The lad of ten helped his father in clearing and cultivating his land, grew "quite proficient with his rifle" in the uncleared forests around his hut, read diligently, and became "the subject of remark among the neighbouring settlers for his thoughtful ways and mental industry".
Although she never mentioned Mr. Giuliani's name, the mayor was the obvious subject of her remarks.
There was little question that Mr. Romney was the subject of his remarks.
The institution the subject of my remarks, has not been without cause the theme of the ephemeral columns of quotidian journalism, and enthusiastic encomiations in conversational intercourse.
Her second top-flight appearance saw her become the subject of sexist remarks made by Sky's Richard Keys and Andy Gray in 2011 which led to both men leaving the station.
When the Knicks were struggling and he was missing, he became the subject of derisive remarks and innumerable groans from the rafters.
The subject of his remarks, which the former political-science professor delivers seminar style to the majors and more formally to the generals, is his recent visit to Afghanistan.
That apparent dearth of literature in translation in the United States was the subject of controversial remarks by Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the organization that awards the Nobel Prize, a week before the prize did not go to an American.
The subject of his remarks, Maulana Fazlullah, is a hard-line Muslim cleric who heads a well-armed group of Pakistani Taliban that reigns over larges swaths of the northern Pakistan region, Swat.
(While bosses know who sends the comments, their identities are not typically shared with the subjects of the remarks).
