"Rance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as we were stepping on board the steamer to go down the Rance to St. Malo, we saw a little white cap come bobbing through the market-place, down the steep street, and presently Marie appeared with two great bunches of pale yellow primroses and wild blue hyacinths in one hand, while the other held her sabots, that she might run the faster. Rosy and ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag • Louisa M. Alcott
... fight the French,—woe to France! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter thro' the blue. Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Rance, deg. deg.5 With ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning
... they quenched had, That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde, Of straunge adventures, and of perils sad, 130 Which in his travell him befallen had, For to demaund of his renowmed guest: Who then with utt'rance grave, and count'nance sad, From point to point, as is before exprest, Discourst his voyage long, according his ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... that haunt the rocks, these hallow'd rites Oft let me pay, and of my royal spouse Now absent, both by fortune blest as now; And let our foes as now, in ruin lie;" Thee and Orestes naming. But my lord, Far other vows address'd, but gave his words No utt'rance, to regain his father's house. Aegisthus then the sacrificing sword Took from the basket, from the bullock's front To cut the hair, which on the hallow'd fire With his right hand he threw; and, as his slaves ...
— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton
... Have the smiths curse me, and my laundress too; Geld wine, or his friend tobacco; and so bring The incens'd subject rebel to his king; And after all—as those first sinners fell— Sink lower than my gold, and lie in hell. Thanks then for this deliv'rance! blessed pow'rs, You that dispense man's fortune and his hours, How am I to you all engag'd! that thus By such strange means, almost miraculous, You should preserve me; you have gone the way To make me rich by taking all away. For I—had I been rich—as sure as fate, Would have been meddling ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan
... in 1768 [40:4] says: "Il pleut des livres incrdules. C'est un feu roulant qui crible le sanctuaire de toutes parts... L'intolrance du gouvernment s'accroit de jour en jour. On dirait que c'est un projet form d'teindre ici les lettres, de ruiner le commerce de librairie et de nous rduire la besace et la stupidit... Le Christianisme dvoil s'est vendu jusqu' ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.' Then the girl died happy and aisy, and what for shouldn't she? The words were the same, and the water was the same, and if the hand wasn't as clane as usual, maybe Him that's above wouldn't bother about the diff'rance." ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... vowel, as th' eternal; and more rarely of o in to, as t' accept; and a synaresis, by which two short vowels coalesce into one syllable, as question, special; or a word is contracted by the expulsion of a short vowel before a liquid, as av'rice, temp'rance. ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... kept out of the argument. Snap introduced him as Rance Rankin. An American—a quiet, blond fellow of ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various
... Till now unlawful, therefore ill, 'twas not; So jolly, that it can move this Soul. Is The body so free of his kindnesses, That self-preserving it hath now forgot, And slack'neth not the Soul's and body's knot, Which temp'rance straitens? Freely on his she-friends He blood and spirit, pith and marrow, spends; Ill steward of himself, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan |
