"Vaut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... province, Pauthier's text has Acbalec Manzi, for the name of the city Acmalec simply. The G.T. has in the former case Acbalec Mangi, in the latter "Acmelic Mangi qe vaut dire le une de le confine dou Mangi." This is followed literally by the Geographic Latin, which has "Acbalec Mangi et est dictum in lingua nostra unus ex confinibus Mangi." So also the Crusca; whilst Ramusio has "Achbaluch Mangi, che vuol dire Citta Bianca de' confini ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... Polibans, a le chiere hardie, Ja ne crerrai vou Dieux, a nul jour de ma vie; Ne vostre Loy ne vaut une pomme pourie!" ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... BRITANNIA rules the waves, and this is the last month for oysters till the arrival of another month with an "r" in it; but, en attendant, there will appear some very small, very sweet, and very digestible lobsters! "Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle?" But an indifferent play is well worth a first-rate supper, which may be a shell-fish view, but at all events, if (like the jest) it be "a poor thing," yet 'tis mine own (for the time being), and thereto I sign ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 • Various |
