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Sentence Examples When the flash had dissipated, Cecil saw a small indent about the size of a good-sized door in the wall of darkness. Toward the end of his life, he arranged the Lachrymae for soloist and string orchestra as a favor to Cecil Aronowitz. Cecil wanted her attainted in Parliament and executed for her alleged part in the Ridolfi plot. In England, William Morris translated the Icelandic sagas and Cecil Sharp collected village dances and songs. Cecil Adams points out that some Hindus, including women, argue that suttee should be allowed because it's an integral part of their tradition. Cecil was fighting for his life now, his body screamed with each parry, each step and each blow. Cecil has been working it, seven days a week, for more than 60 years as a hands-on farmer, man and boy. The fortunes of the family continued to rise and, in 1789, the 7th Earl, James Cecil, was elevated in the peerage to a marquess. Danny DeVito presented the Cecil B DeMille Award to Michael Douglas for his years of service to the industry. Cecil reportedly sees her more of an Oaks-type and tomorrow's race, over nine furlongs, should fit the bill perfectly. Chaos lashed out with a foot, but Cecil had been waiting for the move, and twisted out of the way. Cecil mustered what was left of his strength and jumped backwards, narrowly avoiding a whirling morning star. Cecil greeted her and she returned his greeting with a smile and a kiss on the cheek. Herman had then let them off for the rest of the day with express wishes to see Cecil again the next day. He's a bit slower physically but he's not doddery, so I decided not to go that way with Cecil. William Cecil thought it would be a good idea to replace purveyance entirely with composition and gradually this began to be the case. Cecil ran a soothing hand down her hair as he felt tears coursing down his own face. Her sister Lee offered her support and then gossiped about her to Truman Capote and Cecil Beaton. Cecil quickly dove behind a small block of cement but knew his hiding place wouldn't last long. Cecil gulped air, it had been very difficult to breathe with such a big weight on him. Show More Sentences Cecil somersaulted, landing a drop kick square in Ashley's face with his boot. Cecil Rhodes once said that those who oppose civil war must support colonialism. Cecil Hepworth was born on 19 March 1874 in Lambeth, South London, the son of celebrated magic lantern showman T.C. Hepworth. Henry Cecil was a direct descendant of the English statesman, William Cecil, Lord Burghley. It looked easy, but when Cecil was a lad haymaking was a time of acute stress. Equally, the man she prefers to Glenthorn, Cecil Devereux, represents the next large wave of English immigrants, the Elizabethans. The puck caromed off another spectator before hitting Cecil, whose seat was more than 100 feet behind the glass. Cecil was too occupied to notice the last part, and so didn't ask any questions. I felt cheated when the Geologists and Petroleum Engineers aced us out of the new Cecil Green building. Cecil helped himself to an omelette, several rashers of bacon and two slices of toast before he turned to look for Mark and Kristy. Cecil walked into the clinic, where he saw Herman sitting next to a recumbent Diana. Cecil Gould has sustained that the altarpiece includes a self-portrait of the artist in the guise of his name saint, Saint Anthony of Padua. It is repeatedly referred to in Elizabethan drama, and influenced the policy of Thomas Cromwell, Cecil, and Leicester. Cecil watched his opponent warily, ready to retaliate at the merest hint of an attack. The shot was from a news helicopter and Cecil could hear the thudding of the helicopter rotors in the background as the reporter began to speak. Her conduct as solicitor of the administration of the estate of Cecil Burrows deceased was the subject matter of an application for a remuneration certificate. The veteran soprano saxophonist is pre-eminent on his instrument and has worked with many jazz greats, including Thelonious Monk, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor. After she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the ballroom went completely silent. The order, created by Napoleon in 1802, has also been awarded to Anna Wintour, Cecil Beaton, and Valentino Garavani. He was a plantation houseboy in Virginia and did, as Cecil does in the film, leave in the pursuit of better employment. Show More Sentences Think of him as a kind of Cecil Rhodes in a loincloth and with bulging muscles. Only in nothingness can nothing truly exist, and this is where Cecil was. Cecil quickly drew his other sword, and took a defensive stance. Cecil had been stripped, washed and put into a hospital gown. Desperately keeping himself in the air, Cecil jinked around to dodge the other shockwaves that Ralph threw out at him while he recovered from the first blow. Suddenly the beam was withdrawn and Cecil, who had been straining against it, overbalanced and fell flat on his face onto the now icy cold carpeting. Respectfully retreating to the side of the room with five of the princesses, Lord Cecil bit back a sigh as he observed a significant glance between Briar and Althia. While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions. Cecil and Charlotte now live together in Halifax, but the undischarged resentment and sorrow of a recent tragedy have isolated them from one another. In 1947, English physicist Cecil Powell observed Yukawa's mesons, now called pi-mesons or pions, in the upper atmosphere, where they were produced by cosmic ray collisions. Special thanks also to Noel Kenny and Cecil Carter for the sound system, Andrew Broderick for organising the power and to Rent a Fence for providing the barriers. But the photographer Cecil Beaton said Maxime was the only truly chic Englishwoman of her generation. Mary Astor and Cecil Kellaway turn in more restrained performances, and Astor in particular brings a weary gravity to her role that's quite effective. Robert Cecil was Secretary of State as well as Leader of the House of Commons, and made earnest efforts to regulate the private lives of citizens into a neat and tidy pattern. The fact that memories cannot be retrieved in a situation like this was right enough, but Cecil was doing a good enough job of restarting his relationship. Years ago, as I walked with a veteran guide called Cecil Evans, the two of us were confronted by a bull elephant that bore down on us with a terrible, strident scream. Cecil felt things were just going a bit too fast for his liking. Cecil barely had time to open his mouth to scream as his astral body impacted on the ground, slipping right through it and down into the bowels of the Earth. He returned to Edinburgh telling Croft he had to return to his flock, and suggested that Henry Balnaves should go to Cecil. She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Show More Sentences However, William Cecil, Nicholas Throckmorton, and some conservative peers made their disapproval unmistakably clear. His political mantle passed to his son, Robert Cecil, who soon became the leader of the government. Since Elizabeth would never name her successor, Cecil was obliged to proceed in secret. A few hours later, Cecil and the council set their plans in motion and proclaimed James VI of Scotland as James I of England. Cecil advised James not to press the matter of the succession upon the queen but simply to treat her with kindness and respect. Orthopaedic surgery was pioneered in Liverpool by Hugh Owen Thomas, and modern medical anaesthetics by Thomas Cecil Gray. Among these, the most notable are Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles, and Mary Neal. Cecil Sharp was visiting at a friend's house in Headington, near Oxford, when the Headington Quarry Morris side arrived to perform. It was subsequently owned by Sir William Cecil and Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Hilliard asked that Cecil employ his son as a clerk, because he could not keep him in his own trade. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil. His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Bacon's uncle. Tolkien, Nevill Coghill, Lord David Cecil, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and his brother Warren Lewis. In London Balfour commissioned the first official report into the matter in early 1918, under the initiative of Lord Robert Cecil. Cecil focused on the administrative side, and proposed annual Council meetings and quadrennial meetings for the Assembly of all members. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Wilson, Cecil, and Smuts all put forward their draft proposals. Whilst at prep school as a boarder, his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager. So he negotiated by letter under the assumed name John Sinclair with William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief adviser, for English support. After Parliament was dismissed, Elizabeth and Cecil drafted the Royal Injunctions. English statesmen William Cecil and the Earl of Leicester had worked to obtain Darnley's licence to travel to Scotland from his home in England. Show More Sentences He was released 19 months later after Cecil and Walsingham interceded on his behalf. However, Van Senden and Sherley's efforts were unsuccessful, as they themselves admitted in correspondence with Sir Robert Cecil. The architects were Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer, although the building as it now stands is a heavily truncated version of their design. Somerset songs were collected by Cecil Sharp and incorporated into works such as Holst's A Somerset Rhapsody. The British spirit of imperialism was expressed by Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Rosebury, and implemented in Africa by Cecil Rhodes. Coke and Cecil, the government's two strongest defenders in Parliament, made several efforts to put off or end the debate over the bills. On 10 April 1594, Coke was made Attorney General for England and Wales thanks to his partnership with the Cecil family. Francis Bacon, his rival, was supported by Robert Devereux, who waged a constant war against Robert Cecil for control of the English government. As the 1590s continued, the infighting