"Outre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... extraordinary age of eighteen the professorship of modern languages in his own college was offered to him; it was eagerly accepted, and in order to qualify himself for his duties, he spent the next four years in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. His first important prose work was Outre-Mer, or a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea. In 1837 he was offered the Chair of Modern Languages and Literature in Harvard University, and he again paid a visit to Europe— this time giving his thoughts and study chiefly to Germany, Denmark, and Scandinavia. In 1839 he published the ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
... "Sec. 235. Outre ces grandes couches qui constituent le corps de la montagne, et qui peuvent en general etre mises dans la classe des couches horizontales, on en trouve d'autres dont l'inclinaison est absolument differente. Elles sont situes au bas de Grande Saleve du cote qui regarde notre vallee; on les ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... in this art, was mainly the result of careful observation and study. He had the gift, which he sedulously cultivated, of committing to memory the precise features of any remarkable face, and afterwards reproducing them on paper; but if any singularly fantastic form or outre face came in his way, he would make a sketch of it on the spot, upon his thumb-nail, and carry it home to expand at his leisure. Everything fantastical and original had a powerful attraction for him, and he wandered ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles
... flot avec des peines infinies et charges outre mesure, quittrent le vaisseau par une mer clapoteuse, qui menaait chaque instant de les engloutir. Le canot s'loigna le premier. Tamango avec Aych avait pris place dans la chaloupe, qui beaucoup plus lourde et plus charge, demeurait considrablement en arrire. ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... myself the ordering of all tableaux. First of all I give as your motto—Voluptuousness, Lasciviousness, and Sexual enjoyment—there must be no modesty, no shamefacedness and everybody must obey the slightest of my commands—let them be ever so outre. I shall make use of the common words when referring to the organs of generation and shall expect everyone else to do the same.' I shall still continue to use the French words, but you must understand that whenever I do so the English ...
— The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival - The Belle of the Delaware • Kate Percival
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