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"Parer" Quotes from Famous Books

... suite de cette mesure menacante motivee par aucun preparatif militaire de la part de l'Allemagne, l'Empire Allemand se trouva vis-a-vis d'un danger grave et imminent. Si le Gouvernement Imperial eut manque de parer a ce peril il aurait compromis la securite et l'existence meme de l'Allemagne. Par consequent le Gouvernement Allemand se vit force de s'adresser au Gouvernement de Sa Majeste l'Empereur de toutes les Russies en sistant sur la cessation des dits actes militaires. ...

— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History

... looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress. "I thank your majesty," said she, deeply moved, "for allowing me to see this letter. It will remain in history as a noble monument of Maria Theresa's rectitude. I have no longer a word ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress. "I thank your majesty," said she, deeply moved, "for allowing me to see this letter. It will remain in history as a noble monument of Maria Theresa's rectitude. I have no longer a word of blame ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... Enfant! qui ne sait pas que la plus belle couronne de la jeunesse, c'est la jeunesse elle-meme, et qu'en voulant parer un front de seize ...

— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve

... a kind of gypsies,—a mechanical and migratory race. A poet wants a home. He can dispense with an apple-parer and a reaping-machine. I feel this more for others than for myself, for the home of my birth and childhood has been as yet exempted from the change which has invaded almost everything ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)