"Fille" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lassie, ma fille, mine ain wee thing, how sweet to have one bairn who is mine, mine ain, whom they have not robbed me of, for thy brother, ah, thy brother, he hath forsaken me! He is made of the false Darnley stuff, and compacted by Knox and Buchanan and the rest, and he will not stand a blast of ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
... profit nowhere under thirty per cent. Finally, the letter concluded: "Mamma's back is better. Louis and I went on Sunday to see a farm. A cow, a stable, an old peasantess saying her rosary, a daughter knitting—all real, not waxwork. Votre fille tres devouee, LEAH." ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... Dacier (then Mlle. Le Fevre) sent her a copy of her edition of "Callimachus," wrote in reply: "Mais vous, de qui on m'assure que vous etes une belle et agreable fille, n'avez vous pas honte ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... Tres puissant et Redoubte Prince Henry VIII. de ce nom, Roy d'Angleterre, de France, et d'Irlande, defenseur de la foy, Elizabeth, sa Tres humble fille, rend salut et obedience." ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... spectacle below. There were little tables in the street where soldiers sat drinking, while maids in huge caps filled their flagons. Isobel remarked: "It is like a scene in an opera; all we need is music." At that moment a band at the corner struck up "La Fille de Madame Angot," and the illusion ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
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