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Moyse

Moyse is a surname and a given name.

People with the surname
  • Alphonse Moyse, Jr. (1898–1973, Sonny Moyse), American bridge player, writer, and publisher and editor of The Bridge World
  • Blanche Honegger Moyse (1909–2011), Swiss-born American music conductor
  • Heather Moyse (born 1978), Canadian multi-sport athlete
  • John Moyse (died 1860), captured British soldier executed by Chinese soldiers supposedly for refusing to kow-tow to a mandarin
  • Louis Moyse (1912–2007), French flutist and composer
  • Marcel Moyse (1889–1984), French flutist and father of Louis Moyse
  • Walter Moyse (born 1981), Canadian basketball player
People with the given name
  • Moyse Alcan (1817–1869), French Jewish publisher, composer and poet
  • Moyse Bayle (1755–between 1812 and 1815), French politician
  • Moyse Charas (1619–1698), French apothecary

Usage examples of "moyse".

Meldritch had but eight thousand soldiers, but he was re-enforced by the arrival of nine thousand more, with six-and-twenty pieces of ordnance, under Lord Zachel Moyses, the general of the army, who took command of the whole.

Although the town afforded much pillage, the loss of so many troops so mixed the sour with the sweet that General Moyses could only allay his grief by sacking three other towns, Veratis, Solmos, and Kapronka.

But the Earl Moyses, seeing no prospect of regaining his patrimony, and determining not to be under subjection to the Germans, led his troops against Busca, was defeated, and fled to join the Turks.

Evangelio imitatur serpentis ipsius sacram potestatem, dicendo, et sicut Moyses exaltavit serpentem in deserto, ita exaltari oportet filium hominis.

O bussh unbrent, brennynge in Moyses sighte, That ravysedest doun fro the deitee Thurgh thyn humblesse, the goost that in thalighte, Of whos vertu, whan he thyn herte lighte, Conceyved was the Fadres sapience, Help me to telle it in thy reverence.