"Anglice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parazon cure many of the new consumption, I mean the pox, though they were never so peppered. Had it been the rankest Roan ague (Anglice, the Covent-garden gout), 'twas all one to him; touching only their dentiform vertebrae thrice with a piece of a wooden shoe, he made them as wholesome ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... officinam clientum vacuam, paululum fugiens. Orat, implorat te—nempe, Martinus—ut si (quod Dii faciant) forte fortuna, absente ipso, advenerit tardus cliens, eum certiorem feceris per literas huc missas. Intelligisne? an me Anglice et barbarice ad te hominem perdoctum ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb
... white coat, a fat, sufficiently honored man!—Chodowiecki has an engraving of this incident;—I saw IT at the British Museum once, where they have only seven others on Friedrich altogether, all in one poor GOTHA ALMANAC; very small, very coarse, but very good: this Quast (Anglice 'Tassel') was one of them" (MARGINALE ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Appendix - Frederick The Great—A Day with Friedrich.—(23d July, 1779.) • Thomas Carlyle
... the great Sierras stand clad in eternal snow, there is no more loyal county to the Republican party in this State than the county from which I hail. [Applause, naturally.] Its loyalty to the party has been tested on many fields of battle [Anglice, in many elections] and it has never wavered in the contest Wherever the fate of battle was trembling in the balance [Homer, and since Homer, Tom, Dick and Harry] Alameda county stepped into the breach and rescued the ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce
... remember that, feeling a little hungry, and not desiring to go back and take my share of the "gouter," now on the refectory-table at Pelet's—to wit, pistolets and water—I stepped into a baker's and refreshed myself on a COUC(?)—it is a Flemish word, I don't know how to spell it—A CORINTHE-ANGLICE, a currant bun—and a cup of coffee; and then I strolled on towards the Porte de Louvain. Very soon I was out of the city, and slowly mounting the hill, which ascends from the gate, I took my time; for the afternoon, though cloudy, was very sultry, ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... m{u}ltiplyed be a no{er}, qwat co{m}mys {ere}of. fforthermor{e}, as to e sentence of our{e} verse, yf {o}u wel m{u}ltiply a nombur be a-no{er} nomb{ur}, ou schalt write [*leaf 154a] a rewe of figures of what nomb{ur}s so eu{er} {o}u welt, &at schal be called Num{erus} m{u}ltiplicand{us}, Anglice, e nomb{ur} the quych to be m{u}ltiplied. en {o}u schalt write a-nother rewe of figur{e}s, by e quych {o}u schalt m{u}ltiplie the nombre at is to be m{u}ltiplied, of e quych nomb{ur} e furst fig{ur}e schal be write vnd{er} e last ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... the most respectable, yet the morals of the sporting fraternity of a frontier settlement are not likely to have been edifying. That his nephew, as he himself declares, was an ardent frequenter of races, "house-raisings,"* (* Anglice, house-warmings.) and country dances is hardly surprising, and it is assuredly no ground whatever for reproach. Nor is it strange that, amid much laxity, he should have retained his integrity, that his regard ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
... chance of saving it was at once seen to be hopeless. Indeed, as the old man said, it was time for us to "up stick" and run for shelter. We had been too fully occupied to notice the gradual increase of the wind; but when we did, there was no gainsaying the fact that it was blowing a very stiff breeze (ANGLICE, a violent gale). Fortunately for us, it was from the westward, fair for the harbour of Port William, on the Stewart's Island side of the Straits, so that we were free from the apprehension of being blown out to sea or on a ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen |
