What is "racine"

Usage examples of "racine".

Where Pope or Racine had one rule of metre, Victor Hugo has twenty, and he observes them as rigorously as an algebraist or an astronomer observes the rules of calculation or demonstration.

And the three men whom he joined for luncheon in the highly respectable Café Racine are the terrorists.

The puzzle that had drawn him to the Café Racine was unexplained if Vaugiroud was being observed, Roussin would also be under suspicion.

But he walked out of the Café Racine just five minutes after Lenoir, and disappeared completely.

He changed his, three times, and eventually arrived at the Café Racine.

There was no breach of security, either, in glancing down the street where the Café Racine retired so modestly from the busy traffic of Saint-Germain.

Fenner halted abruptly, became one of a group pressed together, staring across at the Café Racine.

He drew his thin shoulders, almost angrily, back from Fenner and resumed his staring at the Café Racine, his eyes dull again, not seeing, only remembering that he, counting the months to his own death, had stayed alive today.

Louis Racine sat in the great Seigneurial chair, returned from the gates of death.

No ruler of a Grand Duchy ever cherished his honour dearer or exacted homage more persistently than did Louis Racine in the Seigneury of Pontiac.

Truth was, Louis Racine would rather have parted with the Seigneury itself than with these relics asked for.

George Fournel was the heir to the Seigneury of Pontiac, not Louis Racine.

The Seigneury of Pontiac belongs to Monsieur Racine, and but three days since Madame here dismissed this fellow for pilfering and other misdemeanours.

He met with the tragedies of Racine at a moment when the reputation of that poet had sunk to its lowest point, and, totally indifferent to the censure of the academical sanhedrim, he extolled him as a master-anatomist of the human heart.

With her tall, slim figure and long, swirled-up hair, it was hard to believe that Gamay had been a tomboy, running with a gang of boys, building tree houses, playing baseball in the streets of Racine.