And really, we can't talk about this any longer, because just before you came we'd a telegram from Drivenny to say he and Combes and Blackburn will be here an hour earlier than the appointment.
Combes is the Scotland Yard man, as you know: and Blackburn is the famous detective from New York who's in London now.
They were all dressed differently, not excepting boots and hats: and Combes had a black kitbag in place of the brown one.
Violet staggered towards the bell to call the servants, but Combes showed his police badge: and between the trio it was soon made clear that the Marquis and Marchioness of Haslemere had let themselves be utterly bamboozled.
Don't you remember I told you, Violet, what Mr. Combes said before?
They all spent the next sixty seconds in compliments: and at the end of that time Mr. Combes announced that he and his companions had better be off.
I had no fear of their rallying thence to any effect, for it would take them all their time to find their leaders in the combes and the thick undergrowth that clothed their sides.
On the Cuckmere river, the villages in the combes bear names like Jevington and Lullington; but in the upper valley of the little stream, where it flows through the Weald, we find instead Chiddingley and Hellingley.
So Sussex Proper and the combes of the Downs were naturally predestined to form a single Celtic kingdom, a single Saxon principality, and a single English shire.
The difference between the rounded Downs and saucer-shaped combes of the chalk, and the deep glens traversing the soft friable strata of the Wealden, is well seen in passing from Beachy Head to Ecclesbourne and Fairlight.
Two rivers, however, flowed in deep valleys through the Downs, and their basins, with the outlying combes and glens, were also the predestined seats of agricultural communities.
The evidence of tumuli and weapons goes to show that the Euskarian people of Sussex occupied the coast belt and the combes of the Downs from the Chichester marshland to Pevensey, but that they did not spread at all into the Weald.
Between Merry del Val and Combesno agreement was possible.
Combes had himself been a former theological student and had, in his youth, written a thesis on the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
But, nothing daunted, Combes went on, with the support of the Chambers, to reject a large mass of applications from teaching orders of women.
The keen-scented Combes took an early opportunity to raise this issue by making certain appointments to bishoprics without previously consulting the Vatican.
When parliament assembled for the autumn session a general feeling was expressed, by moderate politicians as well as by supporters of the Combes ministry, that disestablishment was inevitable.
Doumergue, the deputy for Nimes and a member of the Combes ministry, joined with monarchists such as M.
Combes pointed out that the anti-clerical policy of the government had not caused the Republic to lose prestige in the eyes of the monarchies of Europe, which were then showing it unprecedented attentions.
Combes with reducing all questions in which the French nation was interested to the single one of anti-clericalism, and the prime minister retorted that it was solely for that purpose that he took office.
Combes he ordered in July the closing of 2500 schools, conducted by members of religious orders, for which authorization had not been requested.
Combes submitted in his own name a bill for the separation of the churches from the State.
A more serious check to the Combes ministry was given by the refusal of the Chamber to re-elect as president M.
Combes reserved for himself the departments of the interior and public worship, meaning that the centralized administration of France should be in his own hands while he was keeping watch over the Church.
The Combescabinet could not survive the delation scandal, in spite of the resignation of the minister of war and the ineptitude of the opposition.
Combes objected to the pronoun, and maintained that the complete nomination belonged to the French government, the Holy See having no choice in the matter, but only the power of canonical institution.
Combes in his campaign against the Church was an example of what energy and pertinacity can do.
She had left the piping notes behind her, but across the wooded combes at her feet the wind brought her another kind of music, the straining bay of hounds in full chase.
Combes said that he thought it very injurious to sleep after dinner, but I saw the cow lie down after eating, and the horse, and it seemed to me that Combes was wrong.
Father Combes entered that village, landing there with his men; they asked for the bones of Father Campo's companions, which they found lying among the brier-patches.
Father Combes took from that place a hermit, who, dressed as a woman, punctually observed the natural law, and professed celibacy; he was named Lavia de Manila.
The guards of Father Combes seized by stratagem more than fifteen relatives of this evil man, and sent them to Samboangan; love for his people, and their danger, brought this bloody man to the church, to beg mercy from the father.
The Combes Ministry, which succeeded in June 1902, embittered the strife between the clerical and anti-clerical sections by measures such as the separation of Church and State and the expulsion of the Religious Orders.
Combes thought it due to his position not to give a precise answer; but he declared to me in the clearest way that so long as he was Minister we need not fear that our sailors and our soldiers would be sent to Japan.
Combes called the Samals Lutaw and said that they were in the employ of Corralat, and manned some of his boats, fighting and carrying on piracy side by side with the people of Magindanao and with the Iranun.
Later the term datu prevailed, and the first datu who is mentioned in the tarsila as sultan was Sultan Qudrat, whom Combes called Corralat.
It went winding up among barren-looking combes which seemed little better than waste land.
Yonder lay the great combes which hid Taunton from me.
To the west the combes were very high, strung along towards Taunton in heaps.
Still, even if she sent out mounted men, she would find me hard to track, since the combes were lonely, so lonely that for hours together you can walk there without meeting anybody.
After scanning pretty well all around us, I caught sight of moving figures on the top of one of the combes to south of us.
There would be plentiful cover among the combesin case I wished to lie low.
That Bootman, Combes and Payne seemed to be forced and there was no vessel taken after they Came on board.
That Bootman was Privy to and Active in the subduing the Pyrates, and Combes and Payne seemed to him to be forced men.
That Bootman, Combes and Payne came on board after he was taken, there was no Vessel taken after their being on board.
Old Stow House stands, or rather stood, some four miles beyond the Cornish border, on the northern slope of the largest and loveliest of those combes of which I spoke in the last chapter.
About four miles west of Lynmouth is Heddon's Mouth, a little bay at the foot of towering cliffs, with another trout-stream flowing down to the sea through one of the loveliest combesin North Devon.
At one time erratic streams would make their appearance in the chalkcombes in the head of the valley and combining, cause serious floods or "lavants.
Findon is noted for its racing stables; the hills and combes on the east forming an ideal galloping ground.
There are few districts in England and certainly none south of the Trent where old customs and queer legends persist with so much vitality as in these lonely combes and hollows.
When one remembers the much exploited and spoilt beauty spots of Dorset and Devon one feels nervous for the future of these lesser known but equally charming sea-combes of Sussex.
The rolling undulations of the tamest portions of the range are broken by combes whose sides are steep enough to give a spice of adventure to their descent.
I much like M Markhams opinion for hiuing a swarme in combes of a dead or forsaken hiue, so they be fresh & cleanly.
Take heed in any case the combes be not broken, for then the other Bees will smell the honey, and spoyle them.
I am glad your meeting with the Combeswas so pleasant.
Combes gives a detailed account of all this affair (Hist.
Combes taken up--no one knows by what weakness--by M.
Combes would cast the blame on the liquidators, M.
Combes and his friends, who imagine that they are the leaders of all progress, are committing again the errors of the Middle Ages.
Combes and the anti-clerical horde that followed him.
It is remarkable that in 1904 when the rigor of the law was most acutely felt, the chief henchman of Combes was the Minister of Public Instruction, the notorious Aristide Briand, erstwhile editor of the infamous Lanterne.
Through the influence of this good man the young Combes entered, in 1846, the petit seminaire of Castres, the scholars of which were supposed to have the first promptings of ecclesiastical vocation.
It may be said, however, that the spirit of Combes has dominated the French Chambers ever since.
Combes forced the reluctant Government to assimilate the position of the liquidators to that of other functionaries accountable for monies.
Combes is a sectary, a renegade seminarist given over to Freemasonry.
Whether the vocation of Emile Combes was real or not, he certainly abandoned it in the midst of his ecclesiastical studies.
It was during his vacations in 1865 that Combes was initiated into the Freemasons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
