Although respectful of Gounod, Verdi was careful not to learn anything from the Frenchman whom many of Verdi's contemporaries regarded as the greatest living composer.

His Army friends gave him many nicknames: " Little Creole ", " Bory ", " Little Frenchman ", " Felix ", and " Little Napoleon ".

It was after this truce when quarterback Frenchman conceived the plan of battle, given his comments on the Spanish countryside, and in view of the large number of failures, which were many and glaring.

In Ancient Egypt barques, referred to using the French word as Egyptian hieroglyphs were first translated by the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion, were a type of boat used from Egypt's earliest recorded times and are depicted in many drawings, paintings, and reliefs that document the culture.

As a German who had become a naturalised Frenchman, he undertook the translation of many contemporary German works of natural philosophy into French.

In Planet Simpson, author Chris Turner notes that many of the episode's French characters and settings are derived largely from American stereotypes of France, writing " and Ugolin are perfect embodiments of the stereotypical Frenchman so loathed in the United States.

For many years Moreau was the primary French contender for the general classification in the Tour de France: he finished in the top 12 in the GC five times and finished the race as best Frenchman in 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Saint-Étienne returned to the first division after the war under the Austrian-born Frenchman Ignace Tax and surprise many by finishing runner-up to Lille in the first season after the war.

Lady Jane Grey was, like Mary Queen of Scots, a female whose sufferings attracted many painters, though none quite matched The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, one of many British historical subjects by the Frenchman Paul Delaroche.

Among the fighters who " ducked " Burley were Hall of Famers Billy Conn ( who fought Joe Louis for the heavyweight title ), Frenchman Marcel Cerdan ( who was supposed to face Burley in his American debut ), Jake LaMotta ( who had fought the likes of powerpuncher Bob Satterfield, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Holman Williams, who was Burley's greatest rival ), and even Sugar Ray Robinson, considered by many boxing historians as the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

The Frenchman Michael Llodra has been considered by many to be the best pure serve and volleyer of today's game.

On numerous occasions, many students from Rancho would alter the E on Frenchman Mountain into an R prior to its football game with the Sundevils.

On finding the monkey, some locals decided to hold an impromptu trial in the town square ; since the monkey was unable to answer their questions, and many locals were unaware of what a Frenchman may look like, they concluded that the monkey was in fact a French sailor.

I answered, that in Ireland we had no great confidence in the officers of the old Irish Brigade, so many of them had either deserted, or betrayed the French cause, that, as to Jennings, he had had the unfortunate misfortune to command after Custine, and had been obliged to break up the famous " Camp de Caesar ", that, though this might probably have been no fault of his, it had made an impression, and, as he was at any rate not a fortunate general but a typical Irish soldier of fortune, I thought it would maybe better to have a Frenchman.

The phenomenon was also studied by contemporaries of Hauksbee, including the Frenchman Pierre Polinière and a French mathematician, Gabriel-Philippe de la Hire, and subsequently by many others.

On a bus from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they befriend a Frenchman named Louis Bernard ( Daniel Gelin ), who is friendly enough, but Jo becomes suspicious at his many questions and evasive answers, and thinks he is hiding something.

After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

No matter how many registry rocks they came to on this journey, each one exerted its own appeal.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Unlike so many of the power-starved intellectuals in underdeveloped nations of our own day, they commanded both prestige and influence before the Revolution started.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

Finally, we must be willing to forgive others as many times as they sin against us.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

Clumps of brush that they passed were so many enchained demons straining in anger to tear and gnaw on his bones.

Stevie had heard these words many times, yet on each occasion they caused him to tremble.

The two in the bed knew each other as old people know the partners with whom they have shared the same bed for many years, and they needed to say no more.

This friend of many years came once to visit us in the house at Weston.

Once many years ago I sat at dinner next to Arthur Train, and the subject of The Nation came up.

Then the Communese reply came back from many mouthpieces with striking consistency.

And then the questions came, eager, interested questions, and many compliments on his having overcome his infirmity.

Following Mr. Brown's death, there came forward in the Brown & Sharpe organization many other men who contributed greatly to the development of the company.

The old nightmare which had caused him so many wakeful hours came charging in on him once more, only this time he couldn't pacify it with a sleeping pill and send it away.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

if we could see more deeply, we probably would find many side issues and wrong turnings which came to an end within the period.

many came from Communist countries.

He said many of his ideas came from dreams ; throughout his writing life he arranged to be awakened every 90 minutes during his sleep period so he could write down his dreams.

BZNS came to power in 1919 and introduces many economic, social, and legal reforms.

Since Alexander's work in the field came at the turn of the century, his ideas influenced many originators in the field of mind-body improvement.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

This came as no surprise, since Abdallah had already demonstrated his affection for his grandson in many ways, namely by allowing him to live in his own tower ( something he did not allow for any of his sons ), and allowing him to sit on the throne on some festive occasions.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Out of the Samanid dynasty came the Ghaznavids, whose warriors forged the first great Islamic empire from Ghazni ( Afghanistan ) that spanned much of the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and conducted many successful raids into India.

Here, many came to visit him and to hear his teachings.

For over a century biblical scholars believed that Chronicles and the narrative portions of Ezra-Nehemiah came from the same author, but many scholars now believe this to be improbable.

So many Englishmen and Gascons came to that part, that perforce they opened the king's battle, so that the Frenchmen were so mingled among their enemies that sometime there was five men upon one gentleman.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

They concluded that it could " mislead the viewer as to the true nature of the product " as the advert contained so many pieces of Caribbean imagery, one might conclude it came from Cuba.

There are many theories as to how the name Marie came to be associated with this equipment: