"Lene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... So I could not wait for the dance, and said to the man, "Dear sir, I will go straight home and write all this to my dear little son Hans, that he may pray diligently and learn well and be good, and so come into this garden; but he has an aunt, Lene, [Footnote: Hans's great-aunt, Magdalen, mentioned in Part VI. Ch. vii.] whom he must bring with him." And the man answered, "So it shall be; go home and write as you say." Therefore, dear little ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin
... vel assiduitatis taedium fallere, si quando invitat aeris temperies. Post 10 deambulatiunculam conscenderam domunculam hortensem, iamque coeperam aliquid ex Chrysostomo vertere, cum interim vitreas fenestras ferit fulmen, sed tacitum ac lene. Primum suspicabar oculorum esse errorem. Cum rursus semel atque iterum effulsisset, demiror ac 15 prospicio si se vertisset coelum, contractisque nubibus pluviam ac tempestatem minaretur. Ubi nihil video periculi, ad librum ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake; But loked holwe, and therto soberly, Ful thredbar was his overest courtepy, For he had geten him yet no benefyce, Ne was so worldly for to have offyce. For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak ...
— Life in the Medieval University • Robert S. Rait |
