"Eger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... small success with which the real object of my tour was attended was counterbalanced by the pleasantness of the journey itself. The trip through Eger, over the Fichtel mountains, and the entry into Bayreuth, gloriously illuminated by the setting sun, have remained happy memories ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... a town in Bohemia, on the river Eger, 91 m. W. of Prague, a centre of railway traffic; Wallenstein was murdered here in 1634; the river flows into the Elbe after a NE. course ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Angus about the king's person, who, when a boy, loved him much, on account of his singular activity of body, and was wont to call him his Graysteil, after a champion of chivalry, in the romance of Sir Eger and Sir Grime. He shared, however, the fate of his chief, and, for many years, served in France. Weary, at length, of exile, the aged warrior, recollecting the king's personal attachment to him, resolved to throw himself on his clemency. As James returned from hunting in the park at Stirling, ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... wage war with the Turks, and so successfully that Leopold became anxious lest Brankovi['c] should found an independent Serbian State. He therefore caused him and the leaders of his army to be captured. Brankovi['c] was brought, a prisoner, to Vienna. He survived in captivity at Eger ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein |
