"Netherlands" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coast. The record of victory begins with the reign of King John, when in 1213 William Longsword, his half-brother, with a fleet gathered from the shipping of Dover and the south-eastern ports, destroyed a French fleet that had assembled on the coast of the Netherlands to transport an invading army to England. Damme (i.e. "the dams or embankments to keep out the sea") was then a fortified port. It is now a Dutch village, some miles from the coast, in the midst of green ...
— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale
... 'perfide Albion' penetrated national feeling more deeply than in the Netherlands. Between the Dutch and English characters there ...
— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot
... in 1763, David Hume, the man who avenged with his sword the supposed injury inflicted upon his father by the first Sir Alan Hume-Frazer, escaped to the Netherlands, and was ...
— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy
... the value of the present work arises from the certain information it affords us on the price of small needles in the reign of Elizabeth. Fine needles in her days were made only at Liege, and some few cities in the Netherlands, and may be reckoned among those things which were much ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor
... the Netherlands, in the city of Xanten, dwelt the great prince Siegmund and his wife Sieglind. Their kingdom was wide, their wealth great, but nothing gave them so much happiness as the renown of their glorious son ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
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