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Demander   Listen
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Demander  n.  One who demands.






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"Demander" Quotes from Famous Books



... absence of ambition in the character of La Tour d'Auvergne is expressed in a letter to Le Coq, Bishop of Ille-et-Vilaine. He writes,—"Je me prosterne bien plus volontiers devant la Providence pour le remercier que pour rien demander; du pain, du lait, la liberte; et une coeur qui ne puisse jamais s'ouvrir a l'ambition, voila l'objet de ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser

... that—showing how he was treated on a footing of perfect equality and familiarity by the mighty ones of the earth—how they caressed and complimented him, and wore out the boots of their aides-de-camp and chamberlains by sending after him—and how they told him to "Venez me demander a diner," or in other words, to go and take a chop with them whenever he could make it convenient. At all these interesting and carefully recorded incidents we should indulgently smile, were they narrated by any one but our much-esteemed Alexander—the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

... eighteenth centuries was not so sensitive in regard to "tips" as it is expected to be today. Le Gentil writes: "Les Gouverneurs de Manille corrompent journellement leurs graces, et les Manillois ne les abordent guere pour leur en demander, sans se precautioner auparavant du rameau d'or; seul et unique moyen de se les rendre favorables. Un soir etant alle voir le Gouverneur, in 1767, a peine m'eut-il demande des nouvelles de ma sente qu'il alla me chercher une bouteille de verre ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 • Emma Helen Blair

... etes aimable, mon cher Papa, de me demander une description de ma solitude. Votre imagination est genee de ne pouvoir se la peindre. Vous voulez faire de Courcelles une seconde etoile du matin, et y lier avec moi un de ces commerces d'ames reserves aux favoris de Brama. Votre idee ne me perdra ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse



Words linked to "Demander" :   soul, person, somebody, demand, mortal, someone



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