"Teste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the sibyl in the third line of the first stanza, "Teste David cum Sybilla," [1] has given rise to a good deal of anxious inquiry; and so very strange did it sound to French ears at its introduction into the sacred hymnology of the Church, that the Parisian rituals substituted in its place the line, ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier
... sola est, Gellia patrem; Si quis adest, jussae prosiliunt lacrymae. Non dolet hic, quisquis laudari, Gellia, quaerit; Ille dolet vere qui sine teste dolet. ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... ma maison. Ce disant, il lasche un pistolet, et luy perce un bras. Les autres le chargent avec leurs halebardes, et avec leurs espees. . . . Le valeureux Lysis . . . avec un escabeau qu'il tient en main donne si rudement sur la teste de l'un de ses adversaires, qu'il en fait sortir la cervelle. Il en assomme encores deux autres: mais que peut-il faire contre tant de gens, & ainsi desarme qu'il est? Son corps perce comme un crible, verse un grand ruisseau de sang. En fin il se jette sur Lisandre, et bien ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
... answer is as old as the hills, teste the tale of what happened when Amasis (who on horseback) raised his leg, "broke wind and bad the messenger carry it back to Apries." Herod. Ii. 162. But for the full significance of the Badawi's most insulting reply see the Tale of Abu ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton |
