"Outre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hawthorne sent him the volume as soon as it was issued, with a note regretting that they were not better acquainted at college and expressing his gladness in Longfellow's success as a writer, author of "Outre-Mer," and also in obtaining his Harvard professorship; and some three months later he followed this with a letter, so characteristic and valuable autobiographically that it cannot be passed over, and interesting also as beginning that easy ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry
... such outre beings, so much the children of wayward fancy and capricious whim, that I believe the world generally allows them a larger latitude in the laws of propriety, than the sober sons of judgment and prudence. I mention this as an apology for the liberties that a nameless stranger has taken ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... the 22d of May, the Sachem entered the Pass a l'Outre mouth of the Mississippi, and reached Fort Jackson on the 23d in the evening. Here the can buoys and five or six anchors and chains which had been removed by the confederates were found, and brought ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... after flaunting an ancestry of princes and kings in his Memoires d'outre-tombe, then turns about and tells us that he attaches no importance ...
— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja
... archbishops and cardinals; the Duc de Noailles read a chapter from his history of Mme. de Maintenon; some performance of strictly classical music was to be heard; or, upon state occasions, Chateaubriand himself vouchsafed to impart to a chosen few a few pages of the "Memoires d'Outre-Tombe." ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various
... heart which I will comfort, for in spite of my great loss I do not wish to die, and yet I see no one return from the wild [133] land where he is who calms my heart when I hear mention of him. God! when they cry Outre (a pilgrim marching cry), Lord help the pilgrim for whom I tremble, for ...
— The Troubadours • H.J. Chaytor
... the 7th of April, 1894, dried leaves fell at Clairvaux and Outre-Aube, France. The fall is described as prodigious. Half an hour. Then, upon the 11th, a fall of ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort
... here written appear nonsense to you, or common sense in a harlequinade of "outre" expressions, suspend your judgment till we see ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... a soie. Beaucoup de ces colonies pourraient cultiver le murier avec succes, et, en jetant les yeux sur mon ouvrage, vous vous convaincrez aisement qu'il est facile aujourd'hui, nonseulement d'eloigner la maladie regnante, mais en outre de donner aux recoltes de la soie une prosperite qu'elles n'ont ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall |
