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Like the assassin who obsessed about birthdays and clothing, there were two sides to the man before her: the warm, friendly stranger with whom she'd felt so comfortable she confided to him over the phone without knowing anything about him, and the tattooed thug before them in snug biker leathers.

He always peeked at his friend, whom he'd dropped off in Hell to serve an undeserved sentence. Shipton's traveling companion, Penelope Something, hysterically filled in what little she knew to Jake Weller and Emile Corday, both of whom visited the patient at the hospital.

Arthur may be missed, but I don't know by whom. Gerald had two married sisters and a passel of nieces and nephews — all of whom he was openly proud. Davila was murdered, while on his way to take possession of the government of Cremona for Venice in July , by a ruffian, with whom some dispute seems to have arisen concerning the furnishing of the relays of horses ordered for his use by the Venetian government.

Eadberht showed considerable independence in his dealings with the church, and his brother Ecgberht, to whom the well-known letter of Bede is addressed, was from to archbishop of York.

In the banished! Ethelred returned to the throne and drove out Osred, whom he put to death in Ethelred, who had married iElflaed the daughter of Offa, also killed Olf and Olfwine, the sons of Olfwald and was murdered himself at Corbridge in In Garfield had married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, by whom he had seven children. In February Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the "Cinque Porte" galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.

Professor Suess, to whom the above description is due, finds that the Mediterranean forms no exception to the rule in affording no evidence of elevation or depression within historic times; but it is noteworthy that its present basin is remarkable in Europe for its volcanic and seismic activity.

The history of their decline differs from that of the Murabtis, whom they had displaced. Casimir Dudevant, whom she married on the 11th of December , was the natural son of a Baron Dudevant. On the staff of Figaro was another compatriot with whom she was already intimate as a visitor at Nohant.

In a cottage in the environs of Paris called Le Moulin joli, there sat at the same table an old man engraving and an old woman whom he called his meuniere also engraving. Solange, who inherited all her mother's wild blood with none of her genius, on the eve of a marriage that had been arranged with a Berrichon gentleman, ran away with Clesinger, a sculptor to whom she had sat for her bust.

Here she met two men, one of whom indoctrinated her with religious mysticism,- the other with advanced socialism, Lamennais and Pierre Leroux. He had named them Roman patricians; the latter he had placed in charge of Florence; the former, for whom he planned to carve out a kingdom in central Italy of Parma, Piacenza, Ferrara and Urbino, he had taken with himself to Rome and married to Filiberta of Savoy. Latin legend represented her as landing on the coast of Latium and marrying Pilumnus or Picumnus, from whom Turnus, king of the Rutulians, was descended.

By his rigorous imposts he alienated the favour of his subjects, and especially of the clergy, whom he otherwise sought to control firmly. His confessor, Yakov Ignatiev, whom he promised to obey as "an angel and apostle of God," was his chief counsellor in these days.

In there were in the state , members of religious denominations, of whom The House of Delegates is composed of eighty-six members, of whom each county chooses at least one. It dates from the 11th century, and once belonged to the Ogilvies, from whom it passed in to the Gordons.

He would thus have married and had at least one child, from whom the contemporary of Pliny was descended. Her wealth made it certain that he would be the richest man in France, and he determined to play a part equal to that of his great-grandfather, the regent, whom he resembled in character and debauchery.

The bishops appointed "chatelains," one of whom was the celebrated "Wild Boar of the Ardennes," William de la Marck. He is assisted by the conseil colonial numbering sixteen members, six of whom are French citizens elected by the French, six natives elected by the natives, the other four being members of the chamber of commerce of Saigon and the conseil prive.

This last was the belief of the Protestant Reformers, for whom the Bible was in matters of doctrine the ultimate court of appeal. In , however, Cardinal Alberoni retook Cagliari for Spain; but this state of things was short-lived, for in , by the treaty of London, Sardinia passed in exchange for Sicily to the dukes of Savoy, to whom it brought the royal title.

At the age of eighteen, on the 25th of February , he married Margaret, daughter of Lord Coventry, with whom he and his wife lived at Durham House in the Strand, and at Canonbury House in Islington. He urged on the bill by which Catholics were prohibited from sitting in either House of Parliament, and was bitter in his expressions of disappointment when the Commons passed a proviso excepting James, against whom the bill was especially aimed, from its operation.

The Cilnii with whom Maecenas was connected were a noble Etruscan family. In the 9th century the Bulgarians became masters of Naissus, but had to cede it to the Hungarians in the iith century, from whom the Byzantine emperor Manuel I.

There was a caliph of Persia whose name was Al Mamoun. He had two sons whom he wished to become honest and noble men. During World War II, when General Patton got sacked for slapping a soldier whom he regarded as cowardly, the Germans couldn't believe it: Their officers could have soldiers shot without trial!

There were about forty persons present, all of whom were writers and publishers. Entering the drawing room, where the princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. Just facing it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were evidently in the village itself and behind the hill.

Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a daughter! In spite of Prince Andrew's disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of the contempt with which Rostov, from his fighting army point of view, regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer was evidently one, Rostov felt confused, blushed, and became silent.

But of course you know her already, he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in common. Nicholas' Day and the prince's name day--all Moscow came to the prince's front door but he gave orders to admit no one and to invite to dinner only a small number, a list of whom he gave to Princess Mary. They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease. Just as it is impossible to say when it was decided to abandon Moscow, so it is impossible to say precisely when, or by whom , it was decided to move to Tarutino.

No one replied a word to Dolokhov's laughter, and a French officer whom they could not see he lay wrapped in a greatcoat rose and whispered something to a companion. I was still skating with Brennan and never came out and said Howie, whom I referred to by name, was the tipster. Dean pulled down the top on his Jeep and slowly drove uptown, giving off what he hoped were candidate smiles and waves to the locals, all of whom seemed to be walking the sun drenched street.

Paulette Dawkins, whom Dean thought was dining with her clan, bounded into the kitchen to report a mouse sighting in her room. From to the duchy remained vested in the French family of La Tour d'Auvergne, one of whom Henry, viscount of Turenne and marshal of France had married in Charlotte de la Marck, the last of her race. The youngest servant of the Company claimed the right of trading on his own account, free from taxation and from local jurisdiction, not only for himself but also for every native subordinate whom he might permit to use his name.

She bore him two children, of whom one died in infancy at Murshidabad, and was shortly followed to the grave by her mother. The Mahrattas at this time had got possession of the person of the Mogul emperor, Shah Alam, from whom Clive obtained the grant of Bengal in , and to whom he assigned in return the districts of Allahabad and Kora and a tribute of 30o, The directors of the Company were disposed to act upon this resolution; but in the court of proprietors, with whom the decision ultimately lay, Hastings always possessed a sufficient majority.

But he was now destined to learn that his enemy Francis, whom he had discomfited in the council chamber at Calcutta, was more than his match in the parliamentary arena. He was bitterly denounced by slaveholders and also by such non-slaveholders as disapproved of all antislavery agitation, and in January he was assaulted and seriously injured by a slave-trader, Austin Woolfolk, whom he had severely criticized in his paper.

Their daughter marries Eustache, count of Boulogne, and had three sons, the eldest of whom , Godefroid Godfrey , is the future king of Jerusalem. He was the uncle and guardian of Conradin of Hohenstaufen, whom he assisted to make his journey to Italy in , and accompanied as far as Verona.

The scenery is fine, but wild and desolate in most parts, and of a kind that appeals rather to the northern genius than to the Italian, to whom , as a rule, Sardinia is not attractive. What might have happened we cannot tell; but Descartes threw himself on the protection of the French ambassador and the prince of Orange, and the city magistrates, from whom he vainly demanded satisfaction in a dignified letter,2 were snubbed by their superiors.

Through Chanut, with whom she was on terms of familiarity, she came to hear of Descartes, and a correspondence which the latter nominally carried on with the ambassador was in reality intended for the eyes of the queen. Such a remnant, amongst whom might be members of the priestly and royal families, would gather strength and boldness as the troubles of Babylon See the note on Ps. His first wife died in , and in he married a cousin, Elizabeth Mowbray, by whom he had three sons, the eldest of whom was named Alexander.

The then king of Scotland having wars, did convocate his lieges to battle, amongst whom that was commanded was the earl of Lennox, who, keeping his eldest son at home, sent his two sons to serve for him with the forces that were under his command In this way his independence among the people to whom he ministers is to a large extent secured.

Great attention is given to the education of the ministry, a considerable number of whom , in recent years, have taken arts degrees at Oxford and Cambridge. During the Reconstruction the people of the South were divided thus: nearly all native whites the most prominent of whom were disfranchised on one side irrespective of former political faith, and on the other side the ex-slaves organized and led by a few native and Northern whites called respectively scalawags and carpet-baggers, who were supported by the United States government and who controlled the Southern state governments.

Cabot, with a large following, entered the Parana and established a settlement just above the mouth of the river Carcaranal, to which he gave the name of San Espiritu, among the Timbu Indians, with whom he formed friendly relations.

The rule of Rosas was now one of tyranny and almost incessant bloodshed in Buenos Aires, while his partisans, foremost amongst whom was General Ignacio Oribe, endeavoured to exterminate the Unitarians throughout the provinces. It was at his house, full of all the wondrous, half-forbidden novelties of the west, that Alexius, after the death of his first consort, Martha, met Matvyeev's favourite pupil, the beautiful Natalia Naruishkina, whom he married on the 21st of January The prefect supervises the execution of the laws; has wide authority in regard to policing, public hygiene and relief of pauper children; has the nomination of various subordinate officials; and is in correspondence with the subordinate functionaries in his department, to whom he transmits the orders and instructions of the government.

At the head of the administration is a governor under whom is a secretary-general, who replaces him at need. In Virgil, Juturna appears as the sister of Turnus probably owing to the partial similarity of the names , on whom Jupiter, to console her for the loss of her chastity, bestowed immortality and the control of all the lakes and rivers of Latium. He states that Bishop Caldwell,' whom he calls " the great missionary scholar of the Dravidian tongue," showed that the south and western Australian tribes use almost the same words for " I, thou, he, we, you, as the Dravidian fishermen on the Madras coast.

More than half the combatants , of whom were Swedes actually perished on the battle-field. He courageously aided the escape of Youssouff, pursued by the soldiers of the bey, of whom he was one of the officers, for violation of the seraglio law.

Religious toleration was granted, but with the important exception that some harsh measures were enacted against Anglicans and Roman Catholics, to neither of whom was liberty of worship accorded. In it had a population of 11,, of whom were French-speaking, while there were Protestants to Romanists and 56 Jews. Bonaparte, with whom Tone had several interviews about this time, was much less disposed than Hoche had been to undertake in earnest an Irish expedition; and when the rebellion broke out in Ireland in 17 9 8 he had started for Egypt.

Tetzel was selected as the most efficient salesman; he was appointed general sub-commissioner for indulgences, and was accompanied by a clerk of the Fuggers from whom Albrecht had borrowed the money to pay his first-fruits.

He is the constant companion of Dionysus, whom he was said to have instructed in the cultivation of the vine and the keeping of bees. This time he was successful; he made his way to Egypt, where the crusaders were besieging Damietta, got himself taken prisoner and was led before the sultan, to whom he openly preached the Gospel.

They felt they must resist him to the death, and with the troops scattered throughout Italy, and the newly enfranchised Italians, to whom it was understood that Sulla was bitterly hostile, they counted confidently on success.

But on Sulla's advance at the head of his 40, veterans many of them lost heart and deserted their leaders, while the Italians themselves, whom he confirmed in their new privileges, were won over to his side. The bishops, who were ex officio inquisitors in their own dioceses, had not succeeded in putting a stop to the evils, nor had the friars, by whom they had been practically superseded.

In December he was sent by the queen dowager to secure Stirling, and in was despatched on a mission to France, visiting Denmark on the way, where he either married or seduced Anne, daughter of Christopher Thorssen, whom he afterwards deserted, and who came to Scotland in to obtain redress.

The queen required a protector, whom she found, not in the feeble Darnley, nor in any of the leaders of the factions, but in the strong, determined earl who had ever been a stanch supporter of the throne against the Protestant party and English influence. Moreover, the authorities on whom he relied have had to be corrected since in many points of detail in the light of later archaeological research.

With Plutarch, who dedicated to him his treatise IIEpi Tov irpwrov 11vxpov, with Herodes Atticus, to whom he bequeathed his library at Rome, with Demetrius the Cynic, Cornelius Fronto, Aulus Gellius, and with Hadrian himself, he lived on intimate terms; his great rival, whom he violently attacked in his later years, was Polemon of Smyrna.

The figures are no longer abstractions; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling "gestes" of Robin Hood and so forth. From this point to the end of the period the Jews were dependents of Rome, free to attend to their own affairs, so long as they paid taxes to the subordinate rulers, Herodian or Roman, whom they detested equally.

But I'm afraid you cannot rule the Emerald City, as you used to, because we now have a beautiful Princess whom everyone loves dearly. Great Expecter! How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or guidance.

When everything was ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom he passed it. On his right sat the Italian abbe whom Pierre had met at Anna Pavlovna's two years before. A little behind the hussars came Denisov, accompanied by two infantry officers with whom he was talking. As happens to some people, especially to men who judge those near to them severely, he always on meeting anyone new-- especially anyone whom , like Speranski, he knew by reputation--expected to discover in him the perfection of human qualities.

Already from his military experience and what he had seen in the Austrian campaign, he had come to the conclusion that in war the most deeply considered plans have no significance and that all depends on the way unexpected movements of the enemy--that cannot be foreseen--are met, and on how and by whom the whole matter is handled. Among those whom Julie's guests happened to choose to gossip about were the Rostovs. For whom then is the trial intended? He asked one, 'From whom did you get it?

She packed, repacked, pressed, made the butler's assistant and Petya-- whom she had drawn into the business of packing--press on the lid, and made desperate efforts herself. Two French soldiers ran past Pierre, one of whom carried a lowered and smoking gun.

She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this. One group of the French stood close to the road, and two of them, one of whom had his face covered with sores, were tearing a piece of raw flesh with their hands.

How is it? The French did not need to be informed of the fact that half the prisoners--with whom the Russians did not know what to do- -perished of cold and hunger despite their captors' desire to save them; they felt that it could not be otherwise.

Natasha had married in the early spring of , and in already had three daughters besides a son for whom she had longed and whom she was now nursing. But the father whom the boy did not remember appeared to him a divinity who could not be pictured, and of whom he never thought without a swelling heart and tears of sadness and rapture. The noncommissioned officers of whom there are fewer perform the action itself less frequently than the soldiers, but they already give commands.

The white inhabitants numbered 33 0 of whom were German. Thus perished at the age of thirty-six one of the most chivalrous and gifted of a gallant band of brothers, four of whom laid down their lives in their country's cause. He also largely employed Jews and Ishmaelites,' the financial specialists of the day, whom he rewarded with lands and titles. Nicaean emperor, Theodore Lascaris, whom his own father brought home with him from his crusade. She bore him, besides his two sons Stephen and Bela, seven daughters, of whom St Margaret was the most famous.

A little later Lingen was sold to the emperor Charles V. His son, Jean de Chabannes, left three heiresses, of whom the second left a daughter who brought the countship to Philippe de Boulainvilliers, by whose heirs it was sold in 1 to the dukes of Montmorency.

In he answered Gibbon's chapters on Christianity, and had the honour of being one of the only two opponents whom Gibbon treated with respect.

The sentence above sounds perfect. By the way, in daily conversation, it sounds naturally fine. But in the formal and grammatical context, the first who should be replaced by whom. You need to be cautious to avoid such mistakes. For instance:. What if the same sentence is rewritten? English words have synonyms. This means that the user should simplify complex sentences. In this manner, the sentence becomes audible and authentic. Wordy sentences are fond of having some grammatical errors.

Returning to our example:. Let us know in the comments below whether these tricks are helpful, or feel free to share your own! Topics: who , whom. Customer Login Create New Account. Call Us NOW! Grammar Phile Blog. Who or Whom? The basic rule is easy enough, but even the most seasoned editors and writers can stumble over sentences like the following: Think about who you want to cover and who is eligible for coverage.

Trick No. Find the subject that corresponds to each verb. The verbs are in orange : think , want and is. The subjects are in green : you implied , you and who.



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