"Malgre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nature of the bond. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, in his work on Monstrosities, insists,[832] "que certaines anomalies coexistent rarement entr'elles, d'autres frequemment, d'autres enfin presque constamment, malgre la difference tres-grande de leur nature, et quoiqu'elles puissent paraitre completement independantes les unes des autres." We see something analogous in certain diseases: thus I hear from Mr. Paget that in a rare ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... cher," he remarked, examining his nails from a distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, "malgre la haute estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j'avoue que votre victoire n'est pas des plus ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... best in burlesque. But, in 1732, the same year in which he produced the Modern Husband, the Debauchees, and the Covent Garden Tragedy, he made an adaptation of Moliere's Medecin malgre lui, which had already been imitated in English by Mrs. Centlivre and others. This little piece, to which he gave the title of the Mock-Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady cur'd, was well received. The French original was rendered with tolerable closeness; but here and there Fielding has introduced ...
— Fielding - (English Men of Letters Series) • Austin Dobson
... before I had much experience in either people or things connected with the island. My twelve months' tour in Ceylon being completed, I returned to England delighted with what I had seen of Ceylon in general, but, above all, with my short visit to Newera Ellia, malgre its barrenness and want of comfort, caused rather by the neglect of man than by the lack of resources in ...
— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker |
