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Empiricism continued through John Stuart Mill and Bertrand Russell, while Bernard Williams was involved in analytics.
John sent me a three-page report when I just wanted an answer on a postcard.
John Morton, a bishop of Flanders, learned of the scheme and warned the Tudors, who fled to France.
Notable conductors include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Malcolm Sargent.
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, was Henry's principal military commander.
He gained the forfeited lands of the Lancastrian John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, in East Anglia.
John Morton, Bishop of Ely, one of those arrested, was released into the custody of Buckingham before the latter's rebellion.
The death of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, his close companion, may have had a demoralising effect on Richard and his men.
After Anne's death, however, Richard named another nephew, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, the son of his elder sister Elizabeth.
John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
John was so bullheaded that he kept driving and refused to stop for directions, even after getting hopelessly lost.
Before the Falklands War, Defence Secretary John Nott had advocated and initiated a series of cutbacks to the Navy.
Coward starred as the ship's captain, with supporting roles from John Mills and Richard Attenborough.
The most prominent resisters included John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Sir Thomas More, both of whom refused to take the oath to the King.
The following year, Thomas More and John Fisher were executed under this legislation.
Henry personally presided at the trial of John Lambert in November 1538 for denying the real presence.
Those who believed the form of the church was just what it should be included leaders like John Jewel and Richard Hooker.
A second, less used, personification of the nation is the character John Bull.
War ensued and King John was deposed by Edward who took personal control of Scotland.
John Lewkenor, for example, challenges Virgil and the hierarchies of epic in a Petronius-style antiepic.
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Adventurers such as John Lok and William Towerson sailed south in an attempt to develop links with the coast of Africa.
In 1591, the campaign of John Norreys, who led 3,000 men to Brittany, was even more of a disaster.
I knew I was in the right about John being older than his wife, despite looking younger.
Could you please send this package to Mr. John Smith, care of the Northwest Shelter?
John Davies notes this as consistent with the British victory at Badon Hill, attributed to Arthur by Nennius.
Portugal had rebelled in 1640 under the leadership of John of Braganza, a pretender to the throne.
This time, a more diverse group of settlers was sent, including some entire families, under the governance of John White.
Humanists such as William Salesbury and John Davies brought Renaissance ideals from English universities when they returned to Wales.
He finally gained passage on a privateering expedition organised by John Watts and Walter Raleigh.
He knew that Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn had amassed a substantial fortune from the Levant and Indian trades.
General Sir John Clavering, The Honourable Sir George Monson, Sir Richard Barwell, and Sir Philip Francis.
Meanwhile, the influential writers Richard Hakluyt and John Dee were beginning to press for the establishment of England's own overseas empire.
In 1589, the year after defeating the Armada, Drake and Sir John Norreys were given three tasks.
The sculptor Sir William Goscombe John made many works for Welsh commissions, although he had settled in London.
Despite the exploits of Lok and Towerson, John Hawkins of Plymouth is widely acknowledged to be an early pioneer of the English slave trade.
Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
Famous Welsh players over the years include John Charles, John Toshack, Ian Rush, Ryan Giggs and Gareth Bale.
Bruce and his supporters killed a rival for the throne, John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch on 10 February 1306 at Greyfriars Church in Dumfries.
Edward Balliol was the son of King John Balliol, who had himself ruled for four years following his election in the Great Cause.
Following his abdication, John Balliol lived out his life in obscurity in Picardy, France.
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A wounding observation came in the comedy Eastward Ho, a collaboration between Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston.
Under the leadership of John Calvin, Geneva became the chief international centre of Reformed Protestantism and Latin biblical scholarship.
The editors of these editions included John Bois and John Ward from the original translators.
In the 18th century all surviving interests in the monopoly were bought out by John Baskett.
Introduced in Scotland by clergyman John Knox, it has the status of national church in Scotland.
His last three plays were collaborations, probably with John Fletcher, who succeeded him as the house playwright of the King's Men.
Susanna had married a physician, John Hall, in 1607, and Judith had married Thomas Quiney, a vintner, two months before Shakespeare's death.
Shakespeare collaborated on two further surviving plays, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, probably with John Fletcher.
The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges.
Methodism is the fourth largest and grew out of Anglicanism through John Wesley.
As a result, critics of the time mostly rated Shakespeare below John Fletcher and Ben Jonson.
John caught his breath when he saw the bottle rolling unstoppably towards the opposite edge of the table.
John Finch was impeached the following day, and he consequently fled to the Netherlands with Charles's permission on 21 December.
By 1651 the Royalist governor, Sir John Grenville, was using the islands as a base for privateering raids on Commonwealth and Dutch shipping.
John Bradshaw acted as President of the Court, and the prosecution was led by the Solicitor General, John Cook.
The novels that make up The Cortes Trilogy by John Paul Davis take place in the Isles of Scilly.
In the Kingdom of Scotland the Protestant Reformation was a popular movement led by John Knox.
Between 1357 and 1371 a book of supposed travels compiled by John Mandeville acquired extraordinary popularity.
Twice before, in 1485 and 1488, Columbus had presented the project to king John II of Portugal, who rejected it.
A 1638 letter survives from Cromwell to his cousin, the wife of Oliver St John, and gives an account of his spiritual awakening.
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A letter to Oliver St John in September 1648 urged him to read Isaiah 8, in which the kingdom falls and only the godly survive.
That year John Cabot, also a commissioned Italian, got letters patent from King Henry VII of England.
In Yorkshire, printer John White started to print the same document for a more widespread distribution.
However, subsequent historians such as John Morrill have criticised both Abbott's interpretation of Cromwell and his editorial approach.
Some clever person came up with the apt name of little John for a suitably shaped container for those who were caught short.
The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were subjected to the indignity of posthumous decapitations.
Judge John Pickering had clearly gone around the bend, often presiding over his court while drunk.
Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Judge Thomas Pride, and Judge John Bradshaw were posthumously attainted for high treason.
The fellows believed Farmer ineligible under the college's statutes and so elected John Hough instead.
It was led by John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, also known as Graham of Claverhouse or Bonnie Dundee, who raised an army from Highland clans.
These ideas reflected those of the political thinker John Locke and they quickly became popular in England.
The current speaker, John Bercow, has chosen to wear a gown over a lounge suit, a decision which has sparked much debate and opposition.
John Nash eventually completed a design that saw Carlton House turned into two blocks of houses, with a space in between them.
However, Wren became closely associated with John Wilkins, the Warden of Wadham.
This is implicit in the writings of Vitruvius and explicit in such 16th century authors as John Dee and Leonard Digges.
The design was partly based on a spinning machine built for Thomas High by clockmaker John Kay, who was hired by Arkwright.
After the founding, the duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley.
The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William.
Under William III's will, John William Friso stood to inherit the Principality of Orange as well as several lordships in the Netherlands.
In 1909, a short story by John Buchan entitled The Company of the Marjolaine was published in Blackwood's Magazine.
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The most famous natural right formulation comes from John Locke in his Second Treatise, when he introduces the state of nature.
In the 1770s the engineer John Smeaton built some very large examples and introduced a number of improvements.
Brantwood, a house beside Coniston Water, was the home of John Ruskin during the last years of his life.
The former Keswick School of Industrial Art at Keswick was started by Canon Rawnsley, a friend of John Ruskin.
The duke and his estate manager John Gilbert produced a plan of the canal, and in 1759 obtained an Act of Parliament, enabling its construction.
A canal was proposed by George Dixon in 1767 and again by John Rennie in 1815, but both schemes failed.
And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
In the early 1800s, John Dalton formulated his atomic theory in Manchester.
Albert Square has monuments to Prince Albert, Bishop James Fraser, Oliver Heywood, William Ewart Gladstone, and John Bright.
Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds.
Elsewhere in the city, the John Rylands Library holds an extensive collection of early printing.
Sir John Herschel, son of the astronomer, from Kent, invented the term photography in 1839, meaning light writing.
Even careful safety precautions in the factory do not make it a good place for John Q. Public to wander unattended.
What a sight the four of us must have made, standing with water up to our thighs, our hands firmly clutched over our John Thomases.
John Goss, who wrote the hymn tune for Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven, came from Fareham.
John Lewis and River Island have their large Magna Park distribution centre to the east on the A421 in Wavendon.
That year, John Wilkes returned to England, stood as a candidate in the general election, and came top of the poll in the Middlesex constituency.
These areas almost exclusively have Labour MPs, with the sole exception of Lib Dem John Pugh in Sefton.
John Dalton, from Cumbria and moved to Manchester, developed atomic theory.
John with a Neapolitan garrison and placed under the guarantee of third powers.
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John Gilbert had the innovative idea to use water pumped out of his coal mines to fill a canal from the Duke's Worsley mines to Manchester.
The young John McCain was a constant breaker of rules, a brawler and a slob, an undersize punk with an oversize chip on his shoulder.
Twice Nelson was nearly cut down and both times his life was saved by a seaman named John Sykes who took the blows and was badly wounded.
A cannonball struck and killed Nelson's secretary, John Scott, nearly cutting him in two.
On the way to Lancaster, which was about an hour and a half from Philly, John felt the karma.
I rented th' back five-acre to John Westfall. I had more'n I could handle with only one hired hand.
Topping the list was Fawlty Towers, a British sitcom set in a fictional Torquay hotel starring John Cleese.
By the late 1850s, the celebrated John Bright was agitating in the country for franchise reform.
On the same day in a BBC news flash John Snagge announced that 8 May would be Victory in Europe Day.
He joked that news of his illness had chased the trial of the serial killer John Christie off the front pages.
The Candlish Glass Bottleworks was the largest in Europe, managed by John Candlish.
Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.
John Appleby, chief economist of the King's Fund claims NHS spending could certainly increase.
John McDonnell claimed NHS spending per head is falling for the first time in NHS history.
John Lister of Keep Our NHS Public said there are too many assumptions, and managers desperate to cut deficits were resorting to untried plans.
John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall.
The earliest known use of the phrase Brytish Iles in the English language is dated 1577 in a work by John Dee.
It was the first ever seagoing screw collier and was built for John Bowes of Barnard Castle for shipping coal to London.
From the time of King John onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of Rex or Regina Anglie.
John was a convert to the Church who left his home in England and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as part of a handcart company.
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They did not regard England as their primary home until most of their continental domains were lost by John.
Louis VIII of France briefly ruled about half of England from 1216 to 1217 at the conclusion of the First Barons' War against King John.
I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them.
The 14,000 Loyalists who went to the Saint John and Saint Croix river valleys, then part of Nova Scotia, were not welcome by the locals.
John Beaufort's granddaughter Lady Margaret Beaufort was married to Edmund Tudor.
Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.
John was able to reverse the deposition after Otto left, but he died in the arms of his mistress soon afterwards.
In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.
A Paris edition appeared in 1544, and in 1550 John de Grave produced an edition at Antwerp.
These pages were written by John Joscelyn, who was secretary to Matthew Parker.
Major also had to survive a leadership challenge in 1995 by the Secretary of State for Wales, the aforementioned John Redwood.
John Major resigned as party leader after the Conservatives were defeated in a landslide and was succeeded by William Hague.
The office is currently held by John Bercow, who was initially elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin.
When the Treasury moved to the Palace of Westminster, probably under King John, the book went with it.
His successor John Bercow abandoned traditional dress, wearing a plain black gown over his lounge suit when presiding.
Lamont fell out with John Major after Black Wednesday and became highly unpopular with the public.
After this, Malcolm became king, perhaps being inaugurated on 25 April 1058, although only John of Fordun reports this.
Wace, Layamon, Raphael Holinshed, William Camden and John Milton repeat the legend and it appears in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be arsed.
The majority, approximately 175,000 in number, under John Redmond, took the name National Volunteers and supported Irish involvement in the war.
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Modern Irish literature is often connected with its rural heritage through writers such as John McGahern and poets such as Seamus Heaney.
John Lighton Synge made progress in different fields of science, including mechanics and geometrical methods in general relativity.
John Bell, who was on the Ob River in 1722, said that mammoth tusks were well known in the area.
John Johnson resided in Woburn, Mass., and was by occupation a housewright or carpenter and owned a saw-mill in Woburn.
The term was coined by John Abercromby, based on the culture's distinctive pottery drinking beakers.
Having to deal with a bomb scare on his first day was a real baptism of fire for John.
Kenneth Anderson's 1940s John Deere Model H could also double as a beach hut or lifeguard stand.
Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big.
American males often used British terms such as Cousin John or Jake to refer to a privy or a chamber pot.
It was cast in bronze in 1902, 17 years after Thornycroft's death, by his son Sir John, who presented it to the London County Council.
King John granted the city's first charter in 1212, confirming trading rights in England and Europe.
These constituencies were represented by Hugh Bayley, John Greenway, John Grogan, and Anne McIntosh respectively.
Between 1773 and 1777, the Grand Jury House was replaced by John Carr's elegant Court House for the Assizes of the whole county.
Students, staff and visiting artists of York St John University music department regularly perform lunchtime concerts in the University chapel.
York St John University has a Film and Television Production department with links to many major industrial partners.
John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
In the 18th century, for example, Methodism grew out of Anglican minister John Wesley's evangelical and revival movement.
If John is dead set on marrying Catherine, his parents' objection will only provoke a falling out.
John Bateman, writing in 1876 or 1883, referred to contemporary Cheshire and Staffordshire landholdings as being in Mercia.
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The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables, headed by John Randolph.
The site's rediscovery was made by Lynda Mallett, Stuart Reddish and John Wood.
Lapidge and Wood see the poem as a commemoration of Alfred's ceremony by one of his leading scholars, John the Old Saxon.
Line spoken by character played by John Travolta in the movie Broken Arrow.
The Romantic Era that followed the reign of King Charles III John brought some significant social and political reforms.
In an alternate view John Gillingham points out that for centuries Richard was considered a model king.
In Richard's absence, Philip II overran large portions of Normandy and John acquired control of Richard's English lands.
Richard's failure to provide an heir caused a succession crisis and conflict between supporters of the claim of his nephew, Arthur, and John.
Foolishly John disregarded his allies' opinions on the fate of the prisoners, many of them their neighbours and kinsmen.
He was still carrying the Dear John letter he got from his high school sweetheart in Vietnam thirty years later.
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
Louis did so but in October 1216, before the conflict was conclusively ended, John died.
To the typical genre reader a diddy would be, to borrow a term from John Dickson Carr, below suspicion.
John just doesn't understand that laughing at Mary all day is not very discreet.
I'm distressed that John hasn't answered my calls. I hope nothing bad happened to him on the way here.
Hostages from the Valois family were held in London while John returned to France to raise his ransom.
When the hostages escaped back to France, John was horrified that his word had been broken and returned to England, where he eventually died.
Terms of the treaty included the marriage of John of Gaunt's daughter Katherine to Juan's son, Enrique.
John of Gaunt assumed leadership in France with limited success, and peace negotiations over several years were inconclusive.
Later they were joined by Henry Bolingbroke, the son and heir of John of Gaunt, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.
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Would you rather... be donkey-punched by John Madden OR receive Arabian Goggles From the WWE's Mark Henry?
Pan-fried fish. Barramundi, bream, flounder, garfish, John Dory, snapper and Silver Dory are suitable for this recipe.
This morning not even the cry of a bedspring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom.
Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
Henry's empire quickly collapsed during the reign of his youngest son John.
Below-stairs opinion of Sir John is not divided. He is a shifty indiwiddle.
John had spent the Great Revolt travelling alongside his father and most observers now began to regard the prince as Henry's favourite child.
Henry began to grant John more lands, mostly at various nobles' expense, and in 1177 made him the Lord of Ireland.
Henry was furious, and ordered John and Geoffrey to march south and retake the duchy by force.
Meanwhile, John undertook an expedition to Ireland in 1185, which was not a success.
Henry was carried back to Chinon on a litter, where he was informed that John had publicly sided with Richard in the conflict.
John lost control of all his continental possessions, apart from Gascony in southern Aquitaine.
Only 25 years later John would return to Ireland while others built castles and installed their interests.
Henry ordered him to hand Aquitaine to his brother, John, but Richard refused.
Henry died two days later, after learning John, the only son that had previously never betrayed him, had joined Richard and Philip.
Although Philip threatened invasion, Eleanor of Aquitaine intervened in stopping her son, John, from promising to concede the land.
His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist.
With the help of Philip, John went to invade England and incite rebellion against Richard's justiciars.
John failed and then had worse luck when it was discovered Richard was alive, which wasn't known until this point.
