"Gur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mochuda, with large offerings, was returning from Kerry to Rahen he passed through the confines of Delbhna [Lemanaghan?] by the lake called Muincine [Lough Gur?] where he and his party were overtaken by night. They found here before them by the roadside revolving wheels, which an artisan, who was erecting a mill on the stream from the lake, had set up for a joke. As the wheels revolved they made a terrific noise which was heard by ...
— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous
... BAHRAM GUR.—Bahram of the Wild Ass—a Sassanian Sovereign—had also his Seven Castles (like the King of Bohemia!) each of a different Colour: each with a Royal Mistress within; each of whom tells him a Story, as told in one of the most famous Poems of Persia, written ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... large number of the chansonniers are represented in the collection by Dumersan and Noel Sgur, Chansons nationales et populaires de France, 2 vols., 1566, to which an account of the French chanson is prefixed. Specimens of the chanson populaire may be read in T.F. Cranes Chansons populaires de la France, New York, Putnam, 1891: an excellent historical sketch and a ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... yer honour, for every mother's son of 'em, counting the gur-r-rls, in the bargain! Such a power of bir-r-ds, would knock down 'praties, in a wonderful degree, and make even butthermilk chape and plenthiful. Will it be always such abundance with us, down at the Huts, yer honour? or is this sight only a delusion to ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... to-night to the entrance of the harbour, and sails to-morrow at five o'clock. As all the ships are exposed to some risk, I shall divide my letters amongst them. I write to M M. de Coigny, de Poix, de Noailles, de Sgur, and to Madame d'Ayen.[1] If either of these should not receive my letter, be so kind ...
— Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette • Lafayette |
