"Difficile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great force in M. Sismondi's observation (Hist. des Francais, xviii. 264): "Malgre leur assertion, il est difficile de ne pas croire qu'au moment ou ils se reunissoient en armes pour disputer aux protestans l'exercise public de leur culte que leur accordoit l'edit de janvier, c'etoit un coup premedite que l'attaque du duc de Guise contre une congregation de huguenots, ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... flexit alumnus, Si vacat ac placidi rationem admittitis, edam. 21 Cum pars Niliacae plebis, cum verna Canopi 26 Crispinus Tyrias umero revocante lacernas Ventilet aestivum digitis sudantibus aurum Nec sufferre queat maioris pondera gemmae, Difficile est ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... his love for me. 'Pater est, Pamphile;—difficile est.' How was this vast conceit of a not unreal paternal love to be encountered? The sense of honour and of decency might appeal to him personally; would either of them get a hearing if he fancied them to be standing in opposition to my dearest interests? I, unhappily, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... former appeared to my dull eye to offer no salient novelty; he was tall, broad, handsome, and he possessed a manner of enviable placidity. Pamela, I allowed, was exactly the heroine Miss Liston loved—haughty, capricious, difficile, but sound and true at heart (I was mentally skimming Volume I). Miss Liston agreed with me in my conception of Pamela, but declared that I did not do justice to the artistic possibilities latent in Chillington; ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... they are vair' difficile. They are not like Englis' beauties, there is the father and the mother, and—the convent." And Xavier, who had a wen under his eye, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill |
