"Appui" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... days in point of time. At the moment when our cavalry reached Roulers and Cortemark (Oct. 28) our territorial divisions from Dunkirk, under General Biden, had occupied and organized a defensive position at Ypres. It was a point d'appui, enabling us to prepare and maintain our connections with the Belgian Army. From Oct. 23 two British and French army corps were in occupation of this position, which was to be the base of their forward march in the direction of Roulers-Menin. The delays already explained and the strength ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... sincere.' It is obvious that this kind of expression has within it the germs of the 'noble' style of the eighteenth-century tragedians, one of whom, finding himself obliged to mention a dog, got out of the difficulty by referring to—'De la fidelite le respectable appui.' This is the side of Racine's writing that puzzles and disgusts Mr. Bailey. But there is a meaning in it, after all. Every art is based upon a selection, and the art of Racine selected the things of the spirit for the material of its work. The things of sense—physical objects and details, ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey
... verras d'Esther la pompe et les honneurs, Et sur le trne assis le sujet de tes pleurs. Rassure, ajouta-t-il, tes tribus alarmes, Sion: le jour approche o le Dieu des armes 20 Va de son bras puissant faire clater l'appui; Et le cri de son peuple est mont jusqu' lui. Il dit; et moi, de joie et d'horreur pntre, Je cours. De ce palais j'ai su trouver l'entre. O spectacle! O triomphe admirable mes yeux, 25 Digne en effet du bras qui sauva nos aeux! Le fier Assurus couronne ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... ones. But the scepticism of Montaigne throws doubt upon every human attempt to get behind the shifting flowing stream of sense impressions. The rough and ready clue which it offers to the confusions of life is not drawn from any individualistic "point d'appui" of pseudo-psychological personal vision, as are these modern clues to the mystery. It is drawn from nothing more recondite than the customary traditions, usages, pieties and customs of the generations of humanity; habits of mind and ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... uniformity, are thus relations between the properties of types of material bodies that can exist permanently in presence of each other; why they so maintain themselves remains unknown, but the fact gives the point d'appui. The fundamental character of energy in material systems here comes into view; if there were any other independent scalar entity, besides mass and energy, that pervaded them with relations of equivalence, we should expect the existence of yet another set of pualities analogous ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... — N. support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib^; point d'appui [Fr.], pou sto [Gr.], purchase footing, hold, locus standi [Lat.]; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c (basement) 211. supporter; aid &c 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment^; cue rest, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
