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Termes  n.  (pl. termites)  (Zool.) A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.






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"Termes" Quotes from Famous Books



... Qu'arrivait-il lorsque M. Viot y entrait? 2. Que se bornait-il faire? 3. Qu'tait-ce que le jeune Boucoyran? 4. Pourquoi le principal tenait-il lui? 5. Pourquoi vcmes-nous, le marquis et moi, en assez bons termes pendant quelque temps? 6. Que lui dis-je un jour qu'il se montra par trop insolent? 7. Comment reut-il cet acte d'autorit? 8. Que rpondit-il ma seconde injonction, et que fis-je alors? 9. Quelle tait mon intention? 10. Que fit-il lorsque j'eus le geste de le prendre au collet? 11. De quelle ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet

... did amisse, That was not Hamlet, but his madnes did it, And all the wrong I e're did to Leartes, I here proclaime was madnes, therefore lets be at peace, And thinke I haue shot mine arrow o're the house, And hurt my brother. Lear. Sir I am satisfied in nature, But in termes of honor I'le stand aloofe, And will no reconcilement, Till by some elder maisters of our time I may be satisfied. King Giue them the foyles. Ham. I'le be your foyle Leartes, these foyles, Haue all a laught, come on sir: a hit. Lear. No none. Heere they play: ...
— The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke - The First ('Bad') Quarto • William Shakespeare

... Oise and the Aisne back upon the Serre. Chalandry and Grandlup, near that river, were occupied on the 22nd, and east of the Aisne some progress was made in the Argonne by the capture of Olizy and Termes on the 15th; but till nearly the end of October the Americans west of the Meuse were held up by their commissariat difficulties, though east of it they had captured Brabant and Consenvoye and pushed forward their line to a level with that on the ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... la bien venue: lors aussytost le Diable la fist mettre sur ses genoux: luy se tenant debout sur ses pieds de derriere; luy ayant fait detester l'Esternelle en ses mots: Je renie Dieu le Pere, Dieu le Fils et Dieu le St. Esprit; se fist adorer et invocquer en ses termes: Nostre Grand Maistre aide nous! avec paction expresse d'adherer a luy; que cela fait, ill ont copulation avec elle en la susdite forme de chien, ung peu plus grand: puis elle et les aultres danserent avec luy dos a dos: qu'apres avoir danse, le Diable versoit hors d'un pot ...
— Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands • John Linwood Pitts

... says, after quoting the passage given below: "Deux faits son a noter dans ce passage: d'une part, les termes dignes et conciliants dans lesquels Lamarck etablit la part de la science et de la religion; cela vaut, mieux, meme en tenant compte des differences d'epoques, que les abjurations ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

... the lawe. for thus yo{u} frame yo{ur} argumente. Mr Buckley founde a recorde in the Temple, that Chaucer was fyned for beatinge the fryer; ergo, Gower and Chaucer were of the Temple. But for myne owne parte, yf I wolde stande vppon termes for matter of Antiquytye and ransacke the originall of the lawiers fyrst settlinge in the Temple, Idobte whether Chaucer were of the temple or noe, vnless yt were towardes his latter tyme, for he was an olde manne, as appereth by Gower in Confessione Amantis in the xvi yere of R.2: when Gower ...
— Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes - 1865 edition • Francis Thynne

... 'Furnes etait devenue un oppidium, aux termes d'une charte de 1183, qui avait a se defendre a la fois contre les incursions des etrangers et les attaques d'une population "indocile et cruelle," comme l'appelle l'Abbe de Saint Riquier Hariulf, toujours dechiree par les factions et toujours prete a la revolte.'—GILLIODTS VAN SEVEREN: ...
— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond



Words linked to "Termes" :   Termitidae, genus Termes, family Termitidae, arthropod genus



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