"Enceinte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... des Pyrenees Par l'ouvrier qu'on nomme l'Eternel, Je te predis de belles destinees; L'humanite te doit plus d'un autel. Car l'etranger dans ta charmante enceinte Trouve toujours, suivant son rang, son nom, Le bon accueil, l'hospitalite sainte, Que ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... physicians will support me in my belief that the death-rate among American women would be less if corset and other tight lacing were abolished. I have known of instances where tight lacing for the ballroom has caused the death of enceinte women. ...
— America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat • Wu Tingfang
... life of the splendid court over which the greatest of the Moghul Emperors—the contemporary of our own great Queen Elizabeth—presided during perhaps the most characteristic years of his long reign. Within the enceinte of his palace were grouped the chief offices of the State, the Treasury, the Record Office, the Council Chamber, the Audience Hall, some of them monuments of architectural skill and of decorative taste, more often bearing the impress ...
— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol
... exacte de cette pierre calcaire, et de pouvoir comparer son niveau avec d'autres que nous avons deja observe etre aussi deposees au pied des montagnes dans de petits vallons fort eleves, analogues a celui dont il est question. Quelque secousse aura rompu l'enceinte de rocher qui fermoit ce bassin: l'ecoulement des eaux aura acheve de creuser ce passage, ou coule actuellement la Reuss, et le vallon qui est au-dessous. Quoique les angles rentrans et saillans des montagnes ayent lieu dans quelque endroits, il s'en faut de beaucoup que ce soit ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... punctuality."[2233] He had for others, withal, that indulgence of which he himself stood in need. "He was asked what he would say if his wife (whom he had not seen for ten years) should write to him that she had just discovered that she was enceinte. He reflected a moment and then replied, 'I would write, and tell her that I was delighted that heaven had blessed our union; be careful of your health; I will call and pay my respects this evening.'" There are countless replies of the same sort, and I venture to say that, without ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine
... instance more peculiarly interesting, is the fact that over the churchyard wall on the west, in a small grass field, traditionally called the Castle Field, there is the well-preserved plan of a Saxon lordly mansion. The circuit of the earthwork is almost complete, and at a point in the enceinte there rises the mound on which was pitched the garrison of the little castle. I use the term castle, as the habits of the language now require, and as it is expressed in the name of the spot. But, indeed, castles were little known in England before the Conquest; had it been otherwise, the Conquest ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... ENCEINTE. [Fr.] A slightly bastioned wall or rampart line of defence, which sometimes surrounds the body of a place; when only flanked by turrets it is called a ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... devenir enceinte Addressez cy vos vœux au grand Saint Hyacinthe, Et tout ce que pour vous le Saint ne pourra faire Les moines ...
— Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction • John Davenport |
