Do we say mot or mow
Dites un mot, un mot seulement, et je me
Dites un mot, un mot seulement, et je me
And, indeed, in no long time was published the proud mot d'ordre, "As there is but one God in heaven, so there shall be but one master upon earth.
'Detained' would be the strict truth and the mot juste.
On lui avoit donué un Nouveau Testament daus sa langue, il le lut, et s'expliquant, avec respect, sur ce livre, il commence par déclarer que l'ayant examiné fort soigneusement, il n'y avoit pas trouvé un mot d'ou l'on fuit conclure qu'il y eut trois dieux.
Rochefort owned that his articles in the Mot d'Ordre had been more or less violent, but he pleaded the cause his "façon plus ou moins nerveuse à écrire" and that from illness he did not sometimes see his own journal.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 113: "Le mot de la fin," the final wordthe finale.]
Casques et boucliers, cuirasses gigantesques, Cris d'armes, mot d'amour, devises de l'honneur, Carlets pour l'infidèle ou pour le suborneur, Tout garde sur ces murs vraiment chevaleresques.
He therefore prudently took a hint from one of the French poets, who says: Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot, L'honnête homme trompé, s'éloigne, et ne dit mot;" and he set off, doubtless with the secret determination never again to traffic in merchandize which possesses no value when it can be either bought or sold.
In fact, a jest of Andrew Gemmells, especially at the expense of a person of consequence, flew round the circle which he frequented, as surely as the bon-mot of a man of established character for wit glides through the fashionable world.
They spring from a bon-mot or a retort.
Encore un mot d'explication, si vous le permittez, Madame.
Quant à ce volume pris en lui-même, l'auteur n'a qu'un mot à en dire.
Ce dernier mot a besoin peut-être d'être expliqué.
Et, depuis qu'ils sont là, sombres, ardents, farouches Un mot n'est pas encor sorti de ces deux bouches.
Ces hommes qui parlaient, il les a reconnus; Comme il se reposait dans le hallier, ces bouches Ont passé, murmurant des paroles farouches, Et jusqu'à son oreille un mot est arrivé; Et c'est pourquoi ce juste et ce preux s'est levé.
Je vous prends au mot, Répond Joss.
voilà le mot qu'a dit cette femelle.
Fabrice, sans qu'un mot d'entre ses lèvres sorte, Regarde le roi d'Arle
Si quelqu'un, la voyant si tremblante et si frêle, Fût-ce pour la sauver mettait la main sur elle, Avant qu'il eût pu faire un pas ou dire un mot, Il aurait sur le front l'ombre de l'échafaud.
Par moments, au zénith un nuage se troue, Un peu de jour lugubre en tombe, et, sur la proue, Une lueur, qui tremble au souffle de l'autan, Blême, éclaire à demi ce mot: LÉVIATHAN.
Contentons-nous du mot: meilleur! écrit
Oh! dans l'esprit de l'homme où tout vacille et fuit, Où le verbe n'a pas un mot qui ne bégaie, Où l'aurore apparaît, hélas!
Mot fo grans lo dampnatges e·l dols e·l perdementz Cant lo reis d'Arago remas mort e sagnens, E mot d'autres baros, don fo grans l'aunimens A tot crestianesme et a trastotas gens.
Mot fo grans lo dampnatges e·l dols e·l perdementz Cant lo reis d'Arago remas mort e sagnens, E mot d'autres baros, don fo grans l'aunimens A tot crestianesme et a trastotas gens.
"It makes you sick to see the way that the Germans literally walk into the very mouth of the machine guns and cannon spouting short-fused shrapnel that mow down their lines and tear great gaps in them," said a Belgian major who was badly wounded.
Jeremy Stickler and his troopers were waiting in the shadow of the house, and I stood with a club and a gun in the mow-yard, for I knew the Doones would begin by firing our ricks.
Grotesque masks, suddenly revealed by the shimmering light, took on the semblance of demon faces that seemed to mow and gibber at us as we passed.
On some days, the Dutch and the Irish parade their images together, and then St. Patrick and St. Michael are brought face to face; and you may understand how disgraceful a mob they havea mob, sir, which, as a military man, I long to mow with iron cannons!"
Some one starts singing that jolly old song, "The Farmer's Boy," and soon the air resounds to the chorus: "To plough and sow, to reap and mow, And be a farmer's boy-o-o-o-oy, And be a farmer's boy.
[Fr.]. crop, harvest, mow, vintage.
[Dances and sings] "I shall go, shall go to mow Upon the meadow green.
sed, f., thirst. seda, f., silk. seducir, to entice, attract. segar, to cut (or mow) down; to crop.
Several peasants, finding it too hot to mow, had thrown their scythes along the swarths, and were lying in the shade of an oak.
The mow and the stalls had been screened off with lace curtains and blazing counterpanes, and the whole effect was one of Oriental luxury and splendor.
Should be glad to creep into a hay-mow and pay somebody to feed me.
"When I was in the West Indies, SirWish I could creep into a good English hay-mow and pay somebody to feed me!"
Uncle Jack stops on his way, going up to get the oxen, and passes the night,says, "Other people can't find enough to do; for his part, he should like to lie down in the hay-mow and rest,all worn out, used up.
But if our executive departments were mere committees of the legislaturelike the English cabinet, for examplethis independence could not possibly be maintained; and the loss of it would doubtless entail upon us evils far greater than those which mow flow from want of leadership in our legislatures.
He justifies the expulsion of the Indian tribes by Scripture texts, and gathers eggs in the hay-mow with Dolly; upholds the doctrines of his denomination and would seal his faith with his blood, but admits that "the Thirty-nine articles (with some few exceptions) are a very excellent statement of truth."
Here are found the original airs of "Agincourt," "All in the Downs," "Barbara Allen," "The Barley-Mow," "Cease, rude Boreas," "Derry Down," "Frog he would a-wooing go," "One Friday morn when we set sail," "Chanson Roland," "Chevy Chace," and scores of others which have rung in our ears from nursery-days.
We were enabled to mow the whole three acres, as we had "common rights" in our neighborhood, where the cows could pasture during the spring.
184; iv. 7; v. 38; and of his mimicry, ii. 326, n. 3; mimicks, ii. 326, 464; mow of hay, ii. 79; offers to write his Life, iii. 371, n. 1; iv. 99, n. 2; 'played round,' ii. 82; praises his prologues, ii. 325; parody of Percy's Hermit, ii. 136, n. 4; writes him a Prologue, i. 181; iv.
Even the less directly baneful spirits such as Finvarragh, king of the fairies, who haunts the stony slopes of Knockmaa, and all the endless variety of dii minores, the cluricans, banshees, fetches who peopled the primitive forests, and still hop and mow about their ruined homes, were far more likely to injure than to benefit unless approached in exactly the right manner, and with the properly littered conjurations.
"Neither have they any word expressive of chastity except nofo mow, remaining fixed or faithful, and which in this sense is only applied to a married woman to signify her fidelity to her husband.
A knock-kneed man who knows how to use a machine-gun and has one to usewhich is also quite importantcould mow down all the leading heavy-weights of the United States and England, with the latest champion leading the charge.
But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
At the machine-guns, the gunners settled themselves, waiting the Master's word of command to mow into the white foam of that insurging wavea wave of frantic riders and of lathering Nedj horses, the thunder of whose hoofs moment by moment welled up into a heart-breaking chorus of power.
"We'll put him away back in the hay-mow where he'll be warm and comfortable to-night," whispered Malcolm.
There was a hurried consultation in the hay-mow.