Sentences with phrase «of noblewomen»

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

The teeth of the noblewomen are less worn, because they ate a softer diet with meat, whereas poorer women and children often ate coarse millet.

En route you pick - up a talentless criminal after he fumbles a hold - up on a bridge; the spirited and estranged daughter of a noblewoman, who longs to avenge the death of her murdered brother; and, finally, a flop - fringed knight who is just as likely to try to flirt his way out of an altercation as to draw his rapier.

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.

Not exact matches

• «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.

She was sent to boarding school but shortly after the death of her father was inspired by a Swedish noblewoman and mystic of the 13th century — St Bridget (or Birgitta).

Josephine Abercrombie is what Egan might have called a noblewoman of a «certain age,» her age certainly being 60.

For instance, noblewomen wore as much fur and jewellery as they could, while poor women were pleased to wear linen or fine wool instead of the usual homespun fabric.

«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.»

Measuring 35 centimeters tall by 12 centimeters wide, it depicts an Egyptian noblewoman and is a Fayum portrait, a type of painting that was attached to mummies of that time and believed to depict the image of a real person.

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.

Reminiscent of the political intrigue of «The Illusionist» and the haunting stylings of «Bram Stoker's Dracula», «The Countess» tells the tale of Erzebet Bathory (Julie Delpy) an aging noblewoman whose years of solitude and loneliness transforms her into a cold and distant figure among Hungarian nobility.

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.

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).

The always - working Chastain, who is having another busy movie season («The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,» «Interstellar,» «A Most Violent Year»), is rigid and spooky - eyed as a noblewoman with a less - than - noble spirit.

Is it typecasting to cast someone as a matriarch if one is spirited noblewoman, one is a modern terrorist and a third is the resurrected matriarch of the Langston clan on Resurrection?

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.

The 1971 excavation of an ancient Chinese tomb led to a startling discovery: the 2,000 - year - old body of a Chinese noblewoman, so well preserved that her skin was still soft.

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.

Avelynn is the story of the forbidden love between a Saxon noblewoman and a Viking warrior.

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.

Lady Merreth — a dark, leather - clad noblewoman flees from a crime she's accused of committing.

But, since you asked... A Ranger's Tale is the story of a high - elf noblewoman who was expected to take her father's place as the head of Leogard's Mage Academy.

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.

Having succumbed to madness following years of incarceration, disgraced noblewoman Cassia now has only goal: to take revenge, no matter the cost.

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.