"Outrance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has placarded to-day a despatch from Tours. Two armies are already formed, we are told—one at Lyons, and the other at——. The situation of Bazaine is excellent. The provinces are ready. The departments are organising to the cry of "Guerre a outrance, ni un pouce de terrain, ni une pierre de nos forteresses!" I trust that the news is true; but I have an ineradicable distrust of all French official utterances. A partial attempt is being made to relieve the ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... thou wilt go to confession and get thy soul in order—betake thyself to thy holy gear—men fight none the worse for a clear conscience. And I would ask the intercession of St. Michael—men speak well of him in Brittany, and tell how he fought a combat a outrance with Satan, wherein the latter came off none ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... it was to be a tilt a l'outrance," said Francis trying to rise. "Oh," she moaned sinking back as dizziness again assailed her. "I know not why but I am so weak. Bethink you that I am dying, ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... yet I can this consolation get, That, at his hands, my enemy, Old Lent, will fare the same as I: That, at the times when people eat, We both shall equal worship meet. Thus, joining with the whole of France In war against him a outrance, Grim Lent and festive Carnival, Will fight ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... the succour of King Zau al-Makan!" Therewith he waxed wroth and cried out, "Ho, soldiers of Al-Islam and favourers of the True Faith, an you flee you are lost, but if ye stand fast, ye win! Know ye that valiancy lieth in endurance of outrance and that no case is so strait but that the Almighty is able to make it straight; Allah assain you and look upon you with eyes of compassion fain!" Thereupon the Moslems cried out, "Allaho Akbar!" and the believer in the One God ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton |
