Vera tells Lombard that she thinks this whole situation could be a kind of divine retribution. |
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The pages began to move, but Lombard shut the book before he could see what his question had conjured. |
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Even Ostrogoth and Lombard kings, their barbarian ways tamed by the people they were supposed to have conquered, built houses in Bellagio. |
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He was previously president of Lombard, a wholly-owned Morgan Stanley non-performing loan servicer in Japan. |
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He repeatedly had to ransom prisoners taken in the course of Lombard raids, who would otherwise have been sold off as slaves. |
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The Emperor returned once again to Italy, to settle accounts with the Lombard League. |
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Acton sat gazing out the windows, too anxious to do anything but fret about Lombard. |
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Medieval canonists like Gratian, theologians like Peter Lombard, and later, Alexander III, subject marriage to much examination and scrutiny. |
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The carpets absorbed the sound of his feet landing on the floor, but Lombard stood still all the same to make certain that the Ifrit still slept. |
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Acton had been a starveling when Lombard had found him during one of his rare excursions to the royal city beside the ocean. |
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Upon learning of the Lombard expedition, he set out almost at once, crossing the Bosporus on 24 June and setting out in pursuit. |
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Until recently the lender, based in the Lombard city of Lodi, was notable only for its acquisitions of much smaller players. |
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This enraged the Lombard king, Desiderius, who immediately began conspiring to harm Charles however he might. |
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The office block will soon face a wrecking ball as it and a clump of other buildings between it and Lombard Street come down. |
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The centre of the town was replanned and this building replaced by a great basilica and forum stretching from Lombard Street on the east to Lime Street on the west. |
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Lombard returned and climbed effortlessly down the cliff face. |
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Thus there were peasant uprisings throughout the Lombard plains over the summer of 1796, some of them resulting in massacres of isolated French units. |
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The focus of this opera, however, is Bertarido, the exiled Lombard king. |
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Beltrami's research on Leonardo's Lombard career went hand in hand with his reconstruction and restoration of Leonardo-related architectural sites. |
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And then there is Carole Lombard, ravishing, sexy, happy, and glorious in her gowns. |
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An eighth-century Lombard nobleman in Tuscany even converted his house into a monastery and took his vows, apparently to avoid having to fight the Franks. |
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Next day I arrived at the Capital with the Princess, aka Paola Lombard. |
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She was the daughter of a Cheapside mercer and wife of a Lombard Street goldsmith, and exercised great influence over Edward IV by her beauty and wit. |
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A Lombard army under Pippin then marched into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia. |
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There was a close relationship between the Frankish, Bavarian and Lombard nobility for many centuries. |
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In Lombardy there is widespread use of Lombard, which exists in diglossia with Italian. |
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It is believed that the Lombard immigrants in Sicily over a couple of centuries were a total of about 200,000, a quite significant. |
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The independent status of these Lombard states is in general attested by the ability of their rulers to switch suzerains at will. |
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The Lombard state was relatively Romanized, at least when compared to the Germanic kingdoms in northern Europe. |
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In southern Italy, however, Norman artwork survives plentifully in forms strongly influenced by its Greek, Lombard, and Arab forebears. |
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Lombard Salerno was a centre of ivorywork in the 11th century and this continued under Norman domination. |
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Once in Italy, Wilfrid was received by Perctarit, a Lombard king, who gave him a place at his court. |
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His contacts extended to the Lombard kingdom in Italy, where they included King Perctarit and his son Cunipert. |
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The following year, he launched an assault from Sicily against the Lombard Duchy of Benevento, which then occupied most of southern Italy. |
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The Lombard kingdom was subsequently absorbed into the Frankish Empire by Charlemagne in the late 8th century. |
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He married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, daughter of the Porto Santo governor and Portuguese nobleman of Lombard origin Bartolomeu Perestrello. |
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Noise also makes species communicate louder, which is called the Lombard vocal response. |
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The Lombard was victorious, passage was granted, and the Lombards reached Mauringa. |
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There, Alboin created the first Lombard duchy, which he entrusted to his nephew Gisulf. |
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Pavia fell after a siege of three years, in 572, becoming the first capital city of the new Lombard kingdom of Italy. |
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By the time Paul the Deacon was writing, the Lombard language, dress and even hairstyles had nearly all disappeared in toto. |
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The whole Lombard territory was divided into 36 duchies, whose leaders settled in the main cities. |
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Arioald was succeeded by Rothari, regarded by many authorities as the most energetic of all Lombard kings. |
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It was during the 9th century that a strong Lombard presence became entrenched in formerly Greek Apulia. |
