"Seigneur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the demesne on the outskirts of Blois, in exchange for the body of Armand de Canaples, dead or alive, and a proof of treason sufficient to warrant his arrest and the confiscation of his estates. Next, seeing in what regard the Seigneur is held by the people of Blois, and fearing that his arrest might be opposed by many of his adherents, the Marquis has demanded a troop of twenty men. This Mazarin has also granted him, entrusting the command of the troop to me, ...
— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini
... n'ecessitaient une somme immense pour subvenir aux exigences de la disette, et les pauvres allaient ou expirer dans les angoisses de la faim, ou, reniant les saintes maximes de l'Evangile, vendre 'a vil prix leur 'ame, le plus beau pr'esent de la munificence du Seigneur toutpuissant. ...
— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats
... hard blow in wanton play; I growl with new-born ecstasy; Then speaks she in a sweet vain jest, I wot "Allons lout doux! eh! la menotte! Et faites serviteur Comme un joli seigneur." Thus she proceeds with sport ...
— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe
... achieve by patronizing so obscure an adventurer. It turns out, indeed, that "M. Thiers was, in the eyes of M. Talleyrand, nothing more than a young writer, full of vigor and talent, whom the old seigneur loved to protect, and to initiate into the manners and customs of good society, without a knowledge of which (he would often say) there can be no good taste in literature. But he was the last person in the world who, at that time, would have looked upon ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various
... longtemps que celle avec qui j'ai dormi, O Seigneur! a quitte ma couche pour la votre; Et nous sommes encor tout meles l'un a l'autre, Elle a demi vivante et ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
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