"Versant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... versant des pentes opposes; Enfin, le ciel, par degrs, se dteint, Le jour s'efface en des brumes roses. Reposons-nous! Le repos est si doux: Que la peine ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... unwholesome smells, to breathe the fresh sea-air on the beach without. Its story, as recorded by Sir Walter in his "Tales of a Grandfather," and by Mr. Wilson, in his "Voyage," must be familiar to the reader; and I learned from my friend, versant in all the various island traditions regarding it, that the less I inquired into its history on the spot, the more was I likely to feel satisfied that I knew something about it. There seem to have been no chroniclers, in this part of the Hebrides, in the rude age of the unglazed pipkin and the ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller |
