"Visite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dormi quinze ans dans sa couche d'argile, Et rien ne pleure plus sur son dernier asile; Et le rapide oubli, second linceul des morts, A couvert le sentier qui menait vers ces bords. Nul ne visite plus cette pierre efface, Nul n'y songe et n'y prie.... except ma pense, Quand, remontant le flot de mes jours rvolus, Je demande mon coeur tous ceux qui n'y sont plus, Et que, les yeux flottants sur de chres empreintes, Je pleure dans mon ciel tant ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... much? Not that I am pining for news of them, but any gossip of the kind would be in order. I wonder, Ned, you don't fall in love with Miss Daw. I am ripe to do it myself. Speaking of photographs, couldn't you manage to slip one of her cartes-de-visite from her album—she must have an album, you know—and send it to me? I will return it before it could be missed. That's a good fellow! Did the mare arrive safe and sound? It will be a capital animal this autumn for ...
— Marjorie Daw • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... should daily preach Terrour to convince such Offenders, stand up to take their parts against such as are Complainants for the King, and sufferers themselves with their Families and Estates. I intend to give your Towne a Visite suddenly, I am to come to Kimbolton this weeke, and it shall bee tenne to one but I will come to your Town first, but I would certainely know afore whether your Town affords many Sticklers for such Cattell, or willing to give and ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein
... line, I at once interviewed Miss Nicholl and sat for my portrait, expecting at the least to find the attendant spirit of my departed grandmamma or defunct maiden aunt standing sentinel over me, as I saw departed relations doing in many cartes de visite in the room. I confess there was a kind of made-up theatrical-property look about the attendant spirits which gave one the idea that the superior intelligences must have dressed in a hurry when they sat or stood ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... opening presented itself immediately in front of me, and I was forced forward willy-nilly. Arrived at the other side of the street, I drew out of the press as quickly as possible, and it was then that I discovered Mr. Indiman's carte de visite tightly clutched in my left hand. Impossible to conjecture how it had come there, and my own part in the transaction had been purely involuntary; the muscles of the palm had closed unconsciously upon the object presented to it, just as does a baby's. ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... vint. J'eus le plaisir de lui donner la parole dans la section du genie civil et militaire, que je presidais. Il y fit une tres interessante communication, qui me montrait une fois de plus l'originalite de ses vues et la surete de sa science. C'est a l'issue de ce congres que je passai lui faire visite a Rochefort, ou je le trouvai installe en famille et ou je presentai pour la premiere fois mes hommages a son eminente compagne. Je le vis la sous un jour nouveau et touchant pour moi Madame Jenkin, qu'il entourait si galamment, et ses deux jeunes fils donnaient plus de relief ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... counteracting the depression produced by this humiliating occupation, I wrote a short story, Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven (A Pilgrimage to Beethoven), which appeared in the Gazette Musicale, under the title Une Visite a Beethoven. Schlesinger told me candidly that this little work had created quite a sensation, and had been received with very marked approval; and, indeed, it was actually reproduced, either complete or in parts, in ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... how they could goe abroad so long, or travaile so farre as they have done. Although they were hurt neither by me, nor the Printer; yet I knowing and finding by experience, how many well-wishers they have abroad, have adventured to bind up their wounds, & to enable them to visite upon better tearmes, such friends of theirs, as were pleased to take knowledge of them, so mained [? maimed] and deformed, as they at the first were; and if they were then gracious in your sight, assuredly they will now finde double favour, being reformed, and set forth suteable, to ...
— Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... esta parte del Inga no hay duda sino que de todas tres era la mayor, y en los depositos se parece bien que yo visite muchos en diferentes partes, e son mayores e mas largos que no los de su religion sin comparasion." Idem, ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... and Mr. Crukshank gaue me a visite; I called for some ale purposelie to heare one of them blesse it. It fell Mr. Robinsone to seeke the blessing, who said one of the most bombastick graces that ever I heard in my life. He summoned God Almightie very imperiouslie to be their ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... who all with one consent, said, "That he could nott refuise that Vocatioun, onless he wald declair him self rebellious unto his God, and unmercyfull to his contrie." And so he returned answer, with promessis to visite thame with ressonable expeditioun, and so sone as he mycht putt ordour to that dear flock that was committed to his charge. And so, in the end of the nixt September after, he departed from Geneva, and came to Deape, whare thare mett him contrare letteris; ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... quelqu'un de la ville voir avant de s'en aller, une visite trs importante.... Quel dommage! on tait si bien!... On avait tant de choses se raconter encore!... Enfin, puisqu'il le faut, puisque M. Daniel quelqu'un de la ville voir, ses amis du Tour de ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... it for feel de col', dey're all comin' out encore, An' we start off again t'roo de sky, hooraw! for mak' de visite some more, All de place on de parish we go dat night, w'erever dey get some dance, Till I feel it so tire, I could sleep right off, but dey don't geev it ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... Water House only because the English visited it at a time when heavy rains had fallen."* (* Baudin's Diary, manuscripts, Bibliotheque Nationale: "Je suis persuade qu'on ne l'a nomme Wather House que par ce que les Anglais qui l'ont visite y auront eu beaucoup de pluie.") Baudin passed Port Phillip, rounded Cape Otway, and coasted along till he came to Encounter Bay, where occurred an incident with which we shall be concerned after we have traced the voyage of Flinders eastward to ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... because none of the same lawes shoulde be abrogated, for the space of tenne yeares, hee bounde the Citizens by othe. And that the same mighte the better be obserued; he himselfe traueyled into farre countries, as into Egipt to visite king Hamasis, and so to Sardis to kinge Craesus, where he was liberallie intertayned. This Craesus was king of Lydia, sonne of Haliattes, that brought to subiection great countries in Asia and Graecia, and gathered together an innumerable masse of moneye and riches. Who three ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
... whether Popish or Prelaticall, Superstitious or Judaicall, or what person so ever, of any Tribe or Trullibub,[6] that can give any knowledge, or tell any tidings of an old, old, old, very old, grey-bearded Gentleman, called Christmas, who was wont to be a verie familiar ghest, and visite all sorts of people, both poor and rich, and used to appear in glittering gold silk and silver in the Court, and in all shapes in the Theater in Whitehall, and had ringing feasts and jollitie in all places, both in ...
— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton
... him over the head with the comb. He will possibly run away to rejoin his brethren at Ostend, or in New South Wales; but at all events you will have the curry-comb. One can be good and happy without returning the things you borrow. See my "Essay on Books, Cartes-de-visite, and Umbrellas," in the next number of Sala's J—— (Editorial ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 21, 1892 • Various
... Djiddin" as his "body servant." Only one visit of state was exchanged between "Prince Djiddin" and General Wragge, Her Majesty's Commander of the Channel Islands. The "Moonshee," with a sober dignity, had interpreted for the British Commander of the Manche, and in due state, a return visite de ceremonie to General Wagge's mansion and headquarters strangely found Captain Anson Anstruther, A.D.C. of the Viceroy of India, a pilgrim to St. Heliers, to arrange secretly for "Prince Djiddin's" safe ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... information)] password, watchword, catchword; security card, pass, passkey; credentials &c. (evidence) 467; open sesame; timbrology[obs3]; mot de passe[Fr], mot du guet[Fr]; pass-parole; shibboleth. title, heading, docket. address card, visiting card; carte de visite[Fr]. insignia; banner, banneret[obs3], bannerol[obs3]; bandrol[obs3]; flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum[obs3], oriflamb[obs3], oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee[obs3], blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory " [U.S.], ...
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