"Fers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... un peuple opprime, heroique, que brise ses fers, et n'est qu'un domestique capricieux qui aime a changer ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin
... Chesse with me she gan to play, With her false draughts full divers Sho stale on me, and toke my fers:[1] And when I sawe my fers away, Alas! I couth ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... pas un moineau, Garde dans cette cage, C'est un de ces oiseaux, Qui chantent dans L'orage. Ouvrez, amis des sages, Brisez fers et verroux; Les chants dans vos ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... is enjoined upon the true-believer by the Institutes of the Prophet (Sunneh) and the Canons (Fers) of the Divine Law, ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... Les fers sont legers, tres-minces, allonges sur les talons, et plus amincis encore la que vers la pince. Ils n'ont point de retour [Footnote: Je crois que par retour la Brocquiere a entendu ce crochet nomme crampon qui est aux notres, et qu'il a voulu dire que ceux de Damas etoient plats.] ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... deeper and more philosophical thoughts than the singular mode of treating so solemn a theme. He has introduced many scenes of human life which still interest, and he addresses the "teste a triple couronne," as well as the "forcat de galere," who exclaims, "Laissez-moi vivre dans mes fers," "le gueux," the "bourgeois," the "chanoine," the "pauvre soldat," the "medecin;" in a word, all ranks in life are exhibited, as in all the "Dances of Death." But our object in noticing these burlesque paintings and poems is to show that after the monkish Goths had opened one ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... their kind, and have as yet no counterpart in English literature. They are respectively entitled 'Memoire sur la Fabrication de l'Acier en Yorkshire,' and 'Memoire sur le Fabrication et le Commerce des Fers a Acier ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles |
