56 examples of frison in sentences

Steady Patriotism of the Frisons and MenapiansCommencement of CivilizationEarly Formation of the DikesDegeneracy of those who became united to the RomansInvasion of the Netherlands by the Salian Franks.

But after this expiring effort of valor, the Batavians, even though chosen from all nations for the bodyguards of the Roman emperors, became rapidly degenerate; and when Tacitus wrote, ninety years after Christ, they were already looked on as less brave than the Frisons and the other peoples beyond the Rhine.

The Menapians and the Frisons, on the contrary, lost nothing of their spirit of commerce and industry.

While the latter, under the name of Armoricans, joined themselves more closely with the people who bordered the Channel, the Frisons associated themselves with the tribes settled on the limits of the German Ocean, and formed with them a connection celebrated under the title of the Saxon League.

Nevertheless the Frisons, under their king, Radbod, assumed for a moment the superiority; and Utrecht, where the French had established Christianity, fell again into the power of the pagans.

It is related of this fierce monarch that he was converted by a Christian missionary; but, at the moment in which he put his foot in the water for the ceremony of baptism, he suddenly asked the priest where all his old Frison companions in arms had gone after their death?

This vital necessity for the construction of dikes had given to the Frison and Flemish population a particular habit of union, goodwill, and reciprocal justice, because it was necessary to make common cause in this great work for their mutual preservation.

The Frisons succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the monarch to consecrate, as it were, those rights which were established under the ancient forms of government.

But the lowlanders joined together under Robert, surnamed the Frison, brother of the deceased count; and they so completely defeated the French, the nobles and their unworthy associates of the high ground, that they despoiled the usurping Countess Richilde of even her hereditary possessions.

The Frison race alone refused to recognize the sovereign counts.

Defeat after defeat, however, punished their obstinacy; and numbers of those princes met death on the pikes of their Frison opponents.

Sometimes appeared in those documents the vague and imposing title of "the great Frison," applied to some popular leader.

He left his cousin, Prince Frison of Nassau, the stadtholder of Friesland, his sole and universal heir, and appointed the states-general his executors.

FRISON-ROCHE, ROGER.

Roger Frison Roche (A); 17Sep68; R443993.

By Roger Frison-Roche.

Roger Frison-Roche (A); 8Jul75; R609202.

By R. Frison-Roche, edited by E. Louise Leonard.

FRISON-ROCHE, ROGER.

Roger Frison Roche (A); 17Sep68; R443993.

By Roger Frison-Roche.

Roger Frison-Roche (A); 8Jul75; R609202.

By R. Frison-Roche, edited by E. Louise Leonard.

In 1026, William Traillefer, count of Angouleme; in 1028, 1035, and 1039, Foulques the Black, count of Anjou; in 1035, Robert the Magnificent, duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror; in 1086, Robert the Frison, count of Flanders; and many other great feudal lords quitted their estates, or, rather, their states, to go andnot deliver, not conquer, butsimply visit the Holy Land.

Bohemond, you shall lead my Frisons on And doubt not

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