"Mil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at last, conquered by the constancy and perseverance of these repentant Christians, the tormentors afflicted or disquieted them no more, save that often in the night they heard cries so loud that it seemed as if more than five thousand men were assembled together" (plus de cent mil homes ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... mutilated the text of the journal that occasionally the sense is left obscure. *3* 'Hoc itaque nuncio laeti altero ac incensi . . . Sacramento expiationis et pane fortim roborati' (Ennis, 'Efemerides'). *4* Cardiel, in his 'Declaracion de la Verdad', p. 426, says: 'Lo mismo es 28,000 mil Indios que igual numero de ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... faithfull friends and loyall defenders against all his enemies. (M407) This good Indian assoone ready to doe them pleasure, as they were to demand it, commanded his subiects that they should fill our Pinnesse with mil and beanes. Afterward he caused them to bring him sixe pieces of his Tapistry made like litle couerlets, and gaue them to our men with so liberal a minde, as they easily perceiued the desire which he had to become their friend. In recompence ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... quere deprender mas lenguas de las suyas propias, los Reyes pudieron tanto que salieron con su intencion y ellos tubieron por bien de cumplir su mandado y tan de veras se entendio en ello que en tiempo de pocos anos se savia y usaba una lengua en mas de mil y doscientas ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... outcome of love; the reason for this is, that when he is in love it is not he, but the species which is grieving. In Calderon's Zenobia the Great there is a scene in the second act between Zenobia and Decius where the latter says, Cielos, luego tu me quieres? Perdiera cien mil victorias, Volvierame, etc. (Heavens! then you love me? For this I would sacrifice a thousand victories, etc.) In this case honour, which has hitherto outweighed every other interest, is driven out of the field ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... dos relaciones, y es, que a los dezisiete de Nouiembre del ano de mil y quinietos y sessenta y quatro, por mandado de su Mage. se hizo vna armada en el puerto de la Natiuidad e la mar del Sur, cient leguas de Mexico, de dos naues, y dos pataysos, para descubrir las yslas dela especieria, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair
... mis veinte duros! (decia.) iAh! iSi supierais con que afanes los he ganado! iTodo un verano segando bajo el fuego del sol!... iTodo un verano lejos de mi pueblo, de mi mujer y de mis hijos![6-4]—iAsi he reunido, con mil sudores y 20 privaciones, esa suma, con que podriamos vivir este invierno!... iY cuando ya voy de vuelta,[6-5] deseando abrazarlos y pagar las deudas que para comer hayan hecho aquellos infelices, ?como he de perder[6-6] ese dinero, que es para mi un tesoro? —iPiedad, ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... construction Par bons ouvriers subtilz et plains de sens L'an qu'on disoit de l'incarnation Nonante cinq avec mil ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... Sharley again! Honestly, Mil, she was absolutely unbearable this evening. It was bad enough to have her go stalking across the lawn with that old snuff stick of hers stuck in the corner of her mouth, and singing that terrible ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... wan that he feared the government fellows might hear o't; in which case he would have got ten years transportation to Angola on the coast of Africa. At last however, he got rid of it for 20,000 mil-reis, which is about 6000 pounds. It was all paid to him in hard dollars; and he nearly went out o' his wits for joy. But he was brought down a peg nixt day, when he found that the same di'mond was sold for nearly twice as much as he had got for it. Howiver, he had ...
— Martin Rattler • R.M. Ballantyne
... the Journal, and printed at the end of a volume of poems published in 1853, frequently softened his phrases, so that sentences which survive in the Journal in a more technical form are to be found in a more literary form in the "Grains de Mil." ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... peace signed at Cateau-Cambresis, by which Henri II. renounced all claim to Gen'oa, Naples, Mil'an, and Corsica (1559). ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... that on the school learns!" she fumed. "Und your teacher she learns you you should like so mil your papa's breakfast und cats make! She is then ...
— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly
... touchy on this point. A friend of mine was on a similar occasion addressed, in true Egyptian lingo, by an old Adam-son, "Ya ibn al-Kalb! beta'mil ay?" (O dog- son, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... ngindai goalle? minna ngaia murramulle?" ngarma goe, "durunmi, wuna ngeane ngummildai." ila immanuel ngarma mil tamulda: ...
— gurre kamilaroi - Kamilaroi Sayings (1856) • William Ridley
... no plural form. deux mille 2000; deux milles means two miles. Mil is used in Christian era, l'an Mil huit ...
— The Aural System • Anonymous
... Gonzalo.—Nun, volonte, mi sxangxus mil mejlojn da marakvo nur por seka terpeco, longa erikejo,[8] brunigxinta dornstipejo,[9] io ajn! Estu do la superega Volo! Sed mi preferus seke ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 2 • Various
... is," interposed the New Yorker. "Have you been up Fifth Avenue to see the magnificent residences of our mil—" ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... First, for an account of its contents. On the reverse of the first fly-leaf, we read the following memorandum—in red: "Cest psaultier fu saint loys. Et le dona la royne Iehanne deureux au roy Charles filz du roy Iehan, lan de nres' mil troys cens soissante et neuf. Et le roy charles pnt filz du dit Roy charles le donna a madame Marie de frace sa fille religieuse a poissi. le iour saint michel lan mil iiij^c." This hand writing is undoubtedly ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... "mil grazie!" [Footnote: Thanks! A thousand thanks!] And in a paroxysm of delight, he seized one of his ...
— Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon • Lucy M. Blanchard
... L'an Mil huit cent un, le vingt-deuxieme jour d'Aout, les Etats, a leur premiere tenue depuis la nouvelle de la victoire qu'a remportee l'Amiral Sir James Saumarez sur la flotte combinee de la France et de l'Espagne, dans ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross
... this sword, should rape and rip it out. Achil. Compassion would that greedinesse restraine. Sem. I that's my fault, I am to compassionate, Why man, art thou a souldier and dost talke 680 Of womanish pity and compassion? Mens eyes must mil-stones drop, when fooles shed teares, But soft heeres ...
— The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge • Anonymous
... Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Mil.) Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Officer of the Crown of Italy Fellow of ...
— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden
... "America on the justest and firmest basis that was "ever yet recorded in the annuals of history, you "now enjoy the supremest of all earthly happiness "that of diffusing peace, liberty, and safety to mil- "lions ...
— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse
... dia a el Barbarossa y como vio los soldados Espanoles desmandados dio en ellos con gran gritos. Y fue tan grande el miedo que vieron que Barbarossa los desbarato casi sin dano y con mucho facilidad mato tres mil hombres y cautivo quatro cientos dia de ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... Lonnie's philosophy, the whole twenty-odd years of Lonnie's success was the abiding crux of Jason's disgust. And this, in spite of the more and more men Jason came to control and the fitful stream of new techniques and equipment Gov-Pol and Gov-Mil Labs put at ...
— Zero Data • Charles Saphro
... mil tell thee everything, but I abjure thee by thy crown, by the shade of thy father, not to discover the secret to any one. This is the greatest secret of the Chaldean and Egyptian priests, and even of Phoenicia. On it depends the future ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
... I'd had my way about Hank, puttin' his poor stubby nose to the grindstone out there in Chicago, and makin' a plain insignificant business man out of him, and I'd ought to let her have her way with the girl, being that I couldn't expect her to go to work too. So Mil will work the society end. I says to the madam, I says, 'All right, have your own way; and we'll see whether you make more out of the girl than I make out of the boy,' I says. But it ain't going to be all digging up. ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... be unique, and is the more interesting from its having a note at the end (now half obliterated by the fire), stating that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, whose motto is also added, "Plesance. M [mil]. en vn." The personage in question was Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and wife of Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as a nun in the convent at Barking in 1399. Is any other ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various
... Apres avoir vescu par le cours de nature en ce monde en vertu, jusques a l'age de LXXII ans, la mort l'a faiet mettre en ce tombeau pour retourner viure perpeluellement. Lequel deceda le dymence XXIIIe jour de juillet de mil vre ...
— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet
... lit: "Je, Baymon Philippeaux, commis par le Roy a tenir le compte et fair le payement des bastiments, ediffices et reparacions que le dit seigneur fait faire en son chastu de Blois, confesse avoir eu et receu ... la somme de trois mille livres tournois ... le cinquieme jour de juillet, l'an mil cinq cent et seize. P. 24: Les jardins avaient ete decores avec beaucoup de luxe par les differents possesseurs du chateau. Il ne reste de tous les batiments qu'ils y eleverent que ceux des officiers charges de l'administration ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... mill, it passeth to the crazing mil, which betweene two grinding stones, turned also with a water-wheele, bruseth the same to a fine sand: howbeit, of late times they mostly vse wet stampers, & so haue no need of the crazing mils, for their best stuffe, but only for the ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew
... le cueur: de Missire: bertram: du gueaqui en: son vivat: conetiable de france: qui: trepassa: le: xiii^e jour: de: jullet: l'an: mil iii^e IIII^xx dont: son: corps: repos avecques: ceulx: des: Roys a ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... Europe, and in Africa, and in the islands of Corsica, and in Caer Brythwch, and Brythach, and Verthach; and I was present when formerly thou didst slay the family of Clis the son of Merin, and when thou didst slay Mil Du the son of Ducum, and when thou didst conquer Greece in the East. And I have been in Caer Oeth and Annoeth, and in Caer Nevenhyr; nine supreme sovereigns, handsome men, saw we there, but never did I behold a man of equal dignity with him who is now at the door of ...
— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest
... Florencio. I thought that would secure your consent. Well, mil mil gracias! But what a game of cross-purposes we'll be playing; I for you, and you for me, and neither for ourselves! Let us hope we may ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid
... and ce fall on ze ground, like ce be dead. Zen my granfader say dot I go tell ze man dot he vill let my fader go, and ven my granfader bring me, and I come dare, I tink I say dot; but I tell him dot he vill not kill my moder, and I cry, too loud I cry. Zen ze man go vay high on hees feets mil his hand on my head, and he say some vords to ze men vot bees dare, and he say some vords to my granfader. Zen he go roun on his feets and he say some vords to my fader. He tell him, dot he vill be good? dot he vill not drink ze beer? dot he vill vork? dot he vill make ze peoples mit ze ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... perjury, forgery, etc., are not to be admitted as legal witnesses, but that the record of their contrition must be produced at the time the objection is made, for the Court mil take no notice of hearsay and common fame in such respect. An infidel, also, that is one who believes neither the Old nor New Testament, cannot be a witness, and some other disabilities there are which being uncommon, we shall not dwell upon here Yet it is necessary to take notice that whatever ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... common & Small Bays below & nitches in the rocks passed 4 Cascades or Small Streams falling from the mountains on Lard. This part of the river resembles a pond partly dreaned leaving many Stumps bare both in & out of the water, current about 1 mil pr. Hour ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... their destination, detached admiral Herbert from Spithead with twelve ships of the line, one fire-ship, and four tenders, in order to intercept the enemy. He was driven by stress of weather into Mil-ford-haven, from whence he steered his course to Kin-sale, on the supposition that the French fleet had sailed from Brest, and that in all probability he should fall in with them on the coast of Ireland. On the first ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... elected Professor of theology at Zurich, an appointment which produced such popular indignation that it was cancelled, and a change of government was caused by it. In 1840 he published Die Christliche Glaubenslehre im Kampfe mil der modernen Wissenschaft dargestellt; in which, after an introduction concerning the history of opinions on the relation of the two, he discussed the principles of Christian doctrine, such as the Bible, Canon, Evidences, &c. and next the doctrines themselves; ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... "L'an mil deux cens deux comme on clame, Batailla pour ceux de Poietiers, Contre les Anglois nostre Dame, Et les garda de ...
— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello
... 'N nesu ati gam a cham, Ac ni throi oddiar ei siwrnai, Er gwaedd mil, er gweddi mam; Delwai'r tylwyth gan yr alaeth, Gwnaent ei gwely fel yn lli', Hithau'n dawel dan yr artaith, Pawb ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun
... and in Africa, and in the Islands of Corsica, and in Caer Brythwch, and Brythach, and Verthach; and I was present when formerly thou didst slay the family of Clis the son of Merin, and when thou didst slay Mil Du, the son of Ducum, and when thou didst conquer Greece in the East. And I have been in Caer Oeth and Annoeth, and in Caer Nevenhyr; nine supreme sovereigns, handsome men, saw we there, but never did I behold a man of equal dignity with him who is now at the door of the portal." Then ...
— The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards
... desire to become my heir, and re... and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned,... my sole heir, that I have bu... and has visited with me, that is, in... Island of Monte Cristo, all I poss... jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone... may amount to nearly two mil... will find on raising the twentieth ro... creek to the east in a right line. Two open... in these caves; the treasure is in the furthest a... which treasure I bequeath and leave en... as my sole heir. "25th April, ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... comment only pricked him to happy thought. He made a quick foray into his side pocket. "I brought up one of these pink velvet roses for you to look at, Mil. It's Gert's idea to festoon these underneath the net tunic on McGrath's blue taffeta. See, like that. It's a neat little idea, hon, and Gert had these roses made up in shaded effects like this ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst
... Iphicrates, Xenophon, Timotheus, Theopompus, Demetrius, and diuers other mo: of which euerie one, maie iustelie be spoken that worthie praise, which was geuen to Scipio Africanus, who, Cicero douteth, whether he were, more noble Capitaine in warre, or more eloquent and wise councelor mil. // in peace. And if ye beleue not me, read dili- Probus. // gentlie, milius Probus in Latin, and Plutarche Plutarchus. // in Greke, which two, had no cause either to flatter or lie vpon anie of those which I haue recited. And beside nobilitie ...
— The Schoolmaster • Roger Ascham
... haltetoj kiam unu aux la alia diris "Mi esperas ke vi ne venis ekster via vojo pro mi," fine ili alvenis al la enirejo de granda palaco, en kiu logxas du aux tri familioj je cxiu etagxo. Sro. A. akceligxis ion, kaj Sro. B. haltis, konvinkite ke Sro. A. alvenis hejmen. Ambaux diris mil komplimentojn kaj "bonan nokton" multefoje kaj "Je nia revido" sed ili kuneniras kaj supreniras al la unua etagxo, kie ili rehaltis; sed certe neniu estis cxe si: Tial ili supreniris per la dua sxtuparo k.t.p. ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 3 • Various
... in original (la mucha Plata qe tomaron a los dichos Religiosos, qe dicen serian dos mil sacos de hazienda); but one would hardly expert that so large an amount of silver could have been borrowed, as the context would indicate, from the merchants of Manila (apparently for an investment in Japanese goods, from the proceeds of which the friars in charge ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XXII, 1625-29 • Various
... if you say that I don't believe in family honour? I repeat once more: fa-mil-y ho-nour fal-sely un-der-stood is a prejudice! Falsely understood! That's what I say: whatever may be the motives for screening a scoundrel, whoever he may be, and helping him to escape punishment, it is contrary to law and unworthy of a gentleman. It's not ...
— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... uttered as being too vile and filthy to print]; that he did several times repeat the same in a coarse and angry tone, and used other vulgar and indecent expressions in an insulting tone and manner. This at Danville Mil. Prison, Va., in the lower room thereof on the 29th day ...
— Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons - A Personal Experience, 1864-5 • Homer B. Sprague
... Reyes pasados, cesaran los inmensos gastos y sin provecho que la mesa e casa de S. M. se hacen; pues el dano desto notoriamente paresce porque se halla en el plato real y en los platos que se hacen a los privados e criados de su casa gastarse cada mio dia ciento y cincuenta mil maravedis; y los Catolicos Reyes D. Hernando e Dona Isabel, seyendo tan excelentes y tan poderosos, en su plato y en el plato del principe D. Joan que haya gloria, e de las senoras infantas con gran numero y multitud de ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott
... (maer shaen') Maria Theresa (mae ri'ae ter es'ae) Marlborough (maerl'bo ro) Marsala (maer sae'la) Marseillaise (maer sel yaz') Mazzini (mat si'ni) Mesopotamia (mes o po ta'mi ae) Metternich (met'ter nikh) Milioukoff (mil yoo'koff) Mirabeau (mir'a bo) Modena (mo de'na) or (mo'da na) Mohammedan (mo ham'med an) Moltke (molt'ka) Monastir (mo na stir') Montenegrin (mon te ne'grin) Montenegro (mon te ne'gro) Moslems (moz'lemz) Murat (mue'rae) Napoleon (na po'le on) Nice ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet
... mater, defende malis Jacobum Car: Presbiteris, quoque clericulis domus hec fit in anno Mil' quin' cen' duoden'. Jesu nostri miserere: Senes cum ...
— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell
... labour was spent by De Morgan upon the subject of decimal coinage. He was a great advocate of the pound and mil scheme. His evidence on this subject was sought by the Royal Commission, and, besides constantly supporting the Decimal Association in periodical publications, he published several ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... sont Qui s'ocistrent par druerie D'amor; mout voil lor compainie: D'amor me recomfortera La lasse Deanira, Qui s'encroast, et Canac, Eco, Scilla, Fillis, Pronn, Ero, Biblis, Dido, Mirra, Tisb, la bele Hypermnestra, Et des autres mil et cinc cenz. Amor! por quoi ne te repenz De ces simples lasses destruire? Trop cruelment te voi deduire: Pechi feiz que n'en as piti; Nuls deus fors toi ne fait pechi! De o est Tisb al dessus, Que por li s'ocist Piramus; Amors, de o te puet loer Car a ta cort siet o son per; Ero i est ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker
... tal, con gracia tanta, A quel ruysenor llora, que sospecho Que tiene otros cien mil dentro del pecho, Que alterno ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... the Tennessee; hastens to Chattanooga; marches to relief of Burnside; horror of E. Tennessee; dissatisfied with Granger; good dinner at Burnside's headquarters, explanation of; Meridian expedition; promoted to command Mil. Division of the Mississippi; visits Schofield at Knoxville; urges confirmation of his appointment as major general; correspondence with Halleck; modest estimate of his own powers; studies problem of supplying his army in the field; ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... 9.50. Mil Flores.—Pass over a very steep precipice to an elevated plateau, thence over gravel-hills 4-1/2 miles to camp, where there is ...
— The Prairie Traveler - A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions • Randolph Marcy
... beyond hearing distance: list] telephone, phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio, police radio, two-way radio, walkie-talkie [Mil.], handie-talkie, citizen's band, CB, amateur radio, ham radio, short-wave radio, police band, ship-to-shore radio, airplane radio, control tower communication; (communication) 525, 527, 529, 531, 532; electronic devices [devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound], phonograph, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... resistance and potentiometer is the most accurate method for measuring currents of this nature, thus far we have based our experiments upon the measurements made with extremely accurate Weston portable voltmeter and mil-ammeters. Thanks to the kindness of one of our former co-workers, Mr. S. C. Dinsmore, at present associated with the Weston Electrical Instrument Company, we have been able to obtain two especially exact instruments. The mil-ammeter is so adjusted as to give a maximum ...
— Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict
... 25 Muerta es tu enamorada, page 6 muerta es, que yo la vi; las andas en que la llevan de negro las vi cubrir, los responsos que le dicen 5 yo los ayude a decir: siete condes la lloraban, caballeros mas de mil, llorabanla sus doncellas, llorando dicen asi: 10 —iTriste de aquel caballero que tal perdida pierde aqui!— Desque aquesto oi, mezquino, en tierra muerto cai, y por mas de doce horas 15 no tornara, triste, ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various
... y'all that," Wims said with relief. "That ain't no mil't'ry secret. When we was havin' basic trainin' this here gen'ral allowed as to how Ah did some right smart soldierin' durin' maneuvers an' he up an' give me ...
— I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon • Richard Sabia
... knows, suh, de mil' ones, dem wid de gol' ban's 'roun' 'em. Now you stay right hyuh, chile, ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt
... a maints particuliers La somme de dix mil une livre une obole, Pour l'avoir sans relache un an sur sa parole Habille, voiture, chauffe, chausse, gante, ...
— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson
... although the vocal value is exactly the same, yet the one spelling goes to one man and the other to a different man. "Spenser" would never suggest to a learned man the author of the "Philosophy of Evolution," nor would "Spencer" ever suggest the author of the "Fairie Queen." "Mr. Mil" would never mean "John Stuart Mill," although the words "Mil" and "Mill" are pronounced exactly alike. We sometimes cannot recall a Proper Name, yet we feel sure that it begins or ends with S or K or L, or that a certain other letter is in the middle ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
... to the soldiers the expedient of deserting; he says that they ought to be constantly on their guard to do nothing during their service contrary to the law of God, and to resolve to suffer martyrdom rather than submit to a base compliance, or openly to renounce the service. (De Cor. Mil. ii. p. 127.) He does not positively decide that the military service is not permitted to Christians; he ends, indeed, by saying, Puta denique licere militiam usque ad causam coronae.—G. ——M. Guizot is. I think, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... Ayez en souvenance.... Comment Orleans eult delivrance.... L'an mil iiijc xxix; Faites en memoire tous dis; Des jours de may ce fut ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... knew some one intimately, sir, whose eyesight had been destroyed. So you see I naturally noticed trifles about you which would escape others. But you may trust me not to mention a word about it. Adios, senor, y diez mil perdons." ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... did it and doesn't inform, they also shall be fined and pilloried. Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil—" ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... five minutes of noon, and she is prob'ly out on what they term an esplanade. There is a nice breeze down there, comin' to her over the waater, blowin' her hair a bit loose, flappin' her skirts, sendin' out her neck ribbon like a little flag behind her. It's all jolly, wi' the mil'tary band, an' the smell o' the waves, an' crowds an' crowds o' people—an' she won't have occasion to think o' me. P'raps they've bid her wear her best—the white frock Mavis gave her, with the stockings ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... un trabajo honrado. (Aparte.) Me parece que voy bien. Debo ganarme su 70 voluntad. (Alto.) Mi hermano crey ver en su cara de usted cierto parecido con un muchacho de Madrid... un mala cabeza, que dio mil escndalos y cometi... no s qu diabluras... Realmente ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain, de Brouage, faict en la France Nouuelle, l'an mil six cens trois. A Paris, chez Claude de Monstr'oeil, tenant sa boutique en la Cour du Palais, au nom de Jesus. 1604. Auec privilege du Roy. 12mo. 4 preliminary leaves. Text 36 leaves. The title-page contains ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
... under his hair; he even has a way of his own in pronouncing many words; he never says, for instance: 'Thank you, Pavel Vasilyitch,' or 'This way, if you please, Mihalo Ivanitch,' but always 'Fanks, Pa'l 'Asilitch,' or ''Is wy, please, Mil' 'Vanitch.' With persons of the lower grades of society, his behaviour is still more quaint; he never looks at them at all, and before making known his desires to them, or giving an order, he repeats several times ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev
... we approached the Kamchadal settlement of Milkova (mil'-ko-vah), the largest native village in the peninsula. The rain had ceased, and the clouds were beginning to break away, but the air was still cold and raw. A courier, who had been sent down in a canoe from Sherom on the previous day, had notified the inhabitants of ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan
... "Yes, wa'al, when I went home that night I stopped into a mil'nery store, an' after I'd stood 'round a minute, a girl come up an' ast me if she c'd ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... "/Si, si—mil gracias, senor/." Ylario tried to kneel upon the floor in his gratitude, but the cattleman kicked at him benevolently, growling, "None of your ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... Lady Theresa Lyle stood by a statue that glittered in the sun, surrounded by a group of cavaliers; among them Lord Beaumanoir, Lord Mil-ford, Lord Eugene de Vere. Her figure was not less lithe and graceful since her marriage, a little more voluptuous; her rich complexion, her radiant and abounding hair, and her long grey eye, now melting with pathos, and ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli
... Mil., 455. Fortescue (iv, 175) vehemently censures Henry Dundas, but I think without sufficient ground. The letters of David Dundas called for reproof. See Mr. Oscar Browning's ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... Magellan, Magellan, Strait of, Magna Charta, Marathon, Marco Polo, Marseilles (mar-salz), Mary, Queen of England, Menendez, Pedro (ma-nen'dath) Mexico, conquest of, Michel Angelo (mi'kel-an'je-lo), Middle Ages, defined, close, Miltiades (mil-ti'a-dez) Missionaries, Missions, Spanish, Mississippi River, discovery of, Modern Times, defined, Mohammedans, Moluccas, Monasteries, Mongol Tartars, Montezuma, King of ...
— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton
... Creek nation, he fell in with Leclerc Mil-fort, an adventurous Frenchman, who afterwards wrote a book of travels, and was made a general of brigade by Napoleon. Milfort married one of McGillivray's sisters, was made Tustenug-gee (or grand war chief), and was the right-hand ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris
... at Coimbra, now the Se Nova or new cathedral, had been gradually rising. Founded by Dom Joao III. in 1552, and dedicated to the Onze mil Virgems, it cannot have been begun in its present form till much later, till about 1580, while the main, or south, front seems ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson
... cruel orage On me laisse perir; En courant au naufrage Je vois chacun me plaindre et mil me secourir, Felicite passee Qui ne peux revenir Tourment de ma pensee Que n'ai-je en te perdant perdu le souvenir! Le sort, plein d'injustice M'ayant enfin rendu Ce reste un pur supplice, Je serais plus ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli |
