"Penible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... penible Voyage fait autour de l'Univers. Par O. du Nord. Amsterdam, 1602, in folio.—This is translated from the Dutch. An English translation ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson
... plein de connoissance et d'esprit! Ah! ha! you know de Cid! le grand homme! l'homme de genie! If you read, Monsieur Marin, you shall see la vraie poesie! Not de big book and no single rhyme—Sair, I do not vish to say vat is penible, mais it is not one book widout rhyme; it was not ecrit on de sea. Le diable! que le vrai genie, et les nobles sentiments, se trouvent dans ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper |
