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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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...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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...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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...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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...hom Kenilworth had been successively tenanted. ‘The Saxons, the Danes, the Normans, the Saintlowes, the Clintons, the Montforts, the Mortimers, the Pl... ... chanted the praises of Odin. 415 Sir Walter Scott Last came the knightly Normans, in their mail-shirts and hoods of steel, with all the panoply of c... ...f the hall, so that the Romans confronting the Britons, and the Saxons the Normans, seemed to look on each other with eyes of wonder, which presently ...

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...la, and Zernebock. Not having sub- mitted to the embraces of any polluting Normans, as poor Ulrica had done, and having assisted no parricide, the mil... ...t was impossible that after more than five centuries of close intercourse, Normans should remain Normans, and Saxons, Saxons. Perhaps after all her ne...

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...blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bargain: all now ani- mated with one noble...

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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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...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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...and in these pages as Cloisterham. It was once possibly known to the Druids by another name, and certainly to the Romans by another, and to the Saxons...

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... remain veiled, unknown. As to my person and as to my “belongings,” as the Normans say, make yourself easy. I am at least as hand- some as the little ...

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...; but as soon as I let go he will howl again. I know him for a Norman, and Normans are obstinate.” In fact, tightly held as he was, Lubin endeavored s...

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.... At midnight the two travelers were at Dammartin, but it was then too late to make inquiries—the host of the Cygne de la Croix had gone to bed. The n...

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...t Diane saw no corpse at once so tall, so young, and so fair, though blond Normans and blue- blooded Franks, lads scarce sixteen and stalwart warriors...

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...always call them Lord Danes. He made friends himself with the Northmen, or Normans, who had settled in France, and married Emma, the daughter of their... ...f them rose out of the king—who had been brought up in Normandy—liking the Normans better than the English. They really were much cleverer and more se... ...of En- gland. This filled William with anger. He called all his fight- ing Normans together, fitted out ships, and sailed across the English Channel t... ...t won a great battle over these enemies when he heard that William and his Normans had landed, and he had to hurry the whole length of En- gland to me... ... was his own standard, with a fighting man em- broidered upon it. Then the Normans rode up on their war- horses to attack him, one brave knight going ... ...he heads of the English. Harold himself was pierced by one in the eye. The Normans charged the fence again, and broke through; and, by the time night ... ...t shows that a great deal had been taken from the English and given to the Normans. The king built castles, with immensely thick, strong walls, and lo... ...lls, and loop-hole windows, whence to shoot arrows; and here he placed his Normans to keep the English down. But the Normans were even more unruly tha... ...zags, and all manner of patterns round them. In the end, the coming of the Normans did the English much good, by brightening them up and making them l...

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...the refectory, when the schol- ars were at meat, to show the Saxon boys we Normans were not afraid of an Abbot. It was that very Saxon Hugh tempted me... ...wn from the oak wood above the King’s Hill yonder, and cried out that some Normans were driving off the swine there. “‘Norman or Saxon,” said I, “we m... ...“Better the devil we know than the devil we know not, till we can pack you Normans home.” And so, too, said his Sax- ons; and they laughed as we drove... ...ard. ‘I let the Saxons go their stubborn way, but when my own men-at-arms, Normans not six months in England, stood up and told me what was the custom... ...or thy life, well knowing that if any harm befell thee from his Saxons thy Normans would slay him without remedy. And this his Sax- ons know. Is it tr... ...e Aquila. “If I know men, thou art more faith- ful unsworn than a score of Normans I could name. Take Dallington, and join Sir Richard to fight me tom... ...ur,” said Hugh. “When De Aquila spoke even now, in the Hall, of Saxons and Normans, I saw Gil- bert write on a parchment, which he kept beside the Man... ...he kept beside the Manor- roll, that De Aquila said soon there would be no Normans left in England if his men-at-arms did their work aright. “ “‘Bones... ...before the Word of the Lord had come to me. A walled fortress possessed by Normans; in the midst a forty-foot tide-well out of which to remove secretl...

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...that event the ancient Saxon system of tenure was laid aside, and that the Normans, wherever they had lands granted to them, introduced the feodal sys... ...ature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally held his lands ent...

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...tons by the intrusion of the Saxons, and afterwards by the conquest of the Normans, that, through vicissitude of times, and after a discontinuance alm...

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...instruction had, Like them to fight far off or charge at hand, All valiant Normans by Lord Robert lad, The native Duke of that renowned land, Two bish... ...oble look, And more than manlike wrath her face o’erspread, There the fell Normans, Guichard there forsook The field, till then who never feared nor f... ...en all was lost; CXII Wonders that day wrought noble Tisipherne, The hardy Normans all he overthrew; The Flemings fled before the champion stern, Gern...

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...instruction had, Like them to fight far off or charge at hand, All valiant Normans by Lord Robert lad, The native Duke of that renowned land, Two bish... ...oble look, And more than manlike wrath her face o’erspread, There the fell Normans, Guichard there forsook The field, till then who never feared nor f... ...en all was lost; CXII Wonders that day wrought noble Tisipherne, The hardy Normans all he overthrew; The Flemings fled before the champion stern, Gern...

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... to the Saxons and Britons that were then inhabitants of this country. The Normans that came with him and helped to conquer, and all descended from th...

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...sians and Macedonians had it for a flash. The Gauls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others, had it for a time. The Turks have it at this day, t...

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...ted for its scenery and its monuments, rel- ics left by the Greeks and the Normans. Passing over into Africa, I traversed at my ease that im- mense de...

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...ns shone in the throng, serene and self-possessed in their bliss; handsome Normans, with splendid figures; women of the south, with black hair and wel...

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...and that extremely inferior country, England, which was con- quered by the Normans and brought under the feudal sys- tem. But so soon as these old tra...

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...glish condiment to rectify the flavour of the stew. Now the number of Saxe-Normans riding out to meet and greet the Welshmen is declared to have not e...

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...Rue de Lappe. It is the usual start in life in his line of business. Jews, Normans, Auvergnats, and Savoyards, those four different races of men all h...

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... by holding them out relief in their necessity? It is you who are mean—you Normans—not we of the ancient race. Y ou have your vulgar measurement for g...

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.... We are those blue eyed, yellow haired Saxons, those slender, dark haired Normans. The profession of the bard attracted more respect in those days fr...

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...goes back, perhaps, to the time of the Crusades, and with which the robust Normans 256 Madame Bovary gorged themselves of yore, fancying they saw on ...

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... Scotchmen, two Welshmen, one Irishman, three Frenchmen (two of whom were Normans, and the third from Gascony,) one Dutchman, one Austrian, two or...

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...blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bargain: all now animated with one noblest...

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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 ...