"Nous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by spontaneous deposit to a sufficient height to admit of profitable cultivation.] This would, indeed, be a palliative, but only a palliative. For the present, however, we have nothing better, and here, as often in political economy, we must content ourselves with "apres nous le deluge," allowing posterity to suffer the penalty of our improvidence and our ignorance, or to devise means for itself to ward off ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh
... "Nous voici donc, en Afrique," exclaimed Mademoiselle Viefville, with that sensation of singularity that comes over all when they first find themselves in situations of ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... les details? Madame de Sevigny writes somewhere, "que les details sont aussi chers a ceux que nous aimons, qu'ils sont ...
— The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 • Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone
... exception me semble apparaitre dans les faits nombreux que j'ai observes et conduire a envisager sous un nouveau jour la vie vegetale; si je ne m'abuse, tout ce que dans les tissus vegetaux la vue directe ou amplifiee nous permet de discerner sous la forme de cellules et de vaisseaux, ne represente autre chose que les enveloppes protectrices, les reservoirs et les conduits, a l'aide desquels les corps animes qui les secretent et les faconnent, se logent, puisent et charrient leurs aliments, ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... noble coraige! Ta mort nous sera vendue chere, Jamais un tel de ton paraige, Ne se ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower
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