"Couche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Genesis, xlix, 14: "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens." The verb occurs six times in the Bible (King James version). In Roister Doister, I, iv, 90, we have "Couche! On your marybones ... Down ...
— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare
... shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim "de minimis non curat lex," does not apply to science. Even Elie de Beaumont, who generally undervalues small agencies and their accumulated effects, remarks: {1} "La couche tres-mince de la terre vegetale est un monument d'une haute antiquite, et, par le fait de sa permanence, un objet digne d'occuper le geologue, et capable de lui fournir des remarques interessantes." Although ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin
... trou vne cheville, Il n'est vie que d'estre content. Si tu veux cognoistre villain, baille luy la baggette en main. Le boeuf sale, fait trover le vin sans chandelle. Le sage va toujours la sonde a la main. Qui se couche avec les chiens, se leve avec de puces. A tous oiseaux leur nids sont beaux Ovrage de commune, ovrage de nul. Oy, voi, et te tais, si tu veux vivre en paix. Rouge visage et grosse panche, ne sont signes ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... cole an' stormy night on Village St. Mathieu, W'en ev'ry wan he's go couche, an' dog was quiet, too— Young Dominique is start heem out see Emmeline Gourdon, Was leevin' on her fader's place, Maxime ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various |
