"Perce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contre nous les mechants s'assembler, Et notre sang pret a couler; Comme l'eau sur la terre ils allaient le repandre: Du haut du ciel sa voix s'est fait entendre, L'homme superbe est renverse, Ses propres fleches l'ont perce. ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... along about 3 P.M. as near as I can remember; we did not have watches in those days, and I think it was about that time. We killed four of the Sioux Indians and recovered our horses, the Sioux only killing one Nez Perce who was with us. I remember another war that happened not very long ago. These were Indians from the southern part of Oregon. They were on the warpath and had started up north and killed many sheep herders and farmers, and killed their ...
— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon
... wrecked on the island of Anticosti, where the estuary of the St Lawrence joins the Gulf. No lives were lost, and the Carletons reached Perce in Gaspe quite safely in a little coasting vessel. Then a ship came round from Halifax and sailed the family over to England at the end of September, just thirty years after Carleton had come out to Canada to ...
— The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton • William Wood
... concurre in one opinion, and that the matter controuersed, holdeth some affinity with their profession. Howbeit, I doubt, least in their exclayming or declayming against Church-ales and Saints feasts, their ringleaders did onely regard the rinde, and not perce into the pith, and that the rest were chiefly swayed by their example: euen as the vulgar, rather stouped to the wayght of their authoritie, then became perswaded by the force of their reasons. And first touching Church-ales, these be mine assertions, if not my proofes: ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew
... sententiousnes. Then also must the whole tale (if it tende to perswasion) beare his iust and reasonable measure, being rather with the largest, than with the scarcest. For like as one or two drops of water perce not the flint stone, but many and often droppings doo: so cannot a few words (be they neuer so pithie or sententious) in all cases and to all manner of mindes, make so deepe an impression, as a more multitude of words to the purpose discreetely, and ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham
... arrangements were speedily made for that purpose. Fifteen men were left to pass the winter at Quebec, in charge of Captain Pierre Chavin of Dieppe. On the 5th of September they sailed from Tadoussac, and, lingering some days at Isle Perce, arrived at Honfleur on ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
... Darius, leader of the Medes.] Hit wat[gh] e dere daryus e duk of ise medes, e prowde prynce of perce & porros of ynde, 1772 [Sidenote: He has legions of armed men.] W{i}t{h} mony a legiou{n} ful large, w{i}t{h} ledes of armes, at now hat[gh] spyed a space to spoyle caldee[gh]. [Sidenote: Under cover of the darkness, they cross the river.] ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... expectation of obtaining corn-meal or flour at this station, the mill belonging to the mission having been lately burned down; but an abundant supply of excellent potatoes banished regrets, and furnished a grateful substitute for bread. A small town of Nez Perce Indians gave an inhabited and even a populous appearance to the station; and, after remaining about an hour, we continued our route and encamped on the river about four miles below, passing on the ...
— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
... provided for their children. The Nez Perces, belonging in Idaho, to the estimated number of two hundred, are found in Wallowa Valley, in the eastern part of the State. They claim that they were not parties to the treaty with the Nez Perce tribe years ago; that the valley in which they live has always belonged to them; and they strenuously oppose its settlement ...
— The Indian Question (1874) • Francis A. Walker |
