"Perhaps in death, you will be able to serve the creatures you have so defiled on this earth during your regrettably brief life," Cecile chanted.

In this cloistered world, men come and go as do history and warplanes, amid spectacularly unfortunate metaphors about male eels and female caves and one regrettably brief catfight in a kimono.

The engraving on the left is taken from the Sarov Patericon which, although regrettably brief, nevertheless shows clearly that the Paisian influence upon Russia did not fall on barren ground.

S H Crowther, in An Orchestral Centenary, his regrettably brief sketch of the orchestra's history claimed 1871 as the date and the orchestra duly celebrated its centenary in 1971.

The Danish-born Peter Sekaer (1901-1950) worked closely with Walker Evans near the beginning of his little-known, regrettably brief photography career.

Mr. Lehrer ended his regrettably brief performing career when the political climate of the day - urban riots, the Vietnam War, Watergate - became so unfunny.

The book has more than a little relevance to New Yorkers, too, in its regrettably brief passages about the rebuilding of London.

Several years ago, three of his funniest were grouped under the title "Laughing Stock," which had a regrettably brief run Off Broadway.

This extensive exhibition mostly of works on paper gives an informative account of the regrettably brief career of one of the 20th century's great draftsmen and romantic rebels.

The most evocatively named monster, Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, makes a regrettably brief appearance.