"Cest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first period.—Of the Latin introduced by Caesar and his successors, the few words remaining are those that relate to military affairs; viz. street (strata); -coln (as in Lincoln Lindi colonia); -cest- (as in Gloucester glevae castra) from castra. The Latin words introduced between the time of Caesar and Hengist may be called the Latin of the first period, or the ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... man with a boxful of beetles," returned the girl, adding in brisk French: "Il est tres amusant ce farceur. Je ne le comprends pas du tout. Cest une blague, peut-etre. Si on l'invitait dans ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... mos^r Joh[n] de Cobeh[m] s^r de Cobeh[m] ad baille [p] assent de les sires de Morlee et Louel dys lib' de bone moneye amest' Joh[n] Barnet, cest assau' cent south p^r le un [p]tye et cent south p^r lautre [p]tye acause q' mesme le dit mestre Joh[n] et mest' Will[m] Dawode et mest' Will[m] Sondeye serrount assessours sur la matire pendaunt [p]entre les deux syngn' susdite p^r leur armes en le Court de Chiualerie. En ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 • Various
... preamble of the royal letters giving execution to the Twenty-five Articles of the Sorbonne mentions as a moving cause "plusieurs scandales et schismes par cy devant intervenus, et mesmement en cest advent de Noel dernier passe, par le moyen et a l'occasion de contentions, contradictions et altercations de certain predicateurs preschans et publians divers et contraires doctrines." Recueil des ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... how largely increased within the last few years is the number of those who cry out, 'La Propriete, cest le vol'? Have you considered the rapid growth of the International Association? I do not say that for all these evils—the Empire is exclusively responsible. To a certain degree they are found in all rich communities, especially where democracy is more or less in the ascendant. To a certain ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... "Cest La Deduction du sumptueux ordre plaisantz spectacles et magnificques theatres dresses et exhibes par les citoiens de Rouen ville Metropolitaine du pays de Normandie, A la sacree Maieste du Treschristian Roy de France Henry sec[o]d leur ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
... more popular form, although such was once more or less current; or, if this is too much to say of all, yet hazarded by good authors. Thus Holland wrote 'cirque', but we 'circus'; 'cense', but we 'census'; 'interreign', but we 'interregnum'; Sylvester 'cest', but we 'cestus'; 'quirry', but we 'equerry'; 'colosse', but we still 'colossus'; Golding 'ure', but we 'urus'; 'metropole', but we 'metropolis'; Dampier 'volcan', but this has not superseded 'volcano'; ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... font encore en plusieurs villes de vostre royaume, qui, a dire la verite, sont les nouvelles les plus agreables que je pense qu'on eust sceu apporter en ceste ville, sadicte Sainctete pour fin me commanda de vous escrire que cest evenement luy a este cent fois plus agreable que cinquante victoires semblables a celle que ceulx de la ligue obtindrent l'annee passee contre le Turcq, ne voulant oublier vous dire, Sire, les commandemens ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... is not the first case of the same kind that occurs in Teixeira's chronicle, so there may have been some kind of colour for Marco's representation of the Prince of Hormuz as the vassal of the Atabeg of Kerman ("l'homme de cest roy de Creman;" see Prologue, ch. xiv. note 2). M. Khanikoff denies the possibility of the existence of any royal dynasty at Hormuz at this period. That there was a dynasty of Maliks of Hormuz, however, at this period we must believe on the concurring testimony of Marco, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... not to be surpassed. What gives this book an additional value is, that it was once the property of Charles V.: for, on the reverse of fol. 157, at bottom, is the following memorandum in his hand writing: Afin que Ie Ioye de vous recommande accepte bonne Dame cest mis sy en escript vostre vray bon mestre. CHARLES. A lovely bird, in the margin, is the last illumination. In the whole, there ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
