"Precis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with close attention, jotting down from time to time a brief note on a sheet of paper; and, when I had finished, he wrote out in a black-covered notebook a short precis of ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman
... ecclesiastiques Grecs. Il serait de toute justice que la Porte autorisat le Patriarche d'assigner une des eglises ou monasteres de la ville a l'usage exclusif du clerge et des pelerins Russes, et que les autorites civiles et militaires du pays eussent l'ordre precis de reconnaitre et de respecter cet etablissement, comme etant place sous la protection speciale de la Russie et sur le surveillance de ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... a "Precis of English History," a "Continuation of Grecian History," etc., and for many years Editor of Self-Culture ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath |
