soye

Updated: May 1, 2025

Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without taking it. The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

We eyed one another in silence for a second or two. Then the girl with the harp, the instrument she was manipulating proved to be fashioned more like a harp than a guitar called out to me, "Entrez, monsieur! Soye le bienvenu!" 'I was a little tired.

Richard Marsh - The Beetle