Vestris


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Italian dancing-master for Louis XVI who was considered the greatest dancer of his day

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Another two in pearlware dating from around 1830 show Liston in his comic costume as Van Dunder, and Madame Vestris as the Broom Girl.
However, that year there was also the more popular and much acclaimed ballet Alfred the Great featuring members of the Vestris family.
[2] Eximie deuotionis affectus, quem ad nos et Romanam ecclesiam geritis ac vestri predecessores geserunt indefessique labores et quasi intollerabiles expense quos pro expugnatione infidelium et propagatione xristi fidei indessinenter sustinetis vestrique predecessores sustinuerunt promerentur ut vestro successorumque vestrorum honori consulamus.
Tuli de tribus vestris viros et nobiles, et constitui eos principes, tribunos, et centuriones, et quinquagenarios, et decanos, qui docerent vos singula.
(63) Maritime disaster songs featuring in Peter Cooke's Whalsay song collection include 'The Bold Ramillies', 'The Fate of Franklin', and 'The Loss of the Vestris'--unsurprisingly, as they relate so closely to the experiences of Shetland sailors.
The collection also includes what may be the largest compilation of sheet music (and sheet music covers) dedicated to or associated with Madame Lucia Vestris of London stage fame.
AUTHOR Clint Olivier is raising money for a headstone to be placed by the unmarked graves of six Liverpool crewmen who perished when their ship, SS Vestris, sank during a storm on November 12, 1928.
Y, segun reporta Ciceron, Asia: "equitibus Romanis, honestissimis viris, adferuntur ex Asia cotidie litterae, quorum magnae res aguntur in vestris vectigalibus exercendis occupatae" (49)).
Qui consilijs vestris occurrat, si qui illi studebant propulsabuntur, erit nemo.
Christian Dior was inspired for some of his creations by the drifting white tutus of the ballerinas such of Dance of Dance edited Steele ballerinas such as Vestris from the Romantic period, while the shoe designer Christian Louboutin transformed the blocked pointe shoes of the ballerina into fetishistic high heels - featured in this book - which look as though they might either cripple the wearer (who is virtually standing on tip toe such is the height of the heels) or cause a riot in a theatre foyer.
'Lern at myself, for I am meke in hart'-- Owur Lorde to hys seruantys thus he sayth, 'For meknes I sufferyd a spere at my hart; Meknes all vycys anullyth and delayeth; Rest to soulys ye shall fynd in fayth: "Discite a me quia mitis sum et corde humilis, Et invenietis requiem animabus vestris'".
"Planche, Vestris, and the Transvestite Role: Sexuality and Gender in Victorian Popular Theatre".
"Filii dilectissimi, diligenter considerate Ordinem per vos susceptum, ac onus humeris vestris impositum; studete sancte et religiose vivere, atque omnipotenti Deo placere, ut gratiam suam possitis acquirere: quam ipse vobis per suam misericordiam concedere dignetur."
The species not listed in Belth or Shull are Northern Pearly-eye (Lethe anthedori), Common Sootywing (Pholisora Catullus), Zabulon Skipper (Poanes zabulon), Least Skipper (Ancyloxypha numitor), Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logon), Dun Skipper (Euphyes vestris), Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles), and Crossline Skipper (Polites origenes).
The last time was when Orbis (Tommy Carmody) and Vestris Abu (Charlie Swan) won Grade 1 novice hurdles (in 1990)."