Emperor Henry V and Matilda When Matilda was still in early childhood, envoys from Henry V, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, travelled to England and asked for her hand in marriage.

* When Agamemnon tried to appease Achilles's wrath so that he would fight again, by offering him many gifts, Nestor appointed three envoys to meet Achilles ( Book IX ).

When the envoys returned, Diomedes criticized Nestor ’ s decision and Achilles ' pride saying that Achilles ’ personal choice of leaving Troy is of no importance ( therefore, trying to change it with gifts is useless ).

When Alexander returned to Memphis in April 331 BC, envoys from Greece were waiting for him, saying that the oracles at Didyma and Erythrae, which had been silent for a long time, had suddenly spoken and confirmed that Alexander was the son of Zeus.

When President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War, envoys from both countries stayed at the Wentworth by the Sea, ferried by launch to negotiations held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

When Arthur ’ s envoys return, they report the death of one of Arthur ’ s knights from a demon in the woods.

When Hannibal besieged Saguntum ( now Sagunto ), an ally of Rome, the Saguntines petitioned for assistance, and in response the Senate sent Baebius and Publius Valerius Flaccus as envoys to Spain, with instructions to demand that Hannibal leave Saguntum alone.

When the envoys ( dispatched in order to seek for the future king ) arrived on Ganghwa Island, they found the remaining clan of the Yi's barely surviving in wretched poverty.

When the Han envoys set out again to return to China, the king of Anxi dispatched envoys of his own to accompany them ...

When Nashville arrived on November 21, the British were surprised that the envoys were not on board.

When the USS James Adger arrived in Southampton and Commander Marchand learned from The Times that his targets had arrived in Cuba, he reacted to the news by boasting that he would capture the two envoys within sight of the British shore if necessary, even if they were on a British ship.

: When the Rhodian envoys arrived in Rome the Senate, after listening to their address, deferred its answer.

When they saw Alexander returning with his troops, the Aspendians, who had retreated to their acropolis, again sent envoys to sue for peace.

When the negotiations there for a time proved fruitless, Prokop with the other envoys returned to Bohemia, where new internal troubles broke out.

When the Mongols returned in 1237, Yuri treated their envoys with disdain.

When the papal envoy John of Plano Carpini protested Mongol attacks on the Catholic kingdoms of Europe, Guyuk stated that these people had slain Mongol envoys in the time of Genghis Khan and Ogedei Khan.

When one of Yeku's envoys arrived, Gojong personally met him at his new palace.

When Toregene sent his envoys to negotiate peace, the Song imprisoned them.

When the envoys arrived at Constantinople, the Fourth Council of Constantinople was still in session, and Anastasius, who attended the last session ( February, 870 ), zealously defended the papal cause and was of much service to the papal legates.

When Julian approached with a business-like force, they sent envoys begging for peace in exchange for returning home and promising to stay there.

When Jebe learned of this, he sent 10 envoys to the Prince of Kiev.

When Élisa returned to Tuscany, she found Napoleon still sought to claim payment of these grants via his envoys.

When the Maniots saw the fate of their envoys they decided how to defeat the Ottomans.

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When Thompson and her daughter began a correspondence which included fervent verses from Pantasaph, Mrs. King felt a proper Victorian alarm.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Sir -- When the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize us as a separate political entity.

When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

When the parents emerged from the bedroom a few minutes later, the maid greeted them quietly.

When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

Speaking from long years of experience, Mrs. Long advised the Juniors: `` When showing dogs ceases to be fun and excitement, stop!!

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

When did you last compare your present premium costs with the costs of insurance from other sources??

When the larvae hatch, they feed on the beebread, although they also receive extra honey meals from their mother.

When necessary, we should make it clear that countries which choose to derive marginal advantages from the cold war or to exploit their potential for disrupting the security of the world will not only lose our sympathy but also risk their own prospects for orderly development.

When an occurrence Af is isolated during text reading, a random memory address Af, the address of a cell in the X-region, is computed from the form of Af.

When this situation exists, the address Af will equal Af which was produced from Af.

When entries are being retrieved from this file, the table of dictionary usage indicates which entries to skip and which entries to store in the computer.

When the snobbery that alienates Pip from Joe finally gives way before the deeper and stronger force of love, the reunion is marked by an embarrassed handshake at which Pip exclaims: `` No, don't wipe it off -- for God's sake, give me your blackened hand ''!!