"Angevin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lionel's estate and dating, in part, to the days of King John. Flicking the ash from my cigarette, I studied the ancient tower wondering idly what deeds had had their setting within its shadows, since the Angevin monarch, in whose reign it saw the light, ...
— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... up there, the royal ones—Dane and Norman and Angevin; and not one to match the great Anglo-Saxon that was father of ...
— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Period of the Early Angevin Kings, 1154-1338.*—The two centuries which now followed saw either the completion or the initiation of most of the characteristics of the English race with which we are familiar in historic times. The race, the language, the law, and the political organization ...
— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney
... short, the manorial framework within which it is enclosed does little more than fix the details into an immovable setting, accentuating some at the expense of others, legalising everything so as to bring it all under the iron sovereignty which was inaugurated by the Angevin kings. ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... bare of monuments of her early days. She has been the victim of her abiding good fortune. We can look down from the height on the Phokaian harbor; but for actual memorials of the men who fled from the Persian, of the men who defied the Roman and the Angevin, we might look as well at ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI • Various
... brightly shone the summer sun upon the day of prayer; And silver-sweet the village bells o'er mount and valley toll'd, And in the church of St Florent were gather'd young and old. When rushing down the woodland hill, in fiery haste was seen, With panting steed and bloody spur, a noble Angevin. And bounding on the sacred floor, he gave his fearful cry,— "Up, up for France! the time is come, for France to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... this daring ruffian who, believing in personal God and devil, refuses until the end to allow either to interfere with his business in life. In this respect Charles Peace reminds us irresistibly of our Angevin kings. ...
— A Book of Remarkable Criminals • H. B. Irving |
