"Perron" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... perron, I believe, don't they?' she asked. But the only answer she obtained was a simultaneous 'hush.' It was very awful, as Molly thought, and she half wished herself at home again. But she lost all consciousness of herself ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... recovery of the Avesta, or rather the discovery of the Avesta, by the enthusiastic young French scholar Anquetil du Perron, who was the first to open to the western world the ancient records of Zoroastrianism, reads almost like a romance. Du Perron's own account of his departure for India in 1754, of his experiences with the dasturs ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various |
