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On the dark face of the boatman as he worked steadily up the lake I saw both perplexity and concern; first, although I held Dolores' hand, as I usually did on such occasions when we were alone or nearly so, for the Swiss oarsman counted for little yet the man saw no yearning desire on my part to kiss her, as was the case with most husbands in the early days of the lune de miel.
Close in his rear, as he stands on the elevated bank of the magnificent river of Detroit, and about a mile from its point of junction with Lake Erie, is the fort of Amherstburg, its defences consisting chiefly of stockade works, flanked, at its several angles, by strong bastions, and covered by a demi lune of five guns, so placed as to command every approach by water.
The youth Aucassin, who rides into the fight dreaming of his beloved, who sees her shining among the stars in heaven Estoilette, je te voi, Que la lune trait
"There are a dozen violins for sale at a dealer's. I pass that way, common scraper of catgut that I am, I tune them and try them, and play over on each of them in turn, with false notes galore, some catchy tune Au clair de la lune or J'ai du bon tabac dans ma tabatière stuff fit to kill the old cow.
The song says Bon soir, Madame de la Lune.... I did not sing out loud, simply because the moon was like a mademoiselle, and I did not want to offend the moon. My friends: the silhouette and la lune, not counting Ca Pue, whom I regarded almost as a part of me. The next day. Promise to M. Savy. Whang. "My pencil?" "You don't need any pencil, you're going away." "When?" "Directly." "How directly?"
In the Lune the proprietors of the fisheries near Lancaster sent men to protect the spawning fish in the streams above; but these men were warned off by the landed proprietors, who said, If you catch all the good fish you must at least allow us to catch the bad ones.
"Not every one," he said, beaming with a broad smile; "but I have heard that you have an unusually beautiful voice, and I am curious to hear you." "But," I mischievously answered, "I do not know 'Au clair de la lune, even with variations." "Oh! the naughty Prince," said he, shaking his finger across to where Prince Metternich was standing. "He told you that.
Sings our poet in the silver-fire verse of L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, wherein he asks Mais où sont les Lunes d'Antan.
To him the writings of Cyrano de Bergerac were as fresh as paint as fresh as to me, alas, was the news of their survival. Of course, of course, you have read "L'Histoire Comique des états et des Empires de la Lune"? I admitted, by gesture and facial expression, that I had not.
By the side of the little, shallow, sparkling, vigorous Leck, run long pasture fields, of the fine short grass common in high land; for though Cowan Bridge is situated on a plain, it is a plain from which there is many a fall and long descent before you and the Leck reach the valley of the Lune.