How To Use Calais In A Sentence
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The result has been, that while the Castalia was a failure, the Calais-Douvre has proved a distinct success.
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
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We specialise in cheap flights to Calais hoverport and other destinations in Europe.
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Calais arose over jurisdiction, but returned before his death from an intestinal disease.
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We fell asleep on the train and woke up to find ourselves in Calais.
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He was waved through two checkpoints as he headed from Dover to Calais and breezed through two more on the return trip.
The Sun
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He was waved through two checkpoints as he headed from Dover to Calais and breezed through two more on the return trip.
The Sun
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The French motorail service, from Calais to the south of France, will not be running this year.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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One of French labor's friends in power, Georges Clemenceau, as described by Friedman, in 1906 sent troops to the Nord and the Pas de Calais to break a coal miner's strike and repress riotous behavior by the strikers.
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At last there's more to Calais than sozzled British daytrippers lugging around crates of cheap plonk.
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An alternative is Dutch motorail to Avignon and, new this summer, Fréjus, from s-Hertogenbosch, around three hours 'drive from Calais, less from Dunkirk and Belgian/Dutch ports: book through www. seat61.com offers plenty of detailed advice on train travel to and within France.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Mclaren has won a title abroad; Harry Redknapp, on the other hand, probably doesn't know how to spell 'Calais'.
Ex-England manager Steve McClaren on thin ice at wobbling Wolfsburg | Stuart James
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Lady Hamilton's reputation has never fully recovered from the public obloquy heaped on her for her affair with Nelson, which led ultimately to her lonely and impoverished death in Calais from alcoholism.
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It is thought the Sudanese men stowed away in the luggage compartment as the bus waited to board a ferry in Calais.
The Sun
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I understood the currency question --- Calais en gros, and Calais _en dtail, _ forgive one who has deeply wronged you.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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This is the story of the intrepid lacemakers of Loughborough, whose struggle to earn a living took some of them to Devon, some of them to Calais, and finally - trapped between the poorhouses of England and the French Revolution of 1848-to a new life in the colonies of Australia.
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We fell asleep on the train and woke up to find ourselves in Calais.
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The bus was on a non-stop 33-hour journey from Calais to Barcelona, with the drivers sleeping on board in between shifts.
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From Calais at midnight we drove straight into a wall of rain on the autoroute.
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Calais, with a new array of quality hypermarkets and malls, has far more to offer than you first think.
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On arrival in Calais, your car will be loaded by Motorail staff onto the train, while you settle yourself in to your compartment.
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In Europe, the subject of administrating refugees has been controversial since the French government ordered the closure in 2002 of the Sangatte holding camp near Calais, after a number of riots and a surge of illegal smuggling of people into the U.K.
Australia and Malaysia Sign Refugee Pact
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Once safely over the French coastline, he simply pulled his parachute ripcord and floated gently to the ground on a clifftop near Calais.
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Would it have not been more convenient and safer to capture one of the cross-Channel ferries from a French or English port, or the Hovercraft out of Boulogne or Calais?
Pressure Point
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From Calais, the fastest way is the A16 autoroute towards Boulogne.
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The treaty gave Edward III sovereignty over Calais and the whole of Aquitaine.
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After a final night I bade a fond adieu, then raced back up the autoroute to Calais in good spirits.
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He said that the equipment - used to spot people hidden in lorries - was also needed at the Frethun rail freight yard, near Calais, because trains are also used by stowaways.
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The other two were shunted back to Calais.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bus was on a non-stop 33-hour journey from Calais to Barcelona, with the drivers sleeping on board in between shifts.
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Allow about eight hours for the drive from Calais. Alternatively, you can fly to Brive.
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Calais arose over jurisdiction, but returned before his death fi-om an intestinal disease.
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It is thought the Sudanese men stowed away in the luggage compartment as the bus waited to board a ferry in Calais.
The Sun
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On the return journey, within a couple of miles of the hoverport in Calais there is a range of hypermarkets and wine stores where you can stock up with as much as you can cram into the car boot at prices that beggar belief.
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If the loss of Calais unloosed such fury in him, I tremble to think what the possible loss of the election might entail.
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Ferry companies are providing extra sailings from Calais.
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The man's web of deceit began to unravel in January when British immigration officials checked his passport at Calais and found it had been revoked in 2003.
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Upon this agreement the Frenchmen do invade the said town of Calais, alonely by the negligence of this captain.
Sermons on the Card
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The next day the couple boarded a cross-Channel ferry to Calais.
The Sun
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The period of experiments in economic and anti-clerical legislation was also marked by other important new laws, such as the ordinance of the staple of 1354, providing that wool, leather, and other commodities were only to be sold at certain _staple_ towns, a measure soon to be modified by the law of 1362, which settled the staple at Calais; the ordinance of 1357 for the government of Ireland, to which later reference will be made; the statute making English the language of the law courts in 1362, and a drastic act against purveyance in 1365.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
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The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level.
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Hitler remained convinced that the main Allied invasion of France would take place near Calais and that operations against Normandy were diversionary.
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Calais fishers, with painted sabots, and ochred trousers.
The Lord of the Sea
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It is thought the Sudanese men stowed away in the luggage compartment as the bus waited to board a ferry in Calais.
The Sun
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From Calais the general led his forces on a long march southwards.
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When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais.
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For some years there was an uneasy rapprochement with Richard, but in 1397 Gloucester was seized, at the king's orders, and taken to Calais, where he died, having apparently been smothered under a feather bed.
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At Calais, Nakamura, who seemed to speak every language under the sun, took charge of my baggage as well as his own, and by some mysterious process, probably not altogether unconnected with "backsheesh," managed to clear the whole through the Customs in about five minutes.
Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
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Board the train at Calais and let the train whisk you and your car to a choice of Motorail stations in Southern France.
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It's a two hour drive from Calais to Thiepval.
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The interior, even on a Calais, still shrieks its distinctly working car roots; a general plasticky look and feel which ill behoves a $50,000 car.
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Even though his astrologer told him to expect an invasion in Normandy, Hitler decreed that the bulk of the German forces in the West would be based within striking distance of the Pas de Calais .
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He helped Percy evade the Germans, and in no time had landed him a job as a slater, working near Calais.
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Once safely over the French coastline, he simply pulled his parachute ripcord and floated gently to the ground on a clifftop near Calais.
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Calais alone received 26000 quarters of grain and 2000 head of cattle in the fourteen years between 1347 and 1361.
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A rustle in the nearby trees brought Calais immediately back to where she was.
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The other two were shunted back to Calais.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was also the apparent end for the hoverports at Dover and Calais which joined their equivalents at Ramsgate and Boulogne in outlasting the craft they were meant to service.
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She was the daughter of a marquis, Sir Armand de Calais.
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He was waved through two checkpoints as he headed from Dover to Calais and breezed through two more on the return trip.
The Sun
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The running battle up the Channel was inconclusive, and only the English fireship attack on the Armada's anchorage off Calais broke the stalemate.
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Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart Rutters and French cooks, at the loss of Calais (where they found great store of this provision almost in every house), have attempted with ridiculous success to roast, bake, broil, and fry the same for their masters, till they were better informed.
Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1
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Such scene does history disclose, as in sunbeams, as in blazing hell-fire, on Calais sands, in the raw winter morning; then drops the blanket of centuries, of everlasting night, over it, and passes on elsewhither.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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Although the island has been so many years under the English government, the general character of the place is quite French: Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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The painting of Calais, being sold by a dealer in Hampshire, was also snapped up for the gallery.
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their foiled attempt to capture Calais
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The treaty gave Edward III sovereignty over Calais and the whole of Aquitaine.
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BRITAIN will suffer food shortages and rising prices because of the Calais crisis, haulage bosses warned yesterday.
The Sun
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Alternatively travel with French Motorail from Calais, Lille or Paris to a number of locations only hours away from major Italian cities.
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It's a two hour drive from Calais to Thiepval.
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Allow about eight hours for the drive from Calais. Alternatively, you can fly to Brive.
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As we headed back to Calais, the coach was badly delayed by roadworks.
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The French Resistance sportive starts at Dover ferry port, where you'll take the Dover-Calais ferry.
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All were suffering from hypothermia and taken to hospital in Calais.
The Sun
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He will be competing in the London-Calais-London race.