"Quant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... qui l'enfant enseognoit l'eu mena i jour en riviere, et quant il revint, la reine Gerberge dist que se il jamais l'enmenait fors des murs, elle li ...
— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge
... [13-6] Quant le cheval est emble dounke ferme fols l'estable (When the horse has been stolen, the fool shuts the stable).—Les ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... M. Bayle has well put this in his account of Aesop. "Il n'y a point d'apparence que les fables qui portent aujourd'hui son nom soient les memes qu'il avait faites; elles viennent bien de lui pour la plupart, quant a la matiere et la pensee; mais les paroles sont d'un autre." And again, "C'est donc a Hesiode, que j'aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l'invention; mais sans doute il laissa la chose tres imparfaite. ...
— Aesop's Fables • Aesop
... shipping, and reintroduce the American flag to the numerous foreign ports to which it is becoming each year more and more a stranger, let us by all means have them everywhere and at liberal salaries, with quant. suff. of clerks, assistants, flunkeys, dress-suits for dinner-parties and court-suits for state receptions, and all the other necessaries of an efficient consulate, the want whereof so vexed the soul of Mr. Sampleton. And then let us make fixtures ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... amai quant' il mio Cor Gi seppe amarti; Or' che t cangi amor Io ti disprezzo; Se cangio il mio desir, Di m deb' non Lagnarti; L' offese a non soffrir, E il ...
— Amadigi di Gaula - Amadis of Gaul • Nicola Francesco Haym
... strength to labour, because they had not their usual quantity of bread—that their good lady, whose chateau we saw at a distance, had been guillotined, or else they should have wanted for nothing—"Et ste pauvre Javotte la n'auroit pas travaille quant elle est qualsiment prete a mourir." ["And our poor Javotte there would not have had to work when she is almost in her grave."]—"Mon dieu," (says one of the old men, who had not yet spoke,) "Je donnerais bien ma ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... "Quant a leurs poetes, le charme avec lequel ils peignent l'amour, annonce, certainement en eux, une intelligence developpee et autant d'esprit que de sensibilite."—Alcide D'Orbigny, L'Homme Americain, Tome ...
— Aboriginal American Authors • Daniel G. Brinton
... Si com il dut a grant enor. A maint riche torneiement Le fist aller mult noblement. Chevals e armes li dona Et en Bretaigne le mena Ne sai de veir treiz faiz ou quatre Quant as Bretons ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... "Quant a l'armee imperiale, on n'en vit jamais de plus etonnante.... Allemands et Espagnols, lutheriens iconoclastes qui brulaient les eglises, ou furieux mystiques qui brulaient Juils et Maures, barbares plus ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... the year, and in virtue of her physiological (uterine) functions the moon-controlled measurer of the month, it is important to note that "Le 19^e jour de chaque mois est egalement consecre aux fravashis en general. Le premier mois porte aussi le nom de Farvardin. Quant aux formes des fetes mensuelles, elles semblent conformes a celles que nous allons rappeler [les fetes celebrees en l'honneur des ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... royal person. He was quite capable of going a step beyond Cardinal Wolsey, and of writing, "Ego et Deus meus." He said to a prelate whose management of some ecclesiastical business particularly gratified him,—"J'ignore si Dieu vous tiendra compte de la conduite que vous avez tenue; mais quant a moi, je vous assure que je ne l'oublierai jamais." The spiritual powers are never backward in taking advantage of favorable circumstances: Huguenots, Jansenists, and Quietists were sternly put down, and ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various
... Percy del age de vynt ans, armez premierement, quant la chastell de Berwick etait pris par les Escoces, et quant ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler
... thing one feels one couldn't do. The dreadful moonlight, when they all three sit silent in the room - by George, sir, it's imagined - and the brief scene between the husband and wife is all there. QUANT AU FOND, the whole thing, of course, is a fever dream, and worthy of eternal laughter. Had the young man broken stones, and the two women been hard-working honest prostitutes, there had been an end of the whole immoral and baseless business: you could at least have ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... QUANT. An old term for a long pole used by the barge-men on our east coast; it is capped to prevent the immerged end ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... more merci for everything, and let us part like Karmazinov and the public; that is, let us forget each other with as much generosity as we can. He was posing in begging his former readers so earnestly to forget him; quant a moi, I am not so conceited, and I rest my hopes on the youth of your inexperienced heart. How should you remember a useless old man for long? 'Live more,' my friend, as Nastasya wished me on my last name-day (ces pauvres gens ont quelquefois ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... fievre dans la nuit, et ce matin je suis calme, mais fatigue. Il ne faut pas t'en alarmer cependant; le voyage et l'exposition reclamaient une reaction, et elle arrive naturellement au premier moment ou j'ai la possibilite du repos. Quant au repos, je m'en donne aujourd'hui pleinement; je ne fais rien; mais je me reposerais mieux si tu etais ici pour me dire que tu m'aimes et pour mettre tes douces mains sur mon front. Je deviens par trop dependant de toi, je voudrais etre plus fort—et ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al |
