"Leve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conjugating neuter verbs, which, when it is used, may not improperly denominate them neuter passives, as they are inflected according to the passive form by the help of the verb substantive to be. They answer nearly to the reciprocal verbs in French; as, I am risen, surrexi, Latin; Je me suis leve, French. I was walked out, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... ces parcs ou la mort nous fait paitre, Ou la hache nous tire au sort, Beaux poulets sont ecrits; maris, amants sont dupes. Caquetages; intrigues de sots. On y chante, on y joue, on y leve des jupes; On y fait chansons et bon mots; L'un pousse et fait bondir sur les toits, sur les vitres, Un ballon tout gonfle de vent, Comme sont les discours des sept cents plats belitres, {273} Dont Barere est le plus savant. L'autre court; l'autre saute; ...
— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston
... recess on the left hand is "T.C. I leve in hope, and I gave q credit to mi frinde, in time did stande me most in hande, so wolde I never doe againe, excepte I hade him suer in bande, and to al men wishe I so, unles ye sussteine the leike lose ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 479, March 5, 1831 • Various
... caused the speaker to stop and glare around in quest of the offenders); I say when I was in college and studying Greek and Chinese and Russian, I larned that that name was made up of all three of them languages. I b'leve in America for the Americans, and if we can't find a name that's in the American language, why let's wait ...
— A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... "B'leve he did, sir; or to some foreign parts. And Anne, as was under-chambermaid here; she went with him, fool as she was. They got themselves married and went off, and he was well nigh as old as me. But seems he'd saved a little money, and that goes a ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... presented to Sir Charles on various occasions. In the double dining-room a famous portrait of Gambetta—the only portrait taken from life—hung over one mantelpiece. A favourite citation might have been upon the lips: 'La France etait a genoux. Je lui ai dit, "Leve-toi".' In 1875 Sir Charles asked Professor Legros to go to Paris and paint Gambetta, who never sat to any other artist. This portrait hangs now in the Luxembourg, and will ultimately be transferred to the Louvre, its destination by Sir Charles's ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn
... take the description of one of the last French novels:—" Paris tout s'oublie, tout se pardonne. Par convenance, par dcence, quelquefois par crainte, on s'absente, ou fait un entr'acte: puis le rideau se rleve pour le spectacle de nouvelles fautes et de nouvelles folies; toute la question est ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... leave the figure, or disfigure it] [W: 'leve] I know not why so harsh a word should be admitted with so little need, a word that, spoken, could not be understood, and of which no example can be shown. The sense is plain, you owe to your father a being which he may at ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... I humbly beseche your Majestie to let me answer afore your selfe, and not suffer me to trust to your counselors; yea and that afore I go to the Tower, if it be possible; if not, afore I be further condemned. Howbeit, I trust assuredly, your Highnes to wyl give me leve to do it afor I go; for that thus shamfully I may not be cried out on, as now I shalbe; yea and without cause. Let consciens move your Highnes take some bettar way with me, than to make me be condemned in al mens sigth, afor my desert ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 275, September 29, 1827 • Various
... yede [went] doun to helle; thane thridde day aros vram the dyade; steay [rose, ascended] to hevenes; zit [sitteth] athe [on the] right half of God the Vader almighti; thannes to comene He is, to deme the quike and the dyade. Ich y-leve ine the Holy Gost; holy cherche generalliche; Mennesse of halyen [communion of holy-ones]; Lesnesse of zennes [remission of sins]; of vlesse [flesh, body] arizinge; and lyf evrelestinde. Zuo ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... montanhas que chamei scio de Sheba; escrevo isto no anno 1590; escrevo isto com um pedaco d'osso n' um farrapo de minha roupa e com sangue meu por tinta; se o meu escravo der com isto quando venha ao levar para Lourenzo Marquez, que o meu amigo ————- leve a cousa ao conhecimento d' El Rei, para que possa mandar um exercito que, se desfiler pelo deserto e pelas montonhas e mesmo sobrepujar os bravos Kukuanes e suas artes diabolicas, pelo que se deviam trazer muitos padres Far o Rei mais rico depois de Salomao Com meus proprios olhos ...
— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard
... the world had learnt to regard the Crimean struggle in something like its true perspective; but over Kinglake's mind it continued to loom in all its original proportions. To adapt a phrase of M. Jules Lemaitre's, "le monde a change en trente ans: lui ne bouge; il ne leve plus de dessus son papier a copie sa face congestionne." And yet Kinglake was no cloistered scribe. Before his last illness he dined out frequently, and was placed by many among the first half-a-dozen talkers in London. His conversation, ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... la Naturaleza esta alli mas que compensada por la constante laboriosidad del hombre.—Yo no conozco, ni creo que haya en el mundo, labrador que trabaje 10 tanto como el roteno.—Ni[68-4] un leve hilo de agua dulce fluye por aquellos melancolicos campos.... ?Que importa? iEl calabacero los ha acribillado materialmente de pozos, de donde saca, ora[68-5] a pulso, ora por medio de norias, el precioso humor que sirve de sangre a los ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive! Contre nous, de la tyrannie L'etendart sanglant est leve. Entendez-vous dans ces campagnes Mugir ces feroces soldats! Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras Egorger vos fils et vos compagnes!— Aux armes, citoyens! formez vos bataillons! Marchons! qu'un ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... draw to the dale And leve the hilles hee, And shadow him in the leves grene Under the ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... for the evening. the country we passed through was much as that of yesterday. the river hills are about 250 feet high and generally abrupt and craggey in many places faced with a perpendicular and solid rock. this rock is black and hard. leve plains extend themselves from the tops of the river hills to a great distance on either side of the river. the soil is not as fertile as about the falls, tho it produces a low grass on which the horses feed very conveniently. it astonished me to seed ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... the dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee,[3] And shadow them in the leves grene, ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... this miswritten passage, Quand le soleil fut leve et qu'il penetra par ces ouvertures (lis. abkhash, trou de flute), il repandit le sable dans ces cylindres formes par la lumiere du soleil. It is not very intelligible. I understand that the Sage went ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... his nostrils, so that he could hardly breathe. Then Grim flung the poor boy into a horrible black sack, and carried him thus from the castle, as if he were bringing home broken food for his family. When Grim reached his poor cottage, where his wife Leve was waiting for him, he slung the sack from his shoulder and gave it to her, saying, "Take good care of this boy as of thy life. I am to drown him at midnight, and if I do so my lord has promised to make me a free man and give me ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt
... the looks of that ere driver," said Uncle Hoses. "I b'leve he contrived that there break-down a purpose, so as to bring us ...
— Among the Brigands • James de Mille |
