While sailing from Spain to America in pursuit, his ship was captured by the pirate ship The Sulphur Pit, commanded by the Negro Captain Satan.

While Christianity sees modesty as a virtue and pride as sinful, Machiavelli took a more classical position, seeing ambition, spiritedness, and the pursuit of glory as good and natural things, and part of the virtue and prudence that good princes should have.

While he enjoyed " hot pursuit " much like a little boy playing with toy cars would, he ( and Boss Hogg as well ) never intended for anyone to get seriously hurt.

While the collection of the eggs of wild birds by amateurs was considered a respectable scientific pursuit in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, from the mid 20th Century onwards it was increasingly regarded as being a hobby rather than a scientific discipline.

While the actual pitched battle was short, the French infantry, under Marshal Marmont, and most of all the cavalry, under General Emmanuel de Grouchy, launched a relentless pursuit that rode down the enemy.

While modern liberalism had stressed the pursuit of individual liberty as its highest goal, Strauss felt that there should be a greater interest in the problem of human excellence and political virtue.

While ' young adulthood is filled with avid quests for intimate relationships and other major commitments involving career and life goals ', there is also " a parallel pursuit for the formulation of a set of moral values ".

While the Swedish Pomeranian nobles were subjected to reduction when the late 17th century kings regained political power, the provisions of the peace of Westphalia continued to prevent the pursuit of the uniformity policy in Pomerania until the Holy Roman empire was dissolved in 1806.

While bounty hunters are often skiptracers as well, skiptracing generally refers to the process of searching for an individual through less direct methods than active pursuit and apprehension, such as spies or debt collectors.

" While third stream music would combine classical elements with jazz, the Modern Jazz Quartet used these forms " just to play good, swinging, subtle jazz " and in pursuit of " the joy of collective improvisation and counterpoint.

While his great work of history was still his main pursuit, a crowd of extraordinary little books accompanied and diversified it.

While detailing Martin's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self-deceptions in Martin's path.

While in Glasgow his interest was awakened in geology by the perusal of AC Ramsay's Geology of the Isle of Arran, and from 1855 onwards he devoted his leisure to the pursuit of this science.

While continuing his pursuit of the piano, he was also excited by the prospect of fighting to stop fascism and became very focused on joining the war effort.

While still a student Wettstein began to direct his attention to the special pursuit of his life, the text of the Greek New Testament.

While she did not explicitly mention this in The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman was a witness to one of the pivotal events of the book: the pursuit of the German battle cruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau.

While ruthless in his pursuit of power, he holds to a code of conduct which repays all debts and protects those disadvantaged through no fault of their own.

While making the television pilot The Name is Mannix, Connors dislocated his shoulder running away from a From Russia With Love type pursuit from a helicopter, and broke his left wrist punching a stuntman who happened to be wearing a steel plate on his back.

While Marx never used the term " class consciousness ", he did make the distinction between " class in itself ", which is defined as a category of people having a common relation to the means of production, and a " class for itself ", which is defined as a stratum organized in active pursuit of its own interests.

While Betty and Talbot were on their honeymoon, her father continued his global pursuit of the Hulk, only to be captured by the Soviet scientist known as the Gremlin and sent to a Soviet prison.

While in pursuit of Dark Kat, one of the main arch-villains of the series, the two rebelled against Enforcer Commander Feral's orders to fall back and leave Dark Kat to him.

While the character of Indiana Jones was created by George Lucas, it was Kaufman who came up with the story and the pursuit of the Ark of the Covenant.

While there is some debate as to the exact events and their sequence, some members of the Atavus race broke off to devote themselves to the pursuit of spiritual perfection, which eventually led to a state of existence as pure energy.

While in pursuit of Cable and the mutant newborn, X-Force battles Lady Deathstrike and her new Reavers.

While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".

While idling away his leisure time in a pleasure garden, Freder encounters a young woman named Maria ( Brigitte Helm ) who has brought a group of worker ’ s children to see the privileged lifestyle led by the rich.

While the veracity of this comic account is open to doubt, at least one modern author considers it significant that in Classical Athens, three hundred or so years after the death of Solon, there existed a discourse that associated his reforms with an increased availability of heterosexual pleasure.

While Plutarch singles out the “ order of exclusive society ” that the lovers surrounded themselves with – a society with a specifically defined and clear understanding of the hierarchies of power as determined by birth and status – Shakespeare ’ s play seems more preoccupied with the power dynamics of pleasure as a main theme throughout the play.

While it recalls the secular frescoes of the pleasure palace of the Villa Farnesina in Rome, it is also a strikingly novel form of interior decoration.

" While very stilted in diction, these Letters reveal Apollinaris as a man of genial temper, fond of good living and of pleasure.

While not addressing the paradox directly, Aristotle commented on the futility of pursuing pleasure.

While being imprisoned in a cage, Laurent contemplates the recent punishments he received as a runaway on a wooden cross, recalling its pain, degradation and undeniable pleasure.

While the terms sadist and masochist specifically refer to one who either enjoys giving pain ( sadist ), or one who enjoys receiving pain ( masochist ), many practitioners of sadomasochism describe themselves as at least somewhat of a switch, or someone who can receive pleasure from either inflicting or receiving pain.

While earlier research believed dopamine to be primarily involved in the subjective experience of pleasure, the last 20 years has seen a conceptual shift, such that dopamine is now believed to underlie various aspects of reward anticipation, learning, and motivation

While in high school and then in college he began drawing some cartoons for the Evanston News-Index, mainly for the pleasure of being published.

While some CCCA members ' cars are strictly ' for show ', others take great pleasure in driving them, even long distance.

While commercial shipping no longer exists in Chippawa, pleasure boating continues and marina facilities can be found at Lyon's Creek just west of the village.

While hot chocolate is generally consumed for pleasure, there are several potential health benefits associated with drinking hot chocolate.

While always holding Sally close to his heart, Oakes still finds plenty of time to pursue romantic conquests across the globe, often mixing work with pleasure.

While human performance may be enhanced by a sense of well-being endowed by aesthetic pleasure, machines have no such need of beauty to perform their work tirelessly.

While half the cast battled the disaster on land, the rest of the cast was on a pleasure cruise aboard a ship that was overturned – à la The Poseidon Adventure – by a tsunami created by the earthquake.

" While the relationship of the sublime and the beautiful is one of mutual exclusiveness, either one can produce pleasure.

While they had some Buddhist and Daoist symbolism, they were meant to be pleasure gardens, and places for festivals and celebrations.

While self deception may be a tropism, not consciously done, it may be guided by “ projects ” one may set for one ’ s life, such as a desire for personal pleasure, wealth, power, or to get into heaven.

While on his first visit back home in Owosso in 1902, Frieseke wrote, " I get much pleasure in shocking the good Church people with the nudes ".

While the club was marketed extensively to the female reader, including its emphasis on the emotional pleasure of books, the focus on intellectual, academic literature of the middlebrow trapped the reader into the constrictive masculine standards of value, classifying ‘ great books ’ as those that fell in line with male, technical classifications of excellence.

While Emma ensured that he took short breaks, Darwin pressed on with work as " my sole pleasure in life " and finished the first draft of Fertilisation in May 1876, promptly going on to a revision of Orchids.

While all western pleasure horses are to be clean ( generally bathed prior to a show ) and well groomed, with legs, bridle path, ears, muzzle, and other areas neatly clipped, grooming details vary by breed.