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Example sentences for "aventures"

Lexicographically close words:
avenges; avenging; avenir; avens; aventure; avenue; avenues; aver; average; averaged
  1. Alas,' thoughte I, 'what aventures Han these sory creatures!

  2. But of his aventures in the see (30) Nis nat to purpos for to speke of here, For hit acordeth nat to my matere.

  3. He was no more successful in les Aventures de.

  4. Raoul de Houdenc is an earlier poet than Adenes, and represents the Roman d'Aventures in its infancy, when it still found it necessary to attach itself to the great cycle of the Round Table.

  5. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Arnaut Vidal wrote a Roman d'Aventures entitled Guillem de la Barra.

  6. Many other Romans d'Aventures deserve mention, both for their intrinsic merits and for the immense popularity they once enjoyed.

  7. The chief of these are Guzman d'Alfarache, Estevanille Gonzalez, Le Bachelier de Salamanque, and a curious Defoe-like book entitled Vie et Aventures de M.

  8. It is further to be noticed that while the earlier poems are mostly anonymous, the Romans d'Aventures are generally, though not always, signed, and bear characteristics of particular authorship.

  9. These two faults characterise all the Romans d'Aventures and the Chansons which were remodelled in their style.

  10. Thus Raoul de Houdenc occupies no mean place in French literature, inasmuch as he indicates the starting-point of two great branches, the Roman d'Aventures and the allegorical poem, and this at a very early date.

  11. It is further possible to indicate a large class of Chansons de Gestes over which the influence of the Roman d'Aventures has passed.

  12. Until quite recently it was not unusual to apply the term Roman d'Aventures with less strictness, and to make it include the Romances of the Round Table.

  13. The Romans d'Aventures supply once more, according to the Aristotelian definition, an Odyssey to the Arthurian Iliad; they are complex and deal with manners.

  14. Like most kinds of mediaeval poetry, these Romans d'Aventures have a very considerable likeness the one to the other.

  15. Of aventures [th]at han befalle Y can sum telle, but nou[gh]t all.

  16. The style and subject of these romans d'aventures are naturally extremely various.

  17. The later forms of the chansons de geste and the Arthurian poems might indeed be well called romans d'aventures themselves.

  18. But what availeth suche a long sermoun Of aventures of love, up and doun?

  19. Whan thou hast yeven thyn herte, as I Have seid thee here [al] openly, Than aventures shulle thee falle, Which harde and hevy been withalle.

  20. Les Aventures de Floride is simply an attempt, and a big one in size, to amadigauliser, as the literary slang of the time went.

  21. Aulnoy's Gracieuse et Percinet and L'Adroite Princesse ou Les Aventures de Finette, which appeared with Perrault's, but which I can hardly believe to be his.

  22. The extremely curious and very Defoe-like book--almost if not quite his last--Vie et Aventures de M.

  23. But hennes-forth I wol my proces holde (650) To speke of aventures and of batailles, That never yet was herd so grete mervailles.

  24. It is an honour to everich that is heer, That ye mowe have a suffisant pardoneer Tassoille yow, in contree as ye ryde, For aventures which that may bityde.

  25. Such are Sebastien Faure with his romans-feuilletons and Jean Grave with his Malfaiteurs, his military romance, La Grande Famille, and his book for boys, Les Aventures de Nono.

  26. Bot over this now forto telle Of aventures that befelle Unto this Prince of whom I tolde, He hath his rihte cours forth holde 540 Be Ston and nedle, til he cam To Tharse, and there his lond he nam.


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