"Bandeau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eight branches, which supported a golden globe surmounted by a cross, each branch set with diamonds, four being in the shape of palm and four of myrtle leaves. Around the crown ran a band set with eight enormous emeralds, while the bandeau which rested on the brow ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... vers, ie le voy qu'il compose: Si ie plains mes douleurs, il se plaint hautement. Si ie me plains du mal, il accroist mon tourment: Si ie respan des pleurs, son visage il arrose: Si ie monstre la playe en ma poitrine enclose, Il defait son bandeau l'essuyant doucement. Si ie vay par les bois, aux bois il m'accompagne: Si ie me suis cruel, dans mon sang il se bagne: Si ie vais a la guerre, it deuient mon soldart: Si ie passe la mer, il conduit ma nacelle: Bref, iamais l'inhumain de moy ne se depart, Pour rendre mon ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... spoke were almost all partisans of M. Turgot's system of administration: they were Mirabeau the father, Doctor Quesnay, Abbe Bandeau, and Abbe Nicoli, charge d'affaires to Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and as enthusiastic an admirer of the maxims of the innovators ...
— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan
... this account. He had just been finding fault with a bandeau worn by Lady Lade, a very large woman, standing six feet high ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
... Chiefs wife, is old and full of dignity. TIAWA is old and sharp, but WACOBA is a comfortable, comely matron, who wears a blanket modestly yet to conceal charms not past their prime. SEEGOOCHE and TIAWA wear basket caps, but WACOBA has a bandeau of bright beads about her hair. They show signs of agitation, instantly subdued at ...
— The Arrow-Maker - A Drama in Three Acts • Mary Austin
... put on her pretty fluffy dress. Very lovely she looked, her golden curls twisted up high on her head, and held by a bandeau of ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... small Egyptian temples, which have been called mammeisi, the chief difference being that the latter are for the most part peristylar.[623] M. Renan says of the Maabed, or main shrine at Amrith:—"L'aspect general de l'edifice est Egyptian, mais avec une certaine part d'originalite. Le bandeau et la corniche sur les quatre cotes de la stalle superiere en sont le seul ornement. Cette simplicite, cette severite de style, jointes a l'idee de force et de puissance qu'eveillent les dimensions enormes des materiaux employes, sont des ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
... hair and a mien of easy good-nature. The QUEEN is older, but looks younger in the dim light, from the lavish use of beautifying arts. She has pronounced features, dark eyes, low brows, black hair bound by a jewelled bandeau, and brought forward in curls over her forehead and temples, long heavy ear-rings, an open bodice, and sleeves puffed at the shoulders. A cloak and other mufflers lie on a chair ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy |
