"Laos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a fancied connection between LAAS ('stone') and LAOS ('people'). The reference is to the stones which Deucalion and Pyrrha transformed into men and ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... who had asked him to defend him from the king of Sian, who had threatened him; and the former offered to introduce Christianity into his kingdom and make friends with the Spaniards. When aid arrived at Canboxa, it appeared that the king had retired with his children to the kingdom of Laos, for fear of the king of Sian, who had occupied his kingdom; and that Anacaparan, military commander of Camboxa, had assembled the greater part of the people of Camboxa, who had remained. Having met the Sianese and recovered the kingdom, he was powerful ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume X, 1597-1599 • E. H. Blair
... than that of rye and barley which so many people eat, and which is much better than the ration bread which is given to the soldier. The whole of southern Africa does not know of bread. The immense archipelago of the Indies, Siam, Laos, Pegu, Cochin China, Tonkin, a part of China, Japan, the coast of Malabar and Coromandel, the banks of the Ganges furnish a rice, the cultivation of which is much easier than that of wheat, and which causes it to be neglected. ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire |
