"Ceinture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dans lequel il y auoit plusieurs vestiges de pieds d'ho[m]es, d'efans, & d'Ours, ou bien d'autres bestes semblables,[504] lesquels estoient seulement enfoncez d'vn demy doigt dans la neige, quoy que pour eux ils y entrassent iusques a la ceinture.'[505] ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... saw many projectiles from Montretout and Meudon explode among the houses at the Point du Jour and the enceinte near it. The wall screening the Ceinture Railway between Auteuil and Vaugirard has been dreadfully battered ...
— The Insurrection in Paris • An Englishman: Davy
... undermined by unchastity, but sometimes even physical force. It was in the thirteenth century, in the opinion of some, that the girdle of chastity (cingula castitatis) first begins to appear, but the chief authority, Caufeynon (La Ceinture de Chastete, 1904) believes it only dates from the Renaissance (Schultz, Das Hoefische Leben zur Zeit der Minnesaenger, vol. i, p. 595; Dufour, Histoire de la Prostitution, vol. v, p. 272; Krauss, Anthropophyteia, vol. iii, p. 247). In the sixteenth century convents ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis |
