"On dit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vous dit. Vous connaitre c'est ne plus pouvoir vous oublier: etre loin de votre aimable personne lorsque l'on a goute les charmes de votre societe c'est desirer vivement de s'en rapprocher; mais l'on dit que vous allez en Espagne. Fi! c'est tres vilain a moins que vous ne soyez de retour avant trois mois, enfin que cet hiver nous ayons le bonheur de vous voir a Paris. Allez donc en Espagne visiter la caverne de Gil Blas. Moi je crois aussi visiter ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... Church of Vercelli in the seventeenth century. Bock says it is still there, and he quotes an ancient inventory of the treasures of Phillip the Good, of Burgundy, which names a "Riche et ancienne table d'autel de brodeure que on dit que la premiere Emperriez Christienne Fist."[500] The Empress Helena died in the ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford
... after many days of suspense, during which rumors and reports of war grew into circumstantial statements of engagements at sea and battles on land. A mysterious vessel was said to have slipped in at night with despatches for the governor. All was sensation and canard, on dit and oui dire, and all was proved false when the liner came through the passage in the reef. Nothing had happened to disturb the peace of nations, but a dock strike in Auckland had tied up the ship. The relief of mind of the people of Papeete ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien |
