"Sacre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that one of the ships of Villalobos was lost for want of a small boat, and in it two large anchors and one half sacre (weighing fourteen quintals, and named "San Marcos"), twelve culverins, and certain pieces of iron ordnance, you shall try to get hold of them all, ...
— The Philippine Islands 1493-1898, Vol. 4 of 55 - 1576-1582 • Edited by E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson
... her round eyes fix in their sockets, and with a despairing shriek she turned and fled towards the house. The man turned at his companion's cry, gave the same horrified glance at Dick's face, uttered a hoarse "Sacre!" crossed ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte
... sent on board: a dozen men, with their cutlasses flourishing over their heads, leapt on the deck of the Estelle, and found nobody to exercise their valour upon, except the body of their departed comrade; upon which they shouted for the "Sacre's God dams" to "monter." Newton and the rest obeyed the summons, with their bundles in their hands; the latter they were soon relieved of by their conquerors, who, to prove that it was not out of "politesse" that they carried their effects, at the same ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... miserable, Pour un esclave est-il quelque danger? Tombe le joug qui nous accable, Et sous nos coups perisse l'etranger. Amour sacre de la patrie, Rends nous l'audace et la fierte; A mon pays je dois la vie, ...
— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards
... after her. "Sacre!" he cried, with a light shrug. "She is so mad—so mad. Voila!" and he leisurely followed in the wake of ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... altogether to come upon such a fall and to have to pick a way down the precipice carrying a canoe and other load. There seemed no end to the trail on which they were. Down they went, and Pierre was heard more than once to exclaim "Sacre! Mon Dieu!" and a few other favorite expressions with him when he was exasperated. They went along at least five miles in this way and there seemed no end ...
— Bob Hunt in Canada • George W. Orton |
