"Precis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [Footnote 208: Dumas' "Precis des Evenements Militaires," vol. xi., p. 189. The version of these instructions presented by Thiers, book xvi., ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... tale in plain words, as a special correspondent who knows how to make a verbal precis should tell it. The men listened ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... constantly for fresh economies that would enable her, she said, to sustain an additional private secretary. Secretaries were the Baileys' one extravagance, they loved to think of searches going on in the British Museum, and letters being cleared up and precis made overhead, while they sat in the little study and worked together, Bailey with a clockwork industry, and Altiora in splendid flashes between intervals of cigarettes and meditation. "All efficient public careers," said Altiora, "consist in the ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
... with the Bidhata-Purusha, a "deity that predestines all the events of the life of man or woman, and writes on the forehead of the child, on the sixth day of its birth, a brief precis of them" (426. 9). India is par excellence the land of caste, but other lands know the system that makes the man follow in his father's footsteps, and often ignores the woman altogether, not even counting her in the census of the people, as was formerly the case ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... Singh that there had been some truth after all in the babu's tale. The verbal precis of the only witness, given from memory, about a man who galloped away on horseback, threw no light at all on the case; so, because he could think of nothing better to do at the moment, the risaldar-major sent for a tikka- ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... based upon the German edition of Payen's "Precis de Chimie Industrielle," edited by ...
— How to Form a Library, 2nd ed • H. B. Wheatley
... there is always more profit in saying ill than good, attributed to me several works on Bonaparte; among others, 'Les Memoires secrets d'un Homnae qui ne l'a pas quitte', par M. B———-, and 'Memoires secrets sur Napoleon Bonaparte, par M. de B———, and 'Le Precis Historique sur Napoleon'. The initial of my name has served to propagate this error. The incredible ignorance which runs through those memoirs, the absurdities and inconceivable silliness with which they abound, ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne |
