16 examples of cygne in sentences

How persistent is this rhetorical view of poetry is well illustrated by the Ars Rhetorica of the Jesuit Martin Du Cygne, first published in 1666, and still used as a text-book in Georgetown University.

LE MARAIS DU CYGNE.

[1: The massacre of unarmed and unoffending men in Southern Kansas took place near the Marais du Cygne of the French voyageurs.

How paled the May sunshine, Green Marais du Cygne, When the death-smoke blew over Thy lonely ravine!

end of life &c 67, cessation of life &c 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life &c 359. death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne

cygne noir [Fr.]; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor. model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of.

Le Cygne de la Croix XCI.

The gentleman who paid my fare, gave me also the address of a house where I can rest for a day or two while I am waiting for news from my company: the Hôtel du Cygne de la Croix.

LE CYGNE DE LA CROIX.

Madame Connard, a widow, and the landlady of the Cygne de la Croix, a godly and right-thinking person, made a significant grimace when she saw a young girl, quietly dressed, entering her house, with no other luggage than an old band-box.

La mort du cygne.

La mort du cygne.

I hastened forward to welcome him, with joy in this new and powerful convert to the science of flight, and together we watched the preparation of Miss Warren's great French biplane, her beautiful Cygne, which she had insisted upon bringing with her from Paris.

L'eau, Un bassin qu'assombrit le pin et le bouleau; Ce qu'elle a devant elle; un cygne aux ailes blanches, Le bercement des flots sous la chanson des branches, Et le profond jardin rayonnant et fleuri.

BESSEL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, a Prussian astronomer of prominent ability, born at Minden; professor of Mathematics at Königsberg, and director of the Observatory; discoveredwhat was a great achievementthe parallax of the fixed star 61 Cygne; his greatest work, "Fundamenta Astronomiæ," on which he spent 10 years, a marvel, like all he did, of patient toil and painstaking accuracy (1784-1846).

L'Épreuve has been called le chant du cygne of Marivaux.

16 examples of  cygne  in sentences