"ESP" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... power.[Footnote: De Tocqueville praises the independence of the old magistrates, who could neither be degraded nor promoted by the government, Oeuvres, iv. 171 (Ancien Regime, ch. xi.). Montesquieu, iii. 217 (Esp. des lois, liv. v. ch. xix.). Mirabeau, L'Ami des hommes, 212, 219. Bastard d'Estang, ii. ...
— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell
... sausages; and salmon, pikes, and sea-breams, which they send up in pickle, called escabeche [Footnote: "Escabeche; a pickle made of white wine, bay leaves, sliced lemons, and spices, used for preserving fish and other food."—Dic. de la Acad. Esp.] to Madrid, and dolphins, which are excellent meat, besides carps, and many other sorts of fish. The cream, called nata, is much sweeter and thicker than any I ever saw in England; their eggs much exceed ours; and so all sorts of salads, and roots, and fruits. ...
— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe
... Essay on New Spain, all the prices are reckoned in piastres, and silver reals (reales de plata). Eight of these reals are equivalent to a piastre, or one hundred and five sous, French money (4 shillings 4 1/2 pence English). Nouv. Esp. volume 2 pages 519, 616 ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... has the force of an h after the first and the last—ch, sh. gx is pronounced like English g in George, which g without sign has the value of g in good. jx is pronounced like s in pleasure, while j simple has the sound of y in yes, esp. jes. hx occurs rarely and is doomed to disappear ...
— Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education • Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen
... al-harr" beans like horsebeans soaked and boiled as opposed to the "Ful Mudammas" (esp. of Egypt)unshelled beans steamed and boiled all night and eaten with linseed oil as "kitchen" or relish. Lane (M.E., chaps. v.) calls them after the debased Cairene pronunciation, Mudemmes. A legend says that, before the days of Pharaoh (always he of Moses), ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... On their arrival in this Capital they were lodged, literally, in a stable; under the same cover, and in the same apartment, with a parcel of cart-horses. Mr. Van Braam's own words are, "Nous voil donc notre arrive dans la clbre residence impriale, logs dans une espce d'curie. Nous serions nous attendus ...
— Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey thr • John Barrow
... lanmain-ou assous tte-ou, foute! pisse moin enc l!... Espr moin all lazarett avant mett lanmain conm a!" (Child, take down your hands from your head... because I am here yet! Wait till I go to the lazaretto before you put up your hands ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn |
