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  • There were also sermons in English (see next chapter); Jocelin de Brakelonde says in his chronicle that sermons were delivered in churches, "gallice vel potius anglice, ut morum fieret edificatio, non literaturæ ostensio," year 1200

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Normannorum adventu derelicto proprio vulgari, construere gallice compelluntur; item quod filii nobilium ab ipsis cunabulorum crepundiis ad gallicum idioma informantur.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • The more expensive works are chiefly illustrated 'standard' authors, such as Modestus ( 'De Vocabulis Rei Militaris,' 18s.), Vegetius (_gallice, cum picturis_, 16s., or in Latin _permultis picturis_, 20s.), and several medical works such as Galen (two at 20s.) and Jo.

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • [147] "Dixit per juramentum suum quod ita est terribilis figure et aspectus quod videbatur sibi quod esset figura cujusdam demonis, dicendo gallice _d'un maufé_, et quod quocienscumque videbat ipsum tantus timor eum invadebat, quod vix poterat illud respicere nisi cum maximo timore et tremore."

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • It is a great tree, a beech [fagus], from which comes the may [unde venit mayum, gallice _le beau may_].

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Had never done anything with, or knew anything of, those who came in the air with the fairies [gallice _en l'erre avec les faées_].

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • [Arbor Fatalium, gallice _des Faées_], beside which is a spring [which cured fevers].

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Fairy spirits [gallice _faées_]; by others also she has been taught and imbued with wicked and pernicious errors of such spirits, insomuch that in the trial before you she confessed that up to this time she did not know that Fairies were evil spirits.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • She added that she had it in Lagny: but that she afterwards wore the sword which had been taken from a Burgundian, which was a good sword for war and gave good strokes (_gallice, de bonnes bouffes_ and _de bons torchons_).

    Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

  • Asked, if she did not pray that the sword might have good fortune: "It is good to know that I wish all my armour (_harnesseum meum; gallice, mon harnois_) to be very fortunate."

    Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

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