"Foule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pas a me l'obscurcir. On a beau y multiplier les ronces et les pierres, apres lesquelles je laisse de ma chair et de mon sang, on n'arrivera pas a m'y arreter. Je sais que j'irai jusqu'au bout. Je vois devant moi la victoire.... Mais, la-bas, derriere moi, il y a une foule qui parfois s'inquiete dans les tenebres. Au moment ou la vieille anne va tourner sur ses gonds vermoulus, elle repasse en son esprit agite les evenements qui la marquerent. Elle songe aux peuplades ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy
... quand on sut qu'il existait deux opulents 'etrangers pr'ets 'a prodiguer l'or, la foule assi'egea leur logis; mais les figures des gens qui en sortaient 'etaient bien diverses. Les uns avaient la fiert'e dans le regard, les autres portaient la honte au front. Les deux trafiquants achetaient des 'ames pour le d'emon. L''ame d'un vieillard valait vingt ...
— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats
... our life, whereof he had before discoursed with his familiar friends. He therefore caused this sleeper to be taken up, and carried into his palace; he commands him to be layed in one of the richest beds; a riche night cap to be given him; his foule shirt to be taken off, and to have another put on him of fine holland. When as this dronkard had digested his wine, and began to awake, behold there comes about his bed Pages and Groomes of the Duke's Chamber, who drawe the curteines, make many courtesies, and being bare-headed, aske him if it ...
— Life Is A Dream • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... "Ceux qui pieusement sont morts pour la patrie Ont droit qu'a leur cerceuil la foule vienne et prie: Entre le plus beaux noms, leur nom est le plus beau. Toute gloire, pres d'eux, passe et tombe ephemere Et, comme ferait une mere, La voix d'un peuple entier les berce ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... yeux sur une carte pour reconnaitre l'exactitude topographique de cette derniere expression. En effet, dans toute la partie superieure de son cours, le Po recoit une foule d'affluents qui convergent vers son lit; ce sont le Tesin, l'Adda, l'Olio, le Mincio, la Trebbia, la Bormida, le Taro...."—La Grece, Rome, et Dante ("Voyage Dantesque"), par M. J. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... right thus, with careful sighes cold. 'Eterne God, that thurgh thy purveance Ledest this world by certain governance, In idel, as men sain, ye nothing make. But, lord, thise grisly fendly rockes blake, That semen rather a foule confusion Of werk, than any faire creation Of swiche a parfit wise God and stable, Why han ye wrought ...
— The Harbours of England • John Ruskin
... men in the moone, and catch the moon shine in the water. Some putting on pyed coates lyke calendars, and hammering upon dialls, taking the elevation of Pancridge Church (their quotidian walkes) pronosticate of faire, of foule, and of smelling weather; men weatherwise, that wil by aches foretell of change and alteration of wether. Some more active gallants made of a finer molde, by devising how to win their Mistrises favours, and how to blaze and blanche their passions, with aeglogues, songs, and sonnets, in ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... foure ladyes in vertue excellent Of whiche the eldest is dame nature That dayly fourmeth after her entent Euery beest and lyuynge creature Both foule and fayre and also pure All that dependynge in her ordynaunce Where that she fauoureth there ...
— The Example of Vertu - The Example of Virtue • Stephen Hawes |
