"Garonne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... city in France as to its commercial importance. The form of the town is that of a crescent extending along the shore of the Garonne, which here forms a broad and navigable harbor, always well filled with foreign and domestic shipping, though it is sixty miles from the sea. There are many interesting Roman antiquities and monuments ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou
... second day that had elapsed since losing sight of Pointe de Graves at the mouth of the Garonne, towards sunset, we had weathered Ushant and were shaping a course up Channel, north east, so as to clear the dangerous Casquettes rocks of Guernsey, when I noticed a large ship, close-hauled on the starboard tack, steaming ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
... vraiment la Somme.—Apres tout, dit le Gascon, j'ai bien reflechi et je crois que mon lievre etait a peu pres comme celui que nous avons vu tout a l'heure.—Et moi, je te dis, mon ami, que cette riviere n'est pas plus terrible que la Garonne." ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... the western shore Have moved their standards home; the happy Gaul Rejoices in their absence; fair Garonne Through peaceful meads glides onward to the sea. And where the river broadens, neath the cape Her quiet harbour sleeps. No outstretched arm Except in mimic war now hurls the lance. No skilful warrior of Seine directs The scythed chariot 'gainst his country's ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan
... are far ahead of our forefathers in our scientific apparatus for illuminating Light-houses, we have never equalled them in magnificence of architecture; for, in point of grandeur, the Tour de Corduan at the mouth of the River Garonne, in France, is probably the noblest edifice of the kind in the world, and it is nearly three hundred years since it was completed under Henry IV., having been twenty-six years ...
— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous |
