Eve Sentence Examples

On Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.

It was the eve of St. Nicholas, the fifth of December, 1820.

The service on Christmas Eve day was, of course, about Jesus.

I want her ready for this eve, Memon ordered.

On the eve of the fray Papineau sought safety in flight, followed by the leading spirits of the movement.

He spent the autumn at Venice, and was well enough on Christmas Eve to conduct his early symphony (composed in 1833) at a private performance given at the Liceo Marcello.

On the eve of war the university and middle-school students had five or six newspaper organs of their own - notably Jugoslavija in.

By her curiosity Eve is undone.

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

The general political outlook in Italy was of the gloomiest, and the country was on the eve of the catastrophe of foreign invasion.

On the eve of the Revolution Babeuf was in the employ of a land surveyor at Roye.

Speaking at Johannesburg on the eve of his departure, he recommended to all concerned the promotion of the material prosperity of the country and the treatment of Dutch and British on an absolute equality.

As a memorial of this you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, on the 14th day at eve until the 21st day at eve; when children shall ask what this service means, you shall say that it is the Passover of the Lord.

In 1802, on the eve of Lord Lake's Mahratta war, his chemical knowledge enabled him to render a signal service to the administration by making available a large quantity of gunpowder which damp had spoiled.

After remaining at the port just over a year the Highlanders were withdrawn, on Christmas Eve 1839.

From them, the official guardians of Hungary's safety, he received no help, either during his governorship (1446-1453), or when, in 1454, on the eve of his departure for his last and most glorious campaign, the diet commanded a levee en masse of the whole population in his support.

It was left to the Yugoslav Committee abroad to claim independence as well as unity, to repudiate the Habsburgs (in a manifesto on the eve of the Budapest coronation) and to exalt the achievements of Serbia and the Karagjorgjevic dynasty.

But almost immediately after the king's death Anne of Austria appointed him to the coveted post on All Saints' Eve, 1643.

The Key of Truth teaches that after the fall Adam and Eve and their children were slaves of Satan until the advent of the newly created Adam, Jesus Christ.

We didn't find out untill new years eve.

Tired again - wakeful night - I think both Eve & Jack.

Why am l up at 11.45 PM xmas eve you may well ask.

His allegoric use of the apple to represent sin and tempation was drawn from the biblical story of Adam and Eve.

Ever since I was young, we've hung a stocking from the mantel on Christmas Eve.

Pam invited her friends over on New Years Eve to celebrate with a Harry Potter movie marathon.

Yet, every year, it creeps up on people who find themselves in the checkout line at midnight on the eve of the holiday picking up whatever is left over to get for that person you forgot.

From October to Christmas Eve, stores both online and brick-and-mortar will be offering great deals on these hot gifts and many others.

She cleaned the table and then went out to the porch to remove an empty bird nest from the eve.

Thus the old Hindus chose the new and the full moon as days of sacrifice; the eve.

In 1890 matters were on the eve of a great change and wages fell, in most cases to a point 20% below the rates of 1885.

The Meditations were written, it is evident, as occasion offered - in the midst of public business, and on the eve of battles on which the fate of the empire depended - hence their fragmentary appearance, but hence also much of their practical value and even of their charm.

The oldest of the vigils is that of Easter Eve, those of Pentecost and Christmas being instituted somewhat later.

In the Roman Catholic Church the vigil is now usually celebrated on the morning of the day preceding the festival, except at Christmas, when a midnight mass is celebrated, and on Easter Eve.

The other vigils are recognized in the calendar (including those of the saints) and the rubric directs that "the collect appointed for any Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve, shall be said at the Evening Service next before."

Though not exempt from considerable danger, he passed in safety through the troubles of St Bartholomew's eve.

The prince of this region of darkness is Samael, the evil spirit, the serpent who seduced Eve.

The story in picturesque fashion makes Patrick challenge the royal authority by lighting the Paschal fire on the hill of Slane on the night of Easter Eve.

Holy orders are to be conferred on the Ember Saturdays, on the Saturday before Passion Sunday or on Holy Saturday (Easter Eve).

At Chancellorsville he displayed great intrepidity and energy, and on the eve of the battle of Gettysburg was appointed to succeed Hooker.

It is scarcely possible to imagine a higher effort of hand and eve than this nunome-zOgan displays, for while intricacy and elaborateness are carried to the very extreme, absolute mechanical accuracy is obtained.

But an artistic temperament was hardly that required of a king of Prussia on the eve of the Revolution; and Frederick the Great, who had employed him in various services - notably in an abortive confidential mission to the court of Russia in 1 780 - openly expressed his misgivings as to the character of the prince and his surroundings.

A subsidy treaty with the sea powers (April 1 9, 1 794) filled his coffers; but the insurrection in Poland that followed the partition of 1793, and the threat of the isolated intervention of Russia, hurried him into the separate treaty of Basel with the French Republic (April 5, 1795), which was regarded by the great monarchies as a betrayal, and left Prussia morally isolated in Europe on the eve of the titanic struggle between the monarchical principle and the new political creed of the Revolution.

Driven to extremities, Clement consented to call a Consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died (2nd of February 1769), not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence.

A legend of his surreptitious bestowal of dowries upon the three daughters of an impoverished citizen, who, unable to procure fit marriages for them, was on the point of giving them up to a life of shame, is said to have originated the old custom of giving presents in secret on the Eve of St Nicholas, subsequently transferred to Christmas Day.

Melanchthon, who was for a moment carried away by the movement, partook, with several of his students, of the communion under both kinds, and on Christmas Eve a crowd invaded the church of All Saints, broke the lamps, threatened the priests and made sport of the venerable ritual.

According to this the patriarchs and Adam and Eve also appear at the death-bed, to praise their daughter, through whom they had been rescued from the curse of God; a Jew who touches the body loses both his hands, which are restored to him by the Apostles; and the body lies three days in the grave without corruption before it is taken up into heaven.

Charles was a warm advocate of "Scandinavianism" and the political solidarity of the three northern kingdoms, and his warm friendship for Frederick VII., it is said, led him to give half promises of help to Denmark on the eve of the war of 1864, which, in the circumstances, were perhaps misleading and unjustifiable.

His first act was to lay siege to the fortress of Chateauneuf-Randon, but on the eve of its surrender the constable died on the 13th of July 1380.

On the eve of that army's offensive in May 1917, Capello, dissatisfied with the artillery preparation in the sector of the II.

William Smith's History of the Late Province of New York, from itsDiscovery to 1762 (1st part, 1757, reprinted in the 1st series of the New York Historical Society Collections, 2 vols., 1829-1830) is still the chief authority for the period from the English Revolution of 1688 to the eve of the War of Independence.

It may eve nbe stacked without tying into sheaves, though this course involves greater expenditure of labour in carrying and afterwards in threshing.

He was one of the most trusted counsellors of Presidents Steyn and Kruger, and the ultimatum sent to the British on the eve of hostilities was recast by him.

Certainly the priestly writer who produced the latter could not have said that God modelled the first man out of moistened clay, or have adopted the singular account of the formation of Eve in ii.

The narrator assumes that Adam and Eve had an innate faculty of speech.

To Adam and Eve, however, he is not unkind.

By degrees, he obtains a full confession - not from the serpent, whose speech might not have been edifying, but from Adam and Eve.

Barton, Worcester and Tennant, considers this to be parallel to the story which may underlie the account of the failure of the beasts, and the success of the woman Eve, as a "help-meet" for Adam.

This superstition has been immortalized in Keats's poem, "The Eve of St Agnes."

Yet if he judges too favourably the leaders of the national party in England on the eve of the Norman Conquest, that is a small matter to set against the insight which he exhibits in writing of Aratus, Sulla, Nicias, William the Conqueror, Thomas of Canterbury, Frederick the Second and many more.

The curious oak pulpit representing Adam and Eve expelled from the Garden of Eden came originally from the Jesuit church at Louvain, and is considered the masterpiece of Verbruggen.

Ialdabaoth then announced himself as the Supreme, and when man (created by the six powers) gave thanks for life not to Ialdabaoth but to the First Man, Ialdabaoth created a woman (Eve) to destroy him.

At Easter-tide 1368, on the very eve of this general attack, Valdemar departed for three years to Germany, leaving his realm in the capable hands of the earl-marshal Henning Podbusk.

In February 1793 the Convention decreed a levy on the whole of France, and on the eve of the ballot the Vendee, rather than comply with this requisition, broke out in insurrection.

The influence of the priests kept up the fanaticism of the peasants, and a great manifestation of religious feeling took place on Easter eve, but the republican soldiers taken prisoners were often maltreated and even tortured.

On the eve of the Revolution, out of a grand total of 562 classical schools, 384 were in the hands of the clergy and 178 in those of the congregations.

On the eve of the Revolution, France was enjoying the study of the institutions of Greece in the attractive pages of the P g Voyage du jeune Anacharsis (1789), but the study of Greek was menaced even more than that of Latin.

He was knighted on the 11th of October 1551, on the eve of Somerset's second fall, and was congratulated on his success in escaping his benefactor's fate.

It was on the eve of their going to Rome, for the second time, that the fathers met Ignatius at Vicenza and it was determined to adopt a common rule and, at the suggestion of Ignatius, the name of the Company of Jesus.

In Stuart times all ranks of society believed in her, and referring to her supposed foretelling of the Great Fire, Pepys relates that when Prince Rupert heard, while sailing up the Thames on the 10th of October 1666, of the outbreak of the fire "all he said was, ` now Shipton's prophecy was out.'" One of her prophecies was supposed to have menaced Yeovil, Somerset, with an earthquake and flood in 1879, and so convinced were the peasantry of the truth of her prognostications that hundreds moved from their cottages on the eve of the expected disaster, while spectators swarmed in from all quarters of the county to see the town's destruction.

He arrived in Prussia on the eve of the catastrophe of Jena.

At the outbreak of civil war in 1641, a conspiracy of the Irish septs, under the direction of Roger Moore, to seize Dublin Castle, was disclosed by one Owen Connolly on the eve of the day on which the attempt was to have been made, and the city was thus preserved for the king's party; but the Irish outside began an indiscriminate extermination of the Protestant population.

After a year spent at Hoole, he returned to Toxteth, and there, on the eve of a long-promised visit to his friend Crabtree, he died, on the 3rd of January 1641, when only in his twentysecond year.

But the covenant instituted by Jesus on the eve of his death was hardly intended as a new covenant with God, superseding the old.

On the eve of the assassination (March 16) the principal conspirators met at his house to make their final preparations and discuss the form of government which should be adopted after the king's death.

Eve is given him by Satan as his companion.

Cain and Abel indeed are not sons of Adam, but of Satan and Eve; Seth, however, who is full of light, is the offspring of Adam by Eve.

He began to practise law in Montreal, but owing to ill-health soon removed to Athabaska, where he opened a law office and undertook also to edit Le Defricheur, a newspaper then on the eve of collapse.

Londonderry had been on the eve of starting for the conference at Vienna, and the instructions which he had drawn up for his own guidance were handed over by Canning, the new foreign secretary, to Wellington, who proceeded in September to Vienna, and thence in October to Verona, whither the conference had been adjourned.

This granted two weekly markets on Tuesday and Friday and a fair on the eve of St Augustine lasting thirty days; it made the town a free borough and provided that the king would send his justices to deliver the prison when necessary.

On the very eve of the war, immediately after the rising of the Chambers on July 15 1914, Poincare set out on a State visit to Russia and the Scandinavian countries, arriving at Kronstadt on July 20.

He returned on the eve of the abolition of the Shogunate, and followed Enomoto (q.v.) when the latter, sailing with the Tokugawa fleet to Yezo, attempted to establish a republic there in defiance of the newly organized government of the emperor.

The widow then loosens and removes the shoe, throwing it some distance, and spits on the ground, repeating thrice the Biblical formula "So shall it be done," &c. Ilalisah, which is still common among orthodox Jews, must not take place on the Sabbath, a holiday, or the eve of either, or in the evening.

In the eruptions of 1823, 1832, 1840 and 1868 the floor of the crater rose on the eve of an eruption and then sank, sometimes hundreds of feet, with the discharge of lava; but since 1868 (in 1879, 1886, 1891, 1894 and 1907; and once, before 1868, in 1855) this action has been confined to Halemaumau and such other pits as at the time existed.

Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.

From this time until the eve of the Civil War he held no public office, but his opinions on political questions continued to be sought, and he was much in demand as a speaker on public occasions.

He sympathized with Montfort as with a friend of the Church and an unjustly treated man; but on the eve of the baronial revolution he was on friendly terms with the king.

His first quarrel with Gustavus happened in 1774 when he refused to accept the post of commander-in-chief in Finland on the eve of threatened war with Russia.

He was a son of a high official, and betrothed to a daughter of the king, but escaped on the eve of the wedding feast, entered the order, and attained to reverence and distinction.

On the eve of the Revolution the intellectual and social condition of Bavaria remained that of the middle ages.

Innocent died, on the eve of the great conflict, on the 27th of September 1700.

On Easter Eve 1777 some persons, deputed by a meeting which consisted of forty of the first booksellers in London, called upon him.

All begetting of children is evil, for Adam's chambering with Eve was the forbidden fruit.

On the eve of the assembly of the Oecumenical Council at Rome Menabrea reserved to the Italian government its right in respect of any measures directed against Italian institutions.

Favras took into his confidence certain officers by whom he was betrayed; and, with his wife, he was arrested on Christmas Eve 1789 and imprisoned in the Abbaye.

Marshal Marmont, writing in 1839, mentions the capacity of the Egyptians for endurance; and it was tested In 1883, especially in the 2nd Brigade, since its officers (Turks and Egyptians), anxious to excel as drill-masters, worked their men not only from morn till eve, but also by lamplight in the corridors of the barracks.

He passed away on the eve of tremendous events, which for a time obscured his fame; but now that he can be impartially estimated, he is seen to have been in many respects one of the greatest figures in modern history.

In the "Adam and Eve" of the next year, we find Diirer treating the human form in an entirely opposite manner; constructing it, that is, on principles of abstract geometrical proportion.

At any rate a whole series of extant drawings enables us to trace the German gradually working out his own ideas of a canon of human proportion in the composition of his famous engraving of "Adam and Eve" (1504); which at first, as a drawing in the British Museum proves, had been intended to be an Apollo and Diana conceived on lines somewhat similar to one of Barbari's.

The first is the "Adam and Eve" dated 1507, in which both attitudes and proportions are as carefully calculated, though on a somewhat different scheme, as in the engraving of 1504.

Schurz went to Paris, but the police forced him to leave France on the eve of the coup d'etat, and until August 1852 he lived in London, making his living by teaching German.

On the eve of that council he published at Naples his Causa El onorii Papae, which aimed at demonstrating the moral and historical impossibility of papal infallibility.

The fatal duel in which Hamilton was slain by Mohun, when on the eve of going as ambassador to France, with the interests of James in his eye, was a blow to the Jacobites; as were the death of Anne, the fall of Bolingbroke and the unopposed succession of George I.

For his tutor and guardian young Theseus had one Cannidas, to whom, down to Plutarch's time, the Athenians were wont to sacrifice a black ram on the eve of the festival of Theseus.

In 1292 the bishop claimed to have a market every Friday, a fair on the eve, day and 1 The title prince-bishop, attached in Austria to the sees of Laibach, Seckau, Gurk, Brixen, Trent and Lavant, and in Prussia to that of Breslau, no longer implies any secular jurisdiction, but is merely a title of honour recognized by the state, owing either to the importance of the sees or for reasons purely historical.

He was martyred on the eve of the triumph of Christianity, his shrine was reared near the scene of a great Greek legend (Perseus and Andromeda), and his relics when removed from Lydda, where many pilgrims had visited them, to Zorava in the Hauran served to impress his fame not only on the Syrian population, but on their Moslem conquerors, and again on the Crusaders, who in grateful memory of the saint's intervention on their behalf at Antioch built a new cathedral at Lydda to take the place of the church destroyed by the Saracens.

He fought with unremitting energy for his client during both the first and second revisions of the trial, in 1898 and 1899, a task attended with considerable danger, as political passions were so strongly excited at the time that Labori was shot at and wounded at Rennes on the eve of his cross-examination of the witnesses for the prosecution.

Germany was on the eve, it was believed, of an election of a king of the Romans; it was possible that an imperial election was not far distant; Frederick was too important a personage to offend.

In 1285 the king ordered that his market at Grenestede should be held on Saturday instead of Sunday, and in 1516 the inhabitants of the town were granted a market each week on Saturday and a fair every year on the eve of St Andrew and two days following.

In any case the strengthening of the royal power gradually sapped the significance of the title, until on the eve of the Revolution it implied no more than high rank and probably territorial wealth.

In 1650, having regained his full liberty, Hammond betook himself to the friendly mansion of Sir John Pakington, at Westwood, in Worcestershire, where he died on the 25th of April 1660, just on the eve of his preferment to the see of Worcester.

The Gwin party hoped to divide California into two states and hand the southern over to slavery; on the eve of the Civil War it considered the scheme of a Pacific coast republic. The decade 1850-1860 was also marked by the activity of filibusters against Sonora and Central America.

He also wrote A Political Life of Sir Robert Peel (London, 1856); A Financial, Statistical and Monetary History of England from 1688 (London, 1847); Matter for Materialists (London, 1870); The Eve of St Mark, a Romance of Venice; and three dramas, The Statue Wife, Diocletian and Caius Marius, in addition to some fishing songs, and many contributions to various newspapers and periodicals.

Sometimes the serpent stands at the head of the human race as the mother of a11.2 This, following an old and still well supported interpretation of the name Eve (hawwah), was apparently also the belief of one branch of the Hebrews.3 There are many instances of tribes or clans named after the serpent.

France had its traditions of the destruction of serpents by the early missionaries (Deane, 283 seq.), and the memory possibly survived at Luchon in the Pyrenees, where the clergy and people celebrated the eve of St John by burning live serpents.

No great church has yet modified its articles of religion so as to admit, for example, that the Garden of Eden was not a definite place where Eve was tempted, yet the doctrine is contradicted with approval by individuals, and the results of modern science are accepted and taught without rebuke.

The process, as such matters often have been in Spain, was a slow one, and it was not until 1589 that Perez, after more than one arrest and imprisonment on a variety of charges, seemed on the eve of being convicted and condemned as the murderer of Escovedo.

This line, running up to Monte Plezia, had been held, until the eve of the battle, by a Bersaglieri brigade which formed the extreme right wing of the IV.

Corps on the eve of the battle were sent forward instead of being held in reserve.

Next came the Sabbatum Magnum (Holy Saturday or Easter Eve) with its vigil, which in the early church was associated with an expectation that the second advent would occur on an Easter Sunday.

In 1808 Napoleon arrested his successor, Pius VII., threw the papal states into his new Italian kingdom, and dragged Pius about from prison to prison till the eve of his own fall in 1814.

About 1886 hopes even ran high that he was on the eve of a reconciliation with King Humbert at the Quirinal.

Several Russian friends and companions, from Kiev and Old Novgorod, are recorded by Daniel as present with him at the Easter Eve "miracle," in the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

In October 1753, on the eve of the last French and Indian war, Washington was chosen by Governor Robert Dinwiddie as the agent to warn the French away from their new posts on the Ohio, in western Pennsylvania.

Although Grattan had a profound contempt for Emmet's political understanding, describing him as a quack in politics who set up his own crude notions as settled rules, Emmet was among the more prudent of the United Irishmen on the eve of the rebellion.

But on the eve of the occupation of Casale by the French, Mattioli - actuated by a tardy sense of patriotism or by the hope of further gain - betrayed the transaction to the governments of Austria, Spain, Venice and Savoy.

He resigned on the 4th of June 1892, on the eve of the meeting of the Republican national convention, wherein his name was ineffectually used, and he died at Washington, D.C., on the 27th of January 1893.

On the eve of the contest there was a general assembly of the Hats at the French embassy, where the Comte de Modene furnished them with 6,000,000 livres, but not till they had signed in his presence an undertaking to reform the constitution in a monarchical sense.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it; an insult for which he never forgave them.

Among more ideal work are "Eve" (1880), "Diana" (1882 and 1891), "Woman and Peacock," and "The Poet," astride his Pegasus spreading wings for flight.

On Easter Eve the new fire, symbol of the light of the newly risen Christ, is produced, and from this are kindled all the lights used throughout the Christian year until, in the gathering darkness (tenebrae) of the Passion, they are gradually extinguished.

On Easter Eve new fire is made 3 with a flint and steel, and blessed; from this three candles are lighted, the lumen Christi, and from these again the Paschal Candle.

Pilgrims from all parts of the East flock to Jerusalem to obtain the " new fire " on Easter Eve at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

On the other hand, on the eve of the meeting of the federal Cortes, he could indulge in no illusions as to what he had to expect from the bulk of the republicans, who openly dissented from his conservative and conciliatory policy, and announced that they would reverse it on the very day the Cortes met.

It possesses an old town hall dating from 1566, a hospital, a lunatic asylum, an orphanage, and a large parish church rebuilt in 1756; but the chief interest centres in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, built in 1337, which attracts thousands of pilgrims to its Porta Caeli or Gaadenpforte (Gate of Mercy) opened annually on Michaelmas eve and closed again on the 4th of October.

The Ordo Romanus fixes the spring fast in the first week of March (then the first month); the summer fast in the second week of June; the autumnal fast in the third week of September; and the winter fast in the complete week next before Christmas eve.

One of these was a cartoon or monochrome painting of Adam and Eve in tempera, and in this, besides the beauty of the figures, the infinite truth and elaboration of the foliage and animals in the background are celebrated in terms which bring to mind the treatment of the subject by Albrecht Darer in his famous engraving done thirty years later.

On Easter Eve 1519, feeling that the end was near, he made his will.

He had a serious love affair about this time, which was broken off on the very eve of marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years.

Its building continued after his death, but it was consecrated on Childermas Day, 28th December 1065; and on the following "twelfth mass eve" the king died, being buried next day in the church.

We might note besides that it is quoted in the Book of Adam and Eve, the Apocalypse of Moses, the Apocalypse of Paul, the anonymous work De montibus Sina et Sion, the Sibylline Oracles ii.

They include the History of Adam and Eve, the Legend of the Cross, The Apocalypse of Abraham, the History of the Sibyl, the Legends of Solomon; numerous New Testament apocryphal tales, starting with legends of St John the Baptist; a very remarkable version of the Gospel of Nicodemus; and the Epistle of Pilate.

A halfpenny was expected from every one to whom these were exhibited, and bad luck was thought to menace the household not visited by the doll-bearers before Christmas Eve at the latest.

He died on the 6th of April 1886, on the eve of the introduction of the Home Rule Bill, to which he was stoutly opposed.

The subject - the descent of Christ into Hades to succour the souls of the just, as related in the apocryphal gospel of Nicodemus - is introduced in a kind of prologue; then follows the dispute between "Dominus" and "Satan" at the gate of Hell; the gatekeeper runs away, and the just are set free, while Adam, Eve, Habraham, David, Johannes and Moyses do homage to the deliverer.

But he was assassinated by Ravaillac (q.v.) on the 14th of May 1610, upon the eve of his great enterprise, leaving his policy to be followed up later by Richelieu.

His conception of a citizen's prerogative and duty, as set forth in "The Eve of Election,"certainly is not that of one whose legend is " our country, right or wrong."

The "Summer Eve Fair" held in September is the largest cattle and horse fair in the north of Scotland; the town is also the headquarters of the dressed-meat trade in the north.

When Main delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman?

On the eve of his departure he detected and quelled a plot as wild and futile as that of Oldcastle.

The first steps towards the inevitable breach with the reactionary rowers had already been taken before Castlereaghs tragic death on the eve of the congress of Verona brought George Canning into office as the executor of his policy.

When he accepted office the country was on the eve of a great disaster in India; it was engaged in a serious dispute with the United States; and its relations with France were so strained that the two great countries of western Europe seemed unlikely to be able to settle their differences without war.

However this may be, on the eve of the session of 1874 he suddenly decided to dissolve parliament and to appeal to the country.

There are mineral springs at Eaux-Bonnes, EauxChaudes, Cambo-les-Bains (resorted to by the Basques on St John's Eve), St Christau, and Salies.

These, to the number of 1200, were presented to him on the eve of his departure (spring, 194), and formed the chief ornament of his triumph.

The meaning of the name is uncertain; Wellhausen derives it from nan "Eve," or "serpent," in which case the Hivites were originally the snake clan; others explain it from the Arabic hayy, " family," as meaning "dwellers in (Bedouin) encampments."

Here, as elsewhere, the future master of Greece reminds us of Napoleon on the eve of the first empire.

In January 1680 he addressed to the king a long letter on the subject of his sins; he was known to have received the dangerous confidence of Wilmot, earl of Rochester, in his last illness; and he was even suspected, unjustly, in 1683, of having composed the paper drawn up on the eve of death by William Russell, Lord Russell, whom he attended to the scaffold.

In 1737 he was appointed to the "Centurion," 60, on the eve of war with Spain, and when hostilities had begun he was chosen to command as commodore the squadron which was sent to attack her possessions in South America in 1740.

In 1911, when the revolution broke out prematurely at Wuchang, Dr. Sun was in England; but he hurried back to China and arrived at Shanghai on Christmas Eve, in time to be acclaimed as the originator of the Republican programme and elected Provisional President by the delegates to the National Convention assembled at Nanking.

Under Postumus Gaul had already attempted to restore an independent though short-lived empire (258267); and twenty-eight years later the tetrarchy of Diocletian proved that the blood now circulated with difficulty from the heart to the extremities of an empire on the eve of disintegration.

So when next year the king of the Franks went to Rome in person, on Christmas Eve of the year 8oo and in the basilica of St Peter the pope placed on his head the imperial crown and did him reverence after the established custom of the time of the ancient emperors.

He was stationed in Kansas and in Missouri on the eve of the Civil War.

Earl Warenne held a weekly market on Saturdays, and fairs on Tuesday in Whitsun-week, the eve and day of St Lawrence, and the eve and day of the Exaltation of the Cross, by prescriptive right.

The birth of Cain is ascribed to a union of Satan with Eve.

On the eve of the crucial election of 1800, [Hamilton]wrote a bitter personal attack on the president (containing much confidential cabinet information), which was intended for private circulation, but which was secured and published by Aaron Burr, his legal and political rival.

He was a candidate at the general elections in 1874; but retired on the eve of the contest in favour of another candidate of his own party.

On the eve of its dissolution Renan was half prepared to accept the Empire, and, had he been elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he would have joined the group of l'Empire liberal.

It was late and they planned to go to church tomorrow for a Christmas Eve program.

Well, on Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.

He said Landis planned to attack you this eve, and he sent his messenger ahead to warn you.

Davis rescued her career with her greatest ever performance as Margo Channing, and the fading actress was gradually usurped by the conniving Eve.

A local breeder of the Glasgow Dingo who wished to remain anonymous witnessed the apparitions on New Year's Eve.

The velvet-eyed descendant of Eve shot a fearful glance at him and continued, still casually tracing invisible arabesques with her foil's point.

After the fall God sent the archangel Raziel to teach it to Adam and Eve, so that mankind might find redemption.

And there, at the back in a white coat and holding a clipboard, was Eve.

Eve was in a happy - if not slightly clumsy mood.

Can be seen welcome you to bipartisan commission to eve of retirement.

And Alice's public key will not decrypt documents originating from Eve, even if she claims they come from Alice.

Christmas Eve sees them serving up healthy dollops of festive fun.

That is why the biggest mobilization ever against capitalist war took place in 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.

Today, for fear of its desecration, Stonehenge is usually shut off to public access on midsummer's eve.

When they see the dead man he describes his face as pale as the moonlight on a cold winter's eve.

Finally, on the very eve of World War I he was released for lack of evidence.

You recieve a very detailed letter, Xmas teddy, chocolates, door sticker & hanger for xmas eve a very detailed letter, Xmas teddy, chocolates, door sticker & hanger for xmas eve.

Do you still play football on Xmas eve in the rain?

She had the op followed by 25 radiotherapy sessions completed Christmas eve.

The first came on millenium eve whilst standing on London Bridge waiting for the fireworks to go off.

For the eve of the Cowley Road Carnival, Brazil Solidarity presents a full-on Brazilian festa.

Now his evil deed comes to full fruition on the eve of the crucifixion.

We arrived back to England on New Years Eve very early and suffering from severe jet lag.

Eve's plan to catch the lagger is to give everyone a slightly different story and see which one the Lagger uses.

The squealing will soon change Eve and the next lot of noises are not so high pitch.

Eve n m ore satisfying was that my landing was infinitely better tha n m y take-off!

Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Virgin Birth, all those miracles - they are all so obviously made-up.

It is Christmas Eve and I am in my study writing this final missive before starting Christmas with my family.

Eve n m ore satisfying was that my landing was infinitely better tha n m ore satisfying was that my landing was infinitely better tha n m y take-off!

By the eve of World War II, most Islamic countries were prepared to overthrow colonialism and establish nation-states.

On Christmas Eve Clara is overjoyed when she is given a nutcracker in the shape of a wooden soldier.

In the biblical parable in Genesis, Adam and Eve became ashamed of their bodies after they disobeyed God.

On New Years Eve, a gang of 30 thugs at the East Essex hunt had attacked saboteurs.

On New Years Eve 1997, I had my first full epileptic seizure.

In passing sentence on the serpent, he promises, that Eve's descendant will crush the serpent 's head.

Trevithick ran a steam engine through the streets of Camborne on Christmas Eve 1801.

In September 1974, on the eve of a General Election, the Government authorized the start of a 2-year experiment of broadcast teletext.

But recently, results have been very disappointing and a medal appeared unlikely on the eve of the Games.

Eden is a nudist camp; Primal Eve becomes a vamp.

St Basil the Great, 4th century The all-night vigil is celebrated on the eve of the main feasts of the Orthodox Church.

On Christmas Eve, 2004, a loud bang in front of my place signaled what was perhaps the death-knell for my reliable workhorse.

Xmas eve you may well ask.

It was here that, on the eve of St Martin's day, he " was filled with enthusiasm, and discovered the foundations of a marvellous science."

The natural phenomena of Switzerland, and the political complications in the Valtellina, where the Catholic inhabitants had thrown off the yoke of the Grisons and called in the Papal and Spanish troops to their assistance, delayed him some time; but he reached Venice in time to see the ceremony of the doge's wedlock with the Adriatic. After paying his vows at Loretto, he came to Rome, which was then on the eve of a year of jubilee - an occasion which Descartes seized to observe the variety of men and manners which the city then embraced within its walls.

So ended the Eighth Crusade - much as the Sixth had done - to the profound disgust of many of the crusaders, including Prince Edward of England, who only arrived on the eve of the conclusion of the treaty.

The oldest and for the most part Jewish portion of this literature is preserved to us in Greek, Armenian, Latin and Slavonic. (i.) The Greek Ooryr7vcs r€pi 'ASaµ rcai Eras (published under the misleading title 'AlroicaXvi/ics Mwvo ws in Tischendorf's Apocalypses Apocryphae, 1866) deals with the Fall and the death of Adam and Eve.

On the eve of evacuation an attempt was made in Pecs to reestablish the Hungarian Republic under Count Karolyi, but owing to the communist views of some of its promoters the Belgrade Government withheld all support, and the movement promptly collapsed.

Horsley died of apoplexy on the 12th of January 1732, on the eve of the publication of the Britannia Romana.

The new foundation received a grant from King Robert, in gratitude for the aid which he was supposed to have obtained from a relic of the saint on the eve of the great victory of Bannockburn.

On the eve of the struggle with Napoleon, Alexander, conscious of his unpopularity, conceived the idea of making Speranski his scape-goat, and so conciliating that Old Russian sentiment which would be the strongest support of the autocratic tsar against revolutionary France.

St Agnes is the patron saint of young girls, who, in rural districts, formerly indulged in all sorts of quaint country magic on St Agnes' Eve (20th-21st January) with a view to discovering their future husbands.

Then Sophia or Prunikos sent the serpent (as a benefactor) to persuade Adam and Eve to eat the tree of knowledge and so break the commandment of Ialdabaoth, who banished them from paradise to earth.

In the Book of Adam and Eve (A.D 500-900) Seth is described as perfectly beautiful, like Adam, only more beautiful.

In April 1585 Sir Amyas Paulet was appointed to the office of which Sadler, accused of careless indulgence, had requested to be relieved; and on Christmas Eve she was removed from the hateful shelter of Tutbury to the castle of Chartley in the same county.

On the last day, which should be that terminating with the eve of Friday, or of Monday, the bride is taken in procession to the bridegrooms house, accompanied by her female friends, and a band of musicians, jugglers, wrestlers, &c. As before stated, a boy about to be circumcised joins in such a procession, or, frequently, a succession of such boys.

It is cited without acknowledgment in the Book of Adam and Eve, the Apocalypses of Moses and Paul, the Sibylline Oracles, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Epistle of Barnabas, and referred to by Origen and Irenaeus (see Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, 1895, pp. xvii-xxiv).

In Islam proper they have no raison d'etre; the legends about Adam and Eve on Arafa, about Abraham's sacrifice of the ram at Thabii by Mina, imitated in the sacrifices of the pilgrimage, are clumsy afterthoughts, as appears from their variations and only partial acceptance.

Those, on the contrary, who think that the nation which was on the very eve of surrendering itself to the Napoleonic absolutism was not in a hopeful humour for peace and the European order, will believe that Burke's protests were as perspicacious as they were powerful, and that anything which chilled the energy of the war was as fatal as he declared it to be.

A chief might through pique or other causes withdraw his tribe even on the eve of a battle without such defection being deemed dishonourable.

This is usually done through Christmas Eve.

Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon, is the author of On Christmas Eve.

One of the biggest celebrations of the year is New Year's Eve.

New Years Eve is one of those times where cocktails complement the celebration.

Serving Champagne is a tradition on New Years Eve, but why not take it up a notch and create cocktails featuring this bubbly beverage.

Be adventurous, and try a New Year's Eve cocktail recipe to impress your guests this year.

Any type of cocktail can be served for New Year's Eve, but why not serve something out of the ordinary.

This girly cocktail is sure to be the hit of any New Year's Eve bash.

Setting up a bar for a New Year's Eve cocktail party can be an important part of your celebration.

Serving cocktails on New Year's Eve is a great way to ring in the new year.

You may have a traditional Easter egg hunt or Christmas Eve dinner to bring all members of the family to one place to mingle and celebrate.

When the frightful night of All Hollow's Eve rolls around, creepy Halloween makeup ideas for traditional ghouls are sure to help you create a bewitching and scary costume.

Makeup for New Year's Eve parties should be festive enough to fit into the ringing in of a brand new year.

Chances are, if you're celebrating New Year's Eve, you'll attend an evening bash and this calls for evening makeup.

It's only New Year's Eve once a year, so enjoy the celebrations in looks that are just as whimsical and fun as the parties you attend.

Whether you are gearing up to document New Year's Eve, Fourth of July or Memorial Day celebrations, you'll want to know how to photograph firework displays before taking aim at the night sky.

Between Thanksgiving and New Years Eve, there are endless opportunities for holiday dinners and the following holiday dinner ideas will certainly help you put the happy in your holidays.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually family dinners and New Years Eve can get a little crazy.

For a light summer meal or to add a slash of sunshine to a cold winter's eve, lemon chicken recipes are always a welcome change from the same old chicken recipes.

Many people would think that Halloween is sweet treat time but, think about it, Halloween is one night of trick or treating while Christmas desserts can and are served from Thanksgiving to New Years Eve.

Do you have a special ritual that dictates how you open holiday gifts or certain songs that you always sing on Christmas Eve?

Hang stars made from glittery cardstock from your ceiling to give your New Year's Eve party a festive look.

New Year's Eve layouts will help preserve festive memories of the holidays.

Think about your typical New Year's Eve celebration.

Creating layouts celebrating New Year's Eve can be a fun family activity.

If you want to engage your children in a family-friendly New Year's Eve experience, check out Whistler's First Night program.

Popular Christian tradition postulates that the supposed "forbidden fruit" Eve used to lure Adam was an apple.

It may be quick and easy to get married in Vegas, but if you're choosing a special day such as Valentine's Day or New Year's Eve it would be good to keep in mind that other couples will be doing the same.

When setting a date, don't automatically assume you can get married on Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve or Christmas Eve.

For example, one Chinese custom involves choosing a wedding date with only even numbers (or as many as possible); another custom finds that Irish people favor New Year's Eve as a lucky wedding date.

Using Halloween favors is a perfect finishing touch to any themed wedding near All Hallow's Eve.

In 2007, during the Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (R.I.D.E.) campaign that took place for the five weeks leading up to New Year's Eve, police stopped 861,587 cars and trucks.

Jessica Simpson and John Mayer were spotted together in New York City on New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, Spears reportedly collapsed but attributed it to "exhaustion."

Rapper Eve was charged with driving under the influence in May 2007.

The party began on New Year's Eve in Vince's penthouse apartment in Chicago's famed Palmolive building.

Owen and Fenton currently reside in London with their two daughters, called Eve and Hannah.

Kaiya Eve's pretty pink skirts are soft and feminine and in a class of their own.

A fancy dress is appropriate for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day services, or a special party, while more casual dresses work all season long.

The right holiday sweater is a fun addition to a child's wardrobe and can add to that magic time of year along with Christmas pajamas worn on Christmas Eve as children try to fall asleep while listening for sleigh bells.

New Years Eve cruises are a novel and exciting way to celebrate December 31st.

Either way you'll have a story to tell your friends and relatives who sat home watching TV on New Year's Eve.

If you're considering a major cruise line, like Carnival or Celebrity, you probably won't be able to find a specific New Year's Eve sailing.

It may be against cruise ship policy to bring champagne aboard to use for a New Year's Eve celebration.

To book your New Year's Eve cruise, it's a good idea to go through a travel agent or reserve a cabin via the cruise line's website.

Another option, and probably a cheaper one, is to find New Year's Eve cruises in a major city.

The following cities offer one-night New Year's Eve sailings.

You must be 21 years or older to reserve a spot on this New Year's Eve cruise.

To find a New Year's Eve cruise near you, it's a good idea to check your state's tourism website.

If you are single and looking to find someone special, Adam Meet Eve Christian Singles Dating is an organization that often sponsors Christian events including cruises and tours.

Start practicing around Thanksgiving and you'll be ready to rock for a big Christmas Eve gig.

Eve's Best is designed to provide gentle cleansing and moisturizing for delicate infant skin and hair.

For an intimate New Year's Eve celebration with your significant other, though, something a little naughty may better fit the bill.

It's the perfect lingerie for snuggling up with your special someone on Christmas Eve.

Designed for curvy gals in a queen size, this comfy lingerie will give your lover something to unwrap on Christmas Eve.

Go to sleep on Christmas Eve in a festive red nightgown.

Live it up for New Year's Eve in New York City.

Excitement may also be the reason-think children on Christmas Eve.

Some rides The park will close early on Christmas Eve and remain closed on Christmas Day.

On New Year's Eve, your town holds a little celebration to ring in the new calendar.

December 31st - New Year's Eve - At the lake a clock has been built for the countdown, which will take place between 11pm and 1am complete with a fireworks display.

Parasite Eve isn't a rare game, most used shops probably carry it.

If you enjoy movie-like progression in your video game, or if you're a mitachondria freak, then Parasaite Eve is for you.

For New Year's Eve, there is no other picture-perfect symbol of the holiday than the tall flute of Champagne with the tiny bubbles rising to the top.

Once you choose the wines and bring them home for your New Year's with bubbles, don't stick the bubbles in the refrigerator until the morning of New Year's Eve.

New Years Eve is the last big party of the year and the size of your dinner party will help you determine which New Years dinner ideas you should go with.

If you are stuck for ideas for your New Years dinner, keep in mind that some foods are said to bring luck if eaten on New Year Eve or at the stroke of midnight.

From the lighting of the giant Christmas tree to the festivities on New Year's Eve, this part of New York City is a lively and festive place to be.

It is said that Eve took a four leaf clover from the Garden of Eden as a remembrance of her time in Paradise.

Conducted on the eve of the Civil War, the 1860 varied only slightly from 1850.

In his book, The Seven Daughters of Eve, bestselling author Bryan Sykes proposed that nearly everyone of European descent could trace their ancestry back to one of seven women.

Whether you want to find an updo for your Christmas Eve gathering or a short hair cut that will shine at your New Year's Eve bash, we have a photo to help!

This box would be well suited for use at Christmas or during a New Year's Eve party.

At Eve Lillian Maternity, owner Jessica Hudson is on a continual search for plus size, petite, and tall maternity fashions.

From Christmas gatherings with family and friends and company parties to New Year's Eve galas galore and reunions with people from the past, there is simply no dearth of events to go all out for.

Opt for a pair of satin heels in a bright color to complement your sexy New Year's Eve party dress.

Christmas Eve has traditional holiday scents of a warm hearth, sugared plums, and candied fruits.

A novelty candle mold which is time specific, for instance a new year's eve candle that contains the year in the design, is unlikely to be used much after that particular year is over.

With fragrance oils, you can have scents like apple pie, fresh linen, Christmas Eve, or stormy morning.

From beach clean ups to soup kitchen service on Christmas Eve, the average community has dozens of volunteer opportunities available for those looking to serve.

Germany. The traditional German tree is uncovered on Christmas Eve to reveal a tree loaded with tinsel, lights, fruit, and nuts.

Sweden. The Swedish tree is unveiled on Christmas Eve, decorated with straw ornaments and animals.

Whether you're interested in developing new Christmas Eve traditions or simply curious about how people around the country celebrate the holiday, LoveToKnow Christmas has the information you've been searching for.

This will ensure your letter can be processed and sent to the final destination prior to Christmas Eve.

On Christmas Eve, Willie and Marcus fill their sleigh with money from the safe and store merchandise, and then skip town.

On the eve of the New Year, a large feast is often held.

Much of the country honors the traditional Christmas Eve and Christmas Day celebrations.

Before going to bed on Christmas Eve, children will place out shoes in the hopes that Le Pere Noel (Santa) will bring candies, chocolates, and small gifts for them.

The adults often wait to exchange gifts and celebrate on New Year's Eve.

The Catholic Church originally mandated that no meat was to be eaten on Christmas Eve.

In South France, Yule logs would be burned from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day.

Apples were the most commonly used ornament in the history of the Christmas tree, a tradition linked to the days when the fruit was used to teach the story of Adam and Eve to a largely illiterate population.

December 24th is La Vigilia di Natale, or Christmas Eve.