"Cierge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pedant who read Hannibal a lecture on the art of war; the other is the carrier who knows the road between London and York better than Humboldt, but a new road is prescribed to him and his knowledge becomes useless. This is the state of mind La Fontaine has described so perfectly in his story of the "Cierge." ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various
... force vierge Est eclose aux ardeurs brunes de tes beaux yeux: Quand mon coeur sera mur pour le sol des aieux, Notre amour sera clos. N'allume pas de cierge. ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... unless he be present." Therewith they carried him into the bridal hall and made him sit down defying the evil glances of the hunchbacked bridegroom. The wives of the Emirs and Wazirs and Chamberlains and Courtiers all stood in double line, each holding a massy cierge ready lighted; all wore thin face-veils and the two rows right and left extended from the bride's throne [FN408] to the head of the hall adjoining the chamber whence she was to come forth. When the ladies ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |
