"Vair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it with doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work in it gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys, Because the birthday of my life Is come; my love ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... in which they were hiding from Nimrod, he asked his mother, "Who is my God?" and she replied, "It is I." "And who is thy God?" he inquired farther. "Thy father" (547.69). Hence also we derive the declaration of Du Vair, "Nous devons tenir nos peres comme des dieux en terre," and the statement of another French writer, of whom Westermarck says: "Bodin wrote, in the later part of the sixteenth century, that, though the monarch commands his subjects, the master his disciples, the captain his soldiers, ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... the horse forms the ground-work of a pleasing little romance of the twelfth century, entitled, "Lai du Palefroi vair." ...
— Poems • Samuel Rogers |
