20 examples of epinal in sentences

The town of Epinal, in Lorraine, possessed in the Middle Ages a peal of three bells, respectively dedicated to St. Eulogius, St. Eucherius, and St. Euschemon, whose tintinnabulation was found to be an effectual safeguard against all thunderstorms.

The thought of the services of my bell, in averting lightning and inundation from the good people of Epinal, fills me with indescribable beatitude.

A short time after this fracas, a personage of venerable appearance presented himself at Epinal, and applied for the post of sacristan and bell-ringer, at that time vacant.

Imagine his relief and amazed joy when, upon his bell being silenced, the storm, for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, broke with full fury over Epinal, and, for all the frantic pealing of the other two bells, raged with unspeakable fierceness until his own was brought into requisition, when, as if by enchantment, the rain ceased, the thunder-clouds dispersed, and the sun broke out gloriously from the blue sky.

Muttering apologies, and glad to be overlooked, Euschemon shrank into a corner, but slightly comforted by the honours his image was receiving at the hands of the good people of Epinal.

It chanced that the Bishop of Metz, in whose diocese Epinal was situated, finding himself during a visitation journey within a short distance of the town, determined to put, up there for the night.

The amount of this he would carefully consider, and the people of Epinal might rest assured that it should not be too light to entitle them to the benefit of a full absolution.

The mulct to be imposed upon the parish of Epinal was never exacted.

The bells of Eulogius and Eucherius were rung freely on occasion; but Epinal has not since enjoyed any greater immunity from storms than the contiguous districts.

Lille, Nancy, Epinal, Belfort, Reims, Amiens, and Valenciennes on one side, and Liège and Charleroi on the other, are all of economic importance.

There were also what may be termed the fêtes peculiar to certain places, such as those of Béhors, of the Champs Galat at Epinal, of the Laboureurs at Montélimar, of Guy l'an neuf at Anjou.

To Nancy first, then I shall rejoin the company, which ought to be at Epinal.

Belfort, Toul, Epinal, Verdun, Longwy, they ranged through the mountains northeast of France as guardians of their country against another German attack.

Enver Bey (ĕn′vẽr bā′) Epinal (ĕp′ï nȧl) Epirus (ĕp ī′rŭs) Erse (ērs)

All these stages can actually be seen in four of the most ancient glossaries of English origin that have come down to us, known respectively, from the libraries to which they now belong, as the Leiden, the Epinal, the Erfurt, and the Corpus (the last at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

The first advance upon this is seen in the Epinal Glossary, which uses part at least of the materials of the Leiden, incorporating with them many others.

In the Epinal Glossary the English words are thus relatively few.

The Erfurt Glossary is, to a great extent, a duplicate of the Epinal.

The city of Strasbourg gave him some cannon, four hundred cavalry, and eight hundred infantry; Louis XI. lent him some money; and Rend before long found himself in a position to raise a small army and retake Epinal, Saint-Did, Vaudemont, and the majority of the small towns in Lorraine.

Between the fortresses of Epinal and of Toul lies the Trouée de Mirecourtthe Gap of Mirecourt.

20 examples of  epinal  in sentences