"Ci" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ci-git dans une paix profonde Cette Dame de Volupte Qui, pour plus grande surete, Fit son paradis de ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... ce paiement, qui s'effectuera moitie avant de partir, moitie a Napoli, le proprietaire de voiture, ou son conducteur delegue, est tenu des obligations ci-apres designees. ...
— Rollo in Naples • Jacob Abbott
... were seated Princesses Joseph and Louis Bonaparte, with Madame Fouche, Madame Roederer, the cidevant Duchesse de Fleury, and Marquise de Clermont. They were conversing with M. Mathew de Montmorency, the contractor (a ci-devant lackey) Collot, the ci-devant Duc de Fitz-James, and the legislator Martin, a ci-devant porter: several groups in the several apartments were composed of a similar heterogeneous mixture of ci-devant nobles and ci-devant valets, of ci-devant Princesses, Marchionesses, ...
— Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete - Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London • Lewis Goldsmith
... warrior of the eleventh century. The tradition concerning him is related by Wace, Roman de Rou, third part, v., 8035-62, ed. Andreson, Heilbronn, 1879. The Bodleian Roland ends with the words: "ci folt la geste, que Turoldus declinet." Turold has ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... That: te jinnen, that they may know, an optative word; O beng te poggar his men, may the devil break his neck. Wal. Ci. ...
— Romano Lavo-Lil - Title: Romany Dictionary - Title: Gypsy Dictionary • George Borrow
... REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, sur le compte qui lui a ete rendu de la demande faite par le LORD HAWKESBURY au Citoyen Otto, commissaire du gouvernement Francais a Londres, d'un Passeport pour la corvette Investigator, dont le signalement est ci-apres, expediee par be gouvernement Anglais, sous le commandement du capitaine Matthew Flinders, pour un voyage de decouvertes dans la Mer Pacifique, ayant decide que ce passeport seroit accorde, et que ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... know. It's only the difference between celui-ci and celui-la. You must quit ci and join ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... minute, ci-devant," I says at last. "I am half English and half French, but I am not the half of a man. I will tell thee something the Indian told me. Has ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... is not a melody, but merely the displaced metric accent which musicians call syncopation, rung on the notes of the familiar chord formed by piling three minor thirds on top of one another (technically, the chord of the minor ninth, ci-devant diminished seventh). One soon picks it up and identifies it; but it does not get introduced in the unequivocally clear fashion of the themes described above, or of that malignant monstrosity, the theme which denotes the curse on the gold. Consequently it cannot be said that the musical ...
— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw
... Sand faisait parler ses personnages dans la langue du pays, dans la langue de la chaumiere, dans leur propre dialecte, enfin. Elle n'avait, pour ainsi dire, qu' a faire penetrer le souffle de son talent sous le reseau de la phrase, pour animer celle-ci d'un reflet de lyrisme ou d'une ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... to the ci-devant convent of the jesuits, built by one of the munificent dukes de Bourbon. It is a magnificent oblong stone building. In the centre of the court was a tree of liberty, which, like almost all the other trees, dedicated to that ...
— The Stranger in France • John Carr
... mort le 8 Septembre, 1708: enfin Philippe d'Artois, Comte d'Eu, et Connetable de France, mort selon son epitaphe a Micalice en Turquie, c'est-a-dire Nicopoli, le 16 Juin, 1397. Le Mausolee de celui-ci, qui est de marbre, est enferme dans une espece de Cage de fer, dont les barreaux n'empechent point qu'on ne puisse en approcher et y porter la main. Le Prince y est represente arme, mais sans casque et sans gantelets, pour marquer, dit-on, ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... venery being colder in summer than in winter, and quotes the proverb "Aux mods qui n'ont pas d' R, peu embrasser et bien boire." But in the case of a celibate priesthood such scandals are inevitable: witness the famous Jesuit epitaph Ci-git ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... lies the one-time cathedral of Notre Dame, Soissons being another of the ci-devant bishoprics suppressed after the Revolution by the redistribution which gave but one diocese to a Department. Though not unpleasing, its facade is marred by its lack of symmetry, while the tower, which rises on the right 215 feet, is not sufficiently striking to redeem what otherwise ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun
... par miex. Tiens, tiens, tiens! c'est doulce celle-ci. Ah! que j'aimons les hommes! Des fames, ca ne m'aurait jamais donne l'arjan, blanc, plutot ca m'aurait ri au nez. C'est si peu de chose, les fames. Serviteur, beaulx sires! Bon voiage; ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... "Ci git, dans un pais profonde, Cette Dame de Volupte, Qui, pour plus grande surete, Fit son Paradis ...
— The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete • Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
... friends, or the creatures of the nobility, the emigrants, and of all who claimed to be restored to their rights and privileges. Nor could we hope that judges so constituted would deal out impartial justice between the ci-devant privileged tribes, whom they would naturally consider as the victims of revolutionary principles, and the children of the revolution, who, according to the same mode of reasoning, they could not fail to consider as the oppressors and ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon
... "Et ceux-ci, les pales oliviers, n'est-ce pas de ces heures desolees ou, comme torture supreme, le Sauveur acceptait en son ame l'irreparable misere du doute, n'est-ce pas alors qu'il ont appris de lui a courber le front sous le poids imperieux ...
— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang
... a subsequent letter he represents Mme. de Boufflers as giving them the same character, saying, "Dans ce pays-ci c'est un ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole
... purposes for the future? Here is his answer, in a psalm which has been with considerable appropriateness regarded as a kind of manifesto of the principles which he intended should characterize his reign (Psa. ci.): "I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes." For himself, he begins his reign with noble self-restraint, not meaning to make it a region of indulgence, but feeling that there is a law above ...
— The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren
... Section CI. Nehemiah's Social and Religious Reforms. GENERAL QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the cruel oppression of the leaders of the Jewish community. 2. The effect upon the mass of the people. 3. The way in which Nehemiah corrected these evils. 4. The evidence for and against the ...
— The Makers and Teachers of Judaism • Charles Foster Kent
... some bushes of the Gomphia oleaefolia, which he at first thought formed a quite distinct species, says: 'Voila donc dans un meme individu des loges et un style qui se rattachent tantot a un axe vertical, et tantot a un gynobase; donc celui-ci n'est qu'un axe veritable; mais cet axe est deprime au lieu d'etre vertical." He adds (p. 151), 'Does not all this indicate that nature has tried, in a manner, in the family of Rutaceae to produce from a single multilocular ovary, one-styled and symmetrical, ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... the firmly-secured and well-guarded culprit passed by, to be confronted with the dead body of his adversary. No sooner did he come into his presence than the CI-DEVANT corpse found his feet, "showed fight," and roared out, "Come on," with a most unghostlike vehemence. The fury of the mob cooled down; the people thought the man had been murdered, whereas the shot, fortunately ...
— A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. • Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacey
... predecessors has hitherto claimed. And the nature of this authority is such that the political rulers of the world may well feel—and are, as we know, feeling—a more anxious interest in the result of the election than they have for many a generation felt in the elevation of a temporal ruler of the ci-devant States of the Church. Under these circumstances it may be acceptable to our readers to have some brief account of what conclaves are ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various
... merely an application of a principle comprised in the preceding articles is declared by the express words of the article, to wit: "Dans l'exemption ci-dessus est nommement compris," etc., "in the above exemption is particularly comprised, the imposition of 100 sols per ton established in France on foreign vessels." Here, then, is at once an express declaration that the exemption from the duty ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 4) of Volume 1: George Washington • James D. Richardson
... the very boldness of the statement, Ikey came about upon the defender. "Ac-ci-den-tal!" he cried; "dat he smashes me in de ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... or many of them here. But one of the earliest, due to Hylas, cannot be omitted, for it is the completest and most sententious vindication of polyerotism ever phrased: "Ce n'etait pas que je n'aimasse les autres: mais j'avais encore, outre leur place, celle-ci vide dans mon ame." And the soul of Hylas, like Nature herself, abhorred a vacuum! (This approximation is not intended as "new and original": but it was some time after making it that I recovered, ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... devolved his whole cares on Jenny as prime minister, Niel Blane and the ci-devant laird, once his patron, but now glad to be his trencher-companion, sate down to enjoy themselves for the remainder of the evening, remote from the ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... laugh, "the ci-devant Captain Jarvis is a sportsman to your mind. He would shoot a month without moving a feather; he was a great friend to," throwing an arch look to his solitary sister, who sat on a sofa at a distance perusing a book, ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... mon pere Vive la rose.' Il y a un oranger Vive ci, vive la! Il y a un oranger, Vive ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... armed cap—pie, engaged in a tourney; while in the fifth and last a couple of German lansquenets essay their gladiatorial skill with their long and dangerous weapons. Several years back a tablet was discovered in one of the cellars of the house, inscribed "Ci-gist vnrable religieux mastre Pierre Dercl, docteur en thologie, jadis prieur de cans. Priez Dieu pour luy. 1486," which would almost indicate that the house had originally a religious character, although ...
— Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines • Henry Vizetelly
... remains the most enlightening, because the most poetic, account of the primitive Norse faith, or rather successive layers of faith, in our language. [Footnote: See Lectures on Heroes, p. 20; compare Corpus Poeticum Borealt, i. p. ci. ] But what mainly concerns us here is that Carlyle, in this matter as in others, had clearly realized and as clearly defines the goal which the student, in this case the student of literary history, should ...
— English literary criticism • Various
... pittore, attenente alla prospettiva, le quali ho voluto riferire, e quasi intessere in questo luogo, affinch sappiamo qual fosse l'opinione di cosi chiaro e famoso pittore intorno alla prospettiva . . Scrive Bramantino che la prospettiva una cosa che contraf il naturale, e che ci si fa in ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... amusements and no flirtation is unbearable. I shall borrow a slave of a friend here, an old black woman who is quite able and more than willing to serve me, and when I go down to Cairo I will get either a ci-devant slave or an elderly Arab woman. Dr. Patterson strongly advised me to do so last year. He had one who has been thirteen years his housekeeper, an old bedaweeyeh, I believe, and as I now am no longer looked upon as a foreigner, I shall ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon
... last. When a brother priest was sent to give him the consolations of religion, Ciro cut him short, saying, "Stop that chatter, we are two of a trade: we need not play the fool to one another" (Lasciate queste chiacchiere, siamo dell' istessa professione: non ci burliamo fra noi). Every successive revolutionary disturbance in Naples saw a recrudescence of brigandage down to the unification of 1860-1861, and then it was years before the Italian government rooted it out. The source of the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... most unexceptionable man of his acquaintance—in other words, to himself. Settlements were unnecessary between parties who had so long been known to each other, and, thanks to the liberality of his late master's will in more ways than one, a long minority, and the industry of the ci-devant head shopman, the nuptial benediction was no sooner pronounced, than our family stepped into the undisputed possession of four hundred thousand pounds. One less scrupulous on the subject of religion and the law, ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper
... with an inscription running round the edge, in old French, as follows: "Ci git Maud de Burgh la veuve comitisse de Gloucestre et Hertford, que mourust le 2 juillet l'ann grace 1315. Nous cherchons celle que est a venir." This slab, which is of large size, covers a well-wrought stone grave, and must have contained a very handsome brass, judging by the matrix. The ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury - with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire • H. J. L. J. Masse
... his deseruyng[e]s and as he is worthy to haue. As to deuide amonge suche as longe to the Chyrche of the Chyrche goodes after the qualitie of theyr merytes: and to them beynge Ciuil persones of the comon treasour of the Ci- tie accordynge as ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... ragazze di Trieste Cantan tutte con ardore, 'O Italia, O Italia del mio core, Tu ci ...
— With British Guns in Italy - A Tribute to Italian Achievement • Hugh Dalton
... us knew that part of the country, and I was too engrossed by my own thoughts, I never inquired further. As the chaise in chase drove round to the door, I looked to see what the pursuer was like; and as he issued from the inn, recognised my "ci devant host," Colonel Kamworth. I need not say my vengeance was sated at once; he had lost his daughter, and Waller was on the road to be married. Apologies and explanations came in due time, for all my injuuries and sufferings; ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... estas terura, kaj morto estus pli bonvena al mi ol cxiam tiele resti. Sed ankoraux ni konsideru, la Sinjoro de la lando al kiu ni iras estas dirinta. "Ci ne devas fari mortigon"—ne, ne al alia homo; multe pli, do, ni estas malpermesitaj preni la konsilon de la Giganto mortigi nin mem. Cetere, li kiu mortigas alian nur faras mortigon sur lian korpon, sed ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 4 • Various
... if the under-dog ever gets on top, then he, also, will try to kill the ci-devant who has now become the under-dog." And she laughed at him out of her green ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... Crevin, a peu-pres a la moitie de la hauteur du Grande Saleve. Celles qui touchent immediatement la montagne, sont le plus inclinees; on en voit la de verticales et meme quelque fois de renversees en sens contraire, qui sont soutenues par le plus exterieures. Celle ci font avec l'horizon un angle de 60 a 65 degres. Ces couches sont souvent tres etendues, bien suivies, et continues a de tres-grandes distances. Leur assemblage forme une epaisseur considerable au pied de la montagne. Elles ont cependant ete rompues, et manquent meme totalement dans quelques places. ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... end: to-morrow may be icy: Wither too soon the joys that freshest are; End will sweet summer reveries, and my ci- gar. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 16, 1892 • Various
... [Sidenote: FRAG. CI] 1. (Par.) The lieutenant of Flaccus, Fimbria, when his chief had reached Byzantium revolted against him. He was in all matters very bold and reckless, passionately fond of any notoriety whatsoever and contemptuous of ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio
... See Deut. xxiii. 21. Then ver. 26. "A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them." O that our magistrates were so wise! Is the act of levy a scattering of the wicked? Is the act of indemnity a bringing the wheel over them? Psal. ci. 8. "I ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... [ci] to The Giaour and in the section headed "NOTE TO THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS" the editor showed deleted text struck through with lines. The struck-through words are noted here with braces and ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron
... crown, the members of the parliaments, commanders of the order of the Holy Ghost and Saint Louis, the knights of Malta, all those who had protested against the abolition of nobility, and who had preserved its titles, were to quit the territory of the republic. The ci- devant nobles, or those ennobled, could only enjoy the rights of citizens, after a term of seven years, and after having gone through a sort of apprenticeship as Frenchmen. This party, by desiring ...
— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet
... se lasciando gli uomini e i nomi grandi de' governanti, noi venissimo a quella storia, troppo sovente negletta, dei piccoli, dei piu, dei governati che sono in somma scopo d' ogni sorta di governo; se, coll' aiuto delle tante memorie rimaste di quell' secolo, noi ci addestrassimo a conoscere la condizione comune e privata degli Italiani di quell' eta, noi troveremmo trasmesse dai governanti a' governati, e ritornate da questi a quelli, tali universali scostumatezze ed immoralita, tali fiacchezze e perfidie, tali mollezze e libidini, ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... breakfast. It is a large town, containing 12,000 inhabitants, and is advantageously situated at the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine. It was garrisoned chiefly by the Royal Guards of Saxony, who exceeded in appearance any troops I had seen on the Continent. Some of them are stationed in the ci-devant palace, which is ...
— A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium • Richard Boyle Bernard
... la Matrice.—Il y a un grand nombre de deplacements dont le plus important est appele "le prolapsus de la matrice." Celui-ci est produit d'abord par une relaxation des ligaments qui, dans leur etat normal, maintiennent cet organe a sa place. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound fortifiera ces ligaments, l'inflammation disparaitra ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham
... "History of the word religio in the Middle Ages," by. Professor Ewald Fluegel, of Leland Stanford Junior University—an abstract of which is printed in Transactions of American Philological Association, 1902, pp. ci, cii. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 • Various
... vouloir bien soumettre tous les documents ci-joints a l'oeil de sa Majeste, et dans le cas heureux ou vous seriez d'avis que ma compatriote, Mlle. Mitchell, puisse avec justice revendiquer la recompense genereuse instituee par le Roi Frederic VI., ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... diminuer l'infirmite de l'etre human, a apaiser l'inquietude de son coeur, la science decouvre une direction et un progres.—A. SOREL, Discours de Reception, 14. Le jeune homme qui commence son education quinze ans apres son pere, a une epoque ou celui-ci, engage dans une profession speciale et active, ne peut que suivre les anciens principes, acquiert une superiorite theorique dont on doit tenir compte dans la hierarchie sociale. Le plus souvent le pere n'est-il pas penetre de l'esprit de routine, tandis que le fils represente et defend la science ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... Ce rat ci est un animal fort singulier. Il a deux pattes de derriere sur lesquelles il marche, et deux pattes de devant dont il fait usage pour tenir les journaux. Cet animal a la peau noire pour le plupart, et porte un cerele blanchatre autour de son cou. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... mio sentimento crederei che i frutti, i legumi, gli alberi e le foglie, in due maniere inverminassero. Una, perche venendo i bachi per di fuora, e cercando l' alimento, col rodere ci aprono la strada, ed arrivano alla piu interna midolla de' frutti e de' legni. L'altra maniera si e, che io per me stimerei, che non fosse gran fatto disdicevole il credere, che quell' anima o quella virtu, ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... accidental forms, so likewise when Christ is said to be one thing or another thing, we do not imply diversity of suppositum or hypostasis, but diversity of nature. Hence Gregory Nazianzen says in a letter to Chelidonius (Ep. ci): "In the Saviour we may find one thing and another, yet He is not one person and another. And I say 'one thing and another'; whereas, on the contrary, in the Trinity we say one Person and another (so as not to confuse the subsistences), ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... did. And how I used to sing 'La ci darem' with Myra, and played the accompaniment myself? Yes, he told you that, too. My dear sir, I have a hundred little facts of this kind to tell you, including my race after Myra's horse when it took fright and she was thrown. By the way, has the tiny little ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... he wrote, "I found the old regime in its worst form." He knew the jargon of Liberty, the tune that set the patriots a-dancing. "Carrier's insolent secretaries emulate the intolerable haughtiness of a ci-devant minister's lackeys. Carrier himself lives surrounded by luxury, pampered by women 'and parasites, keeping a harem and a court. He tramples justice in the mud. He has had all those who filled the prisons ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... Sec. CI. Of these two great schools, the first uses foliation only in large and simple masses, and covers the minor members, cusps, &c., of that foliation, with various sculpture. The latter decorates foliation itself with minor foliation, ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin
... proclaimed Chopin's genius authoritatively, and to this fact he often referred subsequently, with special pride. The very first article in his volumes of criticisms is devoted to Chopin's variations on "La Ci Darem'," published as "opus 2." In those days, Schumann used to give his criticisms a semi-dramatic form. On this occasion he represents his alter ego, Eusebius, as rushing into the room with a new composition, and the exclamation "Hats off, gentlemen! ...
— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck
... Harbour he found that an English admiral had just been solemnly shot, in the sight of the whole fleet, for having failed to kill as many Frenchmen as with better judgment he might have killed. "Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres." I suppose that Voltaire was alluding to the trial by court martial of Admiral Byng, which took place in Portsmouth Harbour in 1757, while ...
— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis
... trop zelee, inquiete, est un danger pour les enfants. On augmente toujours la masse d'etude et de science, les acquisitions exterieures; l'interieur succombe. Celui-ci n'est que latin, tel autre n'est que mathematiques. Ou est l'homme, je vous prie? Et c'etait l'homme justement qu'aimait et menageait la mere. C'est lui qu'elle respectait dans les ecarts de l'enfant. Elle semblait retirer son action, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various
... the elements of life long offered are at length received. It is thus that providence and grace conspire to achieve the purpose of God in the salvation of men. In this work mercy and judgment meet; and saved sinners, on earth and in heaven, put both together in their song of praise (Ps. ci. 1.) ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
... reason with him as little as possible. To desire that he would be so good as to meet you at your own house, with Mr. Wallis and Mr. Gregg; we will have nothing to do with Lavie, pour le moment. Il ne respectera pas celui-ci comme les deux autres. Discuss with them before Charles the means of extricating yourself from these engagements. Let him hear what they say, and what they would advise you to do, as guardian to your children; for there is the point de vue, in which I am touched ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... Without a word to him, she ran, and running shouted to the little ones around and ahead: 'In! in! indoors, children! "Blant, i'r ty!" Mothers, mothers, ho! get them in. See the dog! "Ci! Ci!" In with them! "Blant, i'r ty! ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... ——. The friend started, and looked surprised; for, not many weeks before, he had been presented to another lady, with the same title, at Paris. The musician observed his surprise, and quietly said, "Celle-ci est Madame —— de Londres." In like manner we have a London omniscience now current, which would make any one start who only ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... show of regret at my intended departure, and marched away to his quarters with his bag of piastres. I sent for Dervish, but for some time he was not to be found; at last he entered just as Signor Logotheti, father to the ci-devant Anglo-consul of Athens, and some other of my Greek acquaintances, paid me a visit. Dervish took the money, but on a sudden dashed it on the ground; and clasping his hands, which he raised to his forehead, ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt
... that topic and his emphatic boast in the two following sonnets (xviii.-xix.) that his verse alone is fully equal to the task of immortalising his friend's youth and accomplishments. The same asseveration is repeated in many later sonnets (cf. lv. lx. lxiii. lxxiv. lxxxi. ci. cvii.) These alternate with conventional adulation of the beauty of the object of the poet's affections (cf. xxi. liii. lxviii.) and descriptions of the effects of absence in intensifying devotion (cf. xlviii. l. cxiii.) ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... of Jeremiah is heightened in this passage by his being the object of the special care of Nebuchadrezzar, vv. 11ff., whereas in all probability his fate was decided, not by the king, but by his officers (ci. 3, 13, 14). But after making every deduction, these chapters remain as a historical source of the first rank. The section begins by revealing the reckless impiety of Jehoiakim in burning the prophecies of Jeremiah in 605 B.C., but the other chapters gather round the siege ...
— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen
... would happen if these ci-devant Masters got hold of Imperial crowns," Erskyll said. "They'd only squander them back again for useless imported luxuries. This planet needs a complete modernization, and this is the only way the money to pay for it can be gotten." He was gesturing excitedly with the almost-full ...
— A Slave is a Slave • Henry Beam Piper
... together—took their meals together—generally smoked together—drank together—conversed together, and if they did not absolutely sleep together, often reposed in the same room. There was, therefore, nothing extraordinary in the familiar tone in which the ci-devant soldier now addressed him whose hired help he was. The latter, however, was in an irritable mood, and ...
— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson
... things in the world to endure than a glimpse of the Normandy coast and the scent of June roses! Idylliquement belle, la cote a ce moment-ci!" ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd
... Confession of a Lover) in 1390, was a Kentish man, and well acquainted with the Kentish dialect. He took advantage of this to introduce, occasionally, Kentish forms into his verse; apparently for the sake of securing a rime more easily. See this discussed at p. ci of vol. II of Macaulay's edition of Gower. I may illustrate this by noting that in Conf. Amant. i 1908, we find pitt riming with witt, whereas in the same, v 4945, pet rimes ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... have we here; a couple of drowned rats? or have we trapped you at last, the ci-devant Savenaye and her godam from England? I ought really to send you as a present to the Convention, but I am too soft-hearted, you see, my pigeons; and so, to save time and make sure, we will marry ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... seen with my own eyes on this subject, and will give it to the Chevalier de St. Urbain to send to him; too glad in that, as in everything else, to find an occasion of proving to him that no one is with such perfect veneration and respect as his very humble, and very obedient servant, L. de Beloz, ci-devant Captain in the regiment of his Serene Highness the late Prince Alexander of Wirtemberg, and his Aid-de-Camp, and at this time first Captain of grenadiers in the regiment of ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet
... of Damaraland (though this S.W. African group also presents marked peculiarities and some strange divergencies). Kimakonde, on the east coast of Africa, is a primitive Bantu tongue; so in its roots, but not in its prefixes, is the celebrated Ki-swahili of Zanzibar. Ci-bodzo of the Zambezi delta is also an archaic type of great interest. The Zulu-Kaffir language, though it exhibits marked changes and deviations in vocabulary and phonetics (both probably of recent ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various
... the piano, to have been so entirely engrossed by an animated flirtation carried on simultaneously, that, if at the conclusion of the piece you had been asked what you had been playing, you could not have replied whether it was La ci darem la mano or Non mi voglio maritar? And is it not evident that non-existent ideas cannot have called real ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton
... clucking of women's tongues, by a huge crowd of Dahomeyan negroes, preceded by a sort of corps de ballet of young negresses, wriggling themselves about in every conceivable manner. At their head marched the ci-devant porter in a great state of excitement. He began a fresh harangue ...
— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville
... were of three sizes, and of two different constructions. In the earlier times they were worn long, descending either to the feet or to the knees; and at this period they seem to have been composed simply of successive rows of similar iron scales sewn on to a shirt of linen or felt. [PLATE CI., Fig. 1.] Under the later monarchs the coat of mail reached no lower than the waist, and it was composed of alternate bands of dissimilar arrangement and perhaps of different material. Mr. Layard suggests that at this time the scales, which were larger than before, ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria • George Rawlinson
... women of other countries. And the cavalcade of the people of Marechiaro was hailed from all sides with pleasantries and promises to meet at the fair, with broad jokes or respectful salutations. Many a "Benedicite!" or "C'ci basu li mano!" greeted Maurice. Many a berretto was lifted from heads that he had never seen to his knowledge before. He was made to feel by all that he was among friends, and as he returned the smiles and salutations ...
— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens
... of Chile conventional short form: Chile local long form: Republica de Chile local short form: Chile Digraph: CI Type: republic Capital: Santiago Administrative divisions: 13 regions (regiones, singular - region); Aisen del General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, Antofagasta, Araucania, Atacama, Bio-Bio, Coquimbo, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Los Lagos, Magallanes ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Montez. The indecency and infatuation of this last liaison—far more openly conducted than any of his former numerous amours—had given intense umbrage to the nobility whom he had insulted by elevating the ci-devant opera-dancer ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... acquired for him the enviable right of placing that dignified appellation, Sir, before his Christian name, by which our authoress became entitled to be addressed as "Your Ladyship," as much as if she had married an Earl or a Marquis. Oh! how delighted the ci-devant plain "Miss" must have been at hearing the servants say to her, "Yes, my lady,"—"No, my lady."—The year in which the ceremony was performed that gave her a lord and master, we cannot precisely ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... January, 1750. When the Great Kurfurst's coffin came, he made them open it; gazed in silence on the features for some time, which were perfectly recognizable; laid his hand on the hand long dead, and said, 'Messieurs, celui-ci a fait de grandes choses (This one did a great work)!'" [See Preuss, ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg—1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle
... sortais, il y a quelques jours, de la comedie, ou j'etais alle voir Romulus, qui m'avait charme, et je disais en moi-meme: on dit communement l'elegant Racine, et le sublime Corneille; quelle epithete donnera-t-on a cet homme-ci, je n'en sais rien; mais il est beau de les avoir meritees toutes les deux." His criticism of the Lettres persanes is, after all, the only one worthy of praise. In it he has shown himself a fair and competent judge of this first celebrated work of Montesquieu. ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... of the mouth of the river Shannon. She hoisted English colours, and decoyed us within gun-shot, when she substituted the tri-coloured flag, and took us. She proved to be les Droits de L'Homme, of 74 guns, commanded by the ci-devant baron, now citizen La Crosse, and had separated from a fleet of men of war, on board of which were twenty thousand troops, intended to invade Ireland. On board of this ship was General Humbert, who afterwards effected a descent into Ireland (in 1799) ...
— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous
... blame you—they'd blame me," the child persisted. "Alice would frown at me and say 'Pa-tri-ci-a.' Papa would be severe and say, 'I shall have to ask mamma Eleanor to punish you,' and mamma Eleanor would look sad and say, 'Oh, my darling,' But she'd forget all about it as soon as ...
— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt
... e confortare con quell i desiderii dei populi nostri divoti, e propogare il seme di quella pianta che deve proteggerli, habbiamo Stabilito d'accompagnarci con una virgine eccelsa ed amorosa allattata alia mammella della leonessa forte e dell' Agnella mansueta. Percio essendo ci stato figurato sempre il vostro populo Europeo Romano par paese di donne invitte, i forte, e caste; allongiamo la nostra mano potente, a stringere una di loro, e questa sara una vostra nipote, o nipote di qualche ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... the hills comes a little white deer, Poor little vaurien, o, ci, ci! Come to my home, to my home down here, Sister and brother and child o' me Poor little, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... lettres sur la table. Celles-ci pour le frere de madame la comtesse ... et pour monsieur Gustave de Grignon ... ce jeune maitre des requetes[8] ... qui ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve
... with her cap-streamers flying and her smile of announcement as ample as her broad white apron. She raised aloft a telegraphic message and, as she delivered it, sociably discriminated. "Cette fois-ci pour madame!"—with which she as genially retreated, leaving Charlotte in possession. Charlotte, taking it, held it at first unopened. Her eyes had come back to her companion, who had immediately and triumphantly greeted it. "Ah, ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... with silk velvet, with compartments and secretary; carved mother-of-pearl paper-knife, gold seal, gold pencil, case full of fancy writing paper; made in Paris 1 bula work-box, elegant; inlaid 125 with silver and lined with ci-satin, fitted with gold thimble, needle, scissors, pen-knife, gold bodkin, cotton winders; outside to match French piano 1 long knitting-case to match the 40 above, fitted with needles, beads and silk of every description 1 papier-mache work-box, and 5 fitted up 1 morocco ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
... a tumberful of it. I called for my clothes, and, strange to say, they were gone. My servant brought them, however, saying that he had put them away—making some stupid excuse. I put them on, not heeding them much, for I was half tipsy with the excitement of the ci— of the smo— of what had taken place in Dawdley's study, and with the Maraschino and the eau-de-Cologue I ...
