D.W.] (the same who so long governed our Guienne, a personage whose condition and fortune have in them a great deal of the most notable and most considerable parts of grandeur), having been highly incensed by the Limousins, and taking their city by assault, was not, either by the cries of the people, or the prayers and tears of the women and children, abandoned to slaughter and prostrate at his feet for mercy, to be stayed from prosecuting his revenge; till, penetrating further into the town, he at last took notice of three French gentlemen,—[These were Jean de Villemure, Hugh de la Roche, and Roger de Beaufort.—Froissart, i. c. 289.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
faubourg , m. , partie d'une ville; hors de l'enceinte; quartier.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
The Sarazin was stout, and wondrous strong, And heaped blowes like yron hammers great; For after bloud and vengeance he did long.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Il est vrai que les avenues par lesquelles on y accédait avaient conservé leur aspect seigneurial, avec leurs quadruples rangées de vieux hêtres dont les vastes frondaisons se miraient dans de magnifiques étangs.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
Le contrat d'édition proposé est conforme aux usages de la profession, avec des droits d'auteurs de 10% du prix de vente HT de l'ouvrage.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Vosotros, hijos de la Revolución, venís a sacar a España [35-11] de su tradicional abatimiento, a despreocuparla, a disipar las tinieblas religiosas, 30 a mejorar sus anticuadas costumbres, a enseñarnos esas utilísimas e inconcusas «verdades de que
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Jegotski and Kulesha are active in Great Poland; Varshytski has driven Lindorm from the castle of Pilets; Dankoff is defending itself; Lantskoron is in our hands; and in Podlyasye, Sapyeha is gaining every day at Tykotsin.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Diaz del Castillo (Bernal), ‘Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva-España’; in Biblioteca de autores españoles , vol.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
We have had some very heavy dragging lately [up] the sharp rises we found on the outward journey.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
[Footnote 253: Villemain, Histoire de la Littérature da Moyen Age , lesson xviii.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various
I used to sit in there on the very hot days, looking out across the stream upon the one road that led from the outer world into Glencar.
— from Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie by Butler, William Francis, Sir
Jaua magiore meza legha Ancho ne diſſero Quando vno homo de li principali de Jaua magiore more Se bruſa
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
VISCONTI has doubtless left a splendid name behind him here; but Visconti was an Italian.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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