"Mot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... should fight out and divide on it; that he had referred them to Goulburn, who had decided in the affirmative, on which he had agreed to their friends being mustered, but that he took offence at something that was said in debate, and marched off sans mot dire; that somebody was sent after him to represent the bad effect of his departure, and entreat him to return, but he was gone to bed. This is by no means the first time Arbuthnot has spoken to me about Peel in this strain and with such feelings. How ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... of Tournai, like that of Antoing and a good many small towns, is typical. The officers commanding in these districts either disregard the "mot d'ordre" given in Brussels or do not think it worth their while to keep up the sinister comedy played in the large towns. Here "Kultur" throws off her mask and the brute appears. We know at least where we stand. The ...
— Through the Iron Bars • Emile Cammaerts
... attributed, though at the same time their genius is denied; they form an efficient argument in the mouth of fools. Just as Monsieur de Talleyrand was supposed to hail all events of whatever kind with a bon mot, so in these days of the Restoration the clerical party had the credit of doing and undoing everything. Unfortunately, it did and undid nothing. Its influence was not wielded by a Cardinal Richelieu or a Cardinal Mazarin; it was in the hands ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac
... mot sur la description de la Palestine par Brochard, parce que l'original Latin ayant, ete imprime elle est connue, et que Mielot, dans le preambule de sa traduction, assure, ce dont je me suis convaincu, n'y avoir adjouste rien de sien. Brochard, de son cote, proteste de son exactitude. Non seulement ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... Mons de Montmorency, an ex-constituent, imprisoned. A work is published under the sanction of the convention, proving that the national domains, that is, the estates of the king (sic), the nobles, the clergy, and the emigrants, are worth twenty milliards of livres. Deputies from the county of Mot Belliard demand its union with France. The old name of Marseilles is restored; it had been forfeited by a decree, and was called "Sans-nom." 18. The Abbe Maury is promoted to the dignity of cardinal. Troops sent from Paris to La Vendee receive orders to travel ...
— Historical Epochs of the French Revolution • H. Goudemetz
... mwoi mui muoi moin, mot mnay moi moe ming 2 bar ba bar bar bar hai bar pra pra 3 pei pi pe pei peng ba peh pe pe 4 puon pan puon puon puon bon pon pon pon 5 sung m'sun sung pram (po)dam nam pram pram pram 6 thpat t'rou trou prou (to)trou sau ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
... the open air, The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand, I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness, And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance, And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us, And not something which may yet be ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... livres a nous donner, elle peut nous fournir un tres-grand nombre d'admirables echantillons pour nos collections de mineralogie, d'entomologie, de botanique, etc. Elle s'est d'ailleurs occupee avec succes de l'application des sciences et des arts a l'industrie. C'est, en un mot, une nature et une civilisation differentes ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... very grave, and a bon-mot will not now, as formerly, save a man's life.—I do not remember to have seen in any English print an anecdote on this subject, which at once marks the levity of the Parisians, and the wit and presence of mind of the Abbe Maury.—At the beginning of the revolution, when the people were ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... pas, messieurs; ce mot termine Toute l'irresolution; Le veritable Amphitryon Est l'Amphitryon ou ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... mot charmant. You are beginning to be witty again, thank heaven, and you have every reason to,—any one that stands like you on the high end of the see-saw, nor ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... reculee ce mot avait un sens different: il signifiait bruit, cries de joie, &c. Joinville dit dans son Histoire de Louis IX.,—'La noise que ils (les Sarrazins) menoient de leurs cors sarrazinnoiz estoit espouvantable a escouter.' Les Anglais nous ont emprunte cette ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850 • Various
... of wisdom, liberty, and peace, seemed to promise similar good results to the efforts of reformers elsewhere. Treatises on moral science and on the nature and end of civil government were eagerly read, "Humanit, mot nouveau," as Cousin says, became the watch-word of the Parisians. It was the fashion among all classes, high as well as low, to talk of human rights, to exalt the virtue of the people, hitherto supposed to have none, and to execrate "bloody tyrants," "silly despots," the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... bien bonne, Mademoiselle.... No, merit have no reward here. Reformer a man, like me! A man who also have ruin himself in dis service! I have lost in it so much as twenty thousand livres. What have I now? Tranchons le mot; je n'ai pas le sou, et me voila exactement ...
— Minna von Barnhelm • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
... emancipation of the Canton de Vaud from the domination of Bern, when the young man became perfectly furious and insisted that the Vaudois had no right whatever to their liberty, for that the Canton of Bern had purchased the province of Vaud from the Dukes of Savoy. "En un mot" (said he), "ils sont nos esclaves, nos ilotes et ils sont aussi clairement notre propriete que les negres de la Jamaique ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... Harrington, "I have mot given you half the arguments by which an historian, eighteen hundred years hence, might prove that what has actually occurred never could have occurred, and that what has not occurred must, in the very nature of things, have occurred, by a ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers
... hath won. Else had you seen Berwick with morning sun! Sain ye, and save ye, and blithe mot ye be, For seldom they land ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... [11] Le mot de romantisme, apres cinquante ans et plus de discussions passionnees, ne laisse pas d'etre encore aujourd'hui bien ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... tout, et d'une ancienne famille Romaine, j'ai ete VOLE sous arret au Camp de Ballaarat par VOS gens et avec impunite, Monseigneur. Vous me faites l'honneur d'avouer par votre lettre la chose, mais vous n'avez point fait de restitution. Ce n'est pas comme cela que j'entends le vieux mot Anglais, Fair-play.']" ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello
... pour infaillible. Et quand je parle de l'exercice legitime de la souverainete, je n'entends point ou je ne dis point l'exercice juste, ce qui produirait une amphibologie dangereuse, a moins que par ce dernier mot on ne veuille dire que tout ce qu'elle opine dans son cercle est juste ou tenu pour tel, ce qui est la verite. C'est ainsi qu'un tribunal supreme, tant qu'il ne sort pas de ses attributions, est toujours juste; car ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre • John Morley
... improbable and unreal. When we were motoring at night and a peremptory challenge would come from out the darkness and the lamps of the car would pick out the cloaked figure of the sentry as the spotlight picks out the figure of an actor on the stage, and I would lean forward and whisper the magic mot d'ordre, I always had the feeling that I was taking part in a play-which was not so very far from the truth, for, though I did not appreciate it at the time, we were all actors, more or less important, in the ...
— Fighting in Flanders • E. Alexander Powell
... "Bylaws" est le bouchon de toutes les emotions mousseuses et genereuses qui se montrent dans la Societe. C'est un empereur manque,—un tyran a la troisieme trituration. C'est un esprit dur, borne, exact, grand dans les petitesses, petit dans les grandeurs, selon le mot du grand Jefferson. On ne l'aime pas dans la Societe, mais on le respecte et on le craint. Il n'y a qu'un mot pour ce membre audessus de "Bylaws." Ce mot est pour lui ce que l'Om est aux Hindous. C'est sa religion; il n'y a rien audela. Ce ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... periode quarre que quelques reflexions que fasse l'esprit et quelques resolutions qu'il prenne pour corriger ses travers le premier sentiment du coeur renverse tous ses projets. Mais il n'appartient qu'a M. de la Rochefoucauld de dire tout en un mot que l'esprit est toujours la ...
