How To Use Roue In A Sentence
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She wound up her dance routine with a wobbly pirouette and took a little bow.
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone
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That which seemeth to me most likelie, I haue noted, beseeching the learned (as I trust they will) in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill: sith for ought I know, the matter is not yet decided among the learned, but still they are in controuersie about it, and as yet Sub iudice lis est.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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After each catty little spat, we cut to another uneventful rehearsal scene where boys and girls with asexual physiques pirouette weightlessly about the rehearsal room.
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A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters.
Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See
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Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
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So while visiting a disco in Rouen on Christmas Eve with his porcine coworker he decides to take his revenge.
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Are there mitigating circumstances, or just a middle-aged roué's glib excuses?
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In 1609–10, Champlain fought the Mohawk with this arquebuse à rouet, a wheel lock weapon that did not require a burning match.
Champlain's Dream
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All these ships being of notable and approued seruice comming neere to the mouth of the Straights hard by the coast of Barbary, descried twelue tall Gallies brauely furnished and strongly prouided with men and munition, ready to seaze vpon these English ships: which being perceiued by the Captaines and Masters thereof, wee made speedy preparation for the defence of our selues, still waiting all the night long for the approching of the enemie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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She said this romantically as she did a little pirouette.
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The swords sang as the soldier and I danced; pirouetting, blocking, lunging, advancing, and retreating.
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Isabelle arrives accompanied by her silly and pretentious mother and Romainville, a middle-aged roué and friend.
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She smiled at me and performed a pirouette, her skirt rising up to reveal a flash of white knickers.
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I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
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During the dust-up I had with Joss in Rouen, he called one of his men `Turner".
CORMORANT
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His blanket, I found, was swarming, and it was ours, not his, one of a lot taken on at Rouen as "disinfected"!
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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Paul twisted, swivelled, danced and turned his way through some desperate tackles before pirouetting over the line in a mesmerising display of balance and control.
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He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor.
A Lover Of The Long Shot
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With the helicopter flying from right to left, start pirouetting , as the helicopter passes in front of the pilot, execute one (1) outside loop while pirouetting .
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Transition steps, like a glissade or pas de bourrée, are often as important as pirouettes.
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Yet more of them leap up ever higher, their legs scissoring the air as they hover like so many hummingbirds in baggy T-shirts and tights, and a dozen or so pirouette dizzyingly, like human spinning tops.
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Aleppo weight, and 19 manas and one 4 part of Balsara, answereth the quintall of Aleppo, which is 494 roues, 8 ounces English, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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'served him right,' said Drouet afterward, even in view of her keen expiation of her error.
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He was looked after by two young brothers from a religious movement just outside Rouen.
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The roué can't produce the heroic memoir that's expected of him, and smoke-free Vancouver, with its vegetarians and sexual-harassment policies, is not the haven he hoped for.
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We connect the idea of fixity with the mountains, but they seem to me to be continually pirouetting with each other, -- exchanging or entirely losing their identity.
Gala-days
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However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
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Steps start off classical – pirouettes from fourth position – then acquire jazzy helicopter arms, or evaporate into a noodling evanescence.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View
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When challenged by the racist right, Obama pirouetted to the right in true Clintonian fashion, boasting that his health care "reform" explicitly excludes undocumented immigrants, unlike the universal health care programs in place in most other economically advanced nations.
Andy Thayer: May Day Immigration March Offers Opportunity to Push Back Against Arizona
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Here, English borrowed a group of linked terms from French, the language in which ballet was pursued and from which it gained international status: jeté, pas de deux, pirouette, and of course ballet itself are all from French.
The English Is Coming!
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He was seen as ‘passionate, greedy and vindictive’ by another Italian, the Siennese roué, who visited him in 1435.
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In the mid-1500s, English writer John Heywood penned the phrase "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" in his book of proverbs entitled, A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.
Sam Dudley: Melo Is Full of...
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If he stars in the operetta, he would no doubt cast himself as an endlessly bumbling, ageing roué.
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Until he was sent off Torres was the brightest player, offering a display that was peppered with menacing movementand muscular surges, with the chested control of Mata's lob after 29 minutes only bettered by the pirouette and finish beyond Michel Vorm.
Chelsea put skids under Swansea – with Lampard then Torres looking on
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He is credited with introducing greater use of ballon (as per his Bournonville training), precision batterie, and a variety of virtuoso pirouettes.
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Populated with groovy ingenues, Rat Pack roués, cute animals, tiki gods and the occasional mythical creature, Shag's art, which also pops up on stationery and housewares, is an inventory of the furnishings in the 1960 Modernist ranch that Agle decorated for his wife, theater director Glendele Way-Agle and their two children.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
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Lily aped a pirouette and collapsed giggling onto Pop-pop's lap.
After the Fall
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Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zuma Press LEAPING ALONG: Rescue personnel rappelled down a building during a fire and earthquake drill in Quezon, Philippines, Friday.
Photos of the Day: March 18
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It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.
Champlain's Dream
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Laurie, in her ecstatic state, executed a pirouette, and began to sing in earnest.
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I removed my cap to reveal a slipping hairstyle (going, going, almost gone) and did a pirouette, graceful as a walrus in ballerina tights.
Million Americans in Mexico? Just guessing
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She pointed her foot, and stood on her other as she raised her foot to perform a grand jeté, followed by a two pas de chats, and a triple pirouette.
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That the Romane legions did make their abode there, no man séene in antiquities can doubt thereof, for the ancient name _Caer leon ardour deuy_, that is, The citie of legions vpon the water of Dée, proueth it sufficientlie enough.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
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His date turned out to be an utterly delightful 24-year-old, who warmed to my charms and made me feel like a right roué.
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But in the February of 1429 -- four days before the Maid of Domremy set forth from her voice-haunted Bois Chenu to bring about a certain coronation in Rheims Church and in Rouen Square a flamy martyrdom -- four days before the coming of the good Lorrainer, Fulke d'Arnaye was slain at
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
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Nephthys, [FN#303] and that Isis and Osiris, having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang Aroueris, whom the Egyptians likewise call Horus the Elder, and the Greeks Apollo.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
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The finely proportioned rectangular glass volume that hosts the dance studios seems to pirouette above a lush green lawn.
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Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zumapress.com A worker climbed down from sacks of rice Monday in Quezon City, Philippines.
Asia in Pictures
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I think she did a very nice quadruple pirouette.
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He waltzed and pirouetted and then, to my horror, he lost his footing.
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The place which the Spoufe was broueht to, • the banqueting houfe, 'or houfe of wine, i.c. of feafting, be - caufe wine is a principal part of feafts; by which we are to un - derftand the order, or means, whereby Chrift: conveys his graces and bleiiings to believers; and there is none of all the. ordinances of the gofpel that may more fitly be called the banqueting or feaft - ixig houfe, than this of the Lord's fupper, which is the great got - pel feail wherewith Chrift entertains his people on earth.
Sacramental Meditations and Advices Grounded Upon Scripture Texts: Proper for Communicants, to ...
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The Dutchman had his back to goal when he received a pass from Robert Pires but with a deft and exquisite touch of his left boot he flicked the ball around Nikos Dabizas, pirouetted and ran the other side, leaving the Newcastle defender completely disoriented before coolly beating Shay Given.
Guardian writers choose their favourite Premier League goal
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Advocate's Box, and before the Queen upon the seat of justice, with all her ladies round her, he pleaded several important causes both for the prosecution and for the defence, "et faisait rage d'alleguer loix, chapitres, et decisions, et luy croissoit le latin en la bouche comme le cresson à la guelle d'un four," the whole being a satire on the well-known Norman passion for a lawsuit, which was appreciated as much by the good people of Rouen as by their royal visitors.
The Story of Rouen
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When we deal with a quantitative thing like rotations in pirouettes, that's fairly simple.
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These men haue the arbitrement of their neighbours controuersies rounde aboute.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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He reached Rouen, the ducal capital, in May.
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He twirled in a kind of pirouette to evade an oncoming attack, then jumped to perform a spin kick.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Chozen’s Review Forum
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But: What was exceptional is that precisely a protruding 'massif' of a hog was dancing in the innersanctum sanctorumof the museum, a great and stupendously rotund animal was actually attempting to, or so it seemed to Wong, preform a pirouette in the manner of one of Degas 'whores.
Why is a Hog always Corpulent ? (or Another Special Exhibit at the Met)
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They got a bit bogged down near the end of the performance during a final pirouette in piaffe, but overall featured a strong technique.
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It fuels the amazing fire tornado, which pirouettes in a fiery red glow at ten-minute intervals.
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She then gave me directions to the station, my wife and I met on time in Rouen, and I have never miss pronounced "gare" again.
Arrosoir - French Word-A-Day
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He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
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Robert leaped to his feet and executed a stylish pirouette across the black-and-white crazed rug; Gordon joined him at his halfway mark, and they finished together with an entrechat.
Naked Cruelty
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At least, I think it is a glare, maybe the old roué is on the pull and has mistaken the duchess of Cornwall for one of the ladies of the night that are standard fare at Tory party parties.
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Three times a day, behind a wall of four-inch-thick plate-glass, half a dozen mermaids - and the occasional merman - jive and pirouette in the world's only underwater spring theatre.
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The extension eastwards, which is given in map E. with this chapter, took place chiefly during the fourteenth century when Rouen was rapidly growing to be the second town in the kingdom.
The Story of Rouen
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He comes on stage performing ballet steps, pirouettes off into the wings, makes some weird grunting sounds, then reappears.
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Leaves pirouetted through a gap between buildings, brown-husk corpses driven by invisible wind.
The Last Liverbeast « A Fly in Amber
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Dressage terms like; capriole, levade, piaffe, pirouette, sound very much like those used in classical ballet and definitely equal the precision, control and athleticism required of a prima ballerina, yet these are the movements of a 1200 lb. horse.
Undefined
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But the latter occur in profusion, too: pirootin ': Messing around; from "pirouetting." tickler: A flat pocket flask. favorance: Resemblance. gumshot: Slingshot. throddy: Well rounded; plump; chuffy. in the room of: In place of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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In Mr. Quirouette's opinion, the four major causes are rain, wind-driven rain, snow and ice melt, and condensation.
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It is a huge filmed image grafted onto a pole-vaulting athlete or a pirouetting Anna Pavlova.
The Sweet Smell of Success
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The hangings were of Rouen cretonne imitating old Normandy chintz, and the Louis XV. design — a shepherdess, in a medallion held in the beaks of a pair of doves — gave the walls, curtains, bed, and arm-chairs a festive, rustic style that was extremely pretty!
Pierre And Jean
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Now , when Carrie heard Drouet's laudatory opinion of her dramatic ability, her body tingled with satisfaction.
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Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zuma Press A man collected scrap metal from his burnt home after a fire in Quezon City, Philippines, Monday.
Photos of the Day
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As if love were in his fingertips, he guides her in pirouettes and protects her supple back from bending too far.
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She flung aside her memory of the entrechat and the pirouette, the studied technique of the ballet; but in so doing she unveiled her own soul.
The Merry-Go-Round
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I give them a center warm-up, and then center work such as tendus combined with pirouettes, as well as a fondu exercise and adagio.
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But king Henrie after the old prouerbe, Ictus piscator sapit, hauing bought his experience with the féeling of smart, & bearing in memorie the iniuries done to him by his sonne Henrie, after such his aduancement to kinglie degrée, would not grant the French kings request herein.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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Transition steps, like a glissade or pas de bourrée, are often as important as pirouettes.
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She turned a pirouette on the ice.
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When he brushed his cheek against hers or supported her waist in multiple pirouettes the sensual heat was unmissable.
