In Saterland it is said "infants are fetched out of the cabbage," and in the Walloon part of Belgium they are supposed "to make their appearance in the parson's garden."

Further, von Below expressed the conviction that only single instances of such excesses had occurred and these were a result of the quarrelsome Walloon character.

" They brought him a small lad of eighteen; fair-haired, ruddy, hardy, a Walloon and who spoke French.

It was not the same in the southern parts, which form at present the Walloon country.

The Roman legions retreated for the first time, and were contented to occupy the higher parts, which now form the Walloon provinces.

The citadels occupied by the Spanish soldiers were given up to the Flemish and Walloon troops; and the departure of these ferocious foreigners took place at once.

The Walloon provinces, deep-rooted in their attachment to religious bigotry, which they loved still better than political freedom, gradually withdrew from the common cause; and without yet openly becoming reconciled with Spain, they adopted a neutrality which was tantamount to it.

The duke of Enghien, then twenty-one years of age, and subsequently so celebrated as the great Condé, completely defeated De Mello, and nearly annihilated the Spanish and Walloon infantry.

"In 1815 the differences between Flemish and Walloon were to a large extent concealed beneath a veneer of French culture and French manners.

The opposition between Flemish and Walloon, indeed, became so marked in recent years that many feared that the Belgian nation was about to split into two.

At length we did find a tall, red-haired Walloon who said he would go anywhere on earth, and provide a team for the going, if we paid the price he asked.

We find the Flemish spoken by nearly two-thirds of the inhabitants of Belgium, divided from the Walloon or Rouchi-Fran ais by a line of demarcation running from the Meuse through Liege and Waterloo, and ending in France, between Calais and Dunkirk.

It was ridiculed by the Walloon population.

It is a curious fact that Spain invariably partook of the heaviness peculiar to Germany, either because the Gothic element still prevailed there, or that the Walloon fashions had a special attraction to her owing to associations and general usage.

Felix and Cecile were married March 28, 1837, at the Walloon French Reformed Church in Frankfort, and his friend Hiller surprised them with a new bridal chorus.

Von Tirpitz (fŏn tïr′pĭts) Vosges (vōzh) Walloon (wäl lo͞on′) Westphalia (wĕst fā′lï ȧ) Wied (we͞ed) Wilhelmine (wĭl′hĕl mïn) Yorkshire (yôrk′shīr) Index Adriatic Sea, question of the control of.

The opposing force, it is true, is stronger; it is composed of those old Walloon, Italian and Spanish regiments that, up to that time, could not be broken; but at what valuation should be placed the courage inspired in our troops by the pressing necessities of the state, by past successes, and by a young prince of the blood in whose eyes could be read victory?

He studied at Geneva and was appointed to the Walloon Church in London in 1701.

He went in person amongst the Walloon and Flemish provinces belonging to Mary.

If my fair cousin were well advised, she would espouse the dauphin; you speak French, you Walloon people; you want a prince of France, not a German.

My mother was a Walloon.

"I also am a Walloon," she answered; "and your friend?

There was a slight Walloon accent in her French and German (we all spoke both languages) that gave to her voice an exquisite cadence.

"That question I may not answer, my lord," said I, speaking in the Walloon tongue.

WALLOONS, name given to the descendants of the ancient Belgæ, a race of a mixed Celtic and Romanic stock, inhabiting Belgium chiefly, and speaking a language called Walloon, a kind of Old French; in Belgium they number to-day two and a quarter millions.