— Reflections - Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims • Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
... trahir que de conseiller de temporiser avec Buonaparte. Moi je sais ce que sont ces guerres dont l'Europe saigne encore, comme une victime sous le couteau du boucher. Il faut en finir avec Napoleon Buonaparte. Vous vous effrayez a tort d'un mot si dur! Je n'ai pas de magnanimite, dit-on? Soit! que m'importe ce qu'on dit de moi? Je n'ai pas ici a me faire une reputation de heros magnanime, mais a guerir, si la cure est possible, l'Europe qui se meurt, epuisee de ressources et de sang, l'Europe dont vous negligez les vrais interets, pre-occupes ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... 'What cas,' quod Troilus, 'or what aventure Hath gyded thee to see my languisshinge, That am refus of euery creature? 570 But for the love of god, at my preyinge, Go henne a-way, for certes, my deyinge Wol thee disese, and I mot nedes deye; Ther-for go wey, ther is no ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... one would suppose was worth twopence, but who, in reality, was a partner of one of those gambling-tables which are carried to fairs and races), and asked him for threepence to get a pint of yell. He pulled out ten shillings, and said I mot hae the loan of five pounds ony day; and when Doncaster races comes, I think I can raise other fifteen" (and to show this was no vaunt, thrust his hand into his bosom, and pulled out a handfull of the sinews of war—shillings ...
— Sinks of London Laid Open • Unknown
... eastward istreiht. he is stretcht eastward; he bith sone stif. 60 he is soon stiff; he heardeth also clei. he hardens like clay; hit is him ikunde. it is of kin to him. mon hine met mit on [gh]erde. They measure him with a yard, and tha molde seoththen. and that dust, thenceforth, ne mot he of thaere molde. 65 may not of the earth habben namore. have any more thonne that rihte imet. than that right measured rihtliche taecheth. rightly teacheth. Thonne lith the clei clot. Then lies the clay clod cold on then flore. ...
— The Departing Soul's Address to the Body • Anonymous
... 11.-Imprisonment of the young Pretender at Vincennes. Death of the proud Duke of Somerset; his will. Bon-mot of John ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... jeunesse.' 'In former years, however, M. le Commandeur,'... the doctor ventured to observe. Ivan Matveitch smiled as before. 'Vous rvez, mon cher,' he interposed: 'le commandeur n'a plus de dents, et il crache chaque mot. J'aime ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... saye certainly Comment je lauray How shall I haue it Sa{u}ns riens laissier." Withoute thyng to leue." "Je le vous donray a vng mot: "I shall gyue it you at one worde: 4 Certes, se vous le aues, Certaynly, if ye haue it, Vous en paieres chinq souls Ye shall paye ...
— Dialogues in French and English • William Caxton
... and judged the best galleries of Europe, and can speak of them as a common person cannot. For, mark you, you must have the confidence of your society, you must be able to be familiar with them, to plant a happy mot in a graceful manner, to appeal to my lord or the duchess in such a modest, easy, pleasant way as that her grace should not be hurt by your allusion to her—nay, amused (like the rest of the company) by the manner in ...
— The Fitz-Boodle Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Baron that plays in a German band, perhaps," added her husband, with a whole series of winks to give point to this mot. ...
— Count Bunker • J. Storer Clouston
... of the fox making for shelter. Fence and double, hedge and brook, soon scattered the field; straying off far and wide, and coming to grief with lots of "downers," it grew select, and few but the crack men could keep the hounds in view. "Catch 'em who can," was the one mot d'ordre, for they were literally racing; the line-hunters never losing the scent a second, as the fox, taking to dodging, made all the trouble he could for them through the rides of the woods. Their working was magnificent, and, heading ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... nous reste plus qu'a dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-meme, auteur de ces memoires, et ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various
... serien. Handlingar roerande Severin Norby och de under hans ledning staende krigsfoeretagen mot Sverge, ed. N. J. Ekdahl. ...
— The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa • Paul Barron Watson
... perverse of men have a day, an hour, a moment, in which the good instincts, planted in the heart of every creature, appear in spite of themselves. Adrienne was too interesting, was in too cruel a position, for the doctor mot to feel some pity for her in his heart; the tone of sympathy, which for some time past he had been obliged to assume towards her, and the sweet confidence of the young girl in return, had become for this man habitual and necessary ratifications. But sympathy and habit were ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue |
