"Luz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... voyage of killing the Morses or Sea Oxen, which are to be taken in Aprill, May, and Iune: but also suffered the fit places and harboroughs in the Isle which are but two, as farre as I can learne, to be forestalled and taken vp by the Britons of Saint Malo and the Baskes of Saint Iohn de Luz, by comming a day after the Fayre, as wee say. Which lingering improuidence of our men hath bene the ouerthrowe of many a worthy enterprize and of the vndertakers ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... fisherman tells us. At the foot of the outermost, eighteen miles away, is hidden the old Spanish town of Fuenterrabia. On its other side, in a hollow of the coast, lies San Sebastian. Nearer us, though well down along the sweep of the grey clay bluffs, is St. Jean de Luz, which, with the others, ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... divided it into two portions, one half of which was regarded as French, and the other as Spanish territory. The Spanish court took up its residence at Fontarabia, on the eastern or Spanish bank of the river. Louis and his court occupied Saint Jean de Luz, on the French or ...
— Louis XIV., Makers of History Series • John S. C. Abbott
... le lecteur du denombrement inutile de tous les bancs pierreux de ces substances qui se succedent le long de la vallee, et prenant seulement le resultat de mes observations, je me bornerai a dire que depuis Lourde jusqu'a Luz, les parois de la gorge sont alternativement composees de matieres argilleuses et calcaires, quelquefois sous la forme de couches diversement inclinees, mais plus souvent fissiles, montrant de feuillets de differentes grandeurs et ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... associates who joined with him to supply the necessary funds, though in 1604 the investment was greater than on any previous occasion, and a {25} larger number were admitted to the benefits of the monopoly. Not only did St Malo and Rouen secure recognition, but La Rochelle and St Jean de Luz were given a chance to participate. De Monts' company had a capital of 90,000 livres, divided in shares—of which two-fifths were allotted to St Malo, two-fifths to La Rochelle and St Jean de Luz conjointly, and the remainder ...
— The Founder of New France - A Chronicle of Champlain • Charles W. Colby
... tontn, quieres llevarme a donde hay tanta luz? Si alguna tengo en m, mejor brillar en la ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... viz., Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Sabiduria, Eclesiastico, y 1o y 2o de los Machabeos. The Christian ecclesiastic, the author of the epistle, in indignation at this omission becomes suddenly argumentative, and puts a case to the heretics, which he deems in point; 'Si vieran la luz publica las obras de Lutero mutiladas en sus principales capitulos, y transformadas en cierto modo sus maximas y preceptos; que diligencias no practicarian sus secuaces y discipulos? Se levantarian a una en tropas numerosas para sostener ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... which to safely utter his anathemas, it must have worn a different aspect. No doubt processions and ceremonies were continual, with carrying about the saints in public, a custom which the Paraguayans irreverently refer to as 'sacando a/ luz los bultos'.* Messengers ('chasquis'), no doubt, came and went perpetually, as is the custom in countries such as Paraguay, where news is valuable and horseflesh cheap. Thereto flocked, to a moral certainty, all the broken soldiers who swarmed in countries like ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... of the US (since 20 January 1993); Vice President Albert GORE, Jr. (since 20 January 1993) head of government: Governor Dr. Charles Wesley TURNBULL (since 5 January 1999) and Lieutenant Governor Gererd LUZ James II (since 5 January 1999) cabinet: NA elections: US president and vice president elected on the same ticket for four-year terms; governor and lieutenant governor elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms; election last ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Lord spake to the woman of Samaritan. And there was wont to be a church, but it is beaten down. Beside that well King Rehoboam let make two calves of gold and made them to be worshipped, and put that one at Dan and that other at Bethel. And a mile from Sichar is the city of Luz; and in that city dwelt Abraham a certain time. Sichem is a ten mile from Jerusalem, and it is clept Neople; that is for to say, the New City. And nigh beside is the tomb of Joseph the son of Jacob that governed Egypt: for the Jews bare his bones from Egypt and buried them there, and thither ...
— The Travels of Sir John Mandeville • Author Unknown |
