Do we say envoi or envoy

envoi 24 occurrences

And Unexpectedly the Last Envoi CHAPTER I THE EPITAPH OF SUMMER

I am alive, alas!" ENVOI

But that he died an old man at thirty-six is as indisputable as that Browning died a young man at seventy-seven, with that triumphant envoi of Asolando as his last expression of the eternal youth of the soul.

Edwin Markham Envoi......................................

From "The Atlantic Monthly." ENVOI Franklin K. Lane stipulated that when he died his body should be cremated and the ashes scattered from El Capitan over the beautiful Yosemite Valley.

Battle Cry, 148; Envoi, 196; Let Me Live Out

ENVOI Sweet Queen who sittest at the heart of spring, My life is thine, barren or blossoming; 'Tis thine to flush it gold or leave it grey: And so unto thy garment's hem I cling Send me a maiden meet for love, I pray.

He started a dozen letters to Mary, meaning each to be a fitting envoi to their comradeship and a song of good wishes.

ENVOI Glories and triumphs ne'er shall cease, But men may sound the heavens and sea, One thing is lost for ayethe peace Of the old dear days of Arcady.

ENVOI Sweet mortal maid, that fairy world of yore Has vanished, with the midnights that are o'er; Yet come and sit beside the stream with me, That I, beholding thee, may say, "Once more The Queen of Elfland holds her revelry.

O dismal lane Whose end is but the sere and yellow leaf! ENVOI.

EXPÉDITEUR, TRICE, qui fait un envoi de marchandises.

Followed the beat of lessening footfalls, while the nightingale improvised an envoi.

Translations from Cavalcanti and a letter to the editor containing Envoi.

Translations from Cavalcanti and a letter to the editor containing Envoi.

J'en ai trouvé des preuves multipliées dans les manuscrits, qui de la Belgique ont passé à la Bibliothèque nationale, ou, pour parler plus exactement, dans les manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Bruxelles, qui faisoient une des portions les plus considérables de cet envoi.

* ENVOI *

THE RAVEN'S TOMB THE CHRISTENING THE FUNERAL THE MOTHER BIRD THE CHILD IN THE STORY GOES TO BED THE LAMPLIGHTER I MET AT EVE LULLABY ENVOI

ENVOI Child, do you love the flower Ashine with colour and dew Lighting its transient hour?

For the old dear days of Arcady. Envoi.

" A delicate melody and neatly done; yet the verse "Le deuxième plus habile L'embrassant sous le menton" made me redden, and the envoi nigh burned me alive with blushes, yet was rapturously applauded, and the patroon fell a-choking with his gross laughter.

The poem might also conclude with a half stanza or tornada, (French envoi).

the proposer taking the other contrary proposition: the contestants often left the decision in an envoi to one or more arbitrators by common consent.

Souvenez-vous de l'amitié tendre que vous avez eue pour moi; au nom de cette amitié informez-moi par un mot de votre main de ce qui se passe, ou parlez à l'homme que je vous envoi, en qui vous pouvez prendre une entière confiance.

envoy 566 occurrences

I had considered with some care how I was, on so critical an occasion, to conduct myself, and had resolved that the most politic course would probably be an assumption of courteous but absolute independence; to treat the Autocrat of this planet much as an English envoy would treat an Indian Prince.

I never, as soldier or envoy, was acquainted with other men's homes.

Zohák, in the meanwhile, had despatched an envoy, with an escort of troops, to the Khakán of Chín, and at that moment the cavalcade happened to be passing by the tower where Jemshíd was reposing.

The envoy, attracted to the spot, immediately recognized him, and awakening him to a sense of this new misfortune, secured the despairing and agonized wanderer, and sent him to Zohák.

Don Francisco de Melo, a "Portugal Envoy in England," tells him it was frequent in his country for men, spent with age or other decays, so as they could not hope for above a year or two of life, to ship themselves away in a Brazil fleet, and after their arrival there to go on a great length, sometimes of twenty or thirty years, or more, by the force of that vigour they recovered with that remove.

Monsieur Zulichem, one of his "colleagues at the Hague," informs him of a cure for the gout; which is confirmed by another "Envoy," Monsieur Serinchamps, in that town, who had tried it.

At Tetuan, the officer gave himself out as a special envoy of the Emperor of the French.

For if she would take no personal step toward conciliation, she yet held no code by which the intercession of a monarch might seem to lessen her dignity; and the coming of so princely an envoy as the Cardinal di Gioiosa was celebrated with fêtes meet to grace the reception of so high a dignitary of the Church of Rome.

But if the Signoria suspected his intention there was no movement of acquiescence; only, when the short ceremony of the passing of the document was completed, they observed the usual forms of courtesy with which the audience of so princely an envoy is closed when his mission is accomplished.

And the peoplefuriousare storming the palazzo of the nuncio as I pass; and some one cries that the envoy is off to the Lido, with his fine friends, who start for Rome.

His envoy, struck with her beauty and intelligence, advised her to appear in her best attire.

On the outside of the door stood Jeroslaus, duke of Susdal in Russia, a great many dukes of the Kithayans and Solangi, the two sons of the king of Georgia, the envoy of the caliph of Bagdat, himself a sultan, and more than ten other Saracen sultans.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA, ENVOY TO CHINA, VICEROY OF INDIA EDITED BY THEODORE WALROND, C.B. WITH A PREFACE BY ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, D.D. DEAN OF WESTMINSTER PREFACE.

In 1796 Oliver Ellsworth had been appointed Chief Justice by General Washington in the place of Jay, who resigned, and in 1799 John Adams sent Ellsworth as an envoy to France to try to negotiate a treaty which should reëstablish peace between the two countries.

A French envoy.

Taafe, however, took a middle way, and persuaded[b] the duke to send De Henin as his envoy to the supreme council, with powers to conclude the treaty in Ireland.

The assembly had just been dismissed[c] when this envoy arrived.

Clanricard, was, however, inexorable, and his resolution finally triumphed over the eagerness of his countrymen and the obstinacy of the envoy.

Alarmed, however, by the losses of his subjects, he compelled[a] Rupert to quit the Tagus, and despatched[b] an envoy, named Guimaraes, to solicit an accommodation.

As long as he lived, no atonement could be obtained for the murder of Dorislaus, no audience for Strickland, the resident ambassador, though that favour was repeatedly granted to Boswell, the envoy of Charles.

On the news of this revolution, the council advised that St. John, the chief justice of the Common Pleas, and Strickland, the former envoy, should be appointed ambassadors extraordinary to the States General.

Hannibal offered a release of captives at the expense of the Roman treasury; it was declined, and the Carthaginian envoy who had arrived with the deputation of captives was not admitted into the city: nothing should look as if the senate thought of peace.

Arms, ammunition, and money without stint were placed at the command of the exile, and a hundred French officers with the Count d'Avaux, one of the king's most trusted officials, as envoy, were sent to accompany the expedition.

In the interests of his own master, D'Avaux, the French envoy, strongly supported Tyrconnel and the Irish leaders.

The attack was unexpected; it is not known whether the French envoy had time to convey the summons with which he had been charged; he was killed, together with nine men of his troops.

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