Sentences with phrase «noblewomen in»

The Italian Greyhound dog breed was a favorite companion of noblewomen in the Middle Ages, especially in Italy.

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• «Lady Sarashina,» As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Actually the work of an anonymous eleventh - century Japanese noblewoman, this is one of the most delicate specimens of classical Japanese literature (which already surpasses almost all other literatures in delicacy).

Richeldis de Faverches was a Saxon noblewoman who lived in the small village of Walsingham, in the east of the England.

In the play Olivia is a noblewoman wooed by a Duke, who instead falls in love with his messengeIn the play Olivia is a noblewoman wooed by a Duke, who instead falls in love with his messengein love with his messenger.

«Madder dye extracted from roots was often used to color textiles and leather in ancient Egypt, and we see from the chemical mapping of the portrait that the artist chose to paint the noblewoman's dress with madder lake pigment, thus imitating contemporary practices.»

In the Season 3 premiere, Henry VIII weds a third time: to shy, demure noblewoman Jane Seymour, a union that he and his advisors pray will result in a male heir; once - loyal subjects rebel against Henry's crusade against CatholicisIn the Season 3 premiere, Henry VIII weds a third time: to shy, demure noblewoman Jane Seymour, a union that he and his advisors pray will result in a male heir; once - loyal subjects rebel against Henry's crusade against Catholicisin a male heir; once - loyal subjects rebel against Henry's crusade against Catholicism.

Consider the strange case of the «Blood Countess», a 16th - century Hungarian noblewoman / serial killer who bathed in the blood of her victims — 650 servant girls — in the vain pursuit of eternal youth.

The characters we follow are Tom (Rufus Sewell), the master builder, Aliena (Hayley Atwell), the noblewoman, the sadistic Lord William (David Oakes), Philip (Matthew Macfadyen), the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack (Eddie Redmayne), the artist in stone work and Ellen (Natalia Wörner), the woman from the forest who casts a curse.

Kim Tae - ri stars as Sook - hee, a young pickpocket who is hired to work for seemingly sheltered Japanese noblewoman Lady Hideko (Kim Min - hee); the plan is for Sook - hee to help fellow con artist Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung - woo)-- who is, in reality, neither a count nor Japanese — defraud Lady Hideko of her fortune.

While we can all count ourselves lucky for the age that we live in, watching Stephane Brize's excellent period portrait of a young French noblewoman also reminds you that some things have been slow to change.

There's only hurt pride in Liv Ullmann's Miss Julie, an adaptaion of August Strindberg's play about the games of sexual dominance between a 19th - century noblewoman and a servant.

Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell are perfectly cast as an uptight but secretly passionate noblewoman and an unrepentant horndog in Norwegian director Liv Ullmann's Miss Julie.

But it's immediately clear from the outset that Zama's wait will be in vain, and that as he wearily seeks a series of favors — from a local minister or a teasing noblewoman (Lola Dueñas, a regular of Pedro Almodóvar, one of the film's co-producers)-- we will observe the stagnation and rot of the colonialist experiment firsthand.

That's when Milo, the Celt (Kit Harington of «Game of Thrones») is shipped off to Pompeii, to fight in the arena and become smitten with a young noblewoman, Cassia (Emily Browning).

Also, there's a beautiful noblewoman with people - touching - her issues named Eliza (Kate Beckinsale), after whom the European version of this film is still named, which says something about what distributors think audiences will tolerate in our respective markets, methinks.

He's intent on wooing Cassia (Emily Browning), a noblewoman who has also caught the eye of Senator Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), who — in a twist of fate you'd have to call terrible writing — was the man who put Milo's family to death many years ago in northern Britannia.

Shupe's the Four Hundred series are some of the best new books set in the Gilded Age, and follow English noblewomen as they discover the intoxicating freedom and powerful men of turn - of - the - century America.

1183 A.D., Heian Period, Northern JapanMiku had only experienced adventure and love in the verses that freed her mind and soul, poetry her uncle disparaged as improperly sensual for a noblewoman's pen.

With a band of followers that includes his sister, a knight, a fletcher's wife and a mysterious noblewoman, George sets out to honor the pledge and in doing so discovers that he indeed has dragons to fight, and the person most in need of saving is himself.

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 palaceIn 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 palacein Europe, they rode in baskets carried by noblewomen; everywhere, they sat on laps and warmed beds in cold castles and palacein baskets carried by noblewomen; everywhere, they sat on laps and warmed beds in cold castles and palacein cold castles and palaces.

CD Projekt Red released a patch for «The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt» that caused a noblewoman dressed in red to follow Geralt everywhere, even while riding Roach or engaging in battle.

In Episode One, you also play as Klára Rusznyák, a handmaiden to the noblewoman Erzsébet Báthory.

The highest lot, consigned by an English noblewoman, was the circa 1740 The Bacino di San Marco, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Il Canaletto (1697 - 1768), which fetched $ 5.28 million, well above the nonpublished estimate «in excess of $ 4 million.»

And then there are utter anomalies, like Anton Raphael Mengs's 1775 portrait of a Spanish noblewoman with a lapdog - shaped blank in her arms and a rubbed - out face that presages Magritte.

The preschoolers found the dog in Lavinia Fontana's Portrait of a Noblewoman and the unicorn in Amy Sherald's It Made Sense... Mostly in Her Mind easy to talk about — as well as the eye - catching outfits of each painting's subject.

Anthony van Dyck (1599 — 1641) Genoese Noblewoman, ca. 1625 — 27 Oil on canvas 90 7/8 × 61 5/8 in.