"Ni" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mecina hasta el de Gibraltar ninguno de la parte de Europa pudiera tomer comida ni sueno seguro de lo que viviera en las riberas del mar." (From the Straits of Messina to those of Gibraltar none living in Europe on the shores of the sea were able to eat in peace or to sleep with any sense ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... tame grumbler I. I only claim the privilege of croaking in my own corner here, without uniting my throat to the grand chorus of the marshNi quito Rey, ni pongo ReyI neither make king nor mar king, as Sancho says, but pray heartily for our own sovereign, pay scot and lot, and grumble at the excisemanBut here comes the ewe-milk cheese in good time; it is a better ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... si los reyes quieren enganar, Comienzan por nosotros los primeros. Nuestro mayor negocio es, no danar, Y jamas hacer cosa, ni dezilla, Que ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge
... foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid. There is still another foot, known as the amphibrach, which consists of three syllables, the second of which is accented, as in the word de-ni'-al. The scheme of the ...
— Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism • F. V. N. Painter
... is much worse than this of the body; wit without employment is a disease [1549]Aerugo animi, rubigo ingenii: the rust of the soul, [1550]a plague, a hell itself, Maximum animi nocumentum, Galen, calls it. [1551]"As in a standing pool, worms and filthy creepers increase, (et vitium capiunt ni moveantur aquae, the water itself putrefies, and air likewise, if it be not continually stirred by the wind) so do evil and corrupt thoughts in an idle person," the soul is contaminated. In a commonwealth, where is no public enemy, there is likely civil wars, and they rage upon themselves: ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... iter paene hostibus dedit, ni unus vir fuisset, Horatius Cocles.... Qui positus forte in statione pontis, cum captum repentino impetu Ianiculum atque inde citatos decurrere hostes vidisset, {10} trepidamque turbam suorum arma ordinesque relinquere, reprehensans ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... Pat-ki-ny-m, and we dwelt in the Pa-lt-kwa-b[(i] (Red Land) where the kw-ni (agave) grows high and plentiful; perhaps it was in the region the Americans call Gila valley, but of that I am not certain. It was far south of here, and a large river flowed past our village, which was large, and the houses were high, and ...
— Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff
... Cum reducem longo prospexit in aethere matrem, Ire cupit contra, summaque e margine nidi Extat hians; jam jamque cadat ni pectore toto Obstet aperta ...
— Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives • Henry Francis Cary
... dites, Marie, Du lieu imperial, Fut-ce en chambre paree, Ou en Palais royal? —En une pauvre etable Ouverte a l'environ Ou n'avait feu, ni flambe Ni latte, ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... animal d'apres les principes que nous venons de poser en se debarrassant des prejuges etablis sur les divisions anciennement admises, en n'ayant egard qu'a l'organisation et a la nature des animaux, et non pas a leur grandeur, a leur utilite, au plus ou moins de connaissance que nous en avons, ni a toutes les autres circonstances accessoires, on trouvera qu'il existe quatre formes principales, quatre plans generaux, si l'on peut s'exprimer ainsi, d'apres lesquels tous les animaux semblent avoir ete modeles, et ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... tamano e grandeza de una mano por sus dobleces uno contra otro (a manera de reclamo); y en aquestos tenian pintados sus caracteres o figuras de tinta roxa o negra, de tal manera que aunque no eran letura ni escritura, significaban y se entendian por ellas todo lo que querian muy claramente."—Oviedo, Historia General y Natural de Indias, ...
— Aboriginal American Authors • Daniel G. Brinton
... and without a hairsbreadth of deviation either to the right or to the left. As it rests on the unshakable foundation which my conscience as a King and a Christian has laid down, and which does not admit que je fasse la besogne ni de l'un ni de l'autre parti, I am abused and insulted at the Winter Palace, and regarded, by way of contrast in London and Paris, as a kind of simpleton—neither of ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria
... nos sujets, sans difference ni distinctions, seront recus dans les ecoles civiles et militaires du gouvernement, pourvu qu'ils remplissent les conditions d'age et d'examen specifies dans les reglements organiques ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... "Diu, diu, diu!" (Yes, yes, yes!), "Karuga ni!" (Two two-anna pieces!), "Gieut-cheke!" (A four-anna piece!), and so on, they called out the price of each article, all talking at the same time, in their anxiety to dispose of ...
— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor
... saluted me), 'Why dost thou not speak and bid like the rest of the merchants?' I said, 'O my lord, by Allah, the shifts of fortune have run against me and I have lost my wealth and have only an hundred dinars left in the world.' Quoth he, 'O Omni, after this vast wealth, can only an hundred dinars remain to thee?' And I was abashed before him and my eyes filled with tears; whereupon he looked at me and indeed my case was grievous to him. So he said to the merchants, 'Bear ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... ce passoit ne l'etoit pas, qu'il y avoit une armee sur pied qui subsistoit, et qui etoit remplie d'officiers Catholiques, qui ne pouvoit etre conservee que pour le renversement des loix, et que la subsistance de l'armee, quand il n'y a aucune guerre ni au dedans ni au dehors, etoit l'etablissement du gouvernement arbitraire, pour lequel les Anglois ont une aversion si ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... nightly to the smooth grass plat in front of our house to play "sis-sis'-ki" (I catch your ankle). They laid aside their blankets and lined up nude in two opposing lines twelve or fifteen feet apart. All then called: "Sis-sis'-ki ad wa'-ni wa'-ni!" (which is, "I catch your ankle, now! now!"). Immediately the two lines crouched on their haunches, and, in half-sitting posture, with feet side by side, each girl bounced toward her opponent endeavoring to catch her ankle. After ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks
... "But think of the ni-ice little fire they will make when the weather turns chilly!" said Jim wickedly, as he jolted Chrissie's elbow, jerked the plate out of Kitty's hand, and made a snap at Agatha's cake, held temptingly before him. He could never by any chance sit near the girls without teasing them in some such ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... l'Empereur d'Allemagne par sa parole a n'entreprendre aucun acte agressif tant que dureraient les pourparlers avec l'Autriche. Apres une telle garantie et apres toutes les preuves de l'amour de la Russie pour la paix, l'Allemagne ne pouvait ni avait le droit de douter de notre declaration que nous accepterions avec joie toute issue pacifique compatible avec la dignite et l'independance de la Serbie. Une autre issue, tout en etant completement incompatible avec notre propre dignite, aurait certainement ebranle ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... alguien), (some, somebody, anybody) *Algo, alguna cosa (something, anything) *Uno-a,-os-as (one, a person, some, some persons) Uno a otro (one another, each other) Uno u otro (one or the other, either) Uno y otro, ambos, entrambos (both) Ni uno ni otro (neither the one nor the other) Ni uno (not a single one) Los otros, los demas (the others) Mismo (same, self) Cierto-a,-os-as (a certain, certain) Cada (each) *Cada uno, *cada cual (each, each one) Otro (other, another[108]) Todo (all, everything, every) Todos (everybody, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... and we are without anything.) The last line often is "E nui semu cca munnamu li denti" (And here we are picking our teeth), or "Ma a nui 'un ni desinu nenti" (But to us they gave nothing), which ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... Et sachiez que il ni ot si hardi cui le cuer ne fremist, (c. 66.).. Chascuns regardoit ses armes.... que par tems en arons mestier, (c. 67.) Such is the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon
... year 550 B.C.,[1] in the land of Lu, in a small village, situated in the western part of the modern province of Shantung. His name was K'ung Ch'iu, and his style (corresponding to our Christian name) was Chung-ni. His countrymen speak of him as K'ung Fu-tzu, the Master, or philosopher K'ung. This expression was altered into Confucius by the Jesuit missionaries who first carried ...
— The Sayings Of Confucius • Confucius
... 'Here then, for the present, the story will leave Shane safely planted on the first step of his ambition, in all but the title, sole monarch of the North. He built himself a fort on an island in Lough Neagh, which he called Foogh-ni-gall, or, Hate of Englishmen, and grew rich on the spoils of his enemies, the only strong man in Ireland. He administered justice after a paternal fashion, permitting no robbers but himself; when wrong was done he compelled ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin
... 89. Condorcet had 16 votes, and Bailly 15. 'Jamais aucune election,' says La Harpe, who was all for Buffon, 'n'avait offert ni ce nombre ni ce partage.'—Philos. du 18ieme Siecle, i. 77. A full account of the election, and of Condorcet's reception, in ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 3: Condorcet • John Morley
... extinct volcano over here in the northeast and in its side is a huge cavern. People around here used to believe that all these frightful storms issued from the cavern. Every spring and every fall there was a perfectly corking one that tore up the whole place, and they called the mountain 'Ni-Ko San,' or Two-Storm Mountain. Then an old party who was a saint, I believe, and very wise, placed a curse on the storm demon and named the place 'Nikko San,' Mountain of the ...
— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes
... mouth, we cannot imagine, unless on the supposition that he is such a husband as La Bruyere has described. "Il ne sert dans sa famille qu' a montrer l'exemple, d'un silence timide et d'une parfaite soumission. Il ne lui est du ni douaire ni conventions; mais a cela pres, et qu'il n'accouche pas, il est la femme, et elle ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... qu re-maja, y qu re-salerosa es la nia, Cristo con ella! No le faltar un ricacho que la saque de pobre. Anmese, don Faustino... 60 Usted rico, usted el ms elegante caballero de ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... quando vuol non e bisogna mutar ni faccia ni voci per esser un Angelo.—The words addressed by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, to the beautiful Nun at Murano. ...
— The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction - Vol. X, No. 289., Saturday, December 22, 1827 • Various
... :frobnicate: /frob'ni-kayt/ /vt./ [Poss. derived from {frobnitz}, and usually abbreviated to {frob}, but 'frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... characteristics of these plans. The landing structure is divided into three parts, a central and two laterals, each of which extends forward, after the manner of a cutwater, in the form of the bow of a vessel of the fifteenth century, bringing to mind the two caravels, the Pinta and Nia; two great lights occupy the advance points on each side; a rich balustrade and four statues of celebrated persons complete the magnificent frontage. A noble monument, surmounted by a statue of the discoverer, is seen ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 • Various
... or Maneaba Ni Maungatabu (41 seats; 39 elected by popular vote, one ex officio member, and one nominated to represent Banaba; members ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... are what Major Davies calls the Lolo Group in his third division of the great Tibeto-Burman Family; but I merely suggest it, as it strikes me that the other branches of that group, including the Li-su, the La-hu, and the Wo-ni, seem to be descendants of a larger group, of which the Nou Su predominate in numbers, language, and customs. However, ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
... her hand through his arm] Not when I haf anyone as ni-ice as you; I never haf had, though. [She smiles, and her smile, like her speech, is slow and confining] You stopped because I was sad, others stop because I am gay. I am not fond of men at all. When you know—you are not ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... seen that the abbreviated "Ni. Br." of the text was properly "Mi. Dr."—and that Michael Drayton, not Nicholas Broughton, is here ridiculed for his poem The Owl ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge
... Khasi. belly pok kpoh. strike (v.) chok shoh. father po kpa. come (v.) vang wan. rice beer hor hiar. maternal uncle ni-lur kni. ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
... with miscanthus) "Obana sakafuki" (And eularia) "Kuro-ki mochi" (Of ebon timbers built, a house) "Tsukureru yado wa" (Will live a myriad years.) "Yorozu yo made ni." ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
... them relate to no less a personage than Kudur-Laghghamar or Chedor-laomer, "King of Elam," as well as to Eri-Aku or Arioch, King of Larsa, and his son Dur-makh-ilani; to Tudghula or Tidal, the son of Gazza[ni], and to their war against Babylon in the time of Khamrnu[rabi]. In one of the texts the question is asked, "Who is the son of a king's daughter who has sat on the throne of royalty? Dur-makh-ilani, ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... si sur ce point la nuit ne fut venue, Toujours comme cela je me serais tenue, Ne voulaut point ceder, ni recevoir l'ennui Qu'il me put estimer ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... pas a ajouter,' he writes, 'que, sauf le Christ tout seul, il n'est point, parmi les fondateurs de religion, de figure plus pure ni plus touchante que celle du Bouddha. Sa vie n'a point de tache. Son constant heroisme egale sa conviction; et si la theorie qu'il preconise est fausse, les exemples personnels qu'il donne sont irreprochables. Il est le modele acheve de toutes les vertus ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... i, fi—n, i, ni! Bon dieu Pere, j'ai fini... Vous qui m'avez lant puni, Dans ma triste vie, Pour tant d'horribles forfaits Que je ne commis jamais Laissez-moi jouir ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... content to live here always," breathed Tad after they had finished their explorations of the caves and passed on into a perfect jungle of tropical growth on their way to Ko-ho-ni-no, the canyon home of ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... name. However, when the first-born child comes to any one, the latter's Christian name is forgotten; for that instant they call the father by the name of his first-born for the rest of his life. If the name of the first-born is Rosa, the father is called Ama ni Rosa, or Pan-Rosa, which means "the father of Rosa." One must not then ask for such a man in any village by his Christian name (which is the one entered on the parish register), for there are many so named, so ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... Ni-ha-be sat perfectly still in her silver-mounted saddle, although her spirited mustang pony pawed the ground and pulled on his bit as if he were in a special hurry to go on down the ...
— The Talking Leaves - An Indian Story • William O. Stoddard
... was slung round the warrior's neck, and its device and motto seemed in melancholy accordance with the rest of his attire. On a field argent lay the branch of a tree proper, blasted and jagged, with the words "Ni nom ni paren, je suis seul," rudely engraved in Norman French beneath; his helmet bore no crest, nor did his war-cry on the field, "Amiot for the Bruce and freedom," offer any clue to the curious as to his history, for that ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar
... cow-goddess of love and joy. The old Egyptian name of Tentyra was written 'Int (Ant), but the pronunciation of it is unknown: in later days it was 'Int-t-ntrt, "ant of the goddess," pronounced Ni-tentri, whence [Greek: Tentyra, Tentyris]. The temple of Hathor was built in the 1st century B.C., being begun under the later Ptolemies (Ptol. XIII.) and finished by Augustus, but much of the decoration is ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... nor better than we": a fine instance of secret motive, in which the vulgar antagonism to everything privileged and autocratic—likewise a second and more refined atheism—is once more disguised. "Ni dieu, ni maitre"—that, also, is what you want; and therefore "Cheers for natural law!"—is it not so? But, as has been said, that is interpretation, not text; and somebody might come along, who, with opposite intentions and modes of interpretation, could read ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche
... passibus acceptabo. quod si per nullam talem Florentia introitur, nunquam Florentiam introibo. quidni? nonne solis astrorumque specula ubique conspiciam? nonne dulcissimas veritates potero speculari ubique sub celo, ni prius inglorium, imo ignominiosum populo, Florentineque civitati am reddam? quippe ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... many a thump and prod and "Bur-r-r-r-r-r-o!" to make the pretty little mouse-colored donkey he was riding keep up with me—and what did I think he paid for him? Eighteen pesos! Si, senor, ni mas ni menos. A bargain, eh? And for the other one at home, which is larger, only twenty-two pesos, and for the one they stole from him, fifteen pesos and a bag of corn. And once they stole all ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck
... child of Shu-liang Heh's old age. The soldier had married in early life, but his wife brought him only [Sidebar] From his birth to his first public employments. B.C. 551-531. daughters,— to the number of nine, and no son. By a concubine he had a son, named Mang-p'i, and also Po-ni [5], who proved a cripple, so that, when he was over seventy years, Heh sought a second wife in the Yen family [6], from which came subsequently Yen Hui, the favourite disciple of his son. There were three daughters in the family, the youngest being named Chang-tsai [7]. Their father said to ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) Unicode Version • James Legge
... nonchalence and he knocked the heels of his boots together in order to keep his teeth from chattering. "It's a fi-fine ni-night for ...
— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo
... were pushed back in the mass, and brushed together in the sand in order that their bodies might be thoroughly dried. Every snake in the collection was thus washed, the harmless varieties being bathed after the venomous. In the destruction of the altar by the reptiles, the snake ti-po-ni (insignia) stood upright until all had been washed, and then one of the priests turned it on its side, as a sign that the observance had ended. The low, weird song of the snake men continued, and gradually died away ...
— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett
... veux rien savoir, ni si les champs fleurissent, Nice quil adviendra di., simulacre humain, Ni si ces vastes cieux eclaireront demain Ce qu' ils ensevelissent heure, en ce lieu, Je me dis seulement: a cette Un jour, je fus aime, j'aimais, elle etait belle, Jenfouis ...
— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic
... scribes would seem to have altered the name of Merodach in two particulars: they dropped the last syllable, thus suggesting that the name was derived from Marad, "the rebellious one"; and they prefixed the syllable "Ni," just as "Nisroch" was written for "Assur." "From a linguistic point of view, therefore, the identification of Nimrod as a changed form of Merodach ...
— The Astronomy of the Bible - An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References - of Holy Scripture • E. Walter Maunder
... not before Gazed on their mightier Parents, where the pine Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar[nh] The thundering Lauwine[454]—might be worshipped more; But I have seen the soaring Jungfrau rear[ni] Her never-trodden snow, and seen the hoar Glaciers of bleak Mont Blanc both far and near— And in Chimari heard the ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... ichi, ni, san," she rhythmically droned, three being the magical number that would bring good luck if the petals were properly arranged and the ...
— Little Sister Snow • Frances Little
... feel the point of this joke the reader should recollect that Madame de Grignan was Gouvernante de Provence.] "Madame de Tarente etait hier dans ces bois par un temps enchante: il n'est question ni de chambre ni de collation; elle entre par la barriere et s'en retourne de meme. . ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
... demonstrate the wisdom of this arrangement, that they used every means to strengthen the bands of their union, and by the most solemn engagements of fidelity to each other, they became the Ko-nos- hi-o-ni, or United people. ...
— An account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha - Red Jacket and his people, 1750-1830 • John Niles Hubbard
... Mirbeau's notorious novel, a novel which it would be complimentary to describe as naturalistic, the heroine is warned by her director against the works of Anatole France, "Ne lisez jamais du Voltaire... C'est un peche mortel... ni de Renan... ni de l'Anatole France. Voila qui est dangereux." The names are appropriately united; a real, if not precisely an apostolic, succession ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France
... to this chain of connection between the coiled boiling-basket and the spirally-built cooking-pot, the names of the two kinds of vessels may be given. The boiling-basket was known as wo li a k'ia ni tu li a tom me, the corrugated cooking pot as wo li a k'ia te' ni tu li a ton ne, the former signifying "coiled cooking-basket," the ...
— A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture Growth. • Frank Hamilton Cushing
... [FN81] Arab. "Tobni" which Lane renders "two clods." I have noted that the Tob (Span. Adobe Al-Tob) is a sunbaked brick. Beating the bosom with such material is still common amongst Moslem mourners of the lower class, and the hardness of the blow gives the measure of ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... reverends peres, mes lettres n'avaient pas accoutume de se suivre de si pres, ni d'etre si etendues. Le peu de temps que j'ai eu a ete cause de l'un et de l'autre. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je {45} n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. La raison qui m'a oblige de hater vous est ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 • Various
... with muddy feet would be the same as if an American should walk roughshod over his chairs, table and bed. Even in the Japanese department store I visited this morning cloth covers were put on my shoes, and this afternoon at the Ni-no Go Reiya Shinto temple I had to go in ...
— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe
... a lazy wink. "Vi, of the Hopperer-Buff? You've 'erd of 'er surely, Mamzelle? No? There's not a man (as is worth calling a man) about town, as don't know 'er! Dukes, Lords, an' Royal 'Ighnesses—she's the style for 'em! Mag-ni-ficent creetur! all legs and arms! I won't deny but wot I 'ave an admiration for 'er myself—I bought a 'arf-crown portrait of 'er quite recently." And Briggs rose slowly and searched in a mysterious drawer which he ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... toca A esta ysla De lucon y sus comarcanas que por ser moros difieren algo en las condiciones y viuienda y lengua.—No se puede negar a Ver faltado curiosidad en los que A esta tierra an pasado pues eclesiastico, ni secular an tomado la mano para contar lo que a acaecido en la conquista desta tierra y Ansi aunque en mexico El padre fray Alonso de Buyca Dicen tiene hecho vn gran Volumen sobre ello tengolo por dudoso porqe ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume V., 1582-1583 • Various
... to walk ten miles in the mud, to hear this celebrated person preach. Never, the longest day I have to live, shall I have such another walk as this cold, raw, comfortless one in the winter of 1798. Il-y- a des impressions que ni le tems ni les circonstances peuvent effacer. Dusse-je vivre des siecles entiers, le doux tems de ma jeunesse ne peut renaitre pour moi, ni s'effacer jamais dans ma memoire. When I got there the ...
— Characters of Shakespeare's Plays • William Hazlitt
... worten Von Christo ie erstift[9]; An hundert tausent orten 15 Ist gossen auss das gift. Der kaiser ist kain advocat, Gar hin ist sein gewalt, Den er ja zu der kirchen hat, Der schirm zu boden falt; 20 Sein gebot sein ganz verachtet, We armer christenhait, Wa undertni[10] brachtet,[11] Und herschaft niderleit! Die patriarchen alle 25 Und cardinl gemain,[12] Die bischof sein im falle, Der pfarrer bleibt allain; Ja den die gmain[13] erwelet Nach irem unverstand 30 Und ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... iland with approval, but was soon "Astonished with the view and lost to wonder" (from Wats) (For jest then he began to see the Alegaiter) Being a nateral enemy of his'n, he worked hisself Into a fury, also a ni position. Before the Alegaiter well could ope His eye (in other words perceive his danger) The Snaik had enveloped his body just 19 Times with "foalds voluminous and vast" (from Milton) And had tore off several ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... veux seulement que notre chambriere Vienne faire mon lit, ton compagnon ni toi; Je veux trois jours entiers demeurer a recoi, Pour folatrer ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... sitchoong. Sail Hoo Foo. Salt Siwo Mashoo. Salt water Siwo mis usiwo Spookarasa meezee. Salute, to Resuru Kameeoong. Sand Tsunna Sinna. Scrape, to Kusagu Sajoong. Screw Nesi Jirree. Sea Ume Ooshoo. Seal Fang hang ingjo Ing, or fang. See, to Miru Meeoong. Seed Tanna Ni. Separate, to Saru Wockkayoong. Serpent Kutjinawa hebi Haboo. Sew, to No, noi Nawyoong, or noayoong. Shallow Assai assaka Assassa. Shave, to Soru Sooyoong. Shell Kai Oosheemaw. Ship Fune Hoonee. Shoe Kwutsu Sabock. Shoulders Kata Kutta. Sick Itami ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall
... intimidation and something worse, as the 'Aku tyranny' and the 'Aku Inquisition.' The national proverb speaks the national sentiment clearly enough: 'Okan kau le ase ibi, ikoko li asi imolle bi atoju imolle tau, ke atoju ibi pella, bi aba ku ara enni ni isni 'ni' ('A man must openly practise the duties of kinship, even though he may privately belong to a (secret) club; when he has attended the club he must also attend to the duties of kinship, because when he dies his kith and kin are those ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
... Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; a hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, a hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox. So the same nature urgeth a man to love his parents, ([4588]dii me pater omnes oderint, ni te magis quam oculos amem meos!) and this love cannot be dissolved, as Tully holds, [4589]"without detestable offence:" but much more God's commandment, which enjoins a filial love, and an obedience in this kind. [4590]"The love ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... reprobated, it seems nevertheless to have been adopted in the arms and mottoes of many honourable families. Thus the motto of the Vernons, VER NON SEMPER VIRET, is a perfect pun, and so is that of the Onslows, FESTINA LENTE. The PERIISSEM NI PER-IISSEM of the Anstruthers is liable to a similar objection. One of that ancient race, finding that an antagonist, with whom he had fixed a friendly meeting, was determined to take the opportunity of assassinating him, prevented the hazard ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... and the Gan-do, Your claims you must resign. If France goes far from Zanzibar, I'll draw a new boundary line. To the east of the Niger by latitude ten! That is our mi-ni-mum! Ours the Sahara! Yes, che sara sara! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 2, 1890. • Various
... "Talar ni svensk?" she asked, but I had no idea what she meant. She may have been impertinent, or even rude, or perhaps improper, but she looked as though she might be a domestic, and I led her gently, reverently, to Letitia in the drawing-room. I smiled back at her, in a wild ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various
... buzz, a click and an ungodly howl which was followed by the voice of operator ni-yun saying, "We are connecting you. There will be a slight delay. ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett
... of Parliament or Maneaba Ni Maungatabu (42 seats; 39 elected by popular vote, one ex officio member - the attorney general, one appointed to represent Banaba, and one other; members serve four-year terms) elections: first round elections last held 29 November 2002; second round elections held 6 December ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... despatch from Tours. Two armies are already formed, we are told—one at Lyons, and the other at——. The situation of Bazaine is excellent. The provinces are ready. The departments are organising to the cry of "Guerre a outrance, ni un pouce de terrain, ni une pierre de nos forteresses!" I trust that the news is true; but I have an ineradicable distrust of all French official utterances. A partial attempt is being made to relieve the population. At the ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... pregunto a Elias que si habia escrito alguna carta a Chihuahua y respondiendole Elias que si, le contesto David ya veras como por eso nos ponen en el calabozo y te apostara una oreja que es asi; que nada mas has oido ni visto nunca sobre la fuga de que se trata: Que el declarante desde que se murio su amo Nolan siempre ha sido mirado con desprecio por los Anglo-Americanos companeros de aquel y por lo mismo le ha quadrado mas alojarse siempre con los Espanoles como se verifico cuando lo pusieron en el ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various
... the present town. About 1740 Nadir Shah granted the town and district with the fort of Shamil and the town of Min[a]b, together with the islands of Kishm, Hormuz (Ormus) and L[a]rak, to the Arab tribe of the Beni Ma'[i]ni in return for a payment of a yearly rent or tribute. About 40 years later Sultan bin Ahmad, the ruler of Muscat, having been appealed to for aid by the Arab inhabitants of the place against Persian misrule, occupied the town, and obtained a firman ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... of animal matter when burning is owing to nitrogen. This element combined with hydrogen forms am-mo'ni-a, (hartshorn,) when animal matter is in a ...
— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter
... Christianisme dvoil, Paris, 1769, which finishes with the fatal prophecy, "Nous avons de surs garans de nos esprances: tant que le sang auguste de S. Louis sera sur le trne, il n'y a point de rvolutions craindre ni dans la Religion ni dans la politique. La religion Chrtienne fonde sur la parole de Dieu... triomphera des nouveaux Philosophes. Dieu qui veille sur son ouvrage n'a pas besoin de nos faibles mains pour le soutenir" (Psaume 32, vs. ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... titre de chateau, Pompeusement on le decore, Ne vous figurez pas qu'il soit vaste ni beau. Tel que ces Grands que l'on honore Pour les vertus de leurs ayeux Pour tout merite il n'a comme eux Qu'un nom qui se ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... Regum Franciae genus a laniis Parisiensibus deducit, utique tam vere, quam ille tenebrio nostrum a scalarum fabro: quas mirum, ni auctor generis in suspendium eorum parabat, quos vaticinabatur illustri nobilitate ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 • Various
... Ronquillo calls the Whig functionaries "Gente que no tienen practica ni experiencia." He adds, "Y de esto procede el pasarse un mes y un otro, sin executarse nada." June 24. 1689. In one of the innumerable Dialogues which appeared at that time, the Tory interlocutor puts the question, "Do you think ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... chapter, the slave Rimanni-Bel is said to have been usually called Rimut, the one name signifying "Love me, O Bel," the other "Love." In other instances we find Samas-musezib contracted into Samsiya and Suzub, Kabti-ilni-Merodach into Kabtiya, Nebo-tabni-uzur into Tabniya. The Belesys of Greek writers is the Babylonian Balasu, which is a shortened form of Merodach-balasu-iqbi, and Baladan, which is given in the Old Testament as the name of the father ...
— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce
... that moment she contrived to speak reassuringly of the Suydam genealogy, the art of landscape architecture, and impart a little special knowledge from her inexhaustible reserve, informing him that the name of her villa, Tsa-na Lah-ni, was Seminole, and meant "Yellow Butterfly." And then she passed him sweetly along into a crush of bright-eyed young things who attempted to pour tea into him and be agreeable in various artless ways; and presently he found himself in a back-water where fashion and intellect were ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... however, is 'Nullum numen habes,' &c. Mrs. Piozzi (Anec. p. 218) records this saying, but with a variation. '"For," says Mr. Johnson, "though I do not quite agree with the proverb, that Nullum numen adest si sit prudentia, yet we may very well say, that Nullum numen adest, ni sit prudentia."' ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... marriage of La Valliere's daughter to the Prince de Conti, wrote to Madame de Grignan: "But what an angel she appeared to me! To my eyes she possessed all the charms of early days, the same eyes and the same expression: the austere life, meagre fare and little sleep ni les lui ont ni creuses ni battus. The severe costume has despoiled her of no grace or dignity; indeed, this dress and this retreat add greatly ...
— In Chteau Land • Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
... also an Hi-ber-ni-an. And he stepped out on the shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water; and he married and lived happily ever afterward. So did the Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which he could neither cough up ...
— Just So Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... than suggested, but the latter fact seems to bear upon the association of the Hindoos with ourselves in the great Aryan family, Our do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do correspond with the Hindoo sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, sa, and the intervals are the same—two semi-tones, of which the Malaysian is destitute. The Hindoos have also terms in their language for the tonic, mediant and dominant, so that they know something of harmony, of which the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various
... gite, Honneur qui lui etait bien du, De nombreux amis la visite; Car chacun scavait que Laurent A son tour rendrait la pareille, Chapeau montre, et veste engageant, Pour que l'ami put boire bouteille, Ni faire, a ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... be that Bernier was right? "Il ne s'y trouve ni serpens, ni tigres, ni ours, ni lions, si ce n'est tres rarement."—Voyage ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... several days, to get new engravings thrown off, etc. Vogue la galere! From all that now appears, I shall be much better off in two or three years than if my misfortunes had never taken place. Periissem ni periissem. ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... destos y entendiende el gouernador q poreste temor no Venia ebiole conestos principales seguro debaxo del qual Vino el dia siguie sienpre mostraua temor dio disCulpa delo pasado facil y discreta y en suma dixo estas Razones no tube Culpa enlo q se hizo[?] porque ya saues que en esta trra no ay rrey ni Caueca sola sino q Cada vno tiene su parecer y opinion y asisiguen lo q mas gusto les da Vbo algos q pudieron mas q yo pues sin licencia mia rronpieron la paz y amistad y hizieronme Caer en falta y si esto no fuera ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair
... the eyes of the nation. The assemblies of the States-General were obsolete. The royal authority alone remained. The King was the State. Louis knew his position. He fearlessly avowed it, and he fearlessly acted up to it. ["Quand Louis XIV. dit, 'L'etat, c'est moi:' il n'y eut dans cette parole ni enflure, ni vanterie, mais la simple enonciation d'un fait."—MICHELET, HISTOIRE ...
— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.
... je ne negligerai ni le catalogue des doubles ni celui des ouvrages depareilles de la ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... Eloquentia" he talks with satisfaction of what he has done for Italian literature, of the purity and correctness of his style. "Cependant," says a favourite writer of mine,(Sismondi, Literature du Midi de l'Europe.) "il n'est ni pur, ni correct, mais il est createur." Considering the difficulties with which Dante had to struggle, we may perhaps be more inclined than the French critic to allow him this praise. Still it is by no means his highest or most peculiar title to ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Contibutions to Knight's Quarterly Magazine] • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Monkey then told him to open his mouth, and he obeyed. Then the Monkey said, "I'll peel this one piece of banana for you" (Luitan-ko 'ni sebad abok saging [137]). ...
— Philippine Folk-Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,
... the water, as a pair of webby feet disappeared. The "lion's cub" was soon ready, after much paternal advice, and much counsel to beware of being gobbled up by long-legged storks, and trod on by impolite men, and struck at by bad boys. "Kio ni no inaka" ("Even in the capital there are ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis
... est fait pour servir.—Ancien Regime, 248. Je regarde, ainsi que je l'ai toujours fait, la liberte comme le premier des biens; je vois toujours en elle l'une den sources les plus fecondes den vertus males et des actions grandes. Il n'y a pas de tranquillite ni de bien-etre qui puisse me tenir lieu d'elle.—7th January 1856, Mme. Swetchine, i. 452. La liberte a un faux air d'aristocratie; en donnant pleine carriere aux facultes humaines, en encourageant le travail ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... 'Le plafond croule; ils vont, si l'on me voit, Empecher que je sorte.' N'osant rester ni fuir, tu regardes le toit, Tu regardes ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... night and felt, through his intoxication, that things were going wrong with Nikolai. He heard it dripping and dripping in the thaw outside—splash, splash! The sound came in a monotonous chant: Ni-ko-lai, Ni-ko-lai. ...
— One of Life's Slaves • Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie
... air convenaient parfaitement a un heros de roman, mais non pas d'un roman francais; il n'en avait ni le brillant ni legerete."—Souvenirs et Portraits, par M. ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge |
