Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Mis à jour: 29 novembre 2025
89 4 des bruits de verres: 'clinking of glasses. 89 6 qui chantait: 'singing'; cf. note to 55 7. 89 13 tambourins: 'drums. The Provençal and Algerian tambourin is a drum higher than it is wide. Tambour 90 1 = tambourin. Cf. note to 53 15. 89 29 Digo-li ... moun bon! = dis-lui qu'il vienne, mon bon; 'just tell him to come on, old fellow'; a Provençal challenge.
The bright leafy bark of the Betula tree A flexible sheathing provides; And the fir's thready roots drew the parts to agree And bound down its high-swelling sides.
[Note 132: Je saisis avec plaisir cette occasion d'exprimer ma reconnaissance, 1°. aux présidens et secrétaires de ces conventions, qui, pendant plusieurs années, m'ont envoyé les procès-verbaux (Minutes of the proceding of, etc.) de leurs assemblées; 2°.
Notes: J'ai lu dernièrement dans un travail de Smith (le père des géologues anglais), publié dans le Magazine of Natural History, que les grains de quartz du mill-stone grit d'Angleterre sont souvent cristallisés. Dans une notice présentée en 1840
After the death of Madame, her faithful friend withdrew more and more from the Court, into the seclusion and quiet of her little band of chosen friends, urged partly by her distaste for Court life and partly by her increasing ill-health.
3 25 Tarasque: a monster which, according to the legend, devastated the country about Tarascon until it was slain by Saint Martha, sister of Lazarus, who, in company with the three Marys, had come to Provence after the death of Christ At irregular intervals there is a festival in Tarascon to celebrate the destruction of the Tarasque. 'was playing the hundred tricks, 'raged.
The Annals of the Parish. Chap. «Une autre circonstance de ma vie, qui produisit des altérations considérables sur mon esprit et mes moeurs, fut que je passai mon dix-septième été
The guard comes up because there are knives unsheathed and money missing. 4. One evening he strayed into the middle of this crowd. 5. The hero was thinking of the peace of his heart, when suddenly angry voices rose. 6. I am twenty francs short. 7. I ask no better. 8. He was proud to make the acquaintance of the prince whose title had dazzled him. 9. He turned toward Tartarin sneering. 10.
The British Tourists, or Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, comprehending the most celebrated Tours in the British Islands, by WILLIAM MAVOR. London. Printed for E. Newberry, 1798, 5 vols. London, printed for Benj. White, MCCXC. White, MCCXC. Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland A. D. 1803, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, edited by J. C. Shairp.
The annual Biography, being lives of eminent or remarkable persons, who have died within the year 1842; by CHARLES DODD, esq., author of the Peerage, the Parliamentary companion, etc. Chapman and Hall. London. L'Annuaire biographique, ou Vies des personnes éminentes ou remarquables qui sont mortes pendant l'année 1842; par Charles Dodd.
Mot du Jour
D'autres à la Recherche