"Marcher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dus donc, et cette obligation me prit un temps considerable, je dus faire marcher de front l'anatomie et la zoologie, les dissections et le classement; chercher dans mes premieres remarques sur l'organisation des distributions meilleures; m'en servir pour arriver a des remarques nouvelles; employer encore ces remarques a perfectionner les distributions; ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... remark afterwards to Bertie van Tahn," continued Tobermory, "and said, 'That woman is a regular Hunger Marcher; she'd go anywhere for four square meals a day,' and ...
— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki
... enseignait nullement la liberte. Le jour ou la France voulut etre libre, elle eut tout a creer, tout a inventer dans cet ordre de faits.—Cependant il faut marcher, l'avenir appelle les peuples. Quand on n'a point pour cela l'impulsion du passe, il faut bien se confier a la raison.—DUPONT WHITE, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1861, vi. 191. Le peuple francais a peu de gout pour le developpement graduel des institutions. Il ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton
... inspecting officer, Milton Cogswell,—bless his memory!—I contrived to get off with 196 demerits in a possible 200 that last year. In a mild way, McPherson was also a little under a cloud at that time. He had been first captain of the battalion and squad marcher of the class at engineering drill. In this latter capacity he also had committed the offense of not reporting some of the class for indulging in unauthorized sport. The offense was not so grave as mine, and, besides, his military ...
— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield
... all day, and, when they reached a spring, each of them came to drink at it in turn as soon as each solitary marcher had moved forward the number of yards arranged upon. And thus they continued marching the whole day, raising, everywhere they passed, in that level burnt-up expanse, those little columns of dust which, at a distance, indicate those who ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant
... great (gods), determining destinies, making great my kingdom. 15 (I am) Shalmaneser, King of multitudes of men, prince (and) hero of Assur, the strong King, 16 King of all the four zones of the Sun (and) of multitudes of men, the marcher over 17 the whole world; Son of Assur-natsir-pal, the supreme hero, who his heroism over the gods 18 has made good and has caused all the world[2] to kiss ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous
... soins du Monarque fut d'y faire passer (au Canada), a ses frais, des chevaux, tant pour faciliter aux colons les travaux de l'agriculture, que pour leur procurer leur commodite particuliere, attendu que jusque-la ils n'avaient pu marcher qu'a l'aide de raquettes pendant l'hiver. Le 16 juillet 1665 on debarqua a Quebec douze chevaux, les premiers envoyes de France par le Roi. Il etait naturel que les sauvages, a qui ces animaux etaient entierement inconnus, temoignassent ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... himself who discovered my brother, and predicted his brilliant career. Here"—she had been glancing over the artist's shoulder—"will you let me make a sketch for you—just for the fun of the thing? I do that kind of thing rather decently. Did you see my picture called 'The Marcher,' in the Star, at the time of the suffrage parade in May? Yes, that was mine. Just because he has what we call a butcher haircut, don't think he's German, because he isn't. You wouldn't call Winnebago, Wisconsin, Germany, ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... beginning of the 9th century, and later a cantrev, corresponding to the modern hundred of Builth. Towards the end of the 11th century, when the tide of Norman invasion swept upwards along the Wye valley, the district became a lordship marcher annexed to that of Brecknock, but was again severed from it on the death of William de Breos, when his daughter Matilda brought it to her husband, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore. Its castle, built probably ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various |