between Cecil and Devereux persisted, with Devereux's raid on Cadiz earning him national fame. Coke was only saved from imprisonment by Cecil, who pleaded with the King to show leniency, which he granted. Unlike men of similar ambition, such as Cecil Rhodes, Walker's grandiose scheming ultimately failed against the union of Central American people. Cecil Rhodes and other early white pioneers like Leander Starr Jameson are buried in these hills at a site named World's View. He saw Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon and Lord Robert Cecil on Thursday 30 November. Peter's Square Hammersmith, Cecil Court, Osterley Park, Covent Garden, the Isle of Man, Scotland and the Lake District. Sheppard had died in 1901, and so the folk song collector Cecil Sharp was invited to undertake the musical editorship for the new edition. Books were acquired by collectors including Sir William Cecil, William, Lord Paget, John Dee and Archbishop Matthew Parker. Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. Ancient Lights created a favourable impression when making a winning debut at New market last month but Cecil know she must now step up in class. Aviate is favourite at a general 4-1, while Timepiece is a top-priced 7-1 as Cecil seeks his ninth Oaks triumph. Cecil Robles also provides weekly trading signals for forex traders who are members of the site. Show More Sentences Cecil is much more than just horses though and kindness, thoughtfulness and chirpiness, even in some recent dark days, have never left him. Sue de Heaume, assistant to Cecil, reported the filly, who held the 1,000 Guineas entry, had been too weak to run earlier this year. Cecil was clocking up his fifth 1000 win when Wince battled home last season and you ignore Hooray Henry at your peril. Cecil had been a famous fixture in Hwange National Park and had been fitted with a GPS collar as part of Oxford University research. The Internet went ballistic in July over the killing of Cecil, a much-loved, 13-year-old lion that lived in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Such a self-referential approach, however, has again proved a forcing house for structural wizardry, conjured by Arup magus Cecil Balmond. His stage manager, Ramsbottom, was played by Cecil Frederick, and the third of the trio was gormless callboy Enoch, who was Robbie Vincent in real life. William Cecil was already seeking solutions to the succession problem. That was the era of the lushly scored costume poperetta, staged like Cecil B. DeMille epics and usually overseen by the Mike Todd-ish producer Cameron Mackintosh. The Labadists were followers of Jean de Labadie, founder of a Utopian quietist sect in the Netherlands, who emigrated to what is now Cecil County, Maryland. Henry Cecil was on the Al Bahathri Polytrack and Native Ruler gave the impression he has woken up for his Newmarket debut when moving nicely with Ancient Lights. Ahern was also on the mark as Ancient Lights shone on his debut, with Henry Cecil saddling him to a taking victory in the Sias Building Services Anniversary Maiden Stakes. On the way they pointed out the tennis court and the old summerhouse, a mock tholos, Doric by way of Pompeii, and Stanford White, and D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille. He was arrested but released on the advice of William Cecil, his kinsman. Pictured is one of these trams, towing a single-decker carriage, which has just pulled into Mahattat el-Raml, near the famous Cecil Hotel, in the heart of Alex. Beaverbrook and Crewe state he met Chamberlain, Curzon and Cecil. Against the backdrop of Devereux's plot, Coke and Cecil started a new investigation into the book, hoping to prove some involvement of Devereux in the publishing. The plane was piloted by David Cecil McKinley of the Royal Air Force. On the 3rd, ten members of the Privy Council of England, having been summoned by Cecil without Elizabeth's knowledge, decided to carry out the sentence at once. In 1571, Cecil and Walsingham uncovered the Ridolfi Plot, which was a plan to replace Elizabeth with Mary with the help of Spanish troops and the Duke of Norfolk. Show More Sentences Elizabeth's principal secretaries Sir Francis Walsingham and William Cecil, Lord Burghley, watched Mary carefully with the aid of spies placed in Mary's household. From 1601, Elizabeth I's chief minister Sir Robert Cecil, maintained a secret correspondence with James in order to prepare in advance for a smooth succession. Notable photographers of Elizabeth have included Cecil Beaton, Yousuf Karsh, Annie Leibovitz, Lord Lichfield, Terry O'Neill, John Swannell, and Dorothy Wilding. In 1925, Cecil Clementi became the 17th Governor of Hong Kong. Cecil Sharp considers the version in minor keys to be the original. Many collectors in the first revival either ignored such songs, or bowdlerized them for publication, as Francis Child and Cecil Sharp did in their collections. The somewhat complex British development of distributism emerged as a conjuncture of ideas of Penty, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons, Cecil and Gilbert. According to his autobiography, as a young man