"Parvise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Leaving the Place Parvis by the Rue de l'Horloge you come to the great open space in front of the Hotel de Ville and the theatre with the museum on the right, in which there are several Roman remains discovered at Vieil-Evreux, among them being a bronze statue of Jupiter Stator. ...
— Normandy, Complete - The Scenery & Romance Of Its Ancient Towns • Gordon Home
... suffruticosum valde ramosum arachnoideo-tomentosum, foliis lineari-spathulatis subflaccidis acutis, capitulis in racemis terminalibus parvis globosis flavis, involucri ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... house-deaths have generally been periodical, recurring after seven years, but this last is premature by half that time. Cut off in the flower of Colebrook. The Middletonian stream and all its echoes mourn. Even minnows dwindle. A parvis fiunt MINIMI. I fear to invite Mrs. Hood to our new mansion, lest she envy it, & rote [? rout] us. But when we are fairly in, I hope she will come & try it. I heard she & you were made uncomfortable by some unworthy to be cared for attacks, and have tried to set up a feeble counteraction thro' the ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb
... old Parvis's fam'ly I reckon," said the captain, "kept a dry-goods store in New York city, and realised a handsome competency by burning his house to ashes. Same name, anyhow. David Polreath, Unchris'en Penrewen, John Tredgear, and old ...
— A Message from the Sea • Charles Dickens
... interpolated to give some colour to the charge of "gossiping," absurdly asserted of the learned Sergeant. The Parvis was the place of conference, where suitors met with their counsel and legal advisers; and Chaucer merely intimates thereby the extent of the Sergeant's ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... Herculis, magna voce exclamavit; sed Hercules ipse, fortissimus puer, haudquaquam territus est. Parvis manibus serpentis statim prehendit, et colla earum magna vi compressit. Tali modo serpentes a puero interfectae sunt. Alcmena autem, mater puerorum, clamorem audiverat, et maritum suum e somno excitaverat. Ille lumen accendit et gladium suum rapuit; tum ad pueros properabat, ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... of the mass the King of Navarre rejoined his bride, and taking her hand, conducted her to the episcopal palace, where, according to an ancient custom, the marriage-banquet awaited them.[6] The square of the Parvis Notre-Dame was crowded with eager spectators, and the heart of the Queen-mother beat high with exultation as she glanced at the retinue of the bridegroom, and recognised in his suite all the Huguenot leaders who had hitherto refused to pass ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... ursus), which is greatly to be preferred, for in olden ages athletes and champions used to wear hides of bears, wolves and reindeer (as skins of lions in the south), hence the names Bjalfe, Bjarnhedinn, Ulfhedinn (hedinn, pellis),— "pellibus aut parvis rhenonum tegimentis utuntur." Csar, Bell. Gall. VI, 22. Even the old poets understood the name so, as may be seen in the poem of Hornklofi (beginning of the 10th century), a dialogue between a valkyrie and a raven, where the valkyrie says at berserkja ...
— The Younger Edda - Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda • Snorre |
