... le bienvenu! Bas le pont! bas les chaines! Dit le marquis; sonnez la trompe et l'olifant!— Et, fier de voir qu'on traite en reine son enfant, La joie a rayonne sur ... — La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... there, made of olifant. A book thereon Marsilies bade them plant, In it their laws, Mahum's and Tervagant's. He's sworn thereby, the Spanish Sarazand, In the rereward if he shall find Rollant, Battle to himself and all his band, And ... — The Song of Roland • Anonymous
... Clemence, Clemmcowe, &c. holding herein a contrary course of extension to the Italians abridgement, who terme Frauncis, Cecco: Dominick, Beco : Lawrence, Renzo: as also to the Turks, who name Constantinople, Stampoli: Adrianople, Adrina: an Olifant, Fil: and the Sicilians, who curtayle ... — The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew