"Visite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tythes, But rather wolde he yeven out of doute, Unto his poure parishens aboute, Of his offring, and eke of his substance. He coude in litel thing have suffisance. Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder, But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder, In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... de votre visite d'hier, je vous renouvelle ici, cher Monsieur Reeve, l'assurance de mes ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... ordinarie reason; That it to leaches seemed strange and geason. [Geason, rare.] My fortune was, mongst manie others moe, To be partaker of their common woe; And my weake bodie, set on fire with griefe, 15 Was rob'd of rest and naturall reliefe. In this ill plight, there came to visite mee Some friends, who, sorie my sad case to see, Began to comfort me in chearfull wise, And meanes of gladsome solace to devise. 20 But seeing kindly sleep refuse to doe His office, and my feeble eyes forgoe, They sought my troubled sense how to ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... sixty, with a figure at once young and old-fashioned. Her fair faded tints, her quaint corseting, the passementerie on her tight-waisted dress, the velvet band on her tapering arm, made her resemble a "carte de visite" photograph of the middle sixties. One saw her, younger but no less invincibly lady-like, leaning on a chair with a fringed back, a curl in her neck, a locket on her tuckered bosom, toward the end of ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
... le mot Coquin. Sitot que Voltaire le vit, il se rendit chez Piron, qui lui dit: "Quel hasard me procure l'avantage de vous voir?—Monsieur, lui repondit Voltaire, j'ai vu votre nom sur ma porte, et je m'empresse de vous rendre ma visite." ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... quinze ans dans sa couche d'argile, Et rien ne pleure plus sur son dernier asile; Et le rapide oubli, second linceul des morts, A couvert le sentier qui menait vers ces bords. Nul ne visite plus cette pierre efface, Nul n'y songe et n'y prie.... except ma pense, Quand, remontant le flot de mes jours rvolus, Je demande mon coeur tous ceux qui n'y sont plus, Et que, les yeux flottants sur de chres ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... dans la maison, mais douze fois par an elle recevait la visite d'un des douze hommes. Dcembre, Janvier, et Fvrier apportaient de la glace et de la neige; Mars, Avril, et Mai apportaient des violettes; Juin, Juillet, et Aot apportaient de petits fruits; et Septembre, Octobre, ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... things over with Lorraine for nothing, and she does keep for me the flashes of perception we neither of us waste on the others. It's the "antiquity of the age of crinoline," she said the other day a propos of a little carte-de-visite photograph of my ancestress as a young woman of the time of the War; looking as if she had been violently inflated from below, but had succeeded in resisting at any cost, and with a strange intensity of expression, from her waist up. Mother, however, I ...
— The Whole Family - A Novel by Twelve Authors • William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jo
... the English visited it at a time when heavy rains had fallen."* (* Baudin's Diary, manuscripts, Bibliotheque Nationale: "Je suis persuade qu'on ne l'a nomme Wather House que par ce que les Anglais qui l'ont visite y auront eu beaucoup de pluie.") Baudin passed Port Phillip, rounded Cape Otway, and coasted along till he came to Encounter Bay, where occurred an incident with which we shall be concerned after we have traced the voyage of Flinders eastward to ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... cannot bee denied but they were furnished with wares for honest traffique and exchange. But whosoever is conversant in reading the Portugal and Spanish writers of the East and West Indies, shall commonly finde that they account all other nations for pirats, rovers and theeves, which visite any heathen coast that they have once sayled by or looked on. Howbeit their passionate and ambitious reckoning ought not to bee prejudiciall to other mens chargeable and painefull enterprises and ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
... University. There he took liberty (as 'tis usual with those that are emancipated from School) to tel tales and make the discipline ridiculous under which he was bred. But not suspecting the doctor's intelligence, coming once to town he went in full school to give him a visite and expected no less than to get a play day for his former acquaintances. But instead of that he found himself hors'd up in a trice, though he appeal'd in vain to the priviledges of the University, ...
— Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell
... father when he was little?" suggested Grannie at last. "He was the most beautiful infant I ever saw." She opened a cupboard door as she spoke, and presently came back to Mollie's side with an arm-load of photograph- albums, the kind of albums to be found in country houses, filled with carte-de-visite photographs of old-fashioned people, all standing, apparently, in the same studio, and each resting one hand on the same marble pillar. The ladies wore spreading crinoline skirts, and had hair brushed in smooth bands ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... I'm commence it for feel de col', dey're all comin' out encore, An' we start off again t'roo de sky, hooraw! for mak' de visite some more, All de place on de parish we go dat night, w'erever dey get some dance, Till I feel it so tire, I could sleep right off, but dey don't ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... too was a 'Litterateur'—that he had called, in compliment to my distinguished reputation—'qu'il n'avait pas ete recu—qu'il n'etait pas habitue a cette sorte de procede—et qu'il pria Monsieur Dickens d'oublier son nom, sa memoire, sa carte, et sa visite, et de considerer qu'elle n'avait pas ete rendu!' Of course I wrote him a very polite reply immediately, telling him good-humouredly that he was quite mistaken, and that there were always two weeks in the beginning of every month when M. Dickens ne pouvait rendre visite a personne. He wrote back ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... and with other godlie ministers, who all with one consent, said, "That he could nott refuise that Vocatioun, onless he wald declair him self rebellious unto his God, and unmercyfull to his contrie." And so he returned answer, with promessis to visite thame with ressonable expeditioun, and so sone as he mycht putt ordour to that dear flock that was committed to his charge. And so, in the end of the nixt September after, he departed from Geneva, and came to Deape, whare thare mett him contrare letteris; as by ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... respectueuse du prince: a cette meme assemblee il a fait signe a la pauvre vieille duchesse de Bedford a travers une grande salle, et apres qu'elle eut pris la peine de traverser cette derniere, il lui dit brusquement n'avoir rien a lui communiquer. Le prince a rendu visite la semaine derniere a Mme Vaneck, avec deux de ses ecuyers. En entrant dans la salle il s'est exclame: "Il faut que je le fasse: il le faut ..." Mme V—— lui a demande ce qu'il etait oblige de faire, et la-dessus il a jete un clignement d'oeil a St. ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... visit he paid me the night before I started. "You cannote deceives me, my youngish friends! Lamartine was un republicain, he?—Bien, he go un voyage en Orient; you, my dears Meestaire Lorton, are going to walk on a voyage en Ouest—dat is vraisemble. Ha! ha! Ze one visite the Arabes of ze old world, ze oders ze Arabes of ze nouvelle; and,—bote requires ze money, ze l'argent, ze cash. Ha! ha! Non, my youngish ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson
... can tell you, sir, it has boomed that spirit: it goes now by the gross of cases. By the way, I hope you won't mind; I've got your portrait all over San Francisco for the lecture, enlarged from that carte de visite: 'H. Loudon Dodd, the Americo-Parisienne Sculptor.' Here's a proof of the small handbills; the posters are the same, only in red and blue, and the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... miniature, daguerreotype, chromo, icon, chromotype, mezzotint, pastel, lithograph, lithotint, cartoon, sketch, etching, chromolithograph, pasticcio, tableau, portrait, illustration, cyclorama, silhouette, carte-de-visite, minette, caricature, vignette, draught, aquarelle, thermotype, tintype, ambrotype, cabinet, heliograph, chrysotype, photogravure, oleograph, cut, negative, study, likeness, scene, landscape, view, stereogram, stereograph, panorama, aristotype, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... fit descendre sur le rivage, et fit sa visite Tamango. Il le trouva dans une case en paille qu'on lui avait leve la hte, accompagn de ses deux femmes et de quelques sous-marchands et conducteurs d'esclaves. Tamango s'tait par pour recevoir le capitaine blanc. Il tait vtu d'un vieil ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... the British notice of motion on this point, which would seem to imply much more than the abandonment of contraband. The words in question, if indeed they are authentically reported, are as follows: "Le droit de visite ne serait exerce que pour constater le caractere neutre du batiment de commerce." Does this mean that the visiting officer, as soon as he has ascertained from the ship's papers that she is neutral property, is to make his bow and return to the cruiser whence he came? ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland
... Mr. Robinsone and Mr. Crukshank gaue me a visite; I called for some ale purposelie to heare one of them blesse it. It fell Mr. Robinsone to seeke the blessing, who said one of the most bombastick graces that ever I heard in my life. He summoned God Almightie very imperiouslie to be ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... ranchman, poet-painter, and man of the living world. Since he could not remain, he has left us a carte visite of rarest clarity and beauty. We who care, among the few, for things in relation to essences, are glad Rex Slinkard lived and laughed and wondered, and remained the little while. The new silence is but a phase of the ...
— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley
... detective to inquire after old neighbours, to show them a portrait of the Claimant, and to ask if any one in that locality recognised the features. At last the man prosecuting inquiries found himself in the Globe public-house in Wapping, the landlady of which hostelry at once declared the carte de visite to be a portrait of a mysterious individual of huge bulk who had visited her on the night of the previous Christmas day, stayed an hour in her parlour, and made numerous inquiries after old inhabitants of Wapping. His inquiries included the Schottlers, and he had particularly wanted ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous
... travaux assidus qui vous ont donne une place distinguee au rang des plus illustres Astronomes de l'Europe, et la cooperation bienveillante, que vous n'avez cesse de temoigner aux Astronomes Russes dans les expeditions, dont ils etaient charges, et en dernier lieu par votre visite a l'Observatoire central de Poulkova, a daigne sur mon rapport, vous nommer Chevalier de la seconde classe de l'Ordre Imperial et Royal de St Stanislas. Je ne manquerai pas de vous faire parvenir par l'entremise de Lord Bloomfield les insignes et ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy |
