"Engager" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are preserved in his Discours des Spectres, a closely printed quarto of nearly 1000 pages, by Pierre le Loyer, Conseiller du Roy au Siege Presidial d'Angers. {269} Le Loyer says, 'De gayete de coeur semble m'estre voulu engager au combat contre ceux qui impugnent les spectres!' As Le Loyer observes, ghosts seldom come into court in civil cases, except when indicted as nuisances, namely, when they make a hired house uninhabitable by their frolics. Then the tenant often wants to quit the ...
— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang
... blissful state. You did right to call your daughter by her name; for you must needs have had a particular tender friendship for one another, endeared as you were by nature, by having passed the affectionate years of your youth together; and by that great softener and engager of hearts, mutual hardship. That it was in my power to ease it a little, I account one of the most exquisite pleasures of my life. But enough of this melancholy, though ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
... l'avis de Pourtales que, puisque Szapary avait commence cette conversation, il pourrait aussi bien la continuer. Il telegraphiera dans ce sens a l'Ambassadeur d'Allemagne a Vienne. Je l'ai prie de conseiller d'une facon plus pressante a Vienne de s'engager dans cette voie de conciliation; Jagow a repondu qu'il ne pouvait pas conseiller a l'Autriche ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History |
