Nevertheless, it is documented that the selection process was often abused : parliamentary debates from 1866 refer to people " who were not even born during the Revolution, or stableboys and cooks " as having gained admittance to the corps.
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The latter production, which ran in New York until February 2009, required the stableboy to appear naked; its star, Daniel Radcliffe, was still associated with the Harry Potter films intended for general audiences, and this led to mild controversy.
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A French diplomat in Edinburgh, Camille de Preau, sieur de Courcelles, heard that Angus claimed she had flirted with a stableboy, which was thought unlikely, and the Earl of Bothwell had joked he would divorce his wife for the same.
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There's no corner of this business he hasn't sampled, beginning with the scary day he ran away from home to become a $ 9-a-month stableboy and peaking with the glorious afternoon 50 years ago when he saddled up alongside Eddie Arcaro and Bill Shoemaker to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
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The trainee, Theodrin Dabei, who could only channel in the presence of men she felt strongly about, for instance, was broken of her block when Charel, the handsome young stableboy who had been attending her training sessions, revealed that " he " was actually the handsome young stableboy's twin sister Marel.
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The trainee, Theodrin Dabei, who could only channel in the presence of men she felt strongly about, for instance, was broken of her block when Charel, the handsome young stableboy who had been attending her training sessions, revealed that " he " was actually the handsome young stableboy's twin sister Marel.
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Now excited over the romantic encounter, Emperor Wu immediately conferred a thousand piece of gold to his sister as reward, who in turn offered the new girl to him as a gift . Emperor Wu then took Wei Zifu back to Chang'an, bringing along her younger half-brother Wei Qing as well to serve as a palace stableboy.
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The Spellkey series is high fantasy, taking place wholly in an invented world and chronicling a good-versus-evil story of two foundlings, a stableboy and an ostracized seer . " Hatching Magic " and its sequel, " The Dragon of Never-Was ", are contemporary fantasies with elements of Earthsea books and the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander in shaping her outlook and prose style.
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That means she doesn't skimp on the scary parts-- a fire, a washed-away bridge, near-fatal neglect, etc . But she wisely bookends the main story, showing Beauty in safe and happy retirement, thanks to a former stableboy . ( You may want to remind the littler ones that it all turns out OK for Beauty when they see one of his best friends carted off to the knackers .)
