leste

Updated: May 21, 2025

'My opinion of death, brother, is much the same as that in the old song of Pharaoh, which I have heard my grandam sing Cana marel o manus chivios ande puv, Ta rovel pa leste o chavo ta romi. When a man dies, he is cast into the earth, and his wife and child sorrow over him.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Here the new governor was scarcely installed, when a Jesuit came in to ask if he would be godfather to an Indian about to be baptized. "Most gladly," replied the pious Montmagny. "Monsieur le Gouverneur se transporte aux Cabanes de ces pauures barbares, suivy d'une leste Noblesse.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

They are not literature but express what was in the mind of the famous scientist: "Elle a cinq instruments dont je suis amoureux, Les deux premiers, ses mains, les deux autres, ses yeux; Pour le dernier de tous, et cinquième qui reste, Il faut être galant et leste." In the year 1696, when Ninon had reached eighty, she had several attacks of illness which worried her friends exceedingly.

Ninon de Lenclos - Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos : The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century

"My opinion of death, brother, is much the same as that in the old song of Pharaoh, which I have heard my grandam sing: 'Cana marel o manus chivios ande puv, Ta rovel pa leste o chavo ta romi'. When a man dies, he is cast into the earth, and his wife and child sorrow over him.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest