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...Those efforts appeared to have swayed more than half of the 20 Republicans who had opposed his speakership in previous rounds, including Dan Bishop of North Carolina and Byron Donalds of Florida....
...Those efforts swayed more than half of the 20 Republicans who had opposed his speakership in previous rounds of voting, including Dan Bishop of North Carolina and Byron Donalds of Florida....
...Their part-friendship, part-business relationship is just one of those that Daisy Hay — author of a previous biography of Disraeli and his wife, as well as a study of Byron and the Shelleys — tracks in her...
...As well as other things, Byron was an ironist; Dickens a comic turn even when he was most polemical about grievous social wrong; Twain a stinging stalker of pompous lies and empty vanities....
...Whether sheep, bull or stag, they were mounted on a stick and reserved for the purpose of a burlesque oath — “the worship on the solemn Horn”, as Lord Byron described it....
...It wasn’t ideal to get to Elizabeth Bishop’s old flat in Boston without ensuring in advance that the occupants would be in....
...Runciman was full of sympathy for Bulgar khans, Phariote bishops and Byzantine despots, which enriched his historical writing. But this sympathy did not extend to the Jews....
...But nothing in his career will necessarily have prepared him to play in a bishop’s palace garden by the Thames at a festival for devotees of beer, indie music and fishing, on a bill that included Malian...
...The Latin bishop of Aleppo was asking ‘How can the west let this happen?’” Five hours have passed in conversation. “I’m sorry,” says Kechichian, “I must go....
...The sale in April at Christie’s of a late 16th-century portrait of Richard III once owned by Lord Byron for £16,250 was a good example....
...(The present Bishop of Salisbury concurs, rather sadly, that there is “always a bit of dark sky over the Church of England”.)...
...Built between 1535 and 1542 as a summer residence for the Bishop of Padua, this early example of classical Renaissance architecture makes Palladio lovers go weak at the knees....
...Shortly after the horses were acquired, Carl Bishop, then curator of the museum’s Asia department, proclaimed their renown and beauty....
...Instead of bars, there are historic pubs: the Spaniards Inn, a drinking haunt of Keats and Byron, built around 1585, where Dick Turpin’s father was the landlord; the Holly Bush, which until recently still...
...Less well-known yet deeply influential are Robert Lowth, a bishop whose 1762 A Short Introduction to English Grammar created many of the familiar shibboleths of English usage; Lindley Murray, whose grammar...
...Its customers have included Samuel Pepys, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Elihu Yale, founder of the US university. But Hoare has taken steps that make clear that it is not mired in the 17th century....
...He backed off only after Patriarch Pavle, Serbia’s leading bishop, published an exquisitely dainty open letter that placed God on his side....
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