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...oung Richard to understand well, whereas, in other parts of the Duchy, the Normans had forgotten their own tongue, and had taken up what was then call... ...he sake of his conquering grandfather, and his brave and pious father. Few Normans were there whose hearts did not glow at the touch of those small ha... ...erly, “I know it. He told me it was the key to his greatest treasure.” The Normans heard this with great interest, and it was resolved that several of... ...ting in the key, it fitted, the lock turned, and the chest was opened. The Normans pressed eagerly to see their Duke’s greatest treasure. It was a rob... ...llotted work, and his son was old enough to take his place as ruler of the Normans, might he cease from his active duties, quit the turmoil of the wor... ...nour from his mother, a Provencal lady, than was yet to be found among the Normans. The Chaplain of Montemar had begun to teach him to read and write,... ...Very tired of all this did Richard grow, especially when he found that the Normans had made up their minds not to attempt a war against the wicked Cou... ...y to take the little Duke and Alberic to the nearest sheet of ice, for the Normans still prided themselves on excelling in skating, though they had lo... ...l of French, the hall and court swarm with them. Even if we could draw our Normans together, we should not be more than a dozen men, and what could we...

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...e- garding the danger that attends all attempts at subtilty with 7 Balzac Normans, she employed the inventive wit and slyness which Nature grants to ...

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... the always pretty Miss Waddy (as Haco Sharpshooter), when a shot from the Normans kills Harold. The Fairy Edith hereupon comes forward, and finds his...

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... of the lantern standing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordinary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Medi- 100 ...

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... 119 Joseph Conrad ing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordi- nary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Mediterrane...

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...lsely veils,—for Stirling’s tower Of yore the name of Snowdoun claims, And Normans call me James Fitz-James. Thus watch I o’er insulted laws, Thus lea...

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...impossible to extract anything from the inscrutable answers of Bretons and Normans. “Galope-Chopine!” cried Mademoiselle de V erneuil, when Francine b...

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... feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory....

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...ream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis X... ...his tower is not of yesterday.” “It sustained, they say, an assault of the Normans, and prob- ably formed part of the first palace of the kings of Par...

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........ 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ...................................................................... ... to make him unpopular. Having lived so long in Normandy, he preferred the Normans to the English. He made a Norman Archbishop, and Norman Bishops; hi... ...Archbishop, and Norman Bishops; his great officers and favourites were all Normans; he introduced the Norman fashions and the Norman language; in imit... ...ot Earl Godwin and his six sons well out of his way, the King favoured the Normans more than ever. He invited over William, Duke of Normandy , the so... ... passion for fine horses, dogs, and arms, accepted the invitation; and the Normans in England, find ing themselves more numerous than ever when he ar... ...g might possibly have made such a will; or, having always been fond of the Normans, he might have encouraged Norman William to as pire to the English... ...ckens 55 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS HAROLD WAS CROWNED King of England on the very day of the maudlin... ...er. He blessed the enterprise; and cursed Harold; and re quested that the Normans would pay ‘Peter’s Pence’—or a tax to himself of a penny a year on ... ...d by two nobles; and then be sieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge...

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...ding heart. By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France, The false revolting Normans thorough thee Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy Hath slain the...

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...the crown. William’s conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence of his Normans—” How are you getting on now, my dear?’ it continued, turning to...

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...nd in the Roman de Rou 7 in the stirring account of the advance of the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings:— “T aillefer... ...n at the breaking of Arthur’s bread. At this table sat Britons, Frenchmen, Normans, Angevins, Flemings, Burgundians, and Loherins. Knights had their p...

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...at- tached, as now, to the individuals who bore them, he was called by the Normans the Lord de Vaux; and in English by the Saxons, who clung to their ... ...fore they were defaced with scars; his upper lip, after the fashion of the Normans, was covered with thick moustaches, which grew so long and luxurian...

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...ous things. It passed, however, through many vicissitudes. Pillaged by the Normans in the ninth century and by the Huguenots in the sixteenth, it re- ...

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... could not give up the ball, and Meta found that she must go; but both the Normans spent a quiet evening with Dr. May and Ethel. Norman May had a bad ...

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...Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds, And overlook their grafters? BOURBON: Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards! Mort de ma vie ! if they m...

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...Icelandic; its German- ism has still a peculiar Norse tinge. They too are “Normans,” 20 Thomas Carlyle Northmen,—if that be any great beauty!— Of the...

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...andy . Four generations had not sufficed to blend the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual intere... ...and to maintain a line of separation betwixt the descendants of the victor Normans and the vanquished Saxons. THE SUN WA S SETTING upon one of the ric... ...ws, or of wandering pilgrims, can be little else than to be converted into Normans before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.” “The swine turne... ...rmans before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.” “The swine turned Normans to my comfort!” quoth Gurth; “expound that to me, Wamba, for my bra... ... occupied by Cedric the Saxon, who, though but in rank a thane, or, as the Normans called him, a Franklin, felt, at the delay of his evening meal, an ... ...’’ “ Aymer, the Prior Aymer? Brian de Bois-Guilbert?” —mut- tered Cedric; “Normans both;—but Norman or Saxon, the hospitality of Rotherwood must not b... ...ght’s lodging and a night’s food; in the quality of guests, at least, even Normans must suppress their insolence.—Go, Hundebert,” he added, to a sort ... ...e wearing this badge to answer,” said Sir *There was no language which the Normans more formally separated from that of common life than the terms of ... ...Tristrem, famous for his tragic intrigue with the beautiful Ysolte. As the Normans reserved the amusement of hunting strictly to themselves, the terms...

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...work in Rochester , in the old days of the Romans, and the Saxons, and the Normans; and down to the times of King John, when the rugged castle—I will ...

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...d that Harold the Saxon was alive and would bring them deliverance from us Normans. This has happened every au- tumn since Santlache fight.’ ‘But King... ...illed at Hastings,’said Una. ‘So it was said, and so it was believed by us Normans, but our Saxons always believed he would come again. That rumour di... ...hrines of England. The old man sits, Saxon fashion, head between fists. We Normans rest the chin on the left palm. ‘“Who answers for him?” said I. “If... ...p of wine. The old man drank, and beckoned behind him, and, before all the Normans, my Hugh bore away the empty cup, Saxon-fashion, upon the knee. “It... ... kept or promise broken,” he said, “Harold came near enough to breaking us Normans at Santlache. “ “Was it so close a fight, then?” said Henry. “A hai...