Circumstances over which I had no control caused me to be born with a distinct inability to think consecutively, or talk coherently, in a standing position and before an audience.
This Association was bornout of a happy inspiration.
And the while my fancy lingers In that hope-born summer clime, Pretty garments prove my fingers Have been busy all the time.
Have you ever been a schoolboy, or were you born a lieutenant in the German Army?
He had a pity rather than contempt for those unlucky enough to be born Frenchmen, Italians, or of any other race.
They were born and they lived and they died as the elders directed, like little cogs in a great machine.
You will be going over to the Protestants, and then the curse of Saint Patrick and all the holy saints will rest upon you,--you too, who are born to be a priest of the holy faith.
The woman drew herself up as she spoke, and looked towards the boy with a glance of pride, as if she would not exchange him for any of the highest born in the land.
Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, who had succeeded to the baronetcy in 1821, had no son, and though time after time a child was born to him, Providence blessed him with no male heir.
When Roger was born there was but little chance of his ever becoming the owner of either titles or estates, and so his education was entirely foreign, his tutors being M.
Baronet of British Kingdom) to have a child born in such a hovel.
Two children were born of the marriage, and nothing seemed wanting to his prosperity, when suddenly a soldier of the French Gardes presented himself at Chauvigny.
You are of foreign descent; you were born in Europe, sir; and however incredible it may at first sight seem to you, you are the son of a king.
It was further ordered that such property as he had should be devoted to the maintenance of the child which had been born to him by Bertrande de Rols.
Marie-Antoinette, and was born at the Chateau of Versailles, on the 27th of March, at five minutes before seven in the evening.
This impudent vagabond is a native of Wallachia, born of Christian parents in the city of Trogovisti;" and throughout his exposure employs phrases which are decidedly more forcible than polite.
Again and again a child would be born at Tichborne, but it was always a girl.
People who love music so well as to make an innocent creature miserable that they may enjoy its songs will wish, some day, that they had been born deaf.
He did not know the right name for a calf, and our cow had a very pretty one, born in the night.
I can manage him with a word, almost with a look, because he was born in the house, and has never been away from me; but master Fiddy was a year or two old when I had him, and some things he will do in spite of me.
A ballad written towards the end of 1659 says of him, "Baron Hill was but a valley, And born scarce to an alley; But now is lord of Taunton Dean, And thousands he can rally.
Fortune is a lass Will embrace, But soon destroy; Born free, In liberty We'll always be, Singing VIVE LE ROY.
Old Jemmy is a lad Right lawfully descended; No bastard born nor bred, Nor for a Whig suspended; The true and lawful heir to th' crown By right of birth and laws, And bravely will maintain his own In spight of all his foes.
The first difference amongst mankind, who are all born equal, was made by virtue; they who were virtuous were deemed noble, and the rest were all accounted otherwise.
Pantaleone was born at Nicomedia, in Bithynia, the son of a Pagan father and a Christian mother.
From Naples to Rome, from Rome to Ferrara, from Ferrara to Mantua and Milan, the precious manuscript containing the last-born sonnet of the illustrious Lady of Ischia was eagerly passed along.
His lesson hours, as a rule, fell when the other boys were busy at their chores--and it was the tradition of Far Bazziley that boys were born to work, not play.
He knew all these wilderness waters of northern New Brunswick, having been born not far from the sources of the Nashwaak, and worked his way northward as soon as he was full-grown, to escape the hated neighbourhood of the settlements.
They were very blind, and ridiculously small to be born of so big a mother; and having so much growth to make during the next few months, their appetites were immeasurable.
And just at this time, when all the wild kindred, from the wood-mouse to the moose, felt sure that life was good, a porcupine baby was born in the snug den among the rocks.
An instinct, an intuition born of his sympathy with the furtive folk, led him to the point, and out along the point to that once islet, with its secret in the heart of the tangle.
After a while, he returned to the table and said: "You'll be given the passport of an Austrian subject, who was born in Triest.
Wandering aimlessly about the rocky mountainside, I found a wallet belonging to one of my servants, who had been born in Brescia and had travelled to all kinds of places.
The story of Rama himself occupies only six cantos; he is not bornuntil the tenth canto, he is in heaven after the fifteenth.
For Why should the trembling, born Of age, increasing, seize Your limbs and bid them shake Like fig-leaves in the breeze?
A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.
She explains that the lad had been entrusted to her as soon as born by Urvashi, and that it was he who had just shot the bird and recovered the gem.
To the king and queen is born a son, who is named Atithi.
But he promises that a son shall be born to Shiva and Parvati, who shall lead the gods to victory.
How were youborn his daughter, for you are beautiful?
Dushyanta said: "I do not know the son bornof you, Shakuntala.
Your mother died when you were born and I brought you up.
If the son of the hermit's daughter isborn with the imperial birthmarks, then welcome her and introduce her into the palace.
This gold King Raghu bestows upon the sage, who gratefully uses his spiritual power to cause a son to be born to his benefactor.
Himalaya marries a wife, to whom in course of time a daughter is born, as wealth is born when ambition pairs with character.
Since you have found a loving husband, Shakuntala, a noble son shall be born to you, mighty in the world.
It was by no choice of Harriet's that she was born of a woman who valued children as a kind of social collateral, high-class investments to mature after long periods with at least reasonable profits for the original investors.
Perhaps he realized that the scientific son can never be the idol of a household until he is born of scientific parents.
Three high-born fragile natures, solitary each on the stem of its generation; not made for blasts and rudeness.
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there.
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
The world is even surprised when Mr. Gladstone is found to have been born in several places at the same time--as if he would be born at different times!
It must be like having been bornin Iceland, or educated in a Grammar School.
She got quite red all down her neck and snorted--you know how she snorts, as if she had been born a Baroness!
I was born epigrammatic, and my dying remark will be a paradox.
By the way, I sometimes wish that I had been born swart as he was.
Certain things are classed as natural, and certain things are classed as unnatural--for all the peopleborn into the world.
From a worldly point of view, I suppose I have beenborn under a lucky star.
It is like spending the day with a hurricane, or being born an orphan.
Augustine Herrman was a Bohemian adventurer, born in Prague, who, after a career of much vicissitude, made his way to New Netherland.
In the second deposition she speaks of herself as born in Paris, not Valenciennes.
The woman who was going over with us was bornat Rhode Island, in New England, and was the wife of the captain of the Margaret, one of Frederick Flipsen's ships.
Even the children who are born there are not excepted, as those who live there and have experienced it told us when we were there.
We left here about three o'clock, and were taken across the creek and put upon the road, and at evening came to the house of one Richard Adams, an Englishman, who had a Dutch wife born at Deventer.
He was born in Utrecht, but of French parents, as we could readily discover from all his actions, looks and language.
If he was born in New Netherland in or about 1614, there must have been at least one European woman in the colony at an earlier date than has been supposed, namely, back in the years of the first Dutch trading along that coast.
Now he took ship in a bark that was owned of a man hight Thorkel, who dwelt in Salft in Halogaland, and was a high-born man.
It is equally true for every human being whatever be the degree of accuracy of the figure by the aid of which he studies it, or indeed whether he studies it by figure or otherwise, as must necessarily be the case with the born blind.
We are born and we die, we are young and grow old.
Old Put" doubtless enjoyed immunity from this vexatious creature, because he was born with few nerves.
The next child born in that house had round, hoof-like feet, with only two toes, and hands that tapered from the wrist into a single long finger.
Nor did the water ever cease to run, and in these times the stream born of the witch's revenge is known as Catskill Creek.
And," said he "woe, woe is me because I was born into the world.
Woe be unto every sinner like unto myself who hath been born into the world!
Soon after the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburgh was officially born and a new chapter in the development of Northern New York was begun.
And no fair understanding can ever be had of the difficulties under which the railroads of the North Country were born without an understanding of the difficulties under which the men who helped give them birth labored.
A house in which a real idea wasborn forever fascinates me.
Similarly Parsons had offended Watertown by his treatment of its newly born street railway.
