Sentences with phrase «by noblemen»

By the end of the 18th Century, the great hunts organized by noblemen had all but faded into history.

Their apocalyptic vision promised a new era of German world domination under the leadership of wise pagan priests — an empire of light, inhabited by noblemen, which would be cleansed of all Judeo - Christian influence.

The two then set off from Paris to the provinces, where the duke has a child by a nobleman's daughter.

Not exact matches

While popular with the ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese noblemen, cherries were first brought to our shores by settlers in the 1600's.

The New Yorker once published a cartoon showing a Roman nobleman being fanned by a slave.

The first accurate measurement of G was not made, in fact, until 1797, more than a century after the discovery of the law of gravity, and it arose from a classic experiment performed by the English nobleman Henry Cavendish.

He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife.

Henriette is kidnapped by a lascivious nobleman, leaving Louise to wander helplessly about until she too is «stolen» by a family of beggars.

That he is acknowledged as the finest golfer in the world, and is being courted by and English promoter interested in turning golf into a spectator sport rather than a nobleman's pastime, gives him the edge he needs to convince Boothby, whom he confronts not just with political rhetoric, but also with the temerity to use the man's front door before doing so.

However, after placing the young nobleman under a spell, the vain monarch still finds herself frustrated by her magical mirror's answer to «Who's the fairest of them all?»

Amanda Bynes («The Amanda Show», «All That») stars as Daphne, bred up to be a free spirit by her hippie - ish mother, who once had a brief fling with a British nobleman, who has been long out of the picture.

Indeed, this dynasty - hopping saga of an omnipotent Elizabethan dandy and nobleman who eventually switches gender, is an abridged adaptation of Virginia Wolff's 1928 novel «Orlando: A Biography», which was inspired by the life of the poet Vita Sackville - West.

Wanted by the Spanish Inquisition, the son of a nobleman sneaks off to Mexico, and treks with Cortez in search of Incan gold.

But Dorothy is taken by Willie's freewheeling life and ditches the nobleman.

12:15 pm — TCM — Tom Jones The book Tom Jones, written in the late 1700s by Henry Fielding, is usually considered one of the earliest novels, and part of its charm is the way it pastiches earlier literary forms as it tells its story of a rakish young English nobleman and his adventures with women.

Directed by: Timur Bekmanbetov - A falsely accused Jewish nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his Roman best friend, who betrayed him.

Leopold is then befriended by Kate (Ryan) and Charlie (Meyer), brother and sister who are neighbors of Stuart's, and who think Leopold is speaking and dressing like a 19th Century nobleman for a role he is method acting for.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she escapes her fate — for a week.

When Emma is robbed by thieves, she turns to a handsome nobleman who offers aid, and she moves into his home, pretending to be a governess.

Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with a very special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.

Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king's ransom in moldy books — and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her — Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.

They're featured in many period paintings because they were popular with nobleman, but by the end of the 19th century, they were virtually extinct.

In the Orient, they rode inside the great sleeves of noblemen's robes; in Europe, they rode in baskets carried by noblewomen; everywhere, they sat on laps and warmed beds in cold castles and palaces.

Most of us think of tweed as being worn by the upper classes and it began to be so during the first half of the 19th century when English noblemen acquired many country estates in Scotland for hunting and outdoor leisure activities.

Four Phrayas or Four Noblemen was a name given by King Rama V to the road leading up to the next pier, N 3 Si Phraya.

Once the property of a nobleman, this sleek, urban space now dazzles with a luminous lobby that doubles as a bar and features a towering atrium, geometric light fixtures, and a blue - and - white installation by leading Spanish artist, Robert Ferrer i Martonell.

An old temple built in 1851 in the reign of King Rama IV, this temple which means «golden necklace» was built by the descendants of a Thai nobleman, Chao Phraya Sri Phipat.

Built in the 1787 by a Portuguese nobleman, this palace faces the church built by the same man along the banks of the Kushavati River.

Set in the Renaissance era, the life Italian nobleman Ezio Auditore da Firenze gradually unfolds accompanied by a rich soundscape.

The other two are new characters who didn't appear in Gaiden: Berkut, a nobleman who leads the coup in the Zophia Kingdom, and Effie, Alm's childhood friend who joins the army to stay by his side.

Blackmailed by the authorities, Klára attempts to uncover the fate of a missing nobleman's daughter within Csejthe Castle, and offer up the Countess» secrets in order to end her nightmarish reign.

You play the role of Báthory's handmaiden and lover Klára, who is blackmailed by the authorities into gathering information about a missing nobleman's daughter.

This idyll was encouraged by the marriages of American heiresses to impoverished English noblemen — usually a trade of money for title — by parents enchanted by a particular vision of British life.

The show will be on view February 27 — April 11, 2014, and was organized by House of the Nobleman.

2014 Face to Face: British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance art collection, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK Light Fantastic, House of the Nobleman, London, UK Old Rope, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, The Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London Lexus Hybrid Art 2014, VDNKH, Optika Pavilion, Moscow, RU The Space Where I Am, Blain Southern London, UK Diacore presents Ron Arad's Last Train, Ron Arad Studio, London, UK Forever, The Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, LB Paper, SMAC Art Gallery, curated by Keith Coventry and Helen A Pritchard, Cape Town, ZA

Taxidermy du jour kicks ass with the latest group show presented by House of the Nobleman at RUSH Art Gallery last February 27th.

Taxidermy du jour kicks ass with the latest group show presented by House of the Nobleman at RUSH Art Gallery last Febru...

2011 Becoming, Artsdepot, London Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Norwich Castle Summer Exhibition 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, London Why I Never Became a Dancer, Sammlung Goetz Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich True Stories, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia Light Fantastic, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Dudley Dance / Draw, ICA, Boston Family Matter, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, (touring), Norwich The Art of Chess, University of the Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane Crossing Centuries: Works by Women Artists 1830 to 2000, ASC Gallery, London Naked, Jensen Gallery, Sydney Donne, Donne, Donne, Fondazione Pier Luigie Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Move: Choreographing You, K20, Dusseldorf Images From a Floating World, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York Readykeulous, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York Newspeak, The Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Royal Academicians, I - MYU Projects, Sungnam Art Centre, Seoul Text / Video / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul Watercolour, Tate Britain, London The Shape We're In (Camden), 176 Zabludowicz, London Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavillon, Bexhill - on - Sea LUMIERE, Durham Sex Drive, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Pennsylvania House of the Nobleman, Zabludowicz Collection, London He disappeared into complete silence: re-reading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, Frans Hals Museum │ De Hallen Haarlem Sometimes, Ciragan Palace Kempinsky Gallery, Istanbul Fertility, Akim Monet, Berlin At Work, The Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Peeping Tom, Kunsthal in Amersfort, Netherlands Paint Me A Drink, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London Contemporary Art, Fredericks & Freiser, New York

One of two exhibitions hosted by House of the Nobleman during Frieze at 12 Hay Hill in Mayfair a new members club opening in 2015.

This class of climate Lords is served in turn by a vast climate clergy, who promise us that the green noblemen are indeed virtuous, and not tainted by the devil's own oils... But their own demands for our austerity aren't matched by humble requests for green taxes, but demands for # billions and # billions, and rising every year.

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

Other coins were surmised to have been issued by employers, noblemen and merchants for their private uses.