"Baum" Quotes from Famous Books
... Jourdan, of Avignon, surnamed Coupe-tete G R Grouvelle, agent for Denmark, and registrar of the convention at the time of the King's death P R Le Flotte, minister of the republic I R Du Fourney, a furious jacobin P L Marquis de Choiseul la Baum, and his steward G L De Willerval, knight of St. Louis G D Count de Levis, colonel, ex-constituent G R Picquet, aide-de-camp to General La Fayette G D The two Tassins, famous bankers in Paris G L Count de Sombreuil, governor of the invalids, and his son G L The Prince de Rohan Rochefort ... — Historical Epochs of the French Revolution • H. Goudemetz
... Sunday (the 4th Sunday in Lent), women with mourning veils carry a straw figure, dressed in a man's shirt, to the bounds of the next village, where they tear the effigy to pieces, hang the shirt on a young and flourishing tree, "schone Wald-Baum," which they proceed to cut down, and carry home with every sign of rejoicing. Here evidently the young tree is regarded as a rejuvenation of the person represented in the first instance ... — From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston
... Oakland doesn't have him, then he's on this side of Aiken Avenue." The controller had caught King's fever; the "it" had become a "him". "And if Bloomfield doesn't have him, then he's on the other side of Baum Boulevard." ... — The Circuit Riders • R. C. FitzPatrick
... that the holy man of God? A worthy priest! The terrors of the night, And the way's pains and perils scare not him, A faithful shepherd caring for his flock. BAUM. The Sacrist follows him, and Walter Fuerst. But where is Tell? I ... — The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
... Wir happiness time wir have der Christtag. Wir 'ave der Baum so high," holding up a plump little hand as high as she could reach. "Twenty, thirty das Licht! Christtag presented buful! You 'ave one, sieben, zwoelf, four! You come happiness; nicht cry, nicht! nicht! Lachen! so!" and a merry peal of laughter ... — Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins |