"Lache" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... apres quelques annees de paix oublient trop cette verite: ils arrivent a croire que la culture est chose innee, qu'elle est la meme chose que la nature. La sauvagerie est toujours la a deux pas, et, des qu'on lache pied, elle recommence." We have been severely enough taught (if we were willing to learn) that our civilisation, considered as a splendid material fabric, is helplessly in peril without the spiritual police of sentiments or ideal feelings. And it is this invisible police which ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot
... Le surgien and le fisicien were once common surnames, but the former is almost swallowed up by Sargent, and the latter seems to have died out. The name Leach has been reinforced by the dialect lache, a bog, whence also the compounds Blackleach, Depledge. Loosely attached to the church is the Pardoner, with ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... mein vergenes Jugendtal, Seine Sohle lag verdet, seine Berge standen kahl. Meine Bume, meine Trume, meine buchendunkeln Hh'n— Ewig jung ist nur die Sonne, sie allein ist ewig schn. Drben dort in schilf'gem Grunde, wo die mde Lache liegt, 5 Hat zu meiner Jugendstunde sich lebend'ge Flut gewiegt, Durch die Heiden, durch die Weiden ging ein wandernd Herdgetn—- Ewig jung ist nur die Sonne, ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... the Laches, with the tide boiling round the point; past Derrible, with its yawning black mouths; past Dixcart with its patch of sand; under the grim bastions of the Cagnon; the clean grey cliffs and green downs above, all smiling in the morning ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham
... the schools in Tiberias were unmolested. Judah was succeeded in the Patriarchate by Gamaliel; and he in turn gave way to Judah the second. Being inferior in learning to some of his own Rabbis, the splendor of his Patriarchate was eclipsed by the superior talents of Simon Ben Laches and Rabbi Jochanan. From that time the Patriarchate gradually sank in estimation, till the struggles for unlimited power, and the rapacity of the Rabbis, brought the office into contempt, and caused the Emperor Honorius in one of his ...
— Hebrew Literature |
