"Sur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... courtisans, et s'asseoit sur son trone; ses femmes restent a sa gauche; a sa droite les rois vassaux accourus pour rendre leurs hommages, les princes, les hauts fonctionnaires, les litterateurs et les savants, groupes autour de Varaha-mihira l'astrologue ...
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa
... American sector; but, in view of the important parts the American forces were now to play, it was necessary to take over a permanent portion of the line. Accordingly, on August 30, the line beginning at Port sur Seille, east of the Moselle and extending to the west through St. Mihiel, thence north to a point opposite Verdun, was placed under my command. The American sector was afterwards extended across the Meuse to the western edge of the Argonne Forest, and included the Second Colonial French, which ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... sixpence, here again young Oxford had the advantage. But the contest was ruinous to the principles of the stable establishment about the mails. The whole corporation was constantly bribed, rebribed, and often sur-rebribed; so that a horse-keeper, ostler, or helper, was held by the philosophical at that time to be the most ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... paper entitled "The Korean Potters in Satsuma," Asiatic Society Transactions, vol. vi., p. 193; also as referred to in Mr. Satow's paper, Mr. Ninagawa's Notice Historique et Descriptive sur les Arts et Industries Japonais, part ...
— Japan • David Murray
... times an eye-witness of this proceeding, lined up talking and laughing and—crime of crimes—smoking cigarettes, outside the bureau of M. le Medecin Major. "Une femme entre. Elle se leve les jupes jusqu'au menton et se met sur le banc. Le medecin major la regarde. Il dit de suite 'Bon. C'est tout.' Elle sort. Une autre entre. La meme chose. 'Bon. C'est fini'.... M'sieu' Jean: ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
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