The new ship canal from Zeebrugge will not revive the ancient port, as it follows a different route, leaving Damme and Ecluse quite untouched.
In 1490 a treaty was signed at Damme between the people of Bruges and the archduke Maximilian, and very soon after this event the channel became completely closed up, and the foreign merchant gilds or "nations" left the place for Antwerp.
Beyond these were the contingents of Alost and Grammont, of Courtray and Bruges, Damme and Sluys.
Bruges andDamme opened their gates to the earl, and Ghent was left without an ally.
In a few days there was an abundance of everything in Ghent, for Damme and Sluys opened their gates at once.
Philip invaded Flanders with a great army, capturing Cassel and destroyingDamme and all the merchandise stored there, Lille, Courtrai and many smaller towns.
The following day the royal lady and her company rode to Damme in a fleet of barges gorgeously decorated with gold, rich velvets and rare silks.
The next day the damme flew abrode again for foode, and the owner waited at the houre appointed for his frendes.
I no doubt signed it, not quite understanding--but damme if he didn't keep it dark till the date was expired!
And damme if I'm going to be, without a bit of a fight for it, that I ain't!
I jumped up in less than no time, and damme if we didn't have him thawed out so before daylight, that the captain sent down a middy to stop the noise below decks, the hungry scamp barked so loud.
XX When he was fifteen, Ulenspiegel erected a little tent at Damme upon four stakes, and he cried out that everyone might see within, represented in a handsome frame of hay, his present and future self.
The folk of Damme having thus learned that it was upon a second denunciation by Grypstuiver that the widow and the orphan were thus being haled off to prison, hooted the fishmonger, and that night flung stones through his windows.
Then she was unbound and taken without the boundaries of Damme upon a cart, for her feet were burned.
And at Damme Nele wept by the side of Katheline the madwife.
The dame said to Ulenspiegel, smiling: "Could you not tell me, bagpiper, if the road that runs from Damme to Dudzeele has not been changed?
And at Damme Claes tied his faggots, sold his charcoal, and many times fell into melancholy, thinking that the banished Ulenspiegel could not for long and long come back to their cottage.
The honeycombs were so delicious that because of their rare quality, the dean of Damme sent eleven to the Emperor Charles, by way of thanks for having through his edicts restored the Holy Inquisition to all its full vigour.
BOOK I I When May was unfolding the whitethorn blossom Ulenspiegel, son of Claes, was born at Damme in Flanders.
XLIV November came to Damme and elsewhere, but the winter was tardy.
The executioner and his assistants brought her to the marketplace of Damme where there was a scaffold on which she mounted.
Why she's a deuill, a deuill, the deuils damme Gre.
What, All my pretty Chickens, and theirDamme At one fell swoope?
The very thing--the very thing--damme if his own mother wouldn't take me for her son!
Damme if I won't burn it, for good and all," muttered Drayton.
When Bruges was at its heyday the population of Damme amounted to sixty thousand souls.
Then at least let me leave the town,' cried Maximilian, but neither would they grant this request; they felt sure he would be off to Damme to summon the little garrison there to join the army of Hornes.
The Damme Town Hall dates from the end of the fourteenth century, and is a charming old building.
The burghers once more disarmed, Philippe confirmed their rights and privileges, and when he had done this, they in their turn sent deputies to Damme to make humble apology for the disturbances which had recently taken place in their city.
All through the autumn the French King harried Flanders; Lille, Cassel, Courtrai, and a host of smaller towns had shared the fate of Damme before the snows of winter drove him back again to his native land.
XXXI In those days there came to Dammetwo brothers of the Premonstratensian Order, sellers of indulgences.
IV Claes, the father of Ulenspiegel, was known in Damme by the name of Kooldraeger, that is to say, the Charcoal-burner.
For it was well known that the people of Damme loved him exceedingly.
The quality of the comb was so exquisite that the Dean of Damme dispatched eleven combs