"Ost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... u ils 'estuient Cels de l'ost virent, ki pres furent." Roman de Rou, Second Part, v. ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... about their feet, a little mist tarried about the warm side of Ben Bhreac, caught among the juniper bushes the hunters had put there for shelter. All over brooded calm, a land forgetful of its stormy elements, of the dripping nights, the hail-beat, shrewd ost and hurricane. They could not, the pair of them, flying from a world of anxieties, but stop and look at the spectacle, when they came on the face of the Cruach. For a little they did ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... to departen softely Took purpos ful this forknowinge wyse, And to the Grekes ost ful prively 80 He stal anoon; and they, in curteys wyse, Hym deden bothe worship and servyse, In trust that he hath conning hem to rede In every peril ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... fortification of the Barbarians. (Vegetius de Re Militari, l. iii. c. 10. Valesius ad Ammian. xxxi. 7.) The practice and the name were preserved by their descendants as late as the fifteenth century. The Charroy, which surrounded the Ost, is a word familiar to the readers of Froissard, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon |
