sácres

Updated: June 5, 2025

I did the same. With reiterated sacres and diables of every description, some now rushed down into the cabin, while others went down the fore-hatchway, while more of the men from the lugger poured upon our decks; but none of them molested Bramble or me, as we continued standing at the wheel.

Frederick Marryat - Poor Jack

I was obliged to comply, though I longed to remain on deck to see what course events would take. The people below, as soon as they heard that a friend was in sight, cheered over and over again, utterly indifferent to what the Frenchmen might say or do. They did utter not a few sacres and other strange oaths, but we did not care for them.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor

A few "sacres" and "f -s" was the reply, as one of them attempted to twitch his bundle out of his hand. "Hold fast there, old chap, don't take what you never paid for." A scuffle now ensued; which ended in Roberts, who found that he could not retain possession, shying his bundle at the foremost man, with such force as to lay him on the deck. "Well, if you will have it, take it," cried Roberts.

Frederick Marryat - Newton Forster: The Merchant Service

The stables were beyond the offices, and before them stood the falconry, managed by ostrich-keepers and falconers very expert in the art, and it was yearly supplied and furnished by the Candians, Venetians, Sarmates, now called Muscoviters, with all sorts of most excellent hawks, eagles, gerfalcons, goshawks, sacres, lanners, falcons, sparrowhawks, marlins, and other kinds of them, so gentle and perfectly well manned, that, flying of themselves sometimes from the castle for their own disport, they would not fail to catch whatever they encountered.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

There is a native gaiety, and vivacity of character, which impel them forward, and particularly so, under the individual and encouraging appellation of 'bon homme. When tripping, they are commonly all life, using the whip, or more commonly a thick stick, barbarously upon their dogs, vociferating as they go "Sacres Crapeaux," "Sacrée Marne," "Saintes Diables," and uttering expressions of the most appalling blasphemy.

John West - The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America: and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American: Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.