"Lese" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I godys forbode," kod the screffe, "So to lese mey godde;" "Hether ye cam on horse foll hey, And hom schall ye go on fote; And gret well they weyffe at home, The ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... He may lyghtly swym that ys held up by the chyn. Clyme not to hye lest chypys fall yn thyn eie. An skabbyd shepe ynfectyth all the ffolde. All the keys hange not by one manys gyrdyll. Better yt ys to lese cloth than brede. He that hath nede must blowe ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude
... made to remove the offending inscription. My French friends hotly contested the legality of this decision. They declared that it was straining the sense of the particular Article of the Code to make it applicable in such a case, and that it was illogical to apply the law of Lese-majeste to the Head of a Republican State. The President pertinently added that no evidence as to the quality of food supplied in the restaurant had been taken. If bad, it might unquestionably reflect injuriously on the Head of the State; ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... shriek'd out sorrow, than thus cheerly sing. I will go seek sad desperation's cell; This is not it, for here are green-leav'd trees. Ah, for one winter-bitten bared bough, Whereon a wretched life a wretch would lese. O, here is one! Thrice-blessed be this tree, If a man ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... people, and the die, representing, under the figure of Anne, the parasitical magnificence of the throne—an ill-sounding speech. This observation was repeated by Master Nicless, and had such a run that it reached to Ursus through Fibi and Vinos. It put Ursus into a fever. Seditious words, lese Majeste. He took Gwynplaine severely to task. "Watch over your abominable jaws. There is a rule for the great—to do nothing; and a rule for the small—to say nothing. The poor man has but one friend, silence. He should only pronounce one syllable: 'Yes.' To confess and to consent is all ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... said that gentleman, "you don't suppose I gets my livelihood out of the shed down stairs, nor the pigeons neither. You see, these things are only dodges. If I lived here like a gentleman—that is to say, without a occupation—the p'lese would soon be down upon me. They'd be obleeged to take notice on me. As it is, I comes the respectable tradesman, who's above suspicion—and the pigeons helps ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... beginnet er in diuten ein rede die er geschriben vant. dar umbe h[a]t er sich genant, da[z] er s[i]ner arbeit die er dar an h[a]t geleit 20 iht [a]ne l[o]n bel[i]be, und swer n[a]ch s[i]nem l[i]be s[i] h[oe]re sagen oder lese, da[z] er im bittende wese der s[e]le heiles hin ze gote. 25 man seit, er s[i] s[i]n selbes bote unde erl[oe]se sich d[a] mite, swer [u:]ber ...
— A Middle High German Primer - Third Edition • Joseph Wright
... The Emperor-King is everything. He could well say without exaggeration "L'Etat c'est Moi!" The common people really look upon the king as divine. Socialism and democracy do not exist,—the words seem to have no real meaning for his subjects; and Parliaments are but his dutiful servants. Lese-majesty is almost unheard of because the idea of questioning the Emperor-King or anything he does would no more occur to his subjects than to doubt the Immaculate Conception would occur ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
... dismissal of Prince Bismarck by the present Kaiser, Harden not only saw, but constantly and audaciously criticised, the weaknesses in the character of the Emperor. For this dangerous undertaking he was three times brought to trial for lese majeste, and spent a year as a prisoner in a Prussian fortress. In 1907 he figured in a libel suit brought by General Kuno von Moltke, late Military Governor of Berlin, who, together with Count Zu Eulenburg and Count Wilhelm ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various |