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Was that bifocaled roué on TV last night actually Grampa Butcher himself?
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Harry doubled up with silent laughter as Crabbe did a kind of pirouette in midair, trying to see who had thrown it.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zumapress.com People rallied calling for the scrapping of the mining act of 1995, which allows foreign mining corporations to own land in the country, Tuesday in Quezon City, Philippines.
Southeast Asia in Pictures
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His etching "Place de la Rebublique a Rouen" (1883) and "Paysage sous bois" (1879) an etching and aquatint, neither of which was intended for circulation, are both featured at Caen.
Denise Dennis: Normandy: Rare Prints Exhibited at Caen
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Yet better were attonce to let me die, and shew the last ensample of your pride: then to torment me thus with cruelty, to proue your powre, which I too wel haue tride.
Amoretti and Epithalamion
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In like maner, Rafe archbishop of Canturburie returned into England, after he had remained long in Normandie, bicause of the controuersie betwixt him and Thurstan archbishop of Yorke, as is aforesaid.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
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I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
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So that if there be any beetlehead or grosse person, the better to allure and prouoke him to those follies, they tell him by a common Prouerbe: That he must go to Valencia.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Always ‘in character’ as the self-appointed roué, Jerome's encounters with women are strangely enervated events.
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Renowned for her pirouettes and entrechats huit, she made guest appearances in London and Dublin.
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders' dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.
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So imagine Nadia Comaneci doing her pirouettes and tumbles, not on a nice sprung floor, but on a skidpan.
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He must also have looked into the mirror when he considered the great roué, whose smooth approach and good looks make him a master of seduction.
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The music highlighted excellent canter work, including multiple pirouettes, and tempi changes on a curve.
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The poor devil must have performed non-stop pirouettes in his grave during a segment of the '40s.
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the skater executed a triple pirouette
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He has been brought up to understand that to be a Duke is not to be a titled nonentity or a pampered _roué_, but to be one whom Providence has blessed with an opportunity of benefiting and watching over the welfare of those less fortunate than himself in the world's good gifts.
A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
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Now a pirouette has been added to Korbut's loop and several young ladies do a backward somersault on the beam twice in a row.
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Kerchache, who was born in Rouen, was 24-years-old when he first alighted in the Kingdom of Dahomey now the Republic of Benin with little more than the clothes on his back, a medical kit, a Dictaphone, a camera and an 8mm movie camera.
Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell
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Ten minutes late, he tumbles into the room in a kind of flailing pirouette, scatter gunning apologies.
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It fuels the amazing fire tornado, which pirouettes in a fiery red glow at ten-minute intervals.
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When she returned to Mr. B's class, across the floor she sped in a moving allegro combination, executing triple pirouettes.
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It may seeme good here to make mention of certayne thynges, in the which is seene sharpenesse of witte in case of vrgent necessitie, which hath no lawe as sayeth the prouerbe, for I was dryuen to the point howe I myght prieuly escape from Mecha.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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My springe was late, some thinke thatt sooner loue butt backward springs doe oft the kindest proue +
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
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Budding ballet stars who want to practise their pirouettes and pliés with dancing star Wayne Sleep will have the chance this Sunday.
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L of C train via Rouen departs Main Station at 1530.
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Twenty girls skitter through chassées, cross-ball-changes and multiple jazz pirouettes.
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All right,' said Drouet, creaking off in his good shoes toward the elevator.
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It is like a roué making a renewed vow of total, absolute, unconditional marital fidelity but asking for a 10 year grace period for the transition to it.
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Besides Cohn, there was Claudius Charles Philippe, a suave, thrice-married roué eighteen years Walters' senior.
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If they catch the wave skilfully, the skimboard is pivoted by their strong limbs and they pirouette in an air-mixed broth of water and sand, and triumphantly ride their steeds back to the beach.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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For example, a skeleton pirouettes and does a handstand to show how the body distributes force.
