"Oran" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the oran-outangs of the sea. But I am persuaded that there are also complete sea men, differing in no respect from us, but that they are stupid, and covered with scales; for, though our organisation seems to exclude us essentially from the class of amphibious animals, ...
— Nightmare Abbey • Thomas Love Peacock
... established in Tiree, but at St. Columba's death succeeded him as Abbot of Iona. There he remained only four years, death calling him away, as he had previously foretold to his monks, on the anniversary of their father and founder. St. Baitan was buried in St. Oran's Chapel on Iona. His bell was still preserved in Donegal up to a few years since, and it was a common practice of devotion to drink from it. In the same district is St. Baitan's River, to which flocks and herds were brought to ...
— A Calendar of Scottish Saints • Michael Barrett
... on his accession, had taken over the troubles of his father, and after the Corsairs had failed in their attack on the Spanish ports of Oran and Mazarquivir, he carried the war once more into the enemy's territory. Finding themselves isolated, they appealed to their overlord, the aged Sultan Solyman, to help ...
— Knights of Malta, 1523-1798 • R. Cohen
... were not wanting. Giulio Genuino is named, formerly the favorite of the Duke of Ossuna, who, after he had encountered the strangest fate, and after wearing the chain of a galley slave at Oran on the coast of Barbary, had returned an aged man, in the habit of an ecclesiastic to his native country, meditating upon new intrigues as the old ones had failed; also a captain of banditti and a lay brother of the Carmine, who ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various
... oregein eis ouranous pros ton Helion; touton gar, phesi, theon enomizon monon OURANOU KYRION BAAL-SAMEN kalountes]. Ephesus was a place of great sanctity: and its original name was [237]Samorna; which seems to be a compound of Sam-Oran, Coelestis Sol, fons Lucis. We read of Samicon in Elis, [238][Greek: chorion Samikon], with a sacred cavern: and of a town called [239]Samia, which lay above it. The word [Greek: Semnos] was a contraction of Semanos, from Sema-on; ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... "The cart is mine; what is in it is a pair of fine caged lions, which the governor of Oran is sending to court as a present to his Majesty; and the flags are our lord the King's, to show that what is ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... here, farther to the west, the Columbretes; here the African coast; here the mainland of Spain. Now watch, I beg you, senor, whilst I sketch in the routes of your feluccas. At Oran in Africa your factories stand. From them, then, we start. We draw a broad thick line from Oran to the north-east coast of Mallorca, that coast upon which we look down from these windows, a coast honeycombed with ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason
... the art of government, had been laboriously and successfully achieved by Charles. To Philip he transferred the most fertile, delightful, opulent, and industrious countries of Europe—Spain and the Netherlands, Milan and Naples. His African possessions included Tunis and Oran, the Cape Verd and Canary islands. The Moluccas, the Philippine and Sunda islands heaped his storehouses with the spices, and fruits, and prolific vegetable riches of the Indian Ocean; while from the New World, the mines of Mexico, ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... us De Malet was military commandant at Oran, and it was there that he did one of his best strokes—outgeneralling a camel-driver from Tangier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes, 'Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
... Socrates makes merry at the expense of the etymologists. The simplicity of Hermogenes, who is ready to believe anything that he is told, heightens the effect. Socrates in his genial and ironical mood hits right and left at his adversaries: Ouranos is so called apo tou oran ta ano, which, as some philosophers say, is the way to have a pure mind; the sophists are by a fanciful explanation converted into heroes; 'the givers of names were like some philosophers who fancy that the earth goes round because their heads are always going ...
— Cratylus • Plato |
