"Lari" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... delighted by a coarse scarlet robe and a small, mirror with which he was presented. During the march, the natives committed several thefts upon the caravan, the members of which in their turn could hardly be prevented from making reprisals. At length they reached Lari, in the province of Kanem, the most northern part of Bornou,—a place containing two thousand inhabitants, who dwell in huts constructed of rushes, with conical tops. They had now reached an important stage ...
— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park
... (La Bouche, Levasseur), French pirate, loses his ship off Mayotta; made commander of the Victory; tradition of his life at Bourbon, and his end; at Madagascar; escapes Matthews' squadron. Lari, the (coin), value of. Lavender, Captain, commander of the Thomas, perishes with his ship. Langworth, Commodore, sent against Sumbhajee Angria's fleet. Lapthorne, Lieutenant Peter, besieged in Anjengo; agent for Mrs. Gyfford's ...
— The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago • John Biddulph
... penetrates his work, now in indirect reminiscence, now in direct imitation, now inspiring, now modifying, now moulding. He tells us in 'The Daisy' how when at Como "the rich Virgilian rustic measure of 'Lari Maxume'" haunted him all day, and in a later fragment how, as he rowed from Desenzano to Sirmio, Catullus was with him. And they and their brethren, from Homer to Theocritus, from Lucretius to Claudian, always were with him. I have illustrated so fully in the notes ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson |
