"Ordonnance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will not stay to gratify me," said he, half sadly, half bitterly. "But you will have to stay a week or two longer par ordonnance ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... History of Canada, Vol. V, p. 30 (n), cites from the Documents of the Montreal Historical Society, Vol. I, p. 5, an "ordonnance au sujet des Negres et des sauvages appeles panis, du 15 avril 1709" by "Jacques Raudot, Intendant." "Nous sous le bon plaisir de Sa Majeste ordonnons, que tous les Panis et Negres qui ont ete achetes et qui le seront dans la suite, appartiendront ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various
... doing regimental work, but Lieut. D'Hubert had the good fortune to be attached to the person of the general commanding the division, as officier d'ordonnance. It was in Strasbourg, and in this agreeable and important garrison they were enjoying greatly a short interval of peace. They were enjoying it, though both intensely warlike, because it was a sword-sharpening, firelock-cleaning ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad |
