"Sur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ma feuille. Je pars de suite. Je prends les deux francs sur la cheminee. Jean." (I've just received my notice. Am leaving at once. Have taken the two francs that are on the ...
— My Home In The Field of Honor • Frances Wilson Huard
... shot at a few dates. I will make it childishly easy. Give me, if you can, even approximately, the year of Caesar's Conquest of Gaul; the Invasion of Europe by the Huns; the Sack of Rome; the Battle of Chalons-sur-Marne; the Battle of Tours; the Crowning of Charlemagne; the Great Crusade; the Fall of Constantinople; Magna Charta; the Battle of Crecy; the Field of the Cloth of Gold; the Massacre of St. Bartholomew; the Spanish ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train
... pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth de autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building] pour fere une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ...
— Notes and Queries, No. 28. Saturday, May 11, 1850 • Various
... paces, but missed his aim. It was now past five o'clock, so we returned to the caravanserai to dinner. Some Chasseurs d'Afrique had arrived in the interim. Their captain joined us in our room, and promised us an escort for the morrow. He was from Boulogne-sur-Mer, and spoke English pretty well. He told us we should have to start at six in the ...
— Notes in North Africa - Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia • W. G. Windham
... correspond almost entirely to the Assyrian version IV, 2, 46-48. The variations ki-ib-su in place of spu, and kima lm, "like oxen," instead of ina bb muti (repeated from line 46), ana surbi for ribam, are slight though interesting. The Assyrian version shows that the "gate" in line 215 is "the gate of the family house" in ...
— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous
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