"I'd been a rope walker for 12 years and it was something I'd always dreamt about, but I never thought I'd find a wife to agree!" Bull's fiancée Phoebe Baker began practising on a low wire four years ago when the couple met, and has had lessons ever since in preparation for the event.
Whether Rilke ever saw the painting Preparation for the Funeral I do not know, but in one of his letters to Clara he reminds her of something he wrote earlier about Baudelaire's poem "A Carcass" ("Une Charogne").
Since I first began writing, in a way, everything I've ever written has been preparation for this.
Since then, his preparation for Everest has come with compromises.
This is poor preparation for the ever-expanding range of choices that life will throw at them, and the tone set in Westminster encourages school leaders, concerned about exam statistics and wanting to avoid the perception that schools are not doing enough, to value the headlines over the development of human beings.
Braintree, in preparation for their first ever season in the Blue Square Bet Premier, have taken on five Football League clubs in the past month, including Colchester United, Leyton Orient and Wycombe Wanderers.
Our reactions, however, may have moved from shock to the more mechanical preparation for blame, the ever present dynamic of the American horizon.
The present phase I trial is the first HPV vaccine clinical trial ever conducted in mainland China in preparation for larger safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy studies, in line with local criteria for vaccine licensure by the State Food and Drug Administration.
It is inevitable that as part of the preparation for my first-ever Glastonbury I should turn to such wise and experienced participants with such an understanding of how the stars, planets and trees align.
In preparation for the first-ever National Honey Bee Awareness Day that took place on Aug. 22, big bee backer Häagen-Dazs used the creative efforts of five brothers from Los Altos, Calif .to make a short video raising awareness.
Space Shuttle Discovery is in the closing stages of preparation for its final flight ever.
