Use la in a sentence
Sentences starting with la
- La Salle,--John Hise, William Reddick. [7]
- La Tremouille turned white with anger, but he pulled himself firmly together and held his peace. [5]
- La Hire halted where he was, and sent back the tidings. [5]
- La Bourboule-les-Bains, France--a village; time, the end of June, 1894. [5]
- La Tremouille wore the victor's crown; Joan of Arc, the unconquerable, was conquered. [5]
- La Hire survived the martyrdom thirteen years; and always fighting, of course, for that was all he enjoyed in life. [5]
- La Hire said that that was all right, he wasn't going to kill the voluntary ones, but only the others. [5]
- La Harpe said that 'Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed. [6]
- La Salle followed that of the west, and D'Autray that of the east; while Tonty took the middle passage. [5]
- La Hire was stunned by these marvels; he could not understand them. [5]
Sentences ending with la
- She knew the words, too; and even before she could hear them, they were fitting into the air: "Qui va la! [11]
- No one in the valley had ever heard the thing he sang softly as he sat looking down at Julie: "The little white smoke blows there, blows here, The little blue wolf comes down-- C'est la! [11]
- She called into the icy void, "Qui va la? [11]
- We walked on, stopping now and again to peer between the palings, when we heard, amidst the rattling of a cart and the jingling of bells, a chorus of voices:-- "A cheval, a cheval, pour aller voir ma mie, Lon, lon, la! [9]
- Parvondt varbondt anan oun, Et die don la, la! [11]
- But in one or two houses there was dancing, and, as he passed, Valmond heard the chansons of the humble games they played--primitive games, primitive chansons: "In my right hand I hold a rose-bush, Which will bloom, Manon lon la! [11]
- Suddenly he was met by a cry of Qui va la! [11]
- And the hill-dwarf laughs in the young wife's ear, When the devil comes back to town-- C'est la! [11]
- As she passed into the dining-room, the words of the song followed her: "Qui va la! [11]
- There's some one in the orchard, There's a robber in the apple-trees; Qui va la! [11]
Short sentences using la
- It is La Vendee. [4]
- Madame la Vicomtesse sighed. [9]
- La Salle had several, also. [5]
- River de la Planta. [11]
- Guai a chi la tocchi! [2]
- See also 'De la Phys. [1]
- Cries of Vive la Canada! [11]
- Ashhadu an la illaha illalla! [11]
- She made La Hire pray. [5]
- A la bonne heure! [11]
Sentences containing la two or more times
- Tenez, je l'ai vu poser Daniel Webster la sur se plancher,--Daniel Webster etait le nom de la grenouille,--et lui chanter: Des mouches! [5]
- Il lui donnait un petit coup par derriere, et l'instant d'apres vous voyiez la grenouille tourner en l'air comme un beignet au-dessus de la poele, faire une culbute, quelquefois deux, lorsqu'elle etait bien partie, et retomber sur ses pattes comme un chat. [5]
- She wondered who should be singing a nursery rhyme on a sinking ship: "La main morte, La main morte, Tapp' a la porte, Tapp' a la porte. [11]
- And yonder, receding, receding, plumes lifting and falling, lifting and falling, streamed the thundering charge of La Hire's godless crew, La Hire's great figure dominating it and his sword stretched aloft like a flagstaff. [5]
- The song of our boatmen broke the silence of the night:-- "Voici le temps et la saison, Voici le temps et la saison, Ah! [9]
- Joan saw her opportunity and ordered La Hire to advance--which La Hire promptly did, launching his wild riders like a storm-wind, his customary fashion. [5]
- His pride knew no bounds when, three days after the rescue, Sir Hugh Pawlett, the Governor, answering De la Foret's letter requesting permission to visit the Comtesse de Montgomery, sent him word to fetch De la Foret to Mont Orgueil Castle. [11]
- Forest, Ministre de Madame, quj certifia quj ne cognoisoit Rien en tout ceux la po' quoy Il ne leur deust administre la Cene s'il estoit en lieu po' a ferre. [11]
- Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour! [11]
- The great rocks La Coniere, La Longy, Le Gros Etac, Le Teton, and the Petite Sambiere, rise up like volcanic monuments from a floor of lava and trailing vraic, which at half-tide makes the sea a tender mauve and violet. [11]
More example sentences with the word la in them
- Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
- On Trinity Sunday you shall preach in my chapel, Monsieur de la Foret, and thereafter you shall know your fate. [11]
- As the night wore on they decided on the punishment to be meted out by La Touche to the man who had not "acted on the square. [11]
- He wrote the words L'Empereur Alexandre, La nation russe and added up their numbers, but the sums were either more or less than 666. [2]
- Together, without a word, he and De la Foret carried him to the couch and laid him down. [11]
- These had sent word that De la Foret was now attached to the meagre suite of the widow of the great Camisard Montgomery, near the Castle of Mont Orgueil. [11]
- He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
- To my kitchen with ye all; and you, messieurs"--turning to M. Aubert and De la Fore- "and you, Mademoiselle, come, know how open is the door and full the table at my Manor of Rozel--St. Ouen's keeps a beggarly board. [11]
- The company advanced with levelled pikes, but at a motion from the Seigneur his men fell back before them, and, making a lane, disclosed Michel de la Foret at the end of it. [11]
- I hope she will bring her along with her when we're married, la petite est gentille. [2]
- If I were where I belong; if I were in the place of La Hire, or Saintrailles, or the Bastard of Orleans--well, I say nothing. [5]
- Two good friends when the sun grows bright Vive la compagnie! [11]
- The several divisions were commanded by the great Armagnac generals, La Hire, and Marshal de Boussac, the Sire de Retz, Florent d'Illiers, and Poton de Saintrailles. [5]
- Were it not well to leave Michel de la Foret to his fate, what ever it would be? [11]
- But there are weighty matters 'twixt France and England, and De la Foret may turn the scale one way or another. [11]
- Thrice within a week the Queen had sent for De la Foret--what reason was there for that, unless the Queen had a secret personal interest in him? [11]
- As we go we sing a song all right, and there is no one sing so better as Norinne: "'C'est la belle Francoise, Allons gai! [11]
- De la Foret was wholly in the hands of Buonespoir, for he knew nothing of these waters and coasts; also he was a soldier and no sailor. [11]
- Madame la Vicomtesse was truly a woman of decision. [9]
- Gautier de Brusac was spokesman for the timid ones; Joan's side was resolutely upheld by d'Alencon, the Bastard, La Hire, the Admiral of France, the Marshal de Boussac, and all the other really important chiefs. [5]
- De la Foret was smiling as he turned to Angele. [11]
- But Pretty Pierre was singing softly to himself in the room at Pardon's Drive: "Three good friends with the wine at night Vive la compagnie! [11]
- In Spain she was received with the utmost consideration by the Marquis de la Mota, Dona Magdalena de Ulloa's brother, and later by the lady herself. [10]
- One day I was permitted to listen to the singing of Emmy La Gruas, and the next to the peerless Schroder-Devrient. [10]
- But the island was not true to itself or its history if it did not divide itself into factions, headed by the Seigneurs, and there had been no ground for good division for five years till De la Foret came. [11]
- The other chair was for the Chevalier de la Darante, one of the oldest and best of our nobility, who pretends great roughness and barbarism, but is a kind and honourable gentleman, though odd. [11]
- And although it was before the days of swimming-pools and gymnasiums and a la carte cafes on ocean liners, the Atlantic was imposing enough. [9]
- A new commission was about to be issued, and a great supply was in preparation under Lord De La Ware. [4]
- Thus, in the wards of Louis, at the Hospital of La Pitie, a vast number of patients in the last stages of consumption were constantly entering, to swell the mortality of that hospital. [3]
- The game of war had lain with the Grande Marquise--or La Pompadour, as she was called--and later it may be seen how I, unwillingly, moved her to set it going. [11]
- How long we waited I know not, but at length we heard their voices raised, and without more ado Madame la Vicomtesse, beckoning me, passed quickly through the gap in the hedge and went towards them. [9]
- Will Madame la Vicomtesse pray explain? [9]
- Then Madame La Vicomtesse motioned to Andre to leave, and gave me a glance, and it was part of the deep understanding of her I had that I took its meaning. [9]
- But Madame la Vicomtesse made him a courtesy there on the levee bank, and said sweetly:-- "That is very good of you, Auguste. [9]
- An argosy of Venice hove in sight, and Captaine la Roche desired to speak to her. [4]
- Finalement il attrape une grenouille, l'apporte cet individu et dit:--Maintenant, si vous etes pret, mettez-la tout contra Daniel, avec leurs pattes de devant sur la meme ligne, et je donnerai le signal; puis il ajoute:--Un, deux, trois, sautez! [5]
- Three good friends, two good friends Vive la compagnie! [11]
- Madame la Vicomtesse turned to me. [9]
- Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame. [2]
- All the old tricks of Bigot and his La Friponne, which, after the outbreak the night of my arrest at the Seigneur Duvarney's, had been somewhat repressed, were in full swing again, and robbery in the name of providing for defense was the only habit. [11]
- But La Hire took the word and said: "Let be. [5]
- Nor had Phips told Bucklaw of Gering's coming; so that when the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow entered Port de la Planta, Bucklaw himself, as he bore out in a small sail-boat, did not guess that he was likely to meet a desperate enemy. [11]
- And, la, as to yonder base rufflers, think ye they have not their fill, but yet desire more? [5]
- They left me to shift for myself, too, a la Bret Harte at Harvard. [5]
- It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed to see the mistress of the house. [5]
- She greatly desired to look backward towards De la Foret, but some good angel bade her not. [11]
- He had said to himself many times that even Armand de la Riviere would envy him. [11]
- I--I will go to him, Madame la Vicomtesse. [9]
- I ought next to have gone to the hospital La Pitie, where I passed much of my time during those two years. [6]
- My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse, and, in the fright and confusion which should follow, make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors, past the sentinels, and so on out. [11]
- From time to time I was roused into admiration of the horsemanship of Madame la Vicomtesse, for the restive Texas pony which she rode was stung to madness by the flies. [9]
- Si je la tiens, ce sera seulement pour garder l'honneur du roi. [5]
- The stems stood three or four feet apart all over a great hill-slope that was a mile long, and make one think of what the Place de la Concorde would be if its myriad lights were red instead of white and yellow. [5]
- The fore-claws of this tiger are the lacerating pinnacles of the Corbiere and the impaling rocks of Portelet Bay and Noirmont; the hind-claws are the devastating diorite reefs of La Motte and the Banc des Violets. [11]
- I believed that this day would see the last of the strife between England and France for dominion here; of La Pompadour's spite which I had roused to action against my country; of the struggle between Doltaire and myself. [11]
- Did M. Aubert think it was only a rare touch of humour which had turned De la Foret into a preacher, and set his fate upon a sermon to be preached before the Court? [11]
- He seemed to think it was his own indomitable patience, the work that he had done, and his reports, which had at last shamed the Egyptian Government and the Caisse de la Dette into doing the right thing for the country and to him. [11]
- For some years they did not meet, and then at last they again were thrown together in the West, when Jopp settled at La Touche. [11]
- Her words were these: "Il avait ,t, a la peine, c'etait bien raison qu'il fut a l'honneur. [5]
- Ah, la; la, there's the second bell--I must be getting to Mass! [11]
- When they meddle there, we have La Pompadour and war with England, and Captain Moray in the Bastile of New France. [11]
- The acting before them was more realistic than anything they had ever seen, or were ever likely to see again in La Touche. [11]
- The sailors of the vessel fled, and alone De la Foret set sail for the Ecrehos. [11]
- Was he not the trusted friend of the Grand Seigneur, as he was called here, the father of your Monseiur De la Riviere? [11]
- During three hours the tide ebbed and flowed, flowed and ebbed; but at last La Hire, who was now come, made a final and resistless charge, and the bastille St. Loup was ours. [5]
- He had hugged the thought of its possession before M. de la Riviere died, as a man humbly born prides himself on the distinguished lineage of his wife. [11]
- He reached across the table and seized the hand of Madame la Vicomtesse. [9]
- From the coast the stuff comes up to Dublin without a check, and, as he's a special favourite, he gets the best to be had in la belle France. [11]
- As we leave the station at Annapolis, we are obliged to put Madame de la Tour out of our minds to make room for another woman whose name, and we might say presence, fills all the valley before us. [4]
- She had made the Seigneur de la Riviere, of the House with the Tall Porch, to quarrel with his son Armand, so that Armand disappeared from Pontiac for years. [11]
- Then they sank the rover, and got away to Port de la Planta as fast as they were able. [11]
