"Tache" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... see," said Morty, with a shrug, which he meant as one of compassion for the aforesaid Lord Dunroe; "son to my masther. Well, God pity him, Barney, is the worst I wish him. You will take care of him; you'll tache him a thing or two—and that's ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... brille. Plus d'esperance! —Ca, dit Roland, je suis neveu du roi de France, Je dois me comporter en franc neveu de roi. Quand j'ai mon ennemi desarme devant moi, Je m'arrete. Va donc chercher une autre epee, Et tache, cette fois, qu'elle soit bien trempee. Tu feras apporter a boire en meme temps, ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... held its various meetings and adopted its resolutions. But the League was mainly a party counterblast to the Annexation Manifesto of 1849 and soon disappeared. To this period, too, belong the writings of able advocates of union like P. S. Hamilton of Halifax and J. C. Tache of Quebec, whose treatises possess even to-day more than historical value. Another notable contribution to the subject was the lecture by Alexander Morris entitled Nova Britannia, first delivered at Montreal in 1858 and afterwards published. Yet such propaganda aroused no perceptible ...
— The Fathers of Confederation - A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion • A. H. U. Colquhoun
... no sinse," he announced, "but I'll larrup him plenty. Ye get an exthry wan f'r that, Danny. I'll tache ye that ye're not ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various
... door, she cried: "Och! ye bloody spalpanes, to put a loive man where ye did! Come wid me, an' oi'll tache ye that I knows ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... mystrieux. Il m'aimait; du moins, avec moi seul, quittant son ton tranchant et son langage caustique, il causait de diffrents sujets avec abandon et quelquefois avec une grce extraordinaire. Depuis cette malheureuse soire, la pense que son honneur tait souill d'une tache, et que volontairement il ne l'avait pas essuye, me tourmentait sans cesse et m'empchait d'tre mon aise avec lui comme autrefois. Je me faisais conscience de le regarder. Silvio avait trop d'esprit et de pntration pour ne pas s'en apercevoir et deviner la cause ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... un sentiment de decouragement. "Voila ce qu'ils firent," se dit-il: "et nous?..." Car ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler "les gloires" napoleoniennes du debut du siecle ne suffit pas, helas, a effacer la tache—non moins napoleonienne—de 1870. Ce sentiment, le lecteur anglais ne l'eprouve pas a lire les memoires qui lui sont offerts, et qui, s'ils ne racontent pas, d'habitude, des exploits guerriers, relatent les phases principales d'une lente evolution, ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... reaching the little room, and when she entered she saw the bed with what she thought was Mike under the clothes. 'Mike, ye rascal,' she exclaimed, 'turn down the sheet this minute. It's mesilf as'll tache ye to raise a noise at this time o' night. For shame, ye spalpane! What, ye won't obey your own mother? I'll show ye. Take that!' She brought her hand down upon the figure outlined under the sheet with a resounding whack. The ...
— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... kindly, Mr. Raeburn, but I doubt it's too late. 'It's mighty hard to tache ould dogs new tricks,' but if you 'll spake a good word for me to the doctor about the brandy, ...
— Stories of Many Lands • Grace Greenwood
... wrote to Barillon about this class of Exclusionists as follows: "L'interet qu'ils auront a effacer cette tache par des services considerables les portera, aelon toutes les apparences, a le servir plus utilement que ne pourraient faire ceux qui ont toujours ete les plus attaches ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... own. Edward had the Somme to cross on his way, and the bridges over that river had been broken by the French, as those over the Seine had been broken; and but for the opportune discovery of a ford at Blanche Tache Edward would have been obliged to fight with an impassable river at his back. When he was once over the Somme he refused—not from any considerations of generalship, but from a point of honour—to continue his retreat further. ...
— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner
... fell right upon the central scutcheon, inpressed with the same device which his ancestor was said to have borne in the field of Hastings,—three ermines passant, argent, in a field azure, with its appropriate motto, Sans tache. 'May our name rather perish,' exclaimed Sir Everard, 'than that ancient and loyal symbol should be blended with the dishonoured insignia of a ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... and his army gradually approached the river Somme at Blanche Tache, where there was a ford by which King Edward III had crossed before the battle of Crecy. But while yet some distance from it, they received information from a prisoner that the ford was guarded by six thousand fighting men, and, though ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... that of twenty of his companions. A peasant called Gobin Agase stepped forward and offered to show the ford, where at low tide twelve men could cross abreast. It was, he said, called "La Blanche Tache". ...
— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty
... Gilligan's father whin he was young had looked him over an' said: 'Agathy, Michael's head is per-fictly round. It's like a baseball. 'Tis so pecoolyar. An' he has a fightin' face. 'Tis no good thryin' to tache him a thrade. Let's make a sojer iv him.' An' he wint into th' army. If he'd done there what he's done in th' patch, 'tis Gin'ral Gilligan he'd be be this time—Gin'ral Gilligan stormin' th' heights iv ...
— Observations by Mr. Dooley • Finley Peter Dunne
... sudden loud cackle of laughter. "Why! the feller tole me 'at this here Pigeon place was all three rings when it come t' history. Yessir! Tall, thin feller he was, in a three-button cutaway, English make, and kind of red-complected, with a sandy MUS- tache," pursued the pedestrian, apparently fearing his narrative might lack colour. "I met him right comin' out o' the Casino at Trouville, yes'day aft'noon; c'udn' a' b'en more'n four o'clock—hol' ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington |
