How To Use Poitiers In A Sentence
- Several historians of the 1569 Protestant siege on Poitiers provide detailed descriptions of the city's topography.
- In his company there were certain knights and squires, men of arms, who were more favourable to the French king than to the prince; and when they saw that the parties should fight, they stale from their masters and went to the French host; and they made their captain the chatelain of Amposte, [3] who was as then there with the cardinal, who knew nothing thereof till he was come to Poitiers. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
- Thursday is market day in Poitiers.
- During the fourteenth century, the shroud was often publicly exposed, though not continuously, since the bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had prohibited veneration of the image.
- As one sees from his Crucifixion and his Battle of Poitiers, hung alongside, Delacroix was rapacious for colour; especially, in picture after picture, for the cruel colour of blood.
- He was not at all pleased to see me, but gradually thawed and explained that owing to the tracasseries of the Bishop of Poitiers, he had been made the victim of a continuous and vindictive persecution.
- In the aisle stands another altar-tomb, which has the sides panelled and adorned with shields of arms and bears the figure of an earlier Sir Thomas Markenfield, clad in armour of the period between Poitiers and Agincourt, and wearing a very curious collar of park palings with a stag couchant in front, possibly Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
- We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
- Evenings I longed for the lisp of Poitiers, the sarcasm of the Angevin back country. The Best American Poetry 2008
- He was there more than fifteen days or the prince would speak with him because of the chatelain of Amposte and his men, who were against him in the battle of Poitiers. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
