by his leaving Delia to accompany Messalla to Asia ), and apparently constant to his mistresses.

He had good friends, however, in his old master, Oswald Myconius, and subsequently in Heinrich Bullinger, and he was enabled to continue his studies at the universities of Strassburg and Bourges ( 1532 – 1533 ); in Paris, he found a generous patron in the person of Job Steiger of Berne.

< center > THE GURKHA SOLDIER Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had country more faithful friends than you.

Yet he is also said to have been very generous with all his friends and acquaintances, and never isolated friends from one another.

He was a strenuous and uncompromising fighter, a strong Party man, but he harboured no resentments, and was generous to a fault in appreciation of the work of others, whether friends or foes.

Despite great success and appreciation among artists, collectors, and the more generous critics, his many friends considered, nevertheless, that he was officially neglected, and in 1874, a short time before his death, they presented him with a gold medal.

They became warm friends and generous rivals, though Leyden excelled, perhaps, in the rapid acquisition of new tongues and acquaintance with their literature, while Murray was the more scientific philologist.

In a 1993 Outside magazine article about Christopher McCandless that he later expanded into the best-selling book, Into the Wild ( which was also made into a film ), Jon Krakauer summarizes the portrait of Christopher painted by friends, family, and schoolmates thusly: " McCandless could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify throughout his college years.

Dr Johnson, who was one of his staunchest friends, said he had come to live the life of an outlaw, but he was generous and to a small circle of friends civil and kind.

With the co-operation of management and staff, couple with the generous help of parents, past pupils and friends of the Society, the present main school building, the Griffin Building, was opened in 1969.