— The Fitz-Boodle Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... "ci" (thou), for the second person singular, used in solemn style, as in the Bible, in poetry, and also for intimate or familiar address when desired, like German "du", French ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman
... certain time, to dig up the bones of the dead, and preserve their skulls in little square boxes, like dog-kennels, with a heart-shaped opening through which the skull is visible. They are all ticketed with the names and dates of the deceased, as "Ci git le chef de * * * D. c. D. (decede) le * * * * *. Priez Dieu ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... sense of dignified prudence, it is impossible to say. When Denon, the designer of his medals, sobbed on bidding him adieu, he remarked: Mon cher, ne nous attendrissons pas: il faut dans les crises comme celle-ci se conduire avec froid. This surely was one source of his power over an emotional people: his feelings were the servant, not ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... bishop, overtaking the ci-devant warden; 'I wanted to say one word about the hospital. You know, of course, that it is to be ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... and kept talking loudly with his coachman. From time to time he overtook me, drove side by side, and always, with the same naive confidence that it was very pleasant to me, offered me a ci garette or asked for the matches. Or, overtaking me, he would lean right out of his sledge, and waving about the sleeves of his fur coat, which were at least twice as ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura." "To look at one another," says Boccaccio; and his interpretation has been followed by Cary and Foscolo; but, with deference to such authorities, I beg leave to think that the poet meant no more than he says, namely, ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... 'd be waihin' Out de linin' of his soul, Try 'n' ca'ci'late an' fashion How he 'd git his wintah coal; An' I b'lieve he got his jedgement Jes' so tuckahed out an' thinned Dat he t'ought a robin's whistle Was de whistle ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... whole length of corridors and passages, until round every corner of the labyrinthine house of sorrow the murmur would be borne on the wings of the cold night breeze: "Citizen Heron is in parley with ci-devant Baron de Batz!" ...
— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy
... Solitaire: il ouvre de grands yeux, il frotte ses mains, il se baisse, il la voit de plus pres, il ne l'a jamais vue si belle, il a le coeur epanoui de joie: il la quitte pour l'Orientale; de la, il va a la Veuve; il passe au Drap d'or, de celle-ci a l'Agathe, d'ou il revient enfin a la Solitaire, ou il se fixe, ou il se lasse, ou il s'assied, ou il oublie de diner: aussi est-elle nuancee, bordee, huilee a pieces emportees; elle a un beau vase ou un beau calice; il la contemple, il l'admire; Dieu et la ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey
... Court, and had an order made forbidding them to act the play. But the Children, "voyant toute la Cour dehors, ne laisserent de la faire, et non seulement cela, mais y introduiserent la Reine et Madame de Verneuil, traitant celle-ci fort mal de paroles, et lui donnant un soufflet." Whereupon the French Ambassador made special complaint to Salisbury, who ordered the arrest of the author and the actors. "Toutefois il ne s'en trouva ...
— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams
... acute angle in the air, in position very favored by him for moments of reflection—he said his brain worked better upside down. "Ma cantche! What a weakness, what a weakness! What remorse to have yielded to it! Beneath you, Picpon—utterly beneath you. Just because that ci-devant says such follies ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... vieille femme avait racont son histoire une amie seulement, en secret. L'amie l'avait raconte une autre, en secret aussi. Celle-ci l'avait raconte une troisime, et avant la nuit, tout le monde parlait de la demoiselle, qui avait donn un seau d'or ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... demanda la permission d'adopter pour fils, le 'Khoubilkhan' ne dans la mer de lotus. Mais sa demande ne fut pas agree et il apprit, la veritable origine de ce 'Khoubilkhan.' Le Bouddha infiniment resplendissant posa alors sa main sur la tete de celui-ci et dit 'Fils d'illustre origine! Les etres qui habitent l'apre empire de la neige, qu'aucun Bouddha des temps passes n'a pu convertir, qu'aucun du temps futurs ne convertira, et qu'aucun du temps present n'a converti, le seront par la ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... Aldrovandi, de Piscibus, treating of the synonyms of the Salmon, p.482, says, "Grcam salmonis nomenclaturam non inuenio, neq{ue} est quod id miretur curiosus lector, cum in Oceano tantu{m} flumi{n}ibusq{ue} in eum se exonerantibus reperiatur, ad qu veteres Grci nunquam penetr{a}runt. Qui voluerit, Salangem appellare poterit. Salanx enim boni, id est, delicati piscis nomen legitur apud Hesychium, nec prterea qui sit, explicatur: aut a migrandi natura katanadromos, vel dromas fluviatilis ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... housewifely Muse, that brewed a cup, neither cheering unduly nor inebriating, out of the emptyings of Wordsworth's teapot. How that little busy B. improved each shining hour, how neatly he laid his wax, it gives us a cold shiver to think of,—ancora ci raccappriccia! Against a copy of verses signed "B.B.," as we remember them in the hardy Annuals that went to seed so many years ago, we should warn our incautious offspring as an experienced duck might her brood against ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various |
