Here the mercurial Son of France in search of a case of red wine, hot and impulsive, belching forth "sacres" with a velocity well sustained. ❋ Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1885)
A few "sacres" and "f--- s" was the reply, as one of them attempted to twitch his bundle out of his hand. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
I pray that I am wrong, but when I see our President play the race card so publicly in a matter that he obviously knew nothing about, it sacres the heck out of me. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As you know I'm against a lot of convenience food but I so rarely have chips that it just seems such as terrible waste of fat to cook them in it and all that hot fat sacres the life out of me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The French have a saying, "Les Week-ends sont sacres." ❋ Unknown (2004)
The real problem is we think the forces as a sacres, untouchable, made by god, structure. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The meane shot, as sacres and pasuolans, were in great number. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Airs sur les Hymnes sacres, Odes et Noels," (Paris 1623) ❋ Various (N/A)
My courier, freighted with despatches, which might have been high treason to the majesty of the mob, and who saw nothing less than suspension from the first lamp-post in their discovery, protested, with about the same number of _sacres_; and my diplomatic beams seemed in a fair way to be shorn. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ceillier, Histoire generale des auteurs sacres, IV (Paris, 1860), 235 sq. ADRIAN FORTESCUE ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Bill Cowan and his friends stared at this diminutive Frenchman, open-mouthed, as he poured forth a veritable torrent of unintelligible words, plentifully mixed with sacres, which he ripped out like snarls. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
A scream of delight from Suzanne followed this sally, which was received by Gaspard and Hippolyte with a rattle of sacres, and -- despite our irritation -- the Colonel, Monsieur Gratiot, and myself with a burst of involuntary laughter. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
'Milles sacres' -- say de hofficier, 'mines saeres -- de privator!' he say, ver 'surprise'. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
* Or c'est une chose assuree que Jesus-Christ ne nous a pas recommande ses Sacrements pour neant: partant il fait en nous tout ce qu'il nous represente par ces signes sacres; encore que la maniere outrepasse notre entendement, et nous soit incomprehensible,: [13073] 1 ❋ Unknown (1889)
At the river there is a large swivel-gun with cross-bars, weighing thirty quintals; one cannon weighing twenty-six quintals, one sacre weighing twenty-two quintals, four half-sacres weighing thirteen or fourteen quintals, and two _esmeriles_ [a small piece of ordnance] weighing four or five quintals. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)
In the shipyard there are now four sacres of twenty-two quintals 'weight, two of which have been cast, and the other two are about to be cast. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)