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Tunnes of beere for the Victory, but it proued like a present purgation to them that tooke it, so that we chose rather to drinke water then it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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Bon ca m'a couté 19.90 et des brouettes, avec l'assurance (ben oui au cas ou l'avion merde en mer) et tout et tout .... sans compter la douane (sait-on jamais) pour l'instnt j'en suis a une trentaine d'euros!!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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= PK, K stressed pirouét pis aller pêace állây pláteau, pláteaux plural pláttô, plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE pot-pourri pôpu-rêe pouf, pouffe, pouffet poùf, poùf, poùffay poularde poûlarde pourboire porbwàr pourparler porpàrlay pousse-café poûss-cafây poussette poû-sét prelude première prémiãir promenade prómenàde proneur prón-ër protégé prôtezhây
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Inter haec uero popularem gratiam ne commemoratione quidem dignam puto, quae nec iudicio prouenit nec umquam firma perdurat.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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The ghost got up gracefully and at once started doing standing pirouettes, the linen whipping up in errant waves sinusoidal, sending ripples of air circlets, crowning the room.
Hey, So This Is What LSD Feels Like
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The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows ten French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussians. The travelers decide to flee to Le Havre in a horse-drawn carriage.
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He saw a country ruled by an ageing roué, with demonic powers of mass hypnosis and a leaning towards Communist China.
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While my understanding of dance technique falls into the "autodidactic" category (IANAD), it's more difficult to perform multiple pirouettes with the legs parallel--as the gymnasts (and jazz dancers) do them--than with the raised leg turned out.
Sports
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If he could be made to love - how different from those roués of young men, blasé with pleasure, old in worldliness before they reach the term of middle life; oh! how I have always loathed them all.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Hübbe gamboled gamely, swinging his leg up and over as if mounting a horse in preparation for pirouettes, or bounding in leaps as if he were riding a bronco.
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Originally, the school was formed in the 18th Century to hone the skills of cavalry men, but has gone on to evolve dressage into ‘Haute Ecole’, a style which requires the horsemen to move in intricate formation with their beautiful high-stepping Lipizzaners performing such balletic movements as pirouettes, croupades and ballotades.
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In short, Champlain fought at Lake Champlain, and probably at the Rivière des Iroquois and the Onondaga Village, with an arquebuse à rouet that was fired by a wheel lock.
Champlain's Dream
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There was a tower here from the earliest days when Rouen had a civic history at all, a "Ban-cloque" to call her citizens together, which is mentioned in the city charters as a symbol of her freedom.
The Story of Rouen
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The tenor saxophonist wore his baseball hat backwards as he pirouetted and moonwalked across the front of the stage.
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Taylor stutter-stepped to avoid a tackle, then pirouetted away from Marecic to keep the play alive, all while teetering dangerously close to the sideline.
Stanford Blows Out Virginia Tech In Orange Bowl
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For example, she would give everyone triple pirouettes when I could only do one.
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Une grande roue en Inde qui ne marche pas à l'aide d'un moteur mais à l'aide de la force humaine.
Grande roue indienne
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Somebody born in the late 1890's might have viewed this couple as a trull and a roué, and been convinced they would burn in Hell for fornication.
Archive 2009-08-01
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For if the Marchants that stande by should vnderstand the bargaine, it would breede great controuersie amongst them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Not upriver because Rouen has a low bridge which we couldn't possibly get under because of the masts.
CORMORANT
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The mare seemed to some a bit undone in the final canter work, fighting Paxton in one of the half pirouettes, and missing her three-time changes.
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I had spent an abominable night in Rouen in a small hotel near the station where a procession of nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and leaving with a crashing and whistling and an escape of steam and smoke which, after a week's noctambulism in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
NPR Topics: News
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Le succès est comme une grande roue; on ne peut vraiment apprécier la vue que l'on a d'en haut que si l'on redescend quelques fois.
Enfants
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And all of this is expressed in a pirouette à la seconde, a step which, to a dancer of McRae's accomplishment, can be dashed off almost without thought.
Chase the Dream; Tales of Beatrix Potter — review
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He can pirouette and plié with the best of them but he needs professional help to dance his way to the top.
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The origins of the duchy of Normandy lie in a grant of territory around Rouen made early in the 10th cent. by the king of the west Franks to a Viking chieftain named Rollo.
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Their meeting in the cars is entirely fitting because Drouet is a creation of the city and the train, a traveling drummer for a leading Chicago dry-goods house.
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When he brushed his cheek against hers or supported her waist in multiple pirouettes the sensual heat was unmissable.
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He liked to talk about his rouet (ph), that is men worthy of being broken on the wheel, they were so immoral, but there ` s a new tone to society, not just of libertinism but of pleasure-seeking, and a kind of adventuresome spirit in taking intellectual risks.
George Washington�s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
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Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
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The happy couple had perched an enormous bucket of popcorn next to them, and as Hugo pirouetted into his seat, he managed to knock over the entire thing.
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Cornelissen, who was second, had integrated an extremely difficult exercise into her freestyle routine: A half-pirouette in piaffe to the right followed directly by a half-pirouette to the left.
Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
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When he brushed his cheek against hers or supported her waist in multiple pirouettes the sensual heat was unmissable.
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Francis in prayer_, by Hannibal Carrache; _an Ecce Homo_ and a copy of the _Holy family_, by Mignard; _a death of saint Francis_, by Jouvenet; several marines, by Vernet; _a descent from the Cross_, by Lahire; _the plague of Milan_, by Lemonnier, of Rouen; and a great many others, which it would require too much room to mention here.
Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers
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Somewhat agitated by a slight flutter behind the folds, which made him fancy, on the sudden panic, that Rosalie was creeping that way, the _epicier_ made an abrupt pirouette, and the hook on which the curtains were suspended caught his left coat-tail,
Night and Morning, Volume 3
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1361: And so though yours, not yours (proue it so) 1362: Let Fortune goe to hell for it, not I. 1363: I speake too long, but 'tis to peize the time,
The Merchant of Venice (1623 First Folio Edition)
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The aviators pirouetting high above them might have seemed a race apart.
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Drouet fidgeted. Hurstwood moved his toe the least bit.
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Yf any be proued to haue liued euyll, the iudges geue sentence that the bodye shall not be buried.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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The arquebuse à rouet was an advanced model of a very costly weapon.
Champlain's Dream
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Gheorghiu alone took the opportunity to do a few cheerleader-type waves and "What, me?" pirouettes while the rest of the cast waited benignly.
Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra – review
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The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.
Champlain's Dream
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The nobles founded many monasteries and the archbishopric of Rouen was coterminous with the duchy.
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I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
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Honestly, can anyone pirouette from amusing all-night benders to bruising human-right politics with quick, drawn-comic aplomb quite like NMA.tv?
STATE DINNER: Here's the animated Obama/Hu Jintao party you DIDN'T see...
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In classical ballet pirouettes are executed on pointe, as are arabesques.
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The exploited woollen workers of Rouen, the overtaxed winegrowers of Languedoc, and the Alpine farmers who were being excluded from forest land resorted to solving their problems by violence.
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What these beneficiaries of social mobility urged on contentious workers was pious resignation, and in no city did they sermonize more harshly than in Rouen.
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She knew Rakewell was a dissolute roué, but this revelation was far beyond anything she was expecting to hear.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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By the end of that week, I could consistently execute quadruple pirouettes to both right and left.
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They saw that against Tampa Bay, when Rouen skied a punt to the 4-yard line and Bannister caught it before it hit the ground.
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In claiming of goodes, or possessions, the claimer muste proue by witnesse that the thing claimed is his: and the denier shalbe tried by his othe.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Blogging Tory: "By graciously sacrificing his government in order to show how the leftists will stoop to ANYTHING in their mad quest for power, and leaving the recession to be blamed on THEM, harper has once again performed a double triple-axle summersault pirouette of a humdinger of a ... blah, blah, blah.
Oh, for fuck's sake, Stephen!
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This Gelemasius (to auoid the dangers that might insue to him by reason of the schisme and controuersie betwixt the sée of Rome, and the emperour Henrie the fift) came into France, where he liued not long, but died in the abbeie of
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
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I removed my cap to reveal a slipping hairstyle (going, going, almost gone) and did a pirouette, graceful as a walrus in ballerina tights.
Million Americans in Mexico? Just guessing
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If they catch the wave skilfully, the skimboard is pivoted by their strong limbs and they pirouette in an air-mixed broth of water and sand, and triumphantly ride their steeds back to the beach.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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Changes were cleaner, piaffe had more power, and pirouettes were more brilliant.
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Charlie, you are neglecting a part of your duty, " he observed to Drouet most affably.
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Webber and the remains of his vehicle pirouetted in the sky before crashing back down to earth, overturning and sliding at high speed into a tyre barrier.
'I'm lucky to be in one piece,' admits Mark Webber after 190mph crash
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“To the daughter of the regimental bandsman Mirouet.”
Ursula
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The horse is taken through a series of tests, such as the pirouette, piaffe and passage, in a walk, trot and canter.
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The sketch shows the window stone surround below the brick support angle and Mr. Quirouette notes this is unusual.
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Newman's powerful onscreen presence makes him a charming roué; he slips on the role with professional ease, bringing an offhand sexiness to his role.
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When a child at play stands on its head with its heels self-balanced in the air, making itself a pyramid instead of cutting a pirouette, that is, in the language of mothers and nurses, _far la
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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A pirouette, a brisé, two arabesques and she's gone.
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I still do pliés to keep the thighs firm and I can't resist doing the odd pirouette down the corridor when no one is looking.
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And aftre what time thei had receiued him: yet had thei two yeres more to proue his maners and condicions.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Holinshed states that when the people of Rouen petitioned Henry V., the king replied “that the goddess of battle, called Bellona, had three handmaidens, ever of necessity attending upon her, as blood, fire, and famine.”
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
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Ursula Mirouet, daughter of a bandsman in a regiment, without money, and whose father — alas!
Ursula
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders’ dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat.
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Widdecombe round in a style most often seen in primary school playgrounds; at one point grabbing hold of her ankle while she hopped round in a kind of pirouette, marabou dress trim bobbing, banana yellow leggings on display.
The Guardian World News
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Then another envelope just like it arrived two weeks ago, postmarked Rouen, France.
CORMORANT
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Rouen art "The Baroque in Flanders: Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens" showcases 30 drawings by the Flemish masters of the 17th century.
What's on Around Europe
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The result is long legs, pointe shoes, pirouettes, leaps and lifts.
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Rouen; the anchorite St. Féfre or Fiacre, and the missionary St. Chillen, both Irishmen, contemporaries of St. Faro (first half of the seventh century); St. Aile (Agilus), monk of Luxeuil who became in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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When he brushed his cheek against hers or supported her waist in multiple pirouettes the sensual heat was unmissable.
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Participants explored barre work, center practice, port de bras, pirouettes, adagio, allegro and pointe work.
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So imagine Nadia Comaneci doing her pirouettes and tumbles, not on a nice sprung floor, but on a skidpan.
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On a set of constantly shifting black and white panels (think fine lace), the eight dancers make use of a frenzied vocabulary, whether in quicksilver entrechats, whiplash pirouetting, or angst-ridden arm gestures.
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders’ dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.
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The roaring giants of superheavyweight weightlifting are as one with the pirouetting pixies of gymnastics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The term derived from broue, a word in the langue saintongeaise related to the French boue, a muddy mix of water and clay.
Champlain's Dream
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Imagine hundreds of people dancing, not walking, out of an opera house in grand jetés, swirling in pirouettes.
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He coped well with his large assortment of jumping steps, as well as multiple pirouettes which were all danced with ease.
