"Lant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with two more women who desired to go with us; but as they could not reach the ship, the pilot boat went after them and took them on board of her, where they had to remain until the ship arrived outside. It was about two o'clock when we came in the channel of the Lant's-diep or Nieuwe Diep.[56] You run from Oude Schilt strait to the Helder, and so close to the shore that you can throw a stone upon it, until you have the capes on this point opposite each other, namely, the two small ones; for ...
— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts
... know what we should have done if it hadn't been for Harry Lant, the weather being very trying, almost as trying as our hot red coats and heavy knapsacks, and flower-pot busbies, with a round white ball like a child's plaything on the top; but no matter how tired he was, Harry Lant had always something to say or do, and even if the colonel was close by, ...
— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn
... Dickens afterwards put Mr. Dorrit. And while the father remained in confinement, the son lived for a time in a back attic in Lant Street, Borough, which was to become the home of the eccentric Robert Sawyer, and the scene of a famous supper party given to do honor to Mr. Pickwick "and the other chaps." "If a man wishes to abstract ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various
... where they were and for what purpose. He said that from Maluco there had come fifty vessels—Terrenatans, Sangils, and Togolandans [56]—which were brought by Buisan, who is master-of-camp to the one whom they call Captain Lant. The rest which are going from Mindanao consisted of forty large caracoas and twenty carangailes and bireyes, with one caracoa and two bireyes from Sanbuangan and Tagima. All these had agreed that, if the Spaniards were in Jolo, they ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume XI, 1599-1602 • Various
... Quand au mouton blant la sombre boucherie Ouvre ses cavernes de mort; Pauvres chiens et moutons, toute la bergerie Ne s'informe plus de son sort! Les enfants qui suivaient ses bats dans la plaine, Les vierges aux belles couleurs Qui le baisaient en foule, ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield |
