How to use Oliver in a sentence

For a popular but authentic account of some of Lord Rayleigh's scientific work and discoveries, see an article by Sir Oliver Lodge in the National Review for September 1898.

In the same year, 1598, a third expedition was despatched under Oliver van Noort, a native of Utrecht, but the voyage contributed nothing to geography.

By his wife Elizabeth Bourchier, Cromwell had four sons, Robert (who died in 1639), Oliver (who died in 1644 while serving in his father's regiment), Richard, who succeeded him as Protector, and Henry.

On the paternal side he was descended from Oliver Cromwell, whose honest, sturdy independence of character he seemed to have inherited.

That life cannot be explained by force is recognized by Sir Oliver Lodge.

The minor authorities for the Fifth Crusade have been collected by Rohricht, in the publications of the Societe de l'Orient Latin for 1879 and 1882; the ten valuable letters of Oliver, bishop of Paderborn, and the Historia Damiettina, based on these letters, have also been edited by Rohricht in the Westdeutsche Zeitschrift per Geschichte and Kunst (1891).

This persecution gave the book an extraordinary vogue, and it passed through twenty-two editions in three years, besides being translated into several languages; there is an English translation by Lord Falconbridge, son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell.

In 1800, when a frost-bitten thumb gave him great pain and much fear for his life, his friend, Rev. Philip Oliver of Chester, died, leaving him director and one of three trustees over his chapel at Boughton; and this added much to his anxiety.

His active life, however, was mainly spent in Ireland, whither he took some troops to assist Oliver early in 1650, and he was one of the Irish representatives in the Little, or Nominated, Parliament of 1653.

After Oliver's death Henry hailed with delight the succession of his brother Richard to the office of protector, but although he was now appointed lieutenant and governor general of Ireland, it was only with great reluctance that he remained in that country.

But he was not brought forward by his father or prepared in any way for his future greatness, and lived in the country occupied with field sports, till after the institution of the second protectorate in 16J7 and the recognition of Oliver's right to name his successor.

The officers in the council, moreover, showed jealousy of the civil members, and to settle these difficulties and to provide money a parliament was summoned on the 27th of January 1659, which declared Richard protector, and incurred the hostility of the army by criticizing severely the arbitrary military government of Oliver's last two years, and by impeaching one of the major-generals.

In 1646 General Laugharne took and demolished the castle in the name of the parliament, and in 1649 Oliver Cromwell resided at Carmarthen on his way to Ireland.

The Natal invaders fell back to the mountains which enclose the north of the colony; Oliver and Schoeman retired from Cape Colony before the small forces of Gatacre and Clements; and the presidents of the republics, realizing that the British Empire was capable of more resistance than they had calculated upon, put forward feelers aiming at the restoration of the status quo before the war.

Among the sculptor's principal statues are " The Bishop of Carlisle " (1895; Carlisle Cathedral), " General Charles Gordon " (Trafalgar Square, London), " Oliver Cromwell " (Westminster), " Dean Colet " (a bronze group - early Italianate in feeling - outside St Paul's School, Hammersmith), " King Alfred " (a colossal memorial for Winchester), the " Gladstone Monument " (in the Strand, London) and " Dr Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London " (bronze, erected in St Paul's Cathedral).

She was said to have been the mistress of Oliver Cromwell, and also of Lauderdale before her first husband's death, and was a leader at the court of Charles II.

Oliver and Audibert published some cases of cirrhosis of the liver with ascites in which they got results comparable to those of Widal.

But on the 12th of March 1798 Reynolds' information led to the seizure of a number of conspirators at the house of Oliver Bond.

In 1772 during the proceedings against Crosby and Oliver - a part of the "Wilkes and liberty" agitation - he and Lord North were attacked by a mob and rolled in the mud.

At the fort, on the 22nd of October 1784, a treaty was made by Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler and Arthur Lee, commissioners for the United States, with the chiefs of the Six Nations.

The Battle Of Dunbar was fought on the 3rd (13th) of September 1650 between the English army under Oliver Cromwell and the Scots under David Leslie, afterwards Lord Newark.

Its leader was Oliver Cromwell.

Oliver's a gifted storyteller endowed with an elegant, compelling prose which makes you fully enjoy the pleasure of reading.

Oliver tries valiantly to interest Carly in the house and the village, but gets the bored teenager ' whatever ' treatment.

The Chair expressed thanks on behalf of the DMC to Oliver Myers.

Seeking Oliver, Tony is very touchy with Ed about his recent fishing trip with Mike.

Newcomer Oliver Golding does a believable and charming job as the young urchin Ewin, tho he's clearly not a native Scot.

Today, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is an honorary vice-chairman.

Wheelwright William Oliver had a wheelwright William Oliver had a wheelwright 's business and Engineering shop in Leyden's Road, where the garage is now.

It is true that Puritan austerity and the lack of any strong central authority after Oliver's death produced a reaction which temporarily restored Charles's dynasty to the throne; but it is not less true that the execution of the king, at a later time when all over Europe absolute monarchies "by divine right" were being established on the ruins of the ancient popular constitutions, was an object lesson to all the world; and it produced a profound effect, not only in establishing constitutional monarchy in Great Britain after James II., with the dread of his father's fate before him, had abdicated by flight, but in giving the impulse to that revolt against the idea of "the divinity that doth hedge a king" which culminated in the Revolution of 1789, and of which the mighty effects are still evident in Europe and beyond.

Its authors had wished Oliver to assume the title of king, but this he repeatedly refused; and in the instrument he was named Protector, a parliament was established, limited in powers but whose measures were not restricted by the Protector's veto unless they contravened the constitution, the Protector's executive power being also limited by the council.

John Morley (Oliver Cromwell, p. 2 9 7) has truly observed of the execution of Charles I., that it was "an act of war, and was just as defensible or just as assailable, and on the same grounds, as the war itself."

The last male descendant of the Protector was his great-great-grandson, Oliver Cromwell of Cheshunt, who died in 1821.

Battles were fought at Fort Meigs (1813) and Fort Stephenson (Fremont, 1813) and Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's naval victory on Lake Erie in 1813 was on the Ohio side of the boundary line.

In the same year, with Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts, Gunning Bedford of Delaware, and John Rutledge of South Carolina, he was a member of the committee which reported on the Virginia proposal as to the terms of cession to the Confederation of the "back lands," or unoccupied Western territory, held by several of the states; the report was a skilful compromise made by Madison, which secured the approval of the rather exigent Virginia legislature.

I remember well the first time I saw Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Oliver Reed is an English actor famous for being a rabble rousers.

An Oliver Oatley goal in the second half was enough to give the Royalists a win.

A wood merchant who lived in Sunnyside worked the sawmill on the road to Minto (where Oliver Brothers yard is today).

The conservation of a majesty scutcheon looted from Oliver Cromwell 's funeral.

Shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin said the government had not thought the system through.

Oliver Curran is a self-taught artist working in Newry, County Down.

Jamie Oliver and his lisping, mockney screen presence has carried him from speech impediment obscurity, to movie star celebrity status.

Our son Oliver, now aged 10 months, was born with what initially appeared to be an extremely divergent squint in both eyes.

Oliver scored Germany 's stoppage time winner against Poland in Dortmund in their second game of the 2006 World Cup finals.

Oliver 's a gifted storyteller endowed with an elegant, compelling prose which makes you fully enjoy the pleasure of reading.

Through a mutual friend at ATV Vernon and Oliver had met and struck up a friendship that would last years.

The other cast carried the show along comfortably with Oliver Darley bringing the necessary mixture of menace and suave sophistication to his role.

Surf kayaking was clearly developing, largely due to the efforts of Oliver Cock, with his annual surf weeks in Bude.

Unfortunately Kenilworth turned the ball over and, despite tenacious defense from Oliver Wilson, scored.

Jamie Oliver was trying to wean children away from eating chips, pizza, burgers and turkey twizzlers on to healthier recipes.

In the best traditions of the trade union movement, solidarity was given to Oliver Campbell who is fighting against his unjust imprisonment.

Newcomer Oliver Golding does a believable and charming job as the young urchin Ewin, tho he 's clearly not a native Scot.

I only ordered yesterday afternoon the urchin outfit for my son who is dressing up as Oliver for his school book week.

Wheelwright William Oliver had a wheelwright 's business and Engineering shop in Leyden 's Road, where the garage is now.

A pair of kittens could be named after some of the great double acts of the past; Oliver and Hardy, Fred and Ginger or Bob and Bing are a few that immediately spring to mind.

California artist Oliver Weismuller created the concept of the Walk of Fame in 1958, in an attempt to reinvent Hollywood.

Alexander (2004) - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers played the role of Cassandar in this Oliver Stone directed film that included an all-star cast of, among others, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer.

Bush isn't slated for release until 2009 and is directed by Oliver Stone.

Several other productions later, including a four part miniseries of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist and several more stints on Australian television, Fisher set her sights on Hollywood.

The film, which stars Ali MacGraw as Jennifer and Ryan O'Neal as Oliver, tells the story of a rich boy who falls in love with a working-class girl.

In this love scene, which takes place in the hospital, Jennifer asks Oliver to hold her.

The Southern California-based company has been in business since 1975 and has grown to include several optics brands, including Oliver Peoples and Paul Smith Spectacles.

Oliver Peoples eyewear started out in 1986 in a West Hollywood retail optical shop that had its own twist on frames.

Oliver Peoples eyeglass frames aren't widely available.

Visit the Oliver Peoples page to find boutiques in your area or search by zip code.

To see additional Oliver Peoples optical styles, please visit the website.

Again, to see the whole collection, please visit the Oliver Peoples website.

Oliver Peoples eyeglass frames have come a long way, riding through time on top models' faces and more, nearly unscathed by the trends, holding true to a vintage feel.

You can find it at the Oliver Peoples website under style Victory 55.

These are not Oliver Peoples Victory glasses, but they look very similar and only cost about $45.00.

Oliver Peoples has the authentic pair, of course, and despite some reports that the 55 mm lens size was discontinued in favor of the 58 mm size, the only one listed is 55.

There are several to choose from, including those from designers like Anglo American, Oliver Peoples and Revue.

Film stars Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Oliver Phelps, James Phelps, Michael Gambon and Daniel Radcliffe were in attendance for the grand opening.

He composed the tune himself and asked his bulger, Oliver Wilcox Norton, to play it.

Examples of these boutiques are A Pea in the Pod, Pickles & Ice Cream, Bella Blu Maternity, Belly Dance Maternity, and Isabella Oliver.

In fact, her most recent project is playing a cop's wife in Oliver Stone's upcoming World Trade Center.

Isabel Oliver's web site, for "pregnant women who love clothes," has a formal maternity dress collection plus thongs, hipsters, and plunging-neckline bras to go under the sexiest styles.

Trendy maternity clothes can be found in stores such as Stella Maternity, Bella Blu, A Pea in a Pod and Isabella Oliver.

Isabella Oliver has a gorgeous line of maternity underwear.

This Bodacious Beach Blanket tote interview clearly shows that the Bodacious Beach Blanket is an inventive, attractive and functional creation of Mr. Bill Oliver.

Some places claim stories of famous people haunting the location, such as Red Lion Park in England where the ghost of Oliver Cromwell walks each night with his companions.

Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton all reportedly haunt the park.

In addition, the house is also home to Lou Carpenter played by the soap's longest serving cast member Tom Oliver.

Kyle and Oliver on One Life to Live are also known as Kish by the fans of Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell) and Oliver Fish (Scott Evans).

Oliver Fish, a recurring character, was a police officer who served as John McBain's right hand man and Antonio Vega's partner.

Before seeing Kyle again, Oliver had a one-night stand with Stacy Morasco.

Kyle and Oliver nearly crossed paths several times during February and March, but it was not until April 2009 that the two saw each other in the gym.

Kyle began to blackmail Jared and Natalie and went to the Manning house to blackmail Todd, but Oliver intercepted him and arrested him.

The two continued to play a game of cat and mouse, with Kyle finally asking Oliver where their their relationship was going.

Oliver rejected him, saying that he wanted another chance with Layla.

Over the summer of 2009, Layla and Christian began to suspect that Oliver was hiding something about his past.

In August of 2009, Christian caught Kyle and Oliver in a passionate clinch.

Oliver denied the depth of feeling and pushed Kyle away.

Oliver then threw himself into his relationship with Layla, but when Kyle flirted with newcomer Nick, Oliver became jealous.

Layla learned the truth about Oliver and Kyle's affair in college and broke up with Oliver.

Oliver went through a rough patch with his parents, coming out to them and then later to his John.

While his relationship with his friends remained intact, Oliver's parents wrestled with their own bigotry where he was concerned.

Finally, Oliver decided he wanted to pursue Kyle and reclaim what they had, but by then Kyle was then involved with Nick and Stacy turned up pregnant.

Stacy claimed that Rex Balsom impregnated her, but the baby turned out to be Oliver's.

In November of 2009, after months of dancing around each other, Kyle and Oliver went on their first date.

When Nick invaded their lives again, he nearly succeeded in breaking up Kyle and Oliver, but Kyle sent him packing.

On New Year's Eve, Kyle and Oliver successfully made love.

All seemed great for the couple until Oliver learned that Stacy's daughter Sierra Rose was indeed his child.

When Stacy died, Oliver sought custody of his daughter and by April, Sierra Rose was living with her father and his boyfriend Kyle.

Kyle and Oliver on One Life to Live were not the first homosexuals to be featured in prominent storylines.

The series detailed a homophobia story in the 1990s with Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillipe) and in 2009, the series introduced a love story between Kyle and Oliver.

The very first automobile in the United States was invented by Oliver Evans in 1789.

The first single off the 2007 release 'Blink,' "In My Arms" was recorded when Plumb's son Solomon was a baby and she was pregnant with her second son, Oliver Lee.

The first step in her music career came when a mutual friend introduced her to producer Jay Oliver.

Oliver was doing many commercial production jobs and hired Crow to a lot of voicing work for him.

She was a regular on CBS' Falcon Crest, NBC's Days of Our Lives, HBO's First and Ten and, more recently, WB's Tom Arnold Show and My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star with Oliver Hudson.

In 2003, she wed fellow tattoo artist Oliver Peck, however, the couple divorced in 2007.

But in an episode, aptly titled Justice, Clark teams up with Oliver Queen's Green Arrow, Victor's Cyborg, Arthur's Aquaman and Bart's Impulse to take down Lex Luthor's experimental 33.1 project.

This forces Oliver and his team to take over and put Chloe in the middle of the conflict.

The fighting men of the defenders are variously recorded between 6100 and 9121; the roll comprises one English knight, Oliver Starkey.

Galien, a favourite 15th-century romance, was attached to this episode, for Galien was the son of the amours of Oliver with Jacqueline, Hugon's daughter.

The first part represents an episode in Spain three years before Roncesvalles, in which Oliver defeats the Saracen giant Fierabras in single combat, and converts him.

These were written by Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts, Andrew Oliver (1706-1774), his lieutenantgovernor, and others to William Whately, a member of Parliament, and private secretary to George Grenville, suggesting an increase of the power of the governor at the expense of the assembly, " an abridgement of what are called English liberties," and other measures more extreme than those undertaken by the government.

The Massachusetts assembly on receiving the letters resolved to petition the crown for the removal of both Hutchinson and Oliver.

The petition was refused and was condemned as scandalous, and Franklin, who took upon himself the responsibility for the publication of the letters, in the hearing before the privy council at the Cockpit on the 29th of January 1 774 was insulted and was called a thief by Alexander Wedderburn (the solicitor-general, who appeared for Hutchinson and Oliver), and was removed from his position as head of the post office in the American colonies.

The crown which strangely enough surmounts the shield with the arms of the Commonwealth on the coins of Oliver Cromwell (as distinguished from those of the Commonwealth itself, which have no crown) is a royal crown with alternate crosses and fleurs-de-lys round the circlet, and is surmounted by three arches, which, though somewhat flattened, are not bent.

Clowes; The Rough Riders (1899); Oliver Cromwell (1901); the following works on hunting and natural history, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1886), Ranch Life and Hunting Trail (1888), The Wilderness Hunter (1893), Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Plains (1899; a republication of Hinting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter), The Deer Family (1902), with other authors, and African Game Trails (1910); and the essays, American Ideals (2 vols., 1897) and The Strenuous Life (1900); and State Papers and Addresses (1905) and African and European Addresses (1910).

It has further been verified by Sir Oliver Lodge that even in very narrow spaces the aether is not entrained by its surroundings when they are put into rapid motion.

He was the son of Rev. Oliver Everett and the brother of Alexander Hill Everett.

This term was used by Oliver Byrne in a series of works published between 1860 and 1870.

It may be noted that Sir Oliver Lodge has adopted the catechetical form in his book, The Substance of Faith Allied with Science (1907), which is described as " a catechism for parents and teachers."

The archaeologist George Oliver of Exeter was, according to Foley's Records of the English Province, the last of the secular priests of England who vowed obedience to the Society before its suppression.

Vast masses of Walsingham's correspondence are preserved in the Record Office and the British Museum; some have been epitomized in the Foreign Calendar (as far as 1582); and his correspondence during his two embassies to France was published in extenso by Sir Dudley Digges in 1655 under the title The Compleat Ambassador, possibly, as has been suggested by Dr Stahlin, to give a fillip to the similar policy then being pursued by Oliver Cromwell.

From 1776 to 1780 two depots for military stores and a workshop for the Continental army were maintained, and the leaden statue of George III., erected in Bowling Green, New York City, in 1770, and torn down by citizens on the 9th of July 1776, was cut up and taken to Litchfield, where, in the house (still standing) of Oliver Wolcott it was melted into bullets for the American army by Wolcott's daughter and sister.

Litchfield was the birthplace of Ethan Allen; of Henry Ward Beecher; of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose novel, Poganuc People, presents a picture of social conditions in Litchfield during her girlhood; of Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (1760-1833); of John Pierpont (1785-1866), the poet, preacher and lecturer; and of Charles Loring Brace, the philanthropist.

It was also the home, during his last years, of Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797); of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge (1774-1835), an officer on the American side in the War of Independence and later (from 1801 to 1817) a Federalist member of Congress; and of Lyman Beecher, who was pastor of the First Congregational church of Litchfield from 1810 to 1826.

The Putnam Free School, now part of the public school system, was endowed early in the 19th century by Oliver Putnam of Newburyport and afterwards of Hampstead, New Hampshire.

Near this stood Cromwell House, erroneously considered to have been the residence of Oliver Cromwell, the name of which survives in the adjacent Cromwell Road.

As a manufacturer of shovels, in association with his father and his brother Oliver (1807-1877), he amassed a large fortune.

His son, Oliver Ames (1831-1895), was lieutenantgovernor of Massachusetts from 1883 until 1887, and governor from 1887 to 1890.

John had also two illegitimate sons, Richard and Oliver, and a daughter, Joan or Joanna, who married Llewelyn I.

St Peter's chapel formerly served as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic archbishopric of Armagh; and in the abbey of the Dominican nuns there is still preserved the head of Oliver Plunkett, the archbishop who was executed at Tyburn in 1681 on an unfounded charge of treason.

In the bitter conflict between the large state party and the small state party he and his colleagues, Oliver Ellsworth and William Samuel Johnson, acted as peacemakers.

The American commander was Captain Oliver Perry, the British commander, Captain Robert Barclay.

Close to the town is the beautiful Elizabethan mansion of Astley Hall, which is said to have sheltered Oliver Cromwell after the battle of Preston (1648).

The same year he married Elizabeth French, a niece of Oliver Cromwell; and he also became Tuesday lecturer at St Lawrence, Jewry.

He got, however, upon more dangerous ground when, passing wholly by the political insinuation against himself, he roundly charged Hobbes with having written Leviathan in support of Oliver's title, and deserted his royal master in distress.

Under Oliver Mowat, premier from 1873 to 1896, the government, though strongly partisan, was thrifty afid honest.

Biggar, Sir Oliver Mowat (2 vols., 1905), is practically a history of Ontario from 1867 to 1896.

Following the example, as he declared, of Oliver Cromwell (for whom he showed an admiration in other respects - culminating in 1900 in the erection of a statue outside Westminster Hall, which was not appreciated either by the Irish Nationalist party or by others among his political associates), he took a pride in owning racehorses, and afterwards won the Derby three times, in 1894, 1895 and 1905.

Among his minor treatises, the most important are the vindication of the character and aims of Oliver Cromwell, and the sketch of the contendings of the Church of Scotland.

This belief was implied in his next great work, the Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell, published in 1845.

Sheer grief and shame, and, it is said, sorrow for the failure in war of his favourite, Oliver Sinclair, were the apparent causes of his death.

A draft of a constitution in Randolph's handwriting, discovered in 1887, seems to have been the report (6th August) of a Committee of Detail of five members (John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, Oliver Ellsworth and James Wilson).

The only just judgment of these notes is to be obtained by looking at them, and by testing his suspicions with the letters of Hamilton, Ames, Oliver Wolcott, Theodore Sedgwick, George Cabot and the other Hamiltonians.

Lord Lee's eldest son, Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621-1675), after fighting on the king's side in the Civil War, attached himself to Oliver Cromwell, whose niece he married, and by whom he was appointed commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland in 1652, and English ambassador at the French court in 1656, where he greatly distinguished himself by his successful diplomacy.

An English translation, edited with many additional illustrations by Captain Oliver, has been published by the Hakluyt Society (2 vols., 1891).

Sovereign princes - an Oliver, a Clovis and a Pepin - start out in every page, till the writer finds it necessary to apologize for the number of his kings and his own blunders.

Though not among those taken at the house of Oliver Bond on the 12th of March 1798 (see Fitzgerald, Lord Edward), he was arrested about the same time, and he was one of the leaders who after the rebellion were imprisoned at Fort George till 1802.

About the same time that Franklin was making his kite 1 See Sir Oliver Lodge, " Lightning, Lightning Conductors and Lightning Protectors," Journ.

Sir Oliver Lodge reviewed the whole position in a paper in 1885, " On the Seat of the Electromotive Force in a Voltaic Cell," Journ.

Oliver Heaviside after 1880 rendered much assistance by reducing Maxwell's mathematical analysis to more compact form and by introducing greater precision into terminology (see his Electrical Papers, 1892).

The general dissatisfaction received a somewhat unguarded and intemperate expression in a letter sent to the justices of Marlborough by a gentleman of the neighbourhood, named Oliver St John, 6 in which he denounced the attempt to raise funds in this way as contrary to law, reason and religion, as constituting in the king personally an act of perjury, involving in the same crime those who contributed, and thereby subjecting all parties to the curses levelled by the church at such offences.

The First Church, Charleston, which had become almost extinct through Arminianism in 1746, entered upon a career of remarkable prosperity in 1749 under the leadership of Oliver Hart (1723-1795), formerly of the Philadelphia Association.

Recent discoveries have, however, established the fact that there existed in the Palaeozoic era fernlike plants which produced true seeds of a highly specialized type; this group, for which Oliver and Scott proposed the term Pteridospermae in 1904, must also be included in the Spermophyta.

Oliver Cromwell spent some days here on his way to Ireland, and his original warrant to the mayor and council for the demolition of the castle is still preserved in the council chamber.

The Smith Charities is a peculiar institution, endowed by Oliver Smith (1766-1845) of Hatfield, who left an estate valued at $370,000, to be administered by a board of three trustees, chosen by electors representing the towns of Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Amherst and Williamsburg in Hampshire county and Greenfield and Whately in Franklin county - the beneficiaries of the will.

Subsequently Oliver St John was fined and imprisoned for making a violent protest against the benevolence,and on the occasion of his trial Sir Francis Bacon defended the request for money as voluntary.

See the Life of Ezra Stiles (Boston, 1798), by his daughter's husband, Abiel Holmes, the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The efficiency of the state military organization, as well as that of the civil administration during the trying years of the war, was largely due to the extraordinary ability and energy of Governor Oliver P. Morton, one of the greatest of the " war governors " of the North.

He tried in vain to establish constitutional government and religious toleration (see CROMWELL, OLIVER).

In 1743 Burke became a student at Trinity College, Dublin, where Oliver Goldsmith was also a student at the same time.

Elbridge Gerry lived and James Russell Lowell was born, lived and died in "Elmwood" (built in 1767); Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge also; John Fiske, the historian, lived here; and there are many other literary associations, attractive and important for those interested in American letters.

He was the son of Rev. Oliver Everett (1753-1802), a Congregational minister in Boston, and the brother of Edward Everett.

Monasticism was momentarily suppressed under Oliver Cromwell, but the Restoration brought the monks back to their old haunts.

Oliver's severe conduct at Drogheda and elsewhere is not morally defensible, but such methods were common in the wars of the period, and much may be urged in his favour.

It was the birthplace of Roger Wolcott, of the older Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797), of Oliver Ellsworth (whose home is now a historical museum), and of Edward Rowland Sill.

His first proceedings had indeed given no We promise of the moderation and prudence afterwards to characterize him; he had succeeded in exasperating all parties; the officials of his father, the well-served, whom he dismissed in favor of inferiors like Jean Balue, Oliver le Daim and Tristan Lermite; the clergy, by abrogating the Pragmatic Sanction; the university of Paris, by his ill-treatment of it; and the nobles, whom he deprived of their hunting rights, among them being those whom Charles VII.

Cromwell House, now a convalescent home, was presented by Oliver Cromwell to his eldest daughter Bridget on her marriage with Henry Ireton (January 15, 1646/7).

With Oliver Wolcott and Richard Butler he negotiated a treaty with the Six Nations, signed at Fort Stanwix on the 22nd of October 1784, and with George Clark and Richard Butler a treaty with the Wyandot, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa Indians, signed at Ft.

Coal Measures, is now the best-known of all Palaeozoic plants, the central wood has disappeared altogether and is replaced by pith; the primary wood is only represented in the leaf-trace strands, which form a ring of distinct collateral bundles around the pith; (From a model after Oliver.) FIG.

The likes of Oliver Goldsmith, Tom Paine, Samuel Johnson and that little cockney bloke off Eastenders have all quaffed ale here.

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Tony Oliver provided a singularly oily villain in the shape of Clarence Creep and Janet Taylor gave a nice cameo as the Fairy Queen.

Prompted by the work of TV celeb chef Jamie Oliver, schools are increasingly wanting to enrich their teaching by including healthy eating education.

These are two of the alarming facts pointed out by Jonathan Oliver, political correspondent of the Mail on Sunday in a recent article.

Oliver, raised in the Midlands, has a slight Birmingham accent, tho his natural gentility is indicated by his manners.

Beloved husband of Sheila, loving father of Paul and Sarah, devoted grandpa to Libby, Lucy, Joshua and Oliver.

Jamie Oliver suggests griddling the asparagus spears on a hot griddle pan for a couple of minutes, turning a couple of times.

Meals Heal's 60 cover restaurant, master minded by Oliver Peyton, offers honest, simple food done well.

Oliver was born prematurely and developed hydrocephalus, which is an abnormal amount of cerebrospinal fluid around the brain.

Labrador retriever named Lucy and two cats named Oliver and Sydney.

He has also recently recorded some german lieder for a CD, accompanied by Clarinet and Piano with Colin Bradbury and Oliver Davies.

He exchanged harsh words and occasionally fisticuffs with fellow mouthy mavericks like Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and producer Don Murphy.

Jamie Oliver deserves some plaudits for using his celebrity status to good effect.. .

Oliver, Are you an actor who also plays tennis, or a tennis player who also acts?

Fr Oliver Heaney, who had been Assistant priest from 1968 to 1975, was appointed parish priest of Epsom from 1981 to 1990.

I have a yellow Labrador retriever named Lucy and two cats named Oliver and Sydney.

An Oliver Oatley goal in the second half was enough to give the royalists a win.

A wood merchant who lived in Sunnyside worked the sawmill on the road to Minto (where Oliver Brothers yard is today ).

Introducing the expenditure strategy, Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin even remarked that Samuel Pepys once ran the navy almost single-handed.

O Waly, Waly Oliver Cromwell Born in Bombay, Patricia Rozario is the foremost internationally acclaimed Indian soprano.

Oliver advises on a broad spectrum of company law matters.

When it came to turning the squiggles into sound, Oliver turned to his trusted friend, Vernon Elliot.

Tony Oliver was the rather stodgy solicitor Gerald, and Keith Graham was suitably nasty as the successful businessman Beevers.

Attendance at a lecture on Hertzian waves given by Sir Oliver Lodge at the Royal Institution in 1894 resulted in the Lodge-Muirhead syntonic system (see 26.538), which anticipated Marconi.

Oliver was born on the 25th of April 1599, was educated under Dr Thomas Beard, a fervent puritan, at the free school at Huntingdon, and on the 23rd of April 1616 matriculated as a fellow-commoner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, then a hotbed of puritanism, subsequently studying law in London.

Firth, Cromwell, p. 324.2 John Morley, Oliver Cromwell, p. 393.

Meanwhile the West Indian expedition had been defeated 1 John Morley, Oliver Cromwell, p. 483.

Sir Oliver Lodge in 1898 theoretically examined the inductive system of space telegraphy.

In England, in addition to the Marconi Company, the Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate was formed to operate the inventions of Sir Oliver Lodge and Dr Muirhead.

Oliver Heaviside showed mathematically that uniformly-distributed inductance in a telephone line would diminish both attenuation and distortion, and that if the inductance were great enough and the insulation resistance not too high the circuit would be distortionless, while currents of all frequencies would be equally attenuated.