Chesterton became fascinated with the occult and, along with his brother Cecil, experimented with Ouija boards. Thomas Fuller, in Worthies of England, included a story where the Queen told her treasurer, William Cecil, to pay Spenser one hundred pounds for his poetry. By 1910, he and Cecil Sharp were in correspondence on the subject. Turner's report did not, however, mention Fawkes's pseudonym in England, John Johnson, and did not reach Cecil until late in November, well after the plot had been discovered. Lady Cecil hands in her licence at the end of the current campaign and Distain should give her the chance of a York winner before bowing out in the Barkers Garage Stakes. He also bought 1994 Jersey Stakes winner Gneiss for Julie Cecil, former wife of Henry and another lifelong friend, and he purchased Regal Beauty in America for Jim Joel. At some point during this trip his name made its way into the files of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who employed a network of spies across Europe. Cecil and Quinn had left nothing to chance, electing to send Beat Hollow out last from the paddock, even though he should have been third in the pre-race parade. Cecil received news of the plot from several sources, including the Archpriest George Blackwell, who instructed his priests to have no part in any such schemes. Examples from Classical Literature The Reverend Cecil had not the habit of shirking any duty because he happened to dislike it. Of the eligible men there Mr. Cecil Underwood seemed, on enquiry, to be the most eligible. It was in this place that Clive encountered Cecil Reeve one stormy midnight. The Queen had faith in him, and he entreated her to give her word for him to mistrustful Cecil. Cecil Warner came through the doorway at the left, alone, his broad face sallow, all ruddiness washed away. Cecil rounded one of his perplexingly empty sentences and turned on his heel. But when they were fairly started on their journey Cecil was for a while inconsolable. At the nooning Carlisle and Cecil will bring me the opinions of the captains, land and sea. But she had never said Cecil was a man, she reflected, with what comfort she could. The point is that when I was going in, this la-de-da clerk of his, Cecil Gillis, was coming out. Probably at no period did he aspire after supremacy, or expect to dispossess Cecil. But Cecil and his mistress could watch the upgrowth of national wealth with cooler eyes. But the unconciliatory tone of Sussex made the scene painful, and such as Cecil would have given much to avoid. While the killing of Cecil the Lion was disgusting, the vilification of Palmer has been equally unedifying. At his intercession, and through his influence, Frank, Cecil, and Arthur were received on the foundation of a well-reputed grammar-school. Thanks to the foresight of Cecil Rhodes, Matabeleland was ours. Secretary Cecil and others were pleased with Ascham's notions. And the Little Doctor could have her Cecil and be hanged to him. If this were so, what right had he, William Cecil Clayton, to thwart the wishes, to balk the self-sacrifice of this strange man? In 1890 he led Cecil John Rhodes' Pioneer Column into Rhodesia, seeing action in both Matabele rebellions. Show More Sentences Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o'clock, and these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper lawn for tea. At length the Shoshone renegade who had so loved Cecil, spoke. Considerin' Cecil, Sr., and all I'll say it was real noble of 'em. Around 1910 Cecil Sharp became the first academic to write down the Morris dances and the tunes. He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, son of Cecil and Elsie Scott and lived in the Worcester area for many years. But Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing. Honeychurch, which is, I believe, a social blunder, but it pleased her, and she introduced Cecil rather indiscriminately to some stuffy dowagers. Freddy's got a friend coming Tuesday, there's Cecil, and you've promised to take in Minnie Beebe because of the diphtheria scare. Cecil should have the Parsifal, and anything else that he liked. Miss Lavish knew, somehow, and had printed the past in draggled prose, for Cecil to read and for George to hear. That thou wouldst be pleased to see him privily, my liege, answered Cecil. Even so masterful a manipulator of men as Cecil Rhodes failed with him. The Barfields experimented with wine-making in 1930, which inspired them, Lewis, and Cecil Harwood to make preliminary plans for a Bacchic festival. Honeychurch, Cecil, and Lucy, who were walking down to call on old Mrs. The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens. Lateen Sails, the ex-Henry Cecil inmate, heads the Godolphin challenge as they return from Dubai while John Dunlop has a live contender in Greenham Stakes winner Muqbil. A couple of descendants of Cecil Baring, who bought the island in 1904, look after the property, which has tropical plants, seabird colonies, fallow deer and a beef farm. Cecil Bond Kyte, Chairman and CEO of Save The World Air, Inc. Find more words! 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