How To Use Flanders In A Sentence
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`I shall have Sarah neaten up your commode with a little fresh Flanders lace.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The facades are ventilated and finished with coniferous wood such as Flanders pine.
Casa 205 by H Arquitectes
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However, transportation also constituted citizenship as revocable, and it is significant that in its representation in Moll Flanders this aspect is revised.
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Bernini also brought the more modest bust and half-length portrait figures in wall niches to new heights of pathos which were widely imitated in Catholic northern Europe, especially Flanders.
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Rouen art "The Baroque in Flanders: Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens" showcases 30 drawings by the Flemish masters of the 17th century.
What's on Around Europe
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Before us was the "bourdon," so called, weighing 2,200 pounds, the bronze monster upon which the bass note was sounded, and which sounded the hour over the level fields of Flanders.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
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Defoe wrote stories such as Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana when prose fiction was regarded as a low form not worthy to be classed as literature.
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PS to my previous: Historically, the Netherlands or Low Lands consisted of 17 counties. 7 of them became the United Netherlands in 1648, plus parts of Flanders, Brabant and Limburg.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Wrong with This Assertion?
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At the heart of the plan, with broad perspectives in every direction, is the India Gate — a grandiose arch honoring the Indian conscripts, mostly Sikh from the names engraved, who fell on the far-off battlefields of Flanders and Gallipoli during World War I.
City Walk: New Delhi
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The day's two earlier races had made these boggy Flanders fields even more of a quagmire by the time of the main event.
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Flanders is a popular postgraduation destination for Milton High alums.
Kiss It
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Hart has no big-picture sense of the place of the Great War in the narrative of the 20th century — he is as committed to the mud of Flanders and Picardy as his forebears were.
The Pity of War
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Spanish Armada: Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
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The use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance comes from John McCrae's poem ‘In Flanders Fields.’
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Flanders front could be remedied from the base or Great Britain in two or three days, needed in the
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Contrast the free states of the world, while their freedom lasted, with the cotemporary subjects of monarchical or oligarchical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal monarchies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or anterevolutionary France.
Representative Government
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Flanders may no longer be Europe's main gate, but it remains a busy portal with a muscular economic hinterland.
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A balanced animal and arable husbandry was practised only in parts of the British Isles, Denmark, Flanders, and the Swiss cantons, which were oriented towards the market.
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If I am not mistaken, the word moll is a well-rooted native word in English going back at least as far as Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
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It certainly is an evocative month for visiting Flanders, where the flower of European youth died in a morass of mud and blood in the First World War.
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But in the end, Homer doesn't take the last step to conversion, in part ... due to the armed intervention of evangelical Ned Flanders and the Rev. Lovejoy, who are both still fighting the post-Reformation religious wars.
Cathleen Falsani: Homer's Religious Odyssey: The Simpsons' Elusive Faith
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Anyway, these two are: left - a poppy from Anne R for the 1910s swap ( "In Flanders fields the poppies blow" - the poppy is the symbol of lives lost during WWI).
Fish out of water
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He showed me the huge "tambour-carillon," with barrels all bestudded with little brass pegs which pull the wires connected with the great hammers, which in their turn strike the forty-six bells, that unrivaled chime known throughout Flanders as the master work of the Van den Gheyns of
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
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You had to ask for it by name and it wasn't listed on their table; but, if you knew it was there and I got word from a little birdie to ask for the "Shoshone" - which apparently caused the fine folks pouring beer much amusement they would pour a wonderfully sour and refreshing dark Flanders Red.
Archive 2009-08-01
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To this hour art thou not tormented with the vile asthma that thou gattest in skating against the wind in Flanders? and is it but two months ago, that in a fit of laughter, on seeing a cardinal make water like a quirister (with both hands) thou brakest a vessel in thy lungs, whereby, in two hours, thou lost as many quarts of blood; and hadst thou lost as much more, did not the faculty tell thee — it would have amounted to a gallon? —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex.
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Flanders in Belgium had been all but destroyed with the ancient city of Ypres being devastated.
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Only in Flanders and a few contiguous districts was grain rotated with soil-restoring fodder crops, such as clover, lucerne, and sainfoin, and fallow thus eliminated.
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We are reminded of Defoe's Moll Flanders, whose narrator ruefully recalls aspiring as a young maidservant to be a ‘Gentlewoman’ like a woman in her village who sits at her window dressed in fine clothes.
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The ancient provinces of Burgundy, Champagne, Flanders and the Isle of France abound in argil, which the inhabitants convert into bricks and tiles.
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William de la Pole rescues Edward III., detained in Flanders by want of money, and is made a knight-banneret; his son Michael is created earl of Suffolk; one of his grandsons is killed at Agincourt; another besieges Orléans, which is delivered by Joan of Arc; he becomes duke of Suffolk, is impeached in 1450 for high treason and beheaded; no honour is lacking to the house.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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Bertulf, who had tyrannically usurped the provostship of St. Donatian's in Bruges, to which dignity was annexed the chancellorship of Flanders, and his wicked relations, the great oppressors of their country.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Neuerthelesse, she was shortlie after sent home, vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester, associat with diuerse other noble and honorable personages, both men and women, hauing with hir all the iewels, ornaments, [Sidenote: Additions of the chron. of Flanders.] and plate which she brought into England, with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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Euangelists that they shall auouch all those wools and woollen fels vnder his name vnto whom they doe properly belong, & vnder the name of none other: and then taking sufficient security from the owner of those wools and fels, or in his name, in regard whereof you wil vndertake to warrantize, and make good vnto vs those penalties and forfaitures which shal vnto vs appertaine, for all wools, and woollen fels conueied or sent by any of the foresaid merchants vnto any of the said prouinces of Flanders, Brabant, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Think of the unfortunate tommies who found themselves actually having to sing Pack Up Your Troubles on their way to the trenches in Flanders.
Pack Up Your Troubles
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Aire, on the winding Lys, is a delightful little old-world town, possessing one of the finest churches in French Flanders, with a tower curiously reminiscent of English early Perpendicular architecture. 67 The town walls, with their bastions and three gates, were razed as late as 1893.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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French Flanders was a thieves' paradise: it was close to several frontiers, its road system was an unmapped maze of ancient tracks, and it had a large, scattered population of ignorant peasants.
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Spanish Armada: Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
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Frances Donaldson attributes Wodehouse's attitude to the war to an ineradicable immaturity, an inability to feel any emotional response to the events taking place in Flanders.
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He will be forced to miss the Tour of Flanders due to a date clash with the Southampton Boat Show,
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The most victorious and triumphant king of England, Henry VIII., of that time, for the debatement of certain weighty matters sent me ambassador into Flanders, joined in commission with Cuthbert Tunstall, whose virtue and learning be of more excellency than that I am able to praise them.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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As a consequence, Francis renounced his claims to Italy, his possession of the duchy of Burgundy and his feudal suzerainty over Flanders and Artois.
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Flanders, in contrast, is a land of flat country and few hills.
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The reluctance of Marthe Hardelot to leave her home when the Germans invade is conveyed not in terms of panic but in terms of possessions: "her linen cupboard, the fine sheets from Flanders, embroidered by nuns in Bruges, her kitchenware—copper pans, candlesticks, sparling bowls—and the photos of Aunt Adèle at her First Communion, and Uncle Jules ten months old, naked on a pillow.
A Supremely Disabused Writer
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His Highness hath also sent a couple of horses for his use, — one an ambling jennet for the road, and another a strong barbed horse of Flanders, in case he bath aught to do.
Anne of Geierstein
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And if the sound of the surf crashing against the rocks isn't doom-laden enough, Flanders is sure to echo the sound by walking to center stage and intoning "Boom!" every once in a while in a meaningful manner.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!
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Henry III took the hansa of London under his special protection and promised the Flemish traders that they should not be molested even if war broke out between England and France, unless Flanders took an active part in the conflict.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
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His tone is full but flexible, sustained but lyrical, and he manages to impart a certain wistfulness to even the jolliest rondos, such as the E flat one that Flanders and Swann memorably set to words.
Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos 1-4 – review
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There, were to be seen the flags of Bretagne and Anjou, of Burgundy, of Flanders, even the ensign of France, which the volunteers from that country had assumed; and right in the midst of this Capital of War, the gorgeous pavilion of William himself, with a dragon of gold before it, surmounting the staff, from which blazed the Papal gonfanon.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
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And not just that glurgy Ned Flanders-type crap-- although that's fine for people who like that sort of thing.
Conservative Culture and Politics
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Daniel Defoe, English writer, author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, died.
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It has obtained such reputation as it possesses, partly because of its invention or improvement of the fable of "Surrey and Geraldine"; more, and more justly, because it does work up a certain amount of historical material -- the wars of Henry VIII. in French Flanders -- into something premonitory (with a little kindness on the part of the premonished) of the great and long missed historical novel; still more for something else.
The English Novel
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They went all the way: an enormous map indicating the equivalents of the Gaza strip and the West Bank (Zeelandic Flanders and Limburg, respectively), as well as the Frisian military bases, border checkpoints and settlements, Dutch tunnels to Belgium, the works.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza
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The rapid expansion of France, and especially the wars of Philip III and Philip VI against England and Flanders, raised an acute financial problem.
1302, June
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The route tackles many of the cobblestones and bergs featured in the Tour of Flanders, including a triple passage over a new sector at Haaghoek.
Euro racing this week: Belgian classics season opens
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It has, however, one special feature which gave it the name "Trolly lace," as, unlike the perfectly flat lace of Flanders, it has a coarse thread or "trolly" outlining its patterns, and being made of English thread, it was coarse and not very durable.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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Major industries in Flanders include textiles, automobiles, and chemicals.
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Flanders and Wallonia legally become unilingual regions.
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As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
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Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.
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Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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Thousands of tulips, pansies and forget-me-nots, together with venerable lilacs, wisteria, spireas and deutzias (many from the 1930s Annette Hoyt Flanders renovation) dominate the spring show of flowers.
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The same yeare, Matthew sonne to the earle of Flanders married the ladie Marie the abbesse of Ramsie, daughter to king Stephan, and with hir had the countie of Bullongne.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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Thou thinkest it is in England as in Flanders, where a city-bred burgher of Ghent, Liege, or Ypres, is as distinct an animal from a knight of Hainault, as a Flanders wagon-horse from a Spanish jennet.
Anne of Geierstein
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Instead, I chose a collection of 300 World War I letters written from the trenches, tents and field hospitals of Flanders.
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Madam, 'tis my Lord Dilston's caroche, with six great Flanders horses, and three serving-men, all as fine as fiddlers, and never a soul in the caroche --
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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The language spoken in Flanders is Dutch, which is commonly called Flemish.
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What man in Europe was better able to teach them a lesson than Charles, the destroyer of Liege, the stern curber of undue liberty in Flanders?
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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As the country invaded its neighbour in a bid to retrieve disputed territory, the region witnessed the kind of fighting that would not have seemed out of place in Flanders during the first world war.
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Only in Flanders and a few contiguous districts was grain rotated with soil-restoring fodder crops, such as clover, lucerne, and sainfoin, and fallow thus eliminated.
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Mark Lamster: Lessons for the President on the Art of Diplomacy
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And it soon became a familiar sight in the flat fields and farmland around Flanders to see Sikh regiments processing behind their holy book.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first named on the south side of the river formed part of the ancient "enceinte" of the first château of Philip of Alsace, and was erected in the twelfth century, and famed with the château of Lille, as the most formidable strongholds of Flanders.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
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For the debatement and final determination whereof, the Kings Majesty sent me ambassador into Flanders, joined in commission with Cuthbert Tunstall, a man doubtless out of comparison, and whom the Kings Majesty of late, to the great rejoicing of all men, did prefer to the office of Master of the Rolls.
The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth
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The Flemish, those residing in Flanders, the northern half of the country, speak Dutch.
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They are the last of their generation of brave young men who risked their lives for their country, fighting on the bleak battlefields of Flanders and facing horrors people today can hardly imagine.
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He wedded a lady in Flanders and had a son or twain, but I have never seen them nor my stepdame; and now Gilbert there, who brought the letter to the
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
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In France & Flanders, our thinly guarded, inadequately munitioned lines, were quite incapable of successfully resisting the menaced German “push,” every paper brought news of further mis-management and ill-success, every post news of some friend or relation who had been killed.
The Complete Stories
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In that famous clash in Flanders in 1745, aristocratic officers from both the British and French armies strolled between the lines of musketeers, chivalrously inviting the other side to fire first.
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France will never feel secure until she is on the Rhine from the mouth of Flanders to the border in Switzerland, and as long as that continues there is no way for disarmament, and there is no hope for peace in Europe.
The World Crisis and the Outlook
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Inland, most of the rivers run across the flat, fertile Flanders Plain, north-eastward to The Netherlands.
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A capitalist textile industry existed in Flanders in the thirteenth century.
Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
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And the areas of greatest urban expansion - Flanders and Gothia - were also those where Carolingian judicial forms had survived longest.
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William de la Pole rescues Edward III., detained in Flanders by want of money, and is made a knight-banneret; his son Michael is created earl of Suffolk; one of his grandsons is killed at Agincourt; another besieges Orléans, which is delivered by Joan of Arc; he becomes duke of Suffolk, is impeached in 1450 for high treason and beheaded; no honour is lacking to the house.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
