What is "historie"

Usage examples of "historie".

I sat down by the counter and had the pleasure of hearing from her lips the amorous histories of Turin for the past few months.

I sat down before him and for three consecutive hours I narrated scandalous histories unnumerable, which, however, I told simply and not spicily, since I felt ascetically disposed and obliged myself to speak with a contrition I did not feel, for when I recounted my follies I was very far from finding the remembrance of them disagreeable.

Chapter 6 By what means the squire came to discover his daughter Though the reader, in many histories, is obliged to digest much more unaccountable appearances than this of Mr.

A few hours after I called on Madame Binetti, and she told me the histories of all the artistes in London.

BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this Among other good uses for which I have thought proper to institute these several introductory chapters, I have considered them as a kind of mark or stamp, which may hereafter enable a very indifferent reader to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit.

What few histories exist are so highly classified with multiple codewords that almost no one has access to them.

Have the histories of the ruin of Greek and Roman liberty consequent on such extensions of empire by the sword no lesson for us?

I found missing in the orthodox histories that dominated American culture.

Such histories as these do, in reality, very much resemble a newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Some of these species existed for well over a million years, others for a more modest few hundred thousand, but it is worth bearing in mind that even the least successful had histories many times longer than we have yet achieved.

Chauvelin remarking that he knew some pleasant histories of which I was the hero, M.

The fellow, who was ugly, blind of one eye, and full of impudence, shewed me a score of pretty women, whose histories he told me, and seeing me to be interested in one of them he promised to bring her to a procuress.

For sometimes hee sayd that I should win glory enough : sometimes he sayd I should write a great Historie : sometimes againe hee sayd that I should devise an incredible tale : and sometimes that I should make Bookes.

Other authorities are: "The Historie of Travaile into Virginia," etc.

The "General Historie " says that he left them "with three ships, seven boats, commodities ready to trade, the harvest newly gathered, ten weeks' provision in store, four hundred ninety and odd persons, twenty-four pieces of ordnance, three hundred muskets, snaphances and fire-locks, shot, powder, and match sufficient, curats, pikes, swords, and morrios, more than men.