"Brigue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tragedy were combined in September of 1910. On the 23rd of the month, Georges Chavez set out to fly across the Alps on a Bleriot monoplane. Prizes had been offered by the Milan Aviation Committee for a flight from Brigue in Switzerland over the Simplon Pass to Milan, a distance of 94 miles with a minimum height of 6,600 feet above sea level. Chavez started at 1.30 p.m. On the 23rd, and 41 minutes later he reached Domodossola, 25 miles distant. Here he descended, numbed with the cold of the journey; it was said ...
— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian
... civiles Mes braves aieux n'ont pris part; De l'Anglais aucun dans nos villes N'introduisit le leopard; Et quand l'Eglise, par sa brigue, Poussait l'Etat vers son declin, Aucun d'eux n'a signe la Ligue. Je suis vilain et tres vilain, ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield |
