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- a city in northeastern France to the east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II
How To Use Rheims In A Sentence
- (The self-contradictory flashback/dream sequence/prophecy that takes place in Rheims, in Ink & Steel, for example: I could not have written that scene in 2001. Funny how the whole world--historically--feels the urge to chase the sun to rest
- Twenty years later, with the Protestant Elizabeth firmly on the throne, English Catholic exiles working from Douai and Rheims in France began producing a new Catholic English Bible, on the principle that if English translations were now unstoppable and "in the hands of every husbandman, artificer, prentice, boys, girls, mistress, maid" then they should at least get it right. The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
- Towns across the county are twinned with others abroad, such as Ramsgate and Chimay in Belgium and Canterbury with Rheims in France, which were mainly set-up after World War Two to bring Europeans closer together. Kos RSS Feed
- The persecution by the simoniacal archbishop of Rheims, Manasses, hastened his resolve to enter a life of solitude 1084. St. Bruno, priest
- How many conversational pitfalls is "Rheims" responsible for! Confessions of a Book-Lover
- These views found frequent expression in private, and in public too; I myself particularly remember the Chancellor's speaking thus most unguardedly at a dinner in Rheims. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
- You can find Eliseus in the third and fourth book of Kings in the Douay-Rheims translation of the scripture and in first and second Kings in those editions that use the Protestant book titles. In festo S Elisei, Prophetæ et Patri nostri
- The bombardment of Rheims is not an isolated example of German kultur. France Through Canadian Eyes
- As part of the unending dispute between Canterbury and York he refused consecration in 1114 by the archbishop of Canterbury and was eventually consecrated at Rheims, receiving the pallium from Pope Calixtus II.
- A heavy artillery duel is essentially a contest between trained observers trying to get a line on the whereabouts of the enemy's guns, and looking down on Rheims from the German hills, even a lay correspondent could sense the military necessity which would drive the French to make use of the only high spots in town from which you could see anything for observation purposes, and the equally grim necessity for the Germans to dislodge them. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915