Sentences with phrase «noblemen used»

Warriors traveled with large guard dogs, and noblemen used fierce dogs to protect palaces and property.

In a late 15th - century illustration (right), a seated official reports to a nobleman using a khipu to record the facts and figures presented.

That play being «Eboshi - Ori» a traditional Japanese tale in which a young nobleman uses a disguise to escape his troubled past.

Not exact matches

These passages are all narratives of a synoptic type and include the Miracle at Cana (2:1 - 11), the Cleansing of the Temple (2:14 - 16), the Healing of the Nobleman's Son (4:46 - 53)» the Anointing at Bethany (12:1 - 8) and the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem (12:12 - 15); it is at least possible that the evangelist was here using a written source or oral tradition that had become comparatively «fixed» in form.

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.

Cat Sebastian tells us how she used the classic girl - dressed - as - boy trope to create a romance between a nonbinary character and the grumpy bisexual nobleman who adores her.

With The World Stage, Wiley moves away from using models sourced from the streets of Brooklyn and Los Angeles to pose for his majestic paintings, which emulate the portraiture of Western European noblemen and kings.

Looking at the work of Kehinde Wiley — who uses classical poses and situations to recast «urban» men as, say, noblemen on horseback — you can see touches of Marshall.

It was followed two decades later with a traveling English nobleman who used to present acquaintances with a handwritten letter of introduction which he called a resume.

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