Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

Lord Stafford had told the King, " Sir, you have done your duty, and your subjects have failed in theirs ; and therefore you are absolved from the rules of government, and may supply yourself by extraordinary ways ; you have an army in Ireland, with which you may reduce the kingdom.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

In his third discourse, published in 1798, Sir William Jones mentions a conversation with a Hindu priest who told him that the script was called Zend, and the language Avesta.

Indeed, Sir Toby in Twelfth Night is seen saying, in reference to Sir Andrew's hair, that " it hangs like flax on a distaff ; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off ;" the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that " Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face?

Despite having sat in Parliament for only four years, Chamberlain hoped for a cabinet position, and told Sir William Harcourt that he was prepared to lead a revolt and field Radical candidates in borough elections.

* Sir Blunderbrain ( performed by Steve Whitmire )-A brave Fraggle who appeared in a legend told in the Fraggle Rock episode " The Terrible Tunnel.

Rice recalled that during the meeting, Tenet told Bush, " Sir, I believe it ’ s al-Qaeda.

British economist Sir John Bowring met Jacquard, who told Bowring that at one time he had been a maker of straw hats.

Sir Adrian Boult, conducting, told the audience that he was to blame.

A story is told that, on the eve of the Battle of Sauchieburn, Sir David Lindsay, son of Sir John, Lord Lindsay of the Byres, presented James III with a " great grey horse " that would carry him faster than any other horse into or away from the battle.

Tennyson concludes: “ And he that told the tale in older times / Says that Sir Gareth wedded Lyonors, / But he, that told it later, says Lynette .”

This Idyll is told in flashback by Sir Percivale, who had become a monk and died one summer before the account, to his fellow monk Ambrosius.

Castlereagh supposedly told this story to Sir Walter Scott, and called the apparition " The Radiant Boy.

The MP Sir William Gregory was told by a member of the Cabinet that " at the beginning of each session and after each holiday, Mr Gladstone used to come in charged to the muzzle with all sorts of schemes of all sorts of reforms which were absolutely necessary in his opinion to be immediately undertaken.

Sir Galahad ’ s success in the high religious endeavour that was the search for the Holy Grail was predicted before his birth, not only by King Pelles but by Merlin: Merlin had told Uther Pendragon that there was one who would fill the place at the “ table of Joseph ”, but that he was not yet born.

The royal Italian servants of Farouk were not interned and there is an unconfirmed story that Farouk had told Sir Miles Lampson, " I'll get rid of my Italians, when you get rid of yours.

Henry listened humbly, attentively and regularly to the sermons preached to his household, and once told his chaplain, Richard Milbourne, that he esteemed most the preachers whose attitude suggested, " Sir, you must hear me diligently: you must have a care to observe what I say.

He told Sir Henry Vane he was a Jugler ; Henry Martin and Sir Peter Wentworth, that they were Whoremasters ; Thomas Chaloner, he was a Drunkard ; and Allen the Goldsmith that he cheated the Publick: Then he bid one of his Soldiers take away that Fool's Bauble the mace and Thomas Harrison pulled the Speaker of the Chair ; and in short Cromwell having turned them all out of the House, lock'd up the Doors and returned to Whitehall.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

" Thomas told her he had had a terrible week, had missed her terribly and wanted to go to bed with her.

One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

Reverend Eugene Thomas from Ohio, USA, told James Powell and Roy P. Mackal in 1979 a story that involved the purported killing of a Mokèlé-mbèmbé near Lake Tele in 1959.

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales recounts the tales told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury and the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.

His father went on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket to pray for Philip's recovery, and was told that his son had indeed recovered.

Wolf Hall is told through the eyes of a sympathetic Thomas Cromwell.

" Coles used the opinion of Thomas Gilmer to back himself up ; Gilmer said Jefferson told him at Monticello before the election of Adams in 1825: " One might as well make a sailor of a cock, or a soldier of a goose, as a President of Andrew Jackson.

In January 1565 Thomas Randolph, the English ambassador to Scotland, was told by the Scottish queen that she would accept the proposal.

The villagers, led by Thomas Baker, a local landowner, told Bampton that they would give him nothing, and he was forced to leave the village empty-handed.

" Of course, he was a formidable adversary ," Westmoreland told correspondent W. Thomas Smith, Jr. " Let me also say that Giap was trained in small-unit, guerrilla tactics, but he persisted in waging a big-unit war with terrible losses to his own men.

Thomas Mara Jr. testifies that his father had told him that Santa was real and that " My daddy wouldn't tell me anything that wasn't so.

The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes ( 1855 ).

" Ali's biographer, Thomas Hauser, later revealed that a member of Ali's corner had told him that Ali was telling them to " cut ( my gloves ) off, cut ' em off ", indicating Ali's desire to not continue the fight.

Another vivid example is Thomas Hood's use of " birth " and " berth " and " told " and " toll'd " ( tolled ) in his poem " Faithless Sally Brown ":

He is heir to his father Stanford's ( Thomas Barbour ) $ 750 million fortune, which he is told will only be his if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson ( Jill Eikenberry ).

According to David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, Harris once told a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by William Coyne, a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism.

He also received word that Congressman Albert Thomas of Texas had been told that for the moment the President and Governor were still alive, which was the first report that gave any indication of their condition.

Future president James Garfield, a field officer for the Army of the Cumberland, visited Thomas during the battle, carrying orders from Rosecrans to retreat ; when Thomas said he would have to stay behind to ensure the Army's safety, Garfield told Rosecrans that Thomas was " standing like a rock.

He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to " feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.

By leaving me everything he wouldn't be doing me a favor, my father told him, and he didn't want to see his daughter involved in a lawsuit.

" They want a book of 200 pages or more ", Alcott told his daughter.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

After three lessons, Raine told Alma that Doris had " tremendous potential ", which led Alma to give her daughter three lessons a week for the price of one.

When she does not return, Ninshubur approaches Anu only to be told that he understands that his daughter is strong and can take care of herself.

During a performance on August 19, 2011, Garth Brooks told his audience that once his youngest daughter is in college he will be " firing the tour back up.

The reader is told Scarlett O ' Hara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen O ' Hara, " was not beautiful, but " had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them.

According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

In a version told by Nathaniel Hawthorne in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys ( 1852 ), Midas found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

Freud therefore told the parents only that he was prepared to study their daughter to determine what effects therapy might have.

The woman then told him that she was a daughter of Triton named Kalliste, and that when he threw the dirt into the sea it would grow into an island for his descendants to live on.

Arriving in pursuit of her daughter, Lady Bracknell is astonished to be told that Algernon and Cecily are engaged.

When Pausanias visited the city of Triteia in the second century CE, he was told that the name of the city was derived from an eponymous Triteia, a daughter of Triton, and that it claimed to have been founded by her son ( with Ares ), one among several mythic heroes named Melanippus (" Black Horse ").

She was the daughter of Agenor, and on her disappearance from Earth the Phœnicians honoured her with a temple and told a sacred legend about her ; how that Zeus was enamoured of her for her beauty, and changing his form into that of a bull carried her off into Crete.

* Caratacus ' capture and life as a captive in Rome is told from the point of view of his fictional daughter, Eigon, in Barbara Erskine's time-slip novel, The Warrior's Princess, pub.

The story told in the opera is quite different from the real one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( Evagrius Scholasticus l. 2. c. 7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l. 1, Paul the Deacon, vi ): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III ; a little later, Olybrius frees Rome and Placidia, and marries her.

In Rhodesia she proudly told the white minority government leaders that she was the daughter of a slave owner.

Fantine ( who'd been told by the doctors that Valjean, who'd been at the trial, had been getting her daughter ) was shocked to find that her daughter was not there already and that her savior was being arrested, and died of shock ( her body had been greatly weakened by her poor living conditions and long illness, probably tuberculosis ).

Blecha ’ s daughter, Drahomíra Blechová-Kalvodová, says her father told her when she was 18 that Hrabal was her half-brother.

The biblical account continues by stating that Moses was told by Hashem that the daughters should be considered their father's heirs, and that the general case holds-if there are no sons, the daughter ( or daughters ) should inherit-and if there are no children at all, the inheritance should pass to the man's brothers, and if there are no brothers it should pass to the nearest relative in his clan.

Utkin also told the White Russian Army investigators that the injured girl, whom he treated at Cheka headquarters in Perm, told him, " I am the daughter of the ruler, Anastasia.