However, whilst the discussions had been going on, Philip and John had created war in three different areas of the Angevin Empire.
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Firstly, in England, John had attempted to take over, asserting that Richard would never return.
John Major was described by his opponents as a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative.
John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
Le Mans refused to declare allegiance to John, so he ran to Normandy, where he was invested as duke in Rouen on 25 April.
England had declared its support for John thanks to William Marshal and Archbishop Hubert Walter of Canterbury's support.
Due to his mother's support, Aquitaine and Poitou supported John and only Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and Brittany remained disputed.
In May, Aimeri, Viscount of Thouars, who was chosen by John to be his seneschal in Anjou, attacked Tours in order to capture Arthur of Brittany.
In 1172 Henry gave John the castles of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau as a wedding gift.
John was also to accept Philip as his suzerain overlord and pay Philip 20,000 marks.
Under the control of Hubert de Burgh in Falaise, Arthur disappeared and John was seen as responsible for his murder.
In December 1203, John left Normandy never to return, and on 24 June 1204, Normandy capitulated with the surrender of Rouen.
We think we can trust John with this new position as he has his feet on the ground.
The actor John Smith hopes to fight off the other nominees for the Golden Globe award.
In February 1214, John landed in La Rochelle after creating alliances headed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto.
The aim was for the Earl of Salisbury and John's German allies to attack Philip from the north, whilst John attacked from the south.
Louis seized Rochester, London, and Winchester, whilst John was deserted by several nobles, including the Earl of Salisbury.
John said he could drive me to the airport, but then he flaked out on me, and I had to call a cab at the last minute.
In 1390, King Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince appointed his uncle John of Gaunt Duke of Aquitaine.
John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.
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The historian John Gillingham notes that the chronicle of Roger of Howden is the main source for Richard's activities in this period.
There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight.
He felt that Aquitaine was his and that John was unfit to take over the land once belonging to his beloved mother.
Richard's brother John was not satisfied by this decision and started scheming against William.
A freak goal gave Forest the lead when a clearance by keeper John Ruddy bounced off Nathan Tyson and flew in.
He realised that his return could be postponed no longer since both Philip and John were taking advantage of his absence.
Richard forgave John when they met again and named him as his heir in place of their nephew, Arthur.
Richard then set his affairs in order, bequeathing all his territory to his brother John and his jewels to his nephew Otto.
Talking of backfire, frontfire or whatever, John Carroll can give it both barrels, and simultaneously.
Even though as many as fourteen claimants put forward their claims to the title, the real contest was between John Balliol and Robert de Brus.
Yet, the French never invaded England and France's King John II died in captivity in England.
The greatly outnumbered English forces not only routed the French, but captured the French king, John II and his youngest son, Philip.
In 1369, the French war started anew, and Edward's younger son John of Gaunt was given the responsibility of a military campaign.
Chamberlain William Latimer and Steward of the Household John Neville were dismissed from their positions.
Yet the real adversary of the Commons, supported by powerful men such as Wykeham and Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March, was John of Gaunt.
There was a halo about everything that Uncle John did, the radiance that goes with great kindness, the jovial gentle-heartedness of a humane man.
Anyway, I used to get a charge out of the writing on the walls in the John.
The story of Falstaff originated in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards.
I think he just got ahead of himself in telling first of the arrest of John, then jumped back to the earlier baptism of Jesus.
And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen.
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Following the defeat of his allies at the Battle of Bouvines, John had to sue for peace and pay compensation.
Another Scotland opportunity went a-begging when John Barclay failed to grasp an offload at the end of some probing phases.
John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
The youngest Ohio boardsman, John Francis, 18, is a warehouse billing clerk.
But John, not surprisingly, has gone off the boil, and feels nothing for Annette so strongly as an intense weariness and desire to be rid of her.
Letters backing John arrived from the Pope in April, but by then the rebel barons had organised into a military faction.
They congregated at Northampton in May and renounced their feudal ties to John, marching on London, Lincoln, and Exeter.
John W. Stokes was a native Greenvillian whose family had settled here soon after the Revolution.
Some artists, like John Cage, have adopted aleatoric methods of composition in order to remove any trace of authorial expression from their work.
John and the rebel barons did not trust each other, and neither side seriously attempted to implement the peace accord.
John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and could not help grinning like a Cheshire cat.
John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
However, by 1211 King John recognised the growing influence of Prince Llywelyn as a threat to English authority in Wales.
As King John was an enemy of the church, Pope Innocent III gave his blessing to Llywelyn's revolt.
Llywelyn's wife, John's daughter Joan, also known as Joanna, negotiated between the two men, and John withdrew.
Henry had wanted John to be crowned King of Ireland on his first visit in 1185, but Pope Lucius III specifically refused permission.
The half-term trip to Nethercombe had to be postponed because of her funeral and John felt a new guilt.
John pursued the Black Prince, who tried to avoid battling the French king's superior force.
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Louis X left only a daughter, and his posthumous son John I lived only a few days.
While these hostages were held, John returned to France to try and raise funds to pay the ransom.
Author John Putzier has a bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another.
The political community preferred this to a regency led by the king's uncle, John of Gaunt, although Gaunt remained highly influential.
In 1399, after John of Gaunt died, Richard II disinherited Gaunt's son, the exiled Henry of Bolingbroke.
After Louis's assassination, the Armagnac family took political power in opposition to John.
The English lost 2,200 men, and the commander, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, was taken prisoner.
John Fenwick was apprenticed on 31 May 1612 to Robert Bewick of Newcastle upon Tyne, boothman.
The second house of Lancaster was descended from John of Gaunt, who married the heiress of the first house.
A deal was made that allowed John to keep Tickhill and Nottingham, but return his other possessions.
Edward III of England married John of Gaunt, his third surviving son, to Henry's heiress Blanche of Lancaster.
Society remained deeply unsettled and radical demands continued to be suppressed such as those from the yeoman brothers John and William Merfold.
Lancastrian cognatic descent from John of Gaunt and Blanche's daughter Phillipa continued in the royal houses of Spain and Portugal.
Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sydney, Thomas Kyd, John Donne, and Ben Jonson are other established authors of the Elizabethan age.
The founder of the House of York was Edmund of Langley, the fourth son of Edward III and the younger brother of John of Gaunt.
Some of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment were John Locke, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson and Jeremy Bentham.
John Beaufort had been illegitimate at birth, though later legitimised by the marriage of his parents.
Lucius then died while John was in Ireland, and Henry obtained consent from Pope Urban III and ordered a crown of gold and peacock feathers for John.
It seemed to me that Rockcliffe Fellows, as Randolph, was altogether too actorish. I should have preferred John Bowers, the altogether natural mild villain, in this part.
John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.
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Al my other goodes afore not bewitted, my dettes paide, and my legacy fulfilled, I gyve and witto to my sones Roberte Bulmer and John Bulmer, whome I make my executors.
The silence brought John Jay to his senses. He crawled along the aisle and out of the door, blinkling like an owl as he came into the blinding sunshine.
John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency.
Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
John Howard argued that he was a relatively new Treasurer in 1978 when he was first given some advice from Treasury officials concerning the bottom-of-the-harbour tax schemes.
The post of vice-president should, by rights, have been given to John.
John had a sudden change of mind when he saw that better offer.
John became the donee of the bone marrow donated by his brother.
John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
George W. Bush and John Kerry had contrasting debating styles.
But, overturning the 1961 coronial finding, Victorian coroner John Olle ruled Ms Kramer's mother, Phyllis Loomes, had put the bag over Margaret's head.
Former Hidden Camera Steven Kado and artist Brian Joseph Davis channel a little John Cage filtered through deathcore music with their performance Alvin Lucifer.
After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.
Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too.
They pointed out that the microscopic ergodic theories of John von Neumann and Eberhard Hopf are not relevant to the problem of ergodic behavior in molecules.
If John goes for three days without sleep, he will be very tired.
John gave Rebecca a goodbye to wish her luck on her holiday.
A recipe for pork grillades and grits with an article last Wednesday about the New Orleans chef John Besh omitted the amount of butter that should be folded into the grits.
Thus the lithe and slightly feminised John Travolta of Saturday Night Fever is transformed into the pumping, grinding-body-obsessed gym bunny of Staying Alive.
Gratton has had a series of meetings with Toros president John F. Bassett since he quit the Blues last week after having words with coach Garry Young.

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