Sentence examples for to rollo from inspiring English sources

"I may have to carry him away," said John Blondel, nodding to Rollo, a spry-looking white Labrador who was 10 and a half years old.

Finally the French king Charles III the Simple ceded the territory around Rouen and the mouth of the Seine River to Rollo, the chief of the largest band of Vikings, in the Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte (911).

William, duke of Normandy and a distant successor to Rollo, mounted an invasion of England in 1066, becoming William I of England (William the Conqueror) and thus uniting the rule of England and Normandy in himself.

Instead, they read a lot - Dido recalls ploughing through War and Peace at the age of nine (more, she admits, to prove a point to Rollo and her dad, who insisted she wouldn't finish it, than out of any real enjoyment).

Thus, for the first time since it had been given as a duchy to Rollo in 911, Normandy was directly ruled by the French king.

Permanent Scandinavian settlement occurred before 911, when Rollo, one of the Viking leaders, and King Charles the Simple of France reached an agreement surrendering the county of Rouen to Rollo.

"We thought that opening up to more students, we wouldn't have students who'd say, 'Uh, I'm not going to even consider that, because I want a coed experience".' Over the past 20 years, according to Ms. Rollo, applications to Wells have been flat --around 400 a year, of which around 100 students enrolled.

Mr. Blondel, 56, who is in the investment management division for Goldman Sachs, had driven from his apartment in the West Village to give Rollo his daily constitution.

In "The Courage to Create," Rollo May writes that Kierkegard, Nietzsche, Camus and Sartre all defined courage not as the absence of despair but as the ability to act in spite of it.

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'I'd only got to the pub by 10.' Angry at her lack of self-discipline, her parents refused to pay for her to go to university as Rollo had.