"Anglice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reputation of having. She was indeed a coquette achevee. "Pray, sir," says Adams, "what is a coquette? I have met with the word in French authors, but never could assign any idea to it. I believe it is the same with une sotte, Anglice, a fool." Sir, answered the gentleman, perhaps you are not much mistaken; but, as it is a particular kind of folly, I will endeavour to describe it. Were all creatures to be ranked in the order of creation according to their usefulness, I know few animals that would not take ...
— Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 • Henry Fielding
... upon those who were legally in possession. The tickets, which conferred right to a seat in this vehicle, of little ease, were dispensed by a sharp-looking old dame, with a pair of spectacles on a very thin nose, who inhabited a "laigh shop," anglice, a cellar, opening to the High Street by a straight and steep stair, at the bottom of which she sold tape, thread, needles, skeins of worsted, coarse linen cloth, and such feminine gear, to those who had the courage and skill to descend to the profundity of her dwelling, without falling headlong ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... the National Council to the king. When the bishops, in 1236, desired to have the laws of inheritance conformed to the rules of the Church, the barons made the laconic answer, "We will not change the laws of England" (Nolumus leges Anglice mutare). ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher
... Theater. PARIS, 27TH. LA PATRIE has from Chicago: The cop of the theater of the opera of Wallace, Indiana, had willed to expel a spectator which continued to smoke in spite of the prohibition, who, spalleggiato by his friends, tire (Fr. TIRE, Anglice PULLED) manifold revolver-shots; great panic ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... was a duty—she rose, noiseless as a shadow: she moved toward her own chamber; at the door she turned, fixing her eyes on the heroine of the bottle, who still slept and loudly snored. Mrs. Svini (I presume this was Mrs. Svini, Anglice or Hibernice Sweeny)—Mrs. Sweeny's doom was in Madame Beck's eye—an immutable purpose that eye spoke: madame's visitations for shortcomings might be slow, but they were sure. All this was very un-English: truly I was ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... qwat co{m}mys {ere}of. fforthermor{e}, as to e sentence of our{e} verse, yf {o}u wel m{u}ltiply a nombur be a-no{er} nomb{ur}, ou schalt write [*leaf 154a] a rewe of figures of what nomb{ur}s so eu{er} {o}u welt, &at schal be called Num{erus} m{u}ltiplicand{us}, Anglice, e nomb{ur} the quych to be m{u}ltiplied. en {o}u schalt write a-nother rewe of figur{e}s, by e quych {o}u schalt m{u}ltiplie the nombre at is to be m{u}ltiplied, of e quych nomb{ur} e furst fig{ur}e schal be write vnd{er} e last figur{e} of e nomb{ur}, ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... wars'—I am not sure If this be the right reading—'t is no matter; The fact 's about the same, I am secure; I sing them both, and am about to batter A town which did a famous siege endure, And was beleaguer'd both by land and water By Souvaroff, or Anglice Suwarrow, Who loved blood as ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... given up in despair. The nearest solution was that of an eminent arithmetician, who conjectured from the word too (Anglice, two)—and the use of the four cyphers—those immediately following the T and L—that they were intended to convey some notion of the personal property of Giles Scroggins or Molly Brown (he never made up his mind ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 18, 1841 • Various |
