"Il-" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... manual, I fear, cannot be put in force. The identification, for instance, of the dead after a big battle. Others are subject to doubt, unless you insert "lorsque les circonstances le permettent, s'il se peut, si possible, s'il-y-a necessite," or the like. This will give them that elasticity without which the bitter severity of actual warfare ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... of bad desier, Il-worshipt idoll, false imagerie! Ensigne of vice, to thine owne selfe a lier, Silent inchaunter, mindes anatomie, Sly bawd to lust, pandor to infamie, Slaunder of Truth, truth of dissimulation, Staining our clymate more ...
— The Affectionate Shepherd • Richard Barnfield
... fontaine, et quand ces prparatifs furent tous finis il coupa le premier citron d'une main tremblante. Au mme instant une princesse, belle comme le jour, se prsenta devant lui, et dit timidement: "Prince, j'ai soif, voulez-vous, s'il-vous-plat, me donner ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... Tolstoy's "Crimean Journal." It harmonises with the point of view revealed in the "Letters from Sebastopol" (especially in the second and third series), and shows, like them, the change effected by the realities of war in the intolerant young aristocrat, who previously excluded all but the comme-il-faut from his consideration. With widened outlook and new ideals he returned to St. Petersburg at the close of the Crimean campaign, to be welcomed by the elite of letters and courted by society. A few years before he would have been delighted with such a reception. ...
— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy |
