"Luz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de mindanao ques el principal de la ysla de donde tomo nombre la ysla de mindanao se a ydo dos Veces a descubrir y ase traydo poca luz del anse Visto seys o siete Pueblos. El vno y principal a donde auita el Reyecillo y otro qe se llaman tanpacan y boayen y Valet y otros qe se aura Visto como poblacon de tres mill hombres poco mas aunqe se tiene noticia de ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume V., 1582-1583 • Various
... been a brave romantic spot for you and me to spend the night. We might have thought of great things there with the stars over us and nothing else between us and God's heaven. But it's a draughty place, lad." The laughter came into his eyes as he spoke. "A draughty place and a stony, like Luz, where Jacob lay, and maybe the angels wouldn't come near the likes of us. The place I have in my mind ...
— The Northern Iron - 1907 • George A. Birmingham
... Elvan, who for his health's sake spent the winter in the south-west of France, fell so ill early in the year that Rosamund was summoned from Egypt. With all speed she travelled to St. Jean de Luz. When she arrived, her father was no longer in danger; but there seemed no hope of his being able to return to England for some months, so Rosamund remained with him and her sister, and was soon writing to her friend at Walham Green in a strain of revived enthusiasm ...
— Will Warburton • George Gissing
... la sala de clase por la puerta. La puerta es grande y ancha. Nuestra sala de clase tiene dos puertas y tres ventanas. Las ventanas son de vidrio y por ellas entran en la sala de clase la luz y el aire. En la sala de clase hay muchos bancos para los discipulos. Hay tambien una mesa para el maestro. La mesa del maestro esta delante de la clase y en ella hay muchos libros, ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... to supply the necessary funds, though in 1604 the investment was greater than on any previous occasion, and a {25} larger number were admitted to the benefits of the monopoly. Not only did St Malo and Rouen secure recognition, but La Rochelle and St Jean de Luz were given a chance to participate. De Monts' company had a capital of 90,000 livres, divided in shares—of which two-fifths were allotted to St Malo, two-fifths to La Rochelle and St Jean de Luz conjointly, and the remainder ...
— The Founder of New France - A Chronicle of Champlain • Charles W. Colby
... to Marseilles; but costuming himself as a courier, he proceeded instead toward Los Pasajos, where his ship and friends were awaiting him. The masquerade was successful until he reached St. Jean de Luz where a hairbreadth escape was in store for him. Here certain officers were watching for Lafayette. The clever daughter of an innkeeper recognized him as the young nobleman who had passed some days before on the way to Bordeaux. A sign from Lafayette was enough to keep her from making known her discovery, ...
— Lafayette • Martha Foote Crow
... II, Cardinal de Bourbon. M. de la Riviere. Duc de Verneuil. Duc de Vendome. M. de Berthault. Prince de Joinville. Mademoiselle de Sourdis. Caterina Selvaggio. Duc de la Tremouille. Duc d'Epernon. Conde de Fuentes. Baron de Luz. M. de la Fin. M. Descures. M. Jeannin. Comte de Soissons (Charles de Bourbon-Conti). Marquis de Vitry. Marquis de Praslin. Marechal de Montigny. M. de Montbarot. Baron de Fontenelles. Duc de Mayenne. Duc de Guise (Charles de Lorraine). Madame Elisabeth de France. Mademoiselle ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... these are the Tower, the church, and the Cloister, at Belem. These display a riotous profusion of minute carved ornament, with a free commingling of late Gothic details, wearisome in the end in spite of the beauty of its execution (1500-40?). The church of Santa Cruz at Coimbra, and that of Luz, near Lisbon, are among the most noted of the religious monuments of the Renaissance, while in secular architecture the royal palace at Mafra is worthy ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin
... mirar a la pastora mia Quien quisiere contar de gente en gente Que vio otro sol, que daba luz al dia Mas claro, que el ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... to see him, before he left this world, Israel, saith the Word, 'strengthened himself and sat upon his bed'; and the first word that dropt out of this good man's mouth, O how full of glory was it! 'God Almighty appeared unto me,' saith he, 'at Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,' &c. (Gen 48:1-3). O blessed discourse for a sick bed, when those can talk thus that lie thereon, from as true a ground as Jacob; but thus will God make the bed of those who walk close ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan |
