"Cro" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nouvel honneur va crotre son audace! Je le vois, mes soeurs, je le voi: A la table d'Esther l'insolent prs du Roi A ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... (Noy) the father's feet were seen moving after the son's death; but other witnesses swore to the son's "shaking his legs" after his father's death. This the jury believed; found that the son survived; and his widow was therefore held entitled to her dower!—(Broughton v. Randall, Cro. El., p. 502.) ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... race. Therefore this woman must have been a captive. Geologists, analyzing the lava, announced that it had hardened in air and not in water, while anthropologists classed the skull of the woman as essentially more modern than either the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon types. But the engineers, secretly fuming at the delay, finally managed to fill up the cave and ...
— The Undersea Tube • L. Taylor Hansen
... [Footnote: Moti Armeni, Ermini in the original, in M. RAVAISSON'S transcript "monti ernini [le loro ruine?]". He renders this "Le Tigre et l'Euphrate se sont deverses par les sommets des montagnes [avec leurs eaux destructives?] on pent cro're" &c. Leonardo always writes Ermini, Erminia, for Armeni, Armenia (Arabic: Irminiah). M. RAVAISSON also deviates from the original in his translation of the following passage: "Or tu ne crois pas que le Nil ait mis plus d'eau dans la mer qu'il ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci |
