37 examples of roque in sentences

"But Nant is not far from the Château de Montalais; and at La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite our automobile is waiting, less than two miles below.

The chauffeur advised against bringing over the road from La Roque to Montpellier; it is too rough and very steep.

"We shall see what we shall see, then, at La Roque.

Well, after their shocking experience, and with the wounded man on their handsand especially if La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite told the story one confidently expectedDuchemin could hardly avoid offering to see them safely as far as Nant.

At La Roque, a tiny hamlet huddled in the shadow of Montpellier and living almost exclusively upon the tourists that pass that way, it was as Duchemin had foreseen, remembering the American uniform and the face smudged with sootthat favourite device of the French criminal of the lower class fearing recognition.

The driver-guide of La Roque turned out to have been a thorough-paced scamp, well and ill-known to the gendarmerie; the wound sustained by Monsieur d'Aubrac bore testimony to the gravity of the affair, amply excusing Duchemin's interference and its fatal sequel; while the statements of Mesdames de Sévénié et de Montalais, duly becoming public property, bade fair to exalt the local reputation of André Duchemin to heroic stature.

That fatality on which he had so bitterly reflected when; acting as emergency coachman en route from Montpellier-le-Vieux to La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite, had him now fairly by the heels, as it were his very shadow, something as tenacious, as inescapable.

In the first instance he paused in La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite and, tormented by thirst, refreshed himself at the auberge where the barouche and guide had been hired to convey the party from Montalais on to Montpellier.

But it wasn't difficult to guess; and before Duchemin was finished he had testimony to the rightness of his surmise, finding himself the cynosure of more than a few pair of eyes set in the ill-favoured faces of natives of La Roque.

Across the way La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite stood out prominently and with such definition in that clear air that Duchemin identified the figure of the landlord, standing in the door of the auberge with arms raised and elbows thrust out on a level with his eyes: the pose of a man using field-glasses.

Ferdinand VIIthe beloved, the dupe of Napoleon the Great, the god of all Spain from Irun to San Roque, and one of the thorough-paced scoundrels whom God has permitted to sit on a thronehad bequeathed to his country a legacy of strife, which was now bearing fruit.

"M. Roque, a French merchant of respectability long settled in Athens, asserted with the most amusing gravity, 'Sir, they are the same canaille that existed in the days of Themistocles.'

The ancients banished Themistocles; the moderns cheat Monsieur Roque: thus great men have ever been treated.

Orange ValleysClimbing the MountainsJosé's HospitalityEl BurgoThe Gate of the WindThe Cliff and Cascades of RondaThe Mountain RegionTraces of the MoorsHaunts of RobbersA Stormy RideThe Inn at GaucinBad NewsA Boyish AuxiliaryDescent from the MountainsThe Ford of the GuadiaroOur Fears RelievedThe Cork WoodsRide from San Roque to GibraltarParting with JoséTravelling in SpainConclusion.

The matter was discussed for some time; it was pronounced impossible to travel by the usual road, but the landlord knew a path among the hills which led to a ferry on the Guadiaro, where there was a boat, and from thence we could make our way to San Roque, which is in sight of Gibraltar.

We overtook a few muleteers, who were tempted out by the fine weather, and before long the correo, or mail-rider from Ronda to San Roque, joined us.

Over hills covered with broom and heather in blossom, and through hollows grown with oleander, arbutus and the mastic shrub, we rode to the cork-wood forests of San Roque, the sporting-ground of Gibraltar officers.

At San Roque, which occupies the summit of a conical hill, about half-way between Gibraltar and Algeciras, the landlord left us, and immediately started on his return.

Before reaching the village of La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite, I passed a genuine rock dwelling.

Vespucius sighted the coast somewhere about Cape St. Roque, and, finding that it was east of the line of demarcation, explored it southward as far as the mouth of the river La Plata.

392; society, compared with London for, iii. 253; Sorbonne, ii. 397, 399; v. 406; St. Cloud, ii. 397; St. Denis, ii. 399; St. Eustatia, ii. 398; St. Germain, ii. 399; St. Roque, ii. 390; Sundays, ii. 394; Tournelle, ii. 393; Trianon, ii. 395; Tuilleries, ii. 392, 394; iv.

Her "Santa Lucia" is in the church of San Roque de Gardia.

That the bird was extinct above 150 years ago I think we may conclude from the notices I have extracted from La Roque, and the letter of the Jesuit Brown.

"'Tis the Catholic chapel of St. Roque.

In the edition of 1758 the word is printed roque, which has led some editors into the error of correcting to rauque (hoarse).

37 examples of  roque  in sentences