"Baldwin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaders some of the most distinguished representatives of European knighthood. Count Raymond of Toulouse headed a band of volunteers from Provence in southern France. Godfrey of Bouillon and his brother Baldwin commanded a force of French and Germans from the Rhinelands. Normandy sent Robert, William the Conqueror's eldest son. The Normans from Italy and Sicily were led by Bohemond, a son of Robert Guiscard, [7] and his ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER
... account of the subsequent history of the Nation de Petun, vide Indian Migration in Ohio, by C. C. Baldwin, ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain V3 • Samuel de Champlain
... fond of cards, playing continually, but never for such stakes as would hurt him. He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. It was shown that after dinner on the day of his death he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club. He had also played there in the afternoon. ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... songster, chanticleer, Had wound his bugle-horn, And told the early villager The coming of the morn. King Edward saw the ruddy streaks Of light eclipse the grey, And heard the raven's croaking throat Proclaim the fated day. "Thou'rt right," he said, "for, by the God That sits enthron'd on high, Charles Baldwin, and his fellows twain, This ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott
... Cluny was marvellous; by the twelfth century two thousand houses obeyed its rule, and its wealth was so great, and its buildings so vast, that in 1245 Innocent IV, the Emperor Baldwin, and Saint Louis were all lodged together within its walls, and with them all the attendant trains of prelates and nobles ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams
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