"Meuse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Max and Dale had so unobtrusively re-entered the Durend works, their plans were laid and their preparations complete. Eight large shells had been carried off one by one and secreted in a hole in the bank of the Meuse, at a spot where it was well shaded by thick bushes. The power-house had been carefully reconnoitred, and the times and habits of the men and of the sentries carefully noted. The bulk of the great engines which provided the power required to run ...
— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill
... day about four hundred years ago the sun rose upon a castle on the Meuse, where lived the Count Oberthal, known in Holland as Lord of the Manor. It was a fine sight with its drawbridge and its towers, its mills and outbuildings, with antique tables outside the great entrance, ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... Luses, pikes, pikerellis, Tenques, perques, Tenches, perches, Roches, creuiches, Roches, creuyches, Loques, gouuions, Loches, gogeorns, 16 Saulmon de pluiseurs maniers, Samon of diuerse maners, Saulmon de la meuse, Samon of the mase, Saulmon de scoche, Samon of scotland, Garnars, oysters, moules. Shrimpes, oystres, muskles. 20 Qui plus en scet plus, en no{m}me; Who knoweth more, name he more; Car ie ne scay de plus parler. For I ne knowe no more ...
— Dialogues in French and English • William Caxton
... shame by—keeping his word.[13] He consequently fell back upon Wavre in order to remain as close as possible in Wellington's vicinity, and also sent orders to Bulow's corps, that was then on the advance, to join the English army, while Napoleon, in the idea that Blucher was falling back upon the Meuse, sent Grouchy in pursuit with a body of thirty-five ...
— Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 • Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks
... Belgium had a great military importance apart from its moral value. To its lasting honour the Belgian Government had scorned the German proposal for connivance even in the attractive form which would have limited the German use of Belgian territory to the eastern bank of the Meuse. ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard
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