Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses; to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St.
Ten minutes afterwards the baron entered his apartment, and Peppino stationed himself on the bench outside the door of the hotel, after having whispered something in the ear of one of the descendants of Marius and the Gracchi whom we noticed at the beginning of the chapter, who immediately ran down the road leading to the Capitol at his fullest speed.
All these preparations had collected a number of idlers round the door of Signor Pastrini's; the descendants of Marius and the Gracchi were also not wanting.
Don't you remember the chapter in
Marius where Pater talks of the gentle exercise of walking as the best incentive to conversation?"
In plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of Cetacean History as
Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
He was the master of a delicately-finished, somewhat over-fastidious, style, which he employed in essays on the Renaissance and other historical and artistic topics and in a spiritual romance, '
Marius the Epicurean' (1885).
Curran was 17 when he stabbed Pawel Kalite, 28, and
Marius Szwaijkos, 27, in their heads with a screwdriver outside their home on Benbulben Road, Drimnagh, Dublin, on February 23, 2008.
Chickens come home to roost for resourceful trickster
Marius Josipovic (Giovanni ribisi) in the crime drama.
The Mr Selfridge actress, 35, and chiropractor fiance
Marius Jensen took their newborn - whose name is yet to be revealed - out for a stroll in London's Hyde Park.
The company was founded by entrepreneurs Antonio Maldonado of The Advantaged Yacht Charters & Sales, the oldest yacht charter company in Miami &
Marius Koller, Miami's top Luxury Lifestyle Living Realtor as featured on TV for MK Miami Real Estate.