"Semblable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Maroc accordait une autre exception, chacune des Puissances Contractantes aurait le droit de reclamer une concession semblable. ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... sorest foughten [Sidenote: Vncerteine victorie Thus farre Polydor.] fields that had beene heard of in those daies. To whether partie a man might iustlie attribute the victorie, it was vtterlie vncerteine, with so like losse & gaine the matter was tried & ended betwixt them. With the semblable chance of danger and glorie seuen times that yeere [Sidenote: Ran. Higd.] did the English and Danes incounter in battell, as writers haue [Sidenote: A peace agreed vpon.] recorded. At length, when their powers on both parts were sore diminished, they agreed vpon a peace, with these conditions, ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) - The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England • Raphael Holinshed
... n'en doutons pas, semblable societe n'existe pas dans le Maryland et dans la Virginie; car c'est au zele constant de celles de Philadelphie et de New-Yorck qu'on doit tous les progres de cette revolution en Amerique, et la naissance de ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... that to induce her thereunto, there must be ways and means of high policy used, and all things possible devised to encourage her to the same; wherein percase she shall resolve that she in no wise will condescend so to do, unless that the King's Highness also do the semblable for his part; the king's said orators shall therefore in like wise ripe and instruct themselves by their secret learned council in the court of Rome, if, for so great a benefit to ensue unto the king's ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... semblable to those of the popes—harmless corruscations—a sort of aurora borealis, erratic and splendid, but very unreal and very unsearchable as ...
— Canada and the Canadians - Volume I • Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... brother, the Duke of Anjou, were devoted to one another, and Bussy was for a time a paramour of the Queen of Navarre. Though she denies the liaison, she says of him that there was not "en ce siecle-la de son sexe et de sa qualite rien de semblable en valeur, reputation, grace, et esprit." Margaret, L'Estoile, and Brantome all relate similar incidents during Bussy's sojourn at court in the year 1578, and the ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman |