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Throughout this period the Lombard princes swung in allegiance from one party to another. |
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Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. |
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Most have been lost, rebuilt, or renovated at some point, so they preserve little of their original Lombard structure. |
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The Basilic autariana in Fara Gera d'Adda near Bergamo and the church of San Salvatore in Brescia also have Lombard elements. |
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As a result of the independence that the Lombard cities gained in the Peace of Constance in 1183, Milan became a duchy. |
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In 729, the Lombard king Liutprand donated to the church the north Latium town of Sutri, starting the temporal power of the church. |
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The Lombard Libri Feudorum and the French Beaumanoir reduced to some sort of order the customary feudal law of Europe. |
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In 2001, a fifth state reform took place, under Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, with the Lambermont and the Lombard Accords. |
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Reynolds, a longtime church member, is a student at the UU Meadville Lombard Theologic School in Chicago. |
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Currently awaiting brain surgery, Julia, of Lombard Drive, Chesterle-Street, County Durham, has suffered cluster headaches for the last 16 years. |
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In 774, Charlemagne conquered the Lombards, which freed the papacy from the fear of Lombard conquest and marked the beginnings of the Papal States. |
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That marriage had taken place in Allhallows Lombard Street on October 16, 1560, less than five months after Robert Crowley's death on 1 June of the same year. |
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Some Lombard nationalists took it up in Italy, but even after the establishment of Benito Mussolini's fascist government racial theories were not prominent. |
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Other cities such as Lecco, Lodi, Varese and Pavia also have rich musical traditions, but Milan is the hub and centre of the Lombard musical scene. |
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In the end, the Lombard language and culture assimilated with the Latin culture, leaving evidence in many names, the legal code and laws, and other things. |
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Numerous species of endemic flora in the Prealpine area include some kinds of saxifrage, the Lombard garlic, groundsels bellflowers and the cottony bellflowers. |
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In addition to Italian, approximately 2 million people in the Milan metropolitan area can speak the Milanese dialect or one of its Western Lombard variations. |
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Some Roman structures remained in use in Milan under Lombard rule. |
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The Church of Santa Sofia in Benevento was erected in 760 by Duke Arechis II, and it preserves Lombard frescoes on the walls and even Lombard capitals on the columns. |
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They may have owned more than half of the land in Lombard Italy. |
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The freemen of the Lombard kingdom were far more numerous than in Frank lands, especially in the 8th century, when they are almost invisible in surviving documentary evidence. |
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Lombard society was divided into classes comparable to those found in the other Germanic successor states of Rome, Frankish Gaul and Visigothic Spain. |
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The principal source for the history of the Lombard principalities in this period is the Chronicon Salernitanum, composed late in the 10th century at Salerno. |
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Adelchis regarded himself as the true successor of the Lombard kings, and in that capacity he amended the Edictum Rothari, the last Lombard ruler to do so. |
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In general, the Lombard princes were less inclined to ally with the Saracens than with their Greek neighbours of Amalfi, Gaeta, Naples, and Sorrento. |
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Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, and kited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better. |
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The civil war lasted ten years and ended with a peace treaty imposed in 849 by Emperor Louis II, the only Frankish king to exercise actual sovereignty over the Lombard states. |
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The Lombard kingdom ended and a period of Frankish rule was initiated. |
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At one point in the reign of Sicard, Lombard control covered most of southern Italy save the very south of Apulia and Calabria and Naples, with its nominally attached cities. |
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Charlemagne took part of the Lombard territory to create the Papal States. |
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He decided to reopen struggles against the Pope, who was supporting the dukes of Spoleto and Benevento against him, and entered Rome in 772, the first Lombard king to do so. |
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After the death of Aistulf, Ratchis attempted to become king of Lombardy, but he was deposed by Desiderius, duke of Tuscany, the last Lombard to rule as king. |
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Yet another element in his campaign is the claim, derived from earlier Netherlandish artist-polemicists such as Lampsonius and Lombard, that printmaking is a high art. |
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The Lombard cavalrymen, anxious that their French counterparts were poised to take all the spoils, charged round the English left flank towards the baggage. |
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In 751 the Lombard King Aistulf conquered most of the Exarchate of Ravenna, leaving Venice a lonely and increasingly autonomous Byzantine outpost. |
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Settlement on the islands in the lagoon probably increased with the Lombard conquest of other Byzantine territories, as refugees sought asylum there. |
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Ianthe Eliza Shelley was married in 1837 to Edward Jeffries Esdaile of Cothelstone Manor, grandson of the banker William Esdaile of Lombard Street, London. |
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The first private residence in the US illuminated by gas was that of William Henry, a coppersmith, at 200 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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