"Sept" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bretailleur, once said to me on such an occasion, and an opinion also of your peculiar merit, could have extorted such concessions; for he and all his family are, and have been, time out of mind, Mavortia pectora, as Buchanan saith, a bold and warlike sept, or people.' ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... Grignon, le president de la cour prevotale,[142] un homme de notre bord[143] ... il pourra m'etre utile.... (Continuant de lire.) Ah! arretons-nous la.... Mademoiselle Leonie de Villegontier ... niece de la comtesse ... et une niece non mariee!... elle doit avoir seize ou dix-sept ans au plus ... on se marie tres jeune dans notre classe.[144] ... et ... monsieur de Flavigneul ... quel age a-t-il? vingt-cinq ans, a ce que l'on dit; sa figure?... je n'ai pas encore son signalement,[145] mais j'attends; ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve
... "New London, Sept. 1st, 1779. D. Stanton testifies that he was taken June 5th and put in the Jersey prison ship. An allowance from Congress was sent on board. About three or four weeks past we were removed on board the Good Hope, where we found many sick. There is now a hospital ship provided, to which they ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge
... from that time onward Dundonald's reputation as a "lucky" commander was made. He never again had occasion to invoke the aid of the gang.] Under such men the seaman would gladly serve "even in a dung barge." [Footnote: Admiralty Records 1. 2733—Capt. Young, 28 Sept. 1776.] Unhappily for the service, such commanders were comparatively few, and in their absence the Infernal System drained the Navy of its best blood and accentuated a hundred-fold the already ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson
... London, Cardinal Manning and Bishop of London, constitute a Board of Conciliation in the great Dock Strike Sept. 5, 1889 ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
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