"Pratique" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Melbourne.... C'est lui qui disait que l'intelligence n'est pas toujours indispensable: le grand avantage du celebre ordre de la Jarretiere, ajoutait-il, c'est qu'au moins "il n'y a pas, dans toute cette bete d'histoire, de merite a l'avoir." Lord Melbourne avait la bosse de l'esprit pratique, en meme ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... It is for a pretty girl, comrades,' Pratique said, and ten cloaks were thrown to him. In a moment, the girl was lying, warm and comfortable, among them, and was raised upon six shoulders. I placed myself at their head, on the right, and very pleased I was with ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... to her side until she leave. The boat's crew, having applied this engine, returned at once to shore. They might not come on board; neither might we land, or not without danger of offence; the king giving pratique in person. An interval followed, during which dinner was delayed for the great man—the prelude of the ladder, giving us some notion of his weighty body and sensible, ingenious character, had highly whetted our curiosity; and it was with something like excitement that we saw ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson
... exceedingly striking at first sight and offering every guarantee that could be desired to authenticity, nevertheless do not imply a real knowledge of the future and can be interpreted in another manner. I give one, to serve as an instance; it is reported by Dr. Alphonse Teste in his Manuel pratique du magnetisme animal. ...
— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck
... with his blue flag gave us pratique, and the fort-adjutant with his red flag carried off our only soldier. The latter, with a hospitality rare, it is to be hoped, in British regiments, would hardly recognise his quondam shipmates. We were duly interviewed, in most civilised style, by a youth who does this work ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton
... laquelle on trouvera la Thorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec des Experiences sur la Densit des Alliages des Mtaux, et des demi-Mtaux; et un Abrg de Docimastique. Avec Figures. Par M. C. E. Gellert, Conseiller des Mines de Saxe et de l'Acadmie Imperiale de ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... Vol. II, p. 372. 6. See remarkable work of Dr. A. Imbert, Evaluation de la Capacite de Travail d'un Ouvrier Avant et Apres un Accident; Les Methodes du Laboratoire appliquees a l'Etude directe et pratique des Questions ouvrieres. 7. Clark and ...
— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth
... is a short street connecting the Rue et Place de l'Ecole de Medecine with the Rue de Monsieur le Prince. One side of it is formed by the gloomy wall of the Ecole Pratique, where more "subjects" are disposed of annually than in any other dozen similar institutions in the world; the other by various medical shops and libraries, over which are "clubs," "laboratories," "cliniques," and ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort" was in high popularity with his comrades; and had said but the truth when he averred that he had never been so happy as under the tricolor. The officers pronounced him an incurably audacious "pratique"; he was always in mischief, and the regimental rules he broke through like a terrier through a gauze net; but they knew that when once the trumpets sounded Boot and Saddle, this yellow-haired dare-devil of an English fellow would be worth a ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... quarantine was rowed alongside, chiefly for the purpose of regulating this. The spirited little commander of the yacht, however, was not at all desirous of any such arrangement; and after some energetic appeals on his part, met by cautious remonstrances on the part of the other, their pratique was duly accorded. ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... Maroccan and Egyptian, Professor Cherbonneau (Paris, 1854), Precis Historique, and Dialogues, etc. (Alger, 1858); M. Gasselin (Paris, 1866), Dictionnaire francais-arabe, M. Brassier (Algiers, 1871), Dictionnaire pratique, also containing Algerine and Tunisian terms; General Parmentier (Vocabulaire arabe-francais des Principaux Termes de Geographie, etc.: Paris, rue Antoine-Dubois, 1882); and, to mention no others, ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... no one dared come in contact with the yacht in contumacy, there we remained. The panic on shore increased to such a point that Woodley and the health-officer had a quiet consultation, and it was agreed to give us pratique immediately. We went that night to the hotel, and the question was forgotten by the next day. The Corfiotes are certainly the most cowardly people I have ever known, and in later years we had other evidence of the fact; ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... effet—'J'ai mon ophthalmie, tu dois avoir la tienne.' Quelque singulier que ceci puisse paraitre, le fait non est pas moins exact: on ne me l'a pas raconte, je l'ai vu, et j'en ai vu d'autres analogues dans ma pratique. Ces deux jumeaux etaient aussi tous deux asthmatiques, et asthmatiques a un effroyable degre. Originaires de Marseille, ils n'ont jamais pu demeurer dans cette ville, ou leurs interets les appelaient souvent, sans etre pris de leurs acces; jamais ils n'en eprouvaient a Paris. Bien ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... were stowed, which was speedily done, the health-boat came alongside, and as it appeared she had come from Sicily, pratique was immediately given her. She was next visited by the custom-house boat. The officer, for some reason or other, seemed to consider that there was something suspicious about her, for he examined her ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... aside my dignity and midshipman's dress, and applied for a passage home to the commissioner of the yard. But it was fated to be otherwise; for the master of the transport went on shore to report and obtain pratique, and he told them everywhere that young Lord A—— was a passenger with him, going to England for the benefit of his health. In less than half-an-hour, off came the commissioner's boat, and another boat from the governor, requesting ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... appartenait pas. Son voisin ne bougeait plus. Ce genereux adversaire, sentant approcher la mort, avait jete sur son compagnon d'infortune un vetement qui desormais lui etait inutile. Il avait ainsi mis en pratique cette maxime: Soyons bons, meme envers nos ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... avez puises des sources prcieuses dans diverses contres du globe; car les voyages sont aussi propres instruire que les livres eux-mmes, et parmi vos professeurs il y en a qui ont parcouru beaucoup de pays et vu beaucoup de peuples diffrents, et qui ont suivi en Amrique la pratique des fondateurs du Christianisme, en apprenant les langues trangres, en voyant l'ancien monde, ses habitants, tout en s'initiant ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
... it would not then have been difficult for me to escape. However, as the regulations against those who violate the sanitary laws are very rigorous in Spain, as they pronounce the penalty of death against him who infringes them, I only determined to make my escape on the eve of our admission to pratique. ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago
... account of their tombs, with the statues and inscriptions, is transcribed from Gilbert's Description Historique de l'Eglise de Notre Dame de Rouen, p. 57:—"Le tombeau de Rollon est place dans un enfoncement cintre, pratique dans le mur de la chapelle; il consiste en un sarcophage de stuc, marbre de Portor, sur lequel se voit la statue couchee de ce prince, dont la tete est appuyee sur un coussin. Rollon est vetu d'une longue tunique, par-dessus laquelle ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... treillis de fer, et au-dessous il y avoit un vase qui contenoit de l'huile. Une femme qui etoit la vint a moi; elle remua les drapeaux avec une cuillere d'argent, et voulut me faire, le signe de la croix au front, aux tempes et sur la poitrine. Il me sembla que tout cela etoit une pratique pour avoir argent; cependant je ne veux point dire par-la que Notre-Dame n'ait plus de pouvoir encore ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... flag was hoisted over them. This vessel left Marseilles five days before the announcement of the quarantine, while the 'Prince Napoleon' of Valery's Company, passenger and merchandise steamer, which left Marseilles only one day before its announcement, was admitted this morning to free pratique. Few travellers will ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "Systeme de Politique Positive" (iii. 41). "Concu logiquement, l'ordre suivant lequel nos principales theories accomplissent l'evolution fondamentale resulte necessairement de leur dependence mutuelle. Toutes les sciences peuvent, sans doute, etre ebauchees a la fois: leur usage pratique exige meme cette culture simultanee. Mais elle ne peut concerner que les inductions propres a chaque classe de speculations. Or cet essor inductif ne saurait fournir des principes suffisants qu'envers les plus simples etudes. Partout ailleurs, ils ne peuvent etre etablis qu'en subordonnant chaque ...
— Auguste Comte and Positivism • John-Stuart Mill
... of a merchant vessel that had been captured, and I saw you three or four times as you passed the vessel I was on board of; for, being put in quarantine, we were not sent to prison till the pratique was given. I thought ...
— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat
... what had passed. This freak, however, kept him on deck all day and all night, for there was no abatement of either wind or sea, until she was swept into the Dardanelles. The sail had to be shortened so that she might be hove to, and the boat sent ashore at Chanak to receive pratique and a permit to allow her to pass through into the sea of Marmora. Many an expensive salvage case and many a life has been lost through this barbarous system. It is the worst part of the channel for erratic currents, and notwithstanding ...
— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman
... Sacrament we started again, but, as ill-luck would have it, without a clean bill of health. At that time I could have run into Bahia with coal—of which I had bought some—in a week. But there was fever on shore,—and bad,—and I knew we must make pratique when we came into the outer harbor here; so, rather than do that, we stretched down the coast, and met that cyclone I wrote you about, and had to put into Loando. Understand, this was the first time we went into Loando. I have learned that wretched hole well enough ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale
... patience of the men, kept so long in durance vile without the shadow of a cause, in sight of their homes, was exhausted, and the perishable portion of the cargo in a most unwholesome state of decomposition, caused by the delay, the vessel was pronounced pure, in a fit condition to receive PRATIQUE, and allowed to haul alongside the wharf, receive visitors on board, ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... mouth—and could see the towers and buildings of Alexandria rising purple against the sunset, when the report of a gun came booming over the calm golden water; and we heard, with much mortification, that we had no chance of getting pratique that night. Already the ungrateful passengers had begun to tire of the ship,—though in our absence in Syria it had been carefully cleansed and purified; though it was cleared of the swarming Jews who had infested the ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
... gathered round her, and, as for me, I stamped my foot in perplexity, not knowing what to do, and being unwilling to abandon that man and girl like that, when suddenly one of the soldiers, a Parisian whom they had nicknamed Pratique, said: ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant |
