They bowed to him," says the English annalist pathetically, "for need.
Great was the awe of him," writes the annalist of Peterborough.
We possess another contemporary annalist for the same period in Roger of Wendover, the first of the published chroniclers of St. Albans, whose work extends to 1235.
Tighernach, the accurate annalist of Clonmacnoise, states expressly that the island of Hy was granted to Columcille by Conall, King of the Dalriada.
Tighernach, the celebrated annalist of Clonmacnoise, is the earliest who refers to them as thus classified, and he died A.
An annalist of Worms is quoted about Dorso's operations on the upper Rhine in 1231.
John Mark Burigozzo, a Lombard shopkeeper, was the last annalist who recorded the sorrows of the people.
His reputation in all branches of learning induced the senate to give him the coveted office of publicannalist from the year 1528.
His acceptance in any particular case of the version given by an annalist by no means implies that he has by careful inquiry satisfied himself of its truth.
The Roman annalist had not, like the Greek, to deal with the varying fortunes and separate doings of a number of petty communities, but with the continuous life of a single city.
One annalist after another quietly adopted the established tradition, as it had been left by his predecessors, without any serious alterations of its main outlines.
The mediaeval Chronicler quotes the old Annalist for the following year: "The king, the son of Erc, returned to the side of the descendants of Nial.
From first to last we seem to hear in the prose of the annalist the cry of the troubled Psalmist, "Lord, where are Thy old loving-kindnesses which Thou swarest unto David in Thy truth?
He had evidently formed a very high estimate of Asa, with none of the shadows and drawbacks which in the later annalist seemed to point to a marked degeneracy of character in his later days.
He was the Mazkir, the annalist or historiographer of Solomon's court (2 Chron.
Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, continued to hold the office of annalist or historiographer (Mazkir), the officer known as the Waka Nuwish in Persian courts.
It is for the local annalist to gather these traditions and facts, from which the state historian may form a comprehensive and accurate account.
But although our annalist refers both to Major and Blair, it is the latter only who mentions either the design of the visit paid to the west of Scotland, or the persons who are said to have been associates in it.
The annalist of the monastery, flourishing under another dynasty, placed in other times and amid other manners, was estranged from any community of feeling with a people who were then sunk into the helots of England.
Yet in the rhymer whom Warton has degraded, Ellis has discovered a metrical annalist whose orations are almost eloquent, whose characters of monarchs are energetic, and what he records of his own age matter worthy of minute history.
But the annalist to whom we owe this remark may have been misinformed; only a part of the history of the first emperor is extant, and we cannot argue from any references in her other works that she wrote a continuation of it[477].
Straws show the way in which the wind blows, and this fable and the comments of the Irish annalist reveal the view of his age on the question of theft.
The same story appears in the life of St. Patrick where the annalist reveals his bias in the words: "O wonderful deed!
An annalist who was also a courtier, applying himself to construct the story of his sovereign's ancestors, would naturally be disposed to embellish his pages with narratives of great exploits and brilliant achievements.
An annalist of his time says: "Yoritomo was impartial in bestowing rewards, but so severe in meting out punishments as to seem almost inhuman.
If a greater annalist than he do not arise to do justice to his merits, the fame even of Marlborough will never descend, at least in its full proportions, to future generations.
There was not a better deed done in Ireland since the banishment of the Formorians," says the Annalist of Clonmacnoise!
McFirbis, an annalist and genealogist by inheritance, is known to us not only for his profound native lore, and tragic death, but also for the assistance he rendered Sir James Ware, Dr.
In a bloody engagement Iermak put them to flight on the shores of a lake; and the annalist reports that at his time many human bones were still to be seen there.
It is more probable that, not having been an eye-witness of the facts, the annalist established upon hypothesis the order in which they succeeded each other.
His Cossacks," says the annalist of Tobolsk, "led a chaste life, on the march as well as during their stay in the capital of Siberia.
It may, however, be doubted whether the annalist is not here giving a very free rendering of the triumphant cries of the German army.
One annalist tells us that Charles was elected 'lest the pagans should insult the Christians, if the name of Emperor should have ceased among the Christians[95].
Moreover, the impression received from reading the Fragments of Annals is that the Annalist had in his mind the Norse-Gaelic population of Ireland, not of Scotland.
To this entry the annalist adds the following note: “Quod non factum est ab antiquis temporibus.
On the other hand it may be noted here that the Annalist errs in making Olaf a brother of Ivarr the Boneless.
More than that he proves conclusively by quotations from Plautus, theannalist Cn.
As to the life and writings of this old annalist and antiquary see M.
All these writers distinguish the old annalist from the antiquary, whom they take to have been a later writer of the same name.
May the annalist whose business it may be to record in future the transactions of the colony find a pleasanter field to travel in, where his steps will not be every moment beset with murderers, robbers, and incendiaries.
It was to the first of these visitations that the annalist Clyn succumbed.
High as Brian towers above other mediaeval Celts--one annalist calls him the Charlemagne of North-western Europe--it cannot be said that he laid the foundation of an Irish monarchy.
The annalist Pembridge, who was a contemporary, declares that he brought bad weather to Ireland, and that it lasted all his time.
Already, on the 21st of September, the annalist of Ferrara wrote: "The French are hated in Milan for their rudeness and arrogance.
His successor in the office of annalist at St Albans, Rishanger, is much less trustworthy.
The year of Richard's accession, 1189, is given by the annalist of the Welsh monastery of Margan, as a year of severe famine and of a mortality of men.
One such instance may be quoted from the St Albans annalist of the time of John and first years of Henry III.
An Essex annalist says there was a famine, and quotes the famine prices: a quarter of wheat was sold for a pound in many parts of England, although in Henry II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annalist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