- The enthusiasm of the reformed army for Joan, its devotion to her, and the hot desire had aroused in it to be led against the enemy, exceeded any manifestations of this sort which La Hire had ever seen before in his long career. [5]
- It was in the Place de la Bourse, on a beautiful sunshiny morning. [6]
- And far into the night, through silent Cheapside, a rolling voice swelled through much laughter thus: "Gai Ion la, gai le rosier, Du joli mois de Mai. [11]
- It was in the midst of this wild mob that Noel and I had our first glimpse of La Hire. [5]
- The fortifying of the Kremlin, for which la Mosquee (as Napoleon termed the church of Basil the Beatified) was to have been razed to the ground, proved quite useless. [2]
- There she learned the joyful truth that De la Foret had not been slain, and was in hiding on the coast of Normandy. [11]
- It came from the house of the poor Seigneur de la Riviere a year ago. [11]
- Presently I heard the hoofs of many horses, and soon afterwards there entered the door, and way was made for him up the nave, the Marquis de Vaudreuil and his suite, with the Chevalier de la Darante, the Intendant, and--to my indignation--Juste Duvarney. [11]
- As I reached the gallery Madame la Vicomtesse, gowned in brown linen for riding, rose quickly from her chair and came forward to meet me. [9]
- When Cromwell drove the French from Acadia, he granted great territorial rights to De la Tour, which that thrifty adventurer sold out to one of his co-grantees for L16,000; and he no doubt invested the money in peltry for the London market. [4]
- At that moment the door opened, and Monsieur De la Riviere was announced. [11]
- The Virgin composed the difficulty in Marquette's case; the pipe of peace did the same office for La Salle. [5]
- After much persuasion the captain of the frigate agreed to land Madame de Montgomery upon the island of Jersey, but forced De la Foret to return to the coast of France; and Buonespoir elected to return with him. [11]
- It crawled about the bare sandy or open grassy plains of La Plata under a scorching sun, and could not fail to catch the eye of every passing creature. [1]
- Such, too, was the air of our Red Cross establishment in the ancient building facing the Palace de la Concorde, where the unfortunate Louis lost his head. [9]
- So it was that, with bowed head, Angele left the room with the Queen of England, leaving Lempriere and De la Foret gazing at each other, the one bewildered, the other lost in painful reverie, and Leicester smiling maliciously at them both. [11]
- It was presumed that the baths were the subject of the entertaining conversation; for I read in a charming little work which sets forth the delights of Leuk, that La poussee forms the staple of most of the talk. [4]
- So it was that she had sent Angele to her father and kept De la Foret in the palace. [11]
- She only knew that a voice called her to England, to follow the footsteps of Michel de la Foret, who even this night would be setting forth in the Governor's brigantine for London. [11]
- Si vous voulez tenir ma boite one minute, j'irai vous chercher une grenouille.--Voile donc l'individu qui garde la boite, qui met ses quarante dollars sur ceux de Smiley et qui attend. [5]
- She sat below talking to Annette and singing a little Breton chanson: "Parvondt varbondt anan oun, Et die don la lire! [11]
- Yet I was surprised to see how Doltaire brought up a point here and a question there in my favour, which served to lengthen out the trial; and all the time he sat near the Chevalier de la Darante, now and again talking with him. [11]
- But I made sure De la Foret was dead when I asked her to be my wife. [11]
- With regard to supplies for the army, Napoleon decreed that all the troops in turn should enter Moscow a la maraude * to obtain provisions for themselves, so that the army might have its future provided for. [2]
- Before the November sun had set she entered the La Porta travelling carriage. [10]
- The French, under such men as La Salle, had pushed their trading posts westward to the great lakes and beyond the Missouri, and north to the shores of Hudson's Bay. [11]
- De la Foret straightway raised him in his arms. [11]
- How long I stood watching him as he drifted lazily in the sun I know not, but at length the voice of Madame la Vicomtesse aroused me. [9]
- Valmond did not stir, but looked steadily at De la Riviere, and said slowly, dramatically, yet with a strange genuineness also: "The spirit of France, monsieur, the spirit of France looks not forward only, but backward, for her inspiration. [11]
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