"Rance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fervent appetites they quenched had, That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde, Of straunge adventures, and of perils sad, 130 Which in his travell him befallen had, For to demaund of his renowmed guest: Who then with utt'rance grave, and count'nance sad, From point to point, as is before exprest, Discourst his voyage long, ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... "Exactly. Sister to Rance Vane. I know'd that chap onct, and I found him not a man, but a scamp. I never liked the Vanes, father'n son. The old man's ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... the Agnes and Mary warped out of harbour and dropped lazily down the Rance, setting sail as she went. Christian had spent most of the morning in the little cabin smoking Captain Lebrun's reserve pipe, and seeking to establish order among the accounts of the ship. The accounts were the ...
— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman
... English fight the French,—woe to France! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks 5 pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to Saint Malo on the Rance, With ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... "the devil must have had a fine laugh to himself when he saw the Lord puttin' a tongue in a woman's head. Did ye hear me to-day, talking along about that purty young thing beyant, and Rance Belmont takin' in every word of it? Sure and I never thought of him bein' here until I noticed the look on that ugly mug of his, and mind you, Da, there's people that call him good-lookin' with that heavy jowl of his and the hair on him growin' the wrong ...
— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung
... true, Your Exc'llency, some cankered minds Have been a daily hind'rance in our House. No measure so essential, bill so fair, But they would foul it by some cunning clause, Wrenching the needed statute from its aim By sly injection of their false opinion. But this you cannot charge to us whose hearts Are faithful to our trust; nor yet delay; For, Exc'llency, you hurry ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... des autres enfants. Les autres avaient de beaux cartables en cuir jaune, des encriers de buis qui sentaient bon, des cahiers cartonns, des livres neufs avec beaucoup de notes dans le bas; moi, mes livres taient de vieux bouquins achets sur les quais, moisis, fans, sentant le rance; les couvertures taient toujours en lambeaux, quelquefois il manquait des pages. Jacques faisait bien de son mieux pour me les relier avec du gros carton et de la colle forte; mais il mettait toujours trop de colle, et cela puait. Il m'avait fait aussi un cartable avec une infinit de poches, ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... sight must have moved the least susceptible—to have beheld the Palatine thus redeem her past errors. She was anxious to write with her own hand the account of her conversion, and addressed it to the celebrated Rance, the Abbe of La Trappe. It was from that narrative that Bossuet drew the source of his own. Some few years previously, with that polished and elegant vein which intercourse with so many superior minds ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... just as we were stepping on board the steamer to go down the Rance to St. Malo, we saw a little white cap come bobbing through the market-place, down the steep street, and presently Marie appeared with two great bunches of pale yellow primroses and wild blue hyacinths ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag • Louisa M. Alcott
... quelque malheureux matre que l'impitoyable Dsastre suivit de prs et de trs-prs suivit jusqu' ce que ses chansons comportassent un unique refrain; jusqu' ce que les chants funbres de son Esprance comportassent le mlancolique refrain ...
— Le Corbeau • Edgar Allan Poe
... resolution which I have set myself to carry out. I swear to you that I shall never be myself again until I have seen Marguerite. It is perhaps the thirst of the fever, a sleepless night's dream, a moment's delirium; but though I were to become a Trappist, like M. de Rance', after having ...
— Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) • Alexandre Dumas, fils
... a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances; Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe; You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help; Go to, ...
— The Merchant of Venice • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... strength and fled, and hid my shame again Mid the foolish sons of men-folk; and the more my hope was vain, The more I longed for the Treasure, and deliv'rance from the yoke: And yet passed the generations, and I ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... ninety-two, Did the English fight the French—woe to France! And the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Rance, With the English ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck |
