"Prie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him the small fort of Prie, which could at first have made no manner of resistance: though resolved to starve St. Martin, he guarded the sea negligently, and allowed provisions and ammunition to be thrown into it: despairing to reduce it by famine, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. - From Charles I. to Cromwell • David Hume
... mother's guilty shame, With Jove's disdain at such a rival's feed: The wretch compel'd, a runegate became, And learn'd what ill, a miser-state did breed, To lye, to steal, to prie, and to accuse, Nought in ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber
... husband, when he saw Bertha without her waistband—she could not wear it, so much had she increased in size—commenced the martyrdom of this poor woman, who did not know how to deceive, and who, at each false word, went to her Prie-Dieu, wept her blood away from her eyes in tears, burst into prayers, and recommended herself to the graces of Messieurs the Saints in paradise. It happened that she cried so loudly to God that He heard her, because ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... a termination of the adventure which, much as it distressed the writer of Alfieri's autobiography, is extremely satisfactory to the reader. A few years later, after a variety of minor love affairs, he became entangled at Turin in the nets of a Marchesa di Prie, a rather faded Armida of very tarnished reputation, and whom he thoroughly despised and even disliked at the very height of his attachment. The struggles between his sense of weariness and degradation and his unworthy ...
— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
... looking serious and solemn. He crosses to one of the prie-dieus and kneels on it. The Sexton comes down from the pulpit and takes from the wall a surplice which he holds out ...
— Master Olof - A Drama in Five Acts • August Strindberg
... in her min', [mind] She pits hersel an' Rob in; In loving bleeze they sweetly join, Till white in ase they're sobbin: [ashes] Nell's heart was dancin' at the view: She whisper'd Rob to leuk for't: Rob, stownlins, prie'd her bonnie mou', [by stealth, tasted, mouth] Fu' cozie in the neuk for't, [corner] ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... comment des campagnards, et surtout des solitaires, peuvent n'en point avoir. Comment leur ame ne s'eleve-t-elle pas cent fois le jour avec extase a l'Auteur des merveilles qui les frappent? ... Dans ma chambre je prie plus rarement et plus sechement; mais a l'aspect d'un beau paysage je me sens emu ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... douce nature Qui souriait sur nous, la prire pure Qu'elle allait, le coeur plein de joie et non de pleurs, A l'autel qu'elle aimait rpandre avec ses fleurs; Et sa main m'entranait aux marches de son temple, Et, comme un humble enfant, je suivais son exemple, Et sa voix me disait tout bas: "Prie avec moi; Car je ne comprends pas le ciel mme ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... the Abbe, "retournez, je vous prie. We are, I must say, chez nous. Ces braves gens, les North Cork ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever
... du 11/24 Juillet. Ai communique son contenu an Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres. Il me dit que le Gouvernement Anglais l'a egalement prie de conseiller a Vienne la prolongation du delai de l'ultimatum; il a communique cette demarche telegraphiquement a Vienne, il va en faire autant pour notre demarche, mais il craint qu'a la suite ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... fearefull Faction, And breede a kinde of question in our cause: For well you know, wee of the offring side, Must keepe aloofe from strict arbitrement, And stop all sight-holes, euery loope, from whence The eye of reason may prie in vpon vs: This absence of your Father drawes a Curtaine, That shewes the ignorant a kinde of ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... Je prie votre Majeste de recevoir l'expression de mes sentiments respectueux et de me croire, de votre Majeste, le ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria
... "Pardon, monsieur, je vous prie. We must proceed in order, and first allow me to assure you that justice is always done in France. No one need claim it in ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... carry all along with us. Heyday, here are tripes fit for our sport, and, in earnest, excellent godebillios of the dun ox (you know) with the black streak. O, for God's sake, let us lash them soundly, yet thriftily. Drink, or I will,—No, no, drink, I beseech you (Ou je vous, je vous prie.). Sparrows will not eat unless you bob them on the tail, nor can I drink if I be not fairly spoke to. The concavities of my body are like another Hell for their capacity. Lagonaedatera (lagon lateris cavitas: aides orcus: and eteros alter.). ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new Worlds; whereof so rife 650 There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven: Thither, if but to prie, shall be perhaps Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this Infernal Pit shall never hold Caelestial Spirits in Bondage, nor th' Abysse Long under darkness cover. But these thoughts Full Counsel must mature: Peace is despaird, 660 For who can think Submission? ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... which you will reconnoitre for Florentine; one would think he had seen no more of the world than his brother.(82) He was visiting Lady Yarmouth with Mirepoix: he drew a person into a window, and whispered him; Dites moi un peu en ami, je vous en prie; qu'est ce que c'est que Miledi Yarmouth."—"Eh! bien, vous ne savez pas?"—"Non, ma foi: nous savons ce que ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... answer, removing all doubt that, astounded, he asked the cure where he had studied his theology? With a motion of the hand, which conveyed an advice rather than an answer, Father Vianney pointed silently to his prie-dieu. ...
— The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Cur of Ars • Anonymous
... prie-dieu chair I am working for Mrs. Sheldon. Of course I am bound to do something ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... his suite ascended the altar steps, and knelt at a prie-Dieu, then they took off his tippet, and vested him in a silk chasuble with a white cross embroidered in silver, and the mass began. Shortly before the communion, the black veil was gently withdrawn; behind the high ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... may have meant that they only looked to themselves for what they wanted, Je vous en prie Bellamy!" said Tom gallantly. "All right; I think that I shall start to-morrow or next day. If you have no special ...
— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett
... they carried Maurice, and laid him on the white bed. Thus would she have it. No young man had ever before entered that sacred chapel of her maiden dreams. Beside the bed was a small prie-dieu; and she knelt upon the cushion and rested her brow against the crucifix. The archbishop covered his eyes, and the state physician bent his head. Chastity and innocence at the feet of God; yet, not even these can hold back the fleeting breath of life. She asked God to forgive ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... (whence French, fauteuil) is said by Martene to be adopted into Latin; and by Brachet is traced to a German origin, Falt-stuol. The idea of these derivations is, that the Prie-dieu, or kneeling-desk, was able to fold up and be made, perhaps, a chair. But the connection with Rogations suggests (A.S.) Feald-stol, or Feld-stol (German Feld-stuhl), i.e. ...
— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson
... l'oeil de sa Majeste, et dans le cas heureux ou vous seriez d'avis que ma compatriote, Mlle. Mitchell, puisse avec justice revendiquer la recompense genereuse instituee par le Roi Frederic VI., alors, Monsieur, je prie votre Excellence de vouloir bien appuyer de ses propres estimables et puissantes recommandations l'application des amis ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... mon aise, et que, respirant mon me en vous, elle ne soit plus que vous-mme par union d'amour. . . . Puis, mon corps tant bris de fatigues, j'tois contrainte de dire: Mon divin amour, je vous prie de me laisser prendre un peu de repos, afin que je puisse mieux vous servir, puisque vous voulez que je vive. . . . Je le priois de me laisser agir; lui promettant de me laisser aprs cela consumer dans ses chastes et divins embrassemens. . . O amour! quand vous embrasserai-je? N'avez-vous point ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman
... furnished with a small iron bedstead hung with white cotton curtains looped back by bands of red cretonne; opposite the bed were a table covered with a cloth, and on it a desk, and a prie-dieu below a Crucifix nailed to the wall; the remainder of the room was fitted with bookshelves up to the ceiling. Three arm-chairs, such as are nowhere to be seen nowadays but in religious houses or seminaries, made of walnut wood with straw ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... the king in person and forming the middle of the army, was composed of the artillery, under Jean de Lagrange, a hundred gentlemen of the guard with Gilles Carrone far standard-bearer, pensioners of the king's household under Aymar de Prie, some Scots, and two hundred cross-bowmen an horseback, with French archers besides, led by M. ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... perhaps? What folly for you to speak thus. France hath swiftly grown so strong that she can never again be ruined. What ails my magician, my Prince of Golconda, this morning? France bankrupt! Even were it so, does that relieve me of this begging of De Prie, of Parabere, and all the others? My God, Monsieur L'as, they are like leeches! They think ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... of discretion, to efface himself, he knelt at the first prie-dieu he came to. But Susanna, instead of going forward, knelt at the prie-dieu ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... had the fause-house in her min', She pits hersel an' Rob in; In loving bleeze they sweetly join, 'Till white in ase they're sobbin'; Nell's heart, was dancin' at the view, She whisper'd Rob to leuk for't: Rob, stowlins, prie'd her bonie mou', Fu' cozie in the ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... but got no answer. It opened to a large drawing-room, well furnished but without any inhabitant. I crossed this room to the other side, which had two doors, both open. One gave entrance to a sleeping-chamber, in a corner of which was a prie-dieu, and which showed in a hundred details to be the bedroom of a lady. But the bed was made up, and a smaller bed, in a recess, which might be that of the maid, also had the appearance of not having been used the previous night. ...
— The Bright Face of Danger • Robert Neilson Stephens
... avec emotion. Tu pleures?... Pardon, chere enfant, pardon! Si je t'ai affligee, c'est que moi-meme ... je souffrais ... oh! cruellement!... je souffre encore.... Laisse-moi seule un moment, je t'en prie!... (Elle regarde Leonie, puis l'embrasse ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve
... prends le malade et le sain L'un aujourd'hui, l'autre le demain. J'en surprends un dedans son lit, L'autre a l'estude quand il lit. J'en surprends un le ventre plein Je mene l'autre par la faim. J'attrape l'un pendant qu'il prie, Et l'autre pendant qu'il renie; J'en saisis un au cabaret Entre le blanc et le clairet, L'autre qui dans son oratoire A son Dieu rend honneur et gloire: J'en surprends un lorsqu'il se psame Le jour qu'il epouse sa femme, L'autre ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... it seemed to be an oratory or chapel. A large gold and ebony crucifix hung on the wall. There was a prie-dieu of heavy dark mahogany in the centre of the tiled floor; there was a low ottoman or couch, covered with a mantle of dark violet velvet, like a pall; there were two quaintly carved stiff chairs; a religious, almost ascetic, air pervaded the apartment; but no dreamy eastern seraglio could have ...
— Maruja • Bret Harte
... attitude of these insects when watching for their prey—their fore legs being elevated and joined in a supplicating manner—has given them in English the popular names of "soothsayer," "prophet," and "praying mantis," in French, "prie-Dieu," in Portuguese, "louva-Deos," etc. According to Sparmann, the Nubians and Hottentots regard mantides as tutelary divinities, and worship them as such. A monkish legend tells us that Saint Francis Xavier, having perceived a mantis holding its legs toward heaven, ordered it ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various
... my way to attend Chapel at 5.30 a.m., afterwards I should be free for the remainder of the day. Talking and smoking were both permitted in the garden. I was given a microscopic whitewashed cell, most beautifully clean, containing a very small bed, one chair, a gas-jet, a prie-Dieu, a real human skull, and nothing else whatever. We went to dinner in a great arched refectory, where a monk, perched up in a high pulpit, read us Thomas a Kempis in a droning monotone. Complete silence was observed. At La Trappe no meat or butter is ever used, but ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... in Paris or Cairo, the abbe always left something to give away, which the valet distributed through this wicket in his master's name. The other room near the library was a bedroom. A bed without curtains, four arm-chairs, and a couch, covered with yellow Utrecht velvet, composed, with a prie-Dieu, all its furniture. Lord Wilmore resided in Rue Fontaine-Saint-George. He was one of those English tourists who consume a large fortune in travelling. He hired the apartment in which he lived furnished, passed only a few hours in the ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
