"Legge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... either on foot or on horseback, whence the name they bear, and the emblematic dragon which adorns their carbines. The advanced guard, or "forlorn hope," of a hundred horse and fifty dragoons, is commanded by Will Legge, Rupert's life-long friend and correspondent; and Herbert Lunsford leads the infantry, "the inhuman cannibal foot," as the Puritan journals call them. There are five hundred of these, in lightest marching order, and carrying either pike or arquebuse,—this last being ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various
... has a play called Omerta: La Legge del Silenzio. Don Andrea has been murdered by or at the instigation of Don Toto (Salvatore), who is an overbearing bully, nevertheless Saru (Rosario) has been sent to prison for the crime and, during his absence, his girl has married Don Toto. The play opens with the return ...
— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones
... and more ambitious designs. The moment the King was gone, they rushed, at the head of four hundred men, into the Tower. The Archbishop, who had just celebrated mass, Sir Robert Hales, William Apuldore, the King's confessor, Legge, the farmer of the tax, and three of his associates, were seized, and led to immediate execution.[68] As no opposition was offered, they searched every part of the Tower, burst into the private apartment of the Princess, and probed her bed with their swords. She fainted, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... growing old."—Charles II., to vex the Duchess of Cleveland, caused Will Legge to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 • Various
... immemorial custom of worshipping the Souls of ancestors shows how completely the life of man was regarded as extending beyond the tomb. The Shu King—placed by Mr. James Legge as the most ancient of Chinese classics, containing historical documents ranging from B.C. 2357-627—is full of allusions to these Souls, who with other spiritual beings, watch over the affairs of their descendants and the welfare of the kingdom. Thus Pan-kang, ...
— Death—and After? • Annie Besant |
