"Rys" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... began to rise he was aware of a procession of virgins crowned with pearls, in white robes, with a pearl in their breast.] Ry[gh]t as e maynful mone con rys, Er e{n}ne e day-glem dryue al dou{n}, So sodanly on a wonder wyse, I wat[gh] war of a prosessyou{n}, 1096 is noble cite of ryche enpresse Wat[gh] sodanly ful w{i}t{h}-outen so{m}mou{n} Of such v{er}gyne[gh] i{n} e ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... renounce all pretensions to the Spanish monarchy, and cede the places in the Netherlands which the states-general demanded for their barrier; that he would treat with the emperor on the footing of the treaty concluded at Rys-wick, and even demolish the fortifications of Strasburgh. The ministers of the allies, rendered proud and wanton by success, and seeing their own private interest in the continuation of the war, insisted upon the restitution of the Upper and Lower Alsace to the ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett |
