"Fers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... je puis t'emmener Corte ou Bastia[1]? Je te ferai coucher dans un cachot, sur la paille, les fers aux pieds, et je te ferai guillotiner si tu ne dis o est ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... only son of John Newman of Lombard Street, London, and of Elizabeth Good, his wife. The arms granted the family on 15th Feb., 1663-4, were Or, fers dancettee between 3 hearts gules. John Newman, the father of Francis Newman, was partner in the banking house of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co. He married Jemima Fourdrinier, 29th Oct., 1799, at St. Mary's, Lambeth. ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... Il est plus durs que n'est un fers ... Tu es fieblette et tendre chose, Et es plus fresche que n'est rose; Tu es plus blanche que cristal, Que nief qui chiet sor glace en val. Mal cuple en fist le criatur; Tu es trop tendre et il trop dur ... Por co fait bon se treire ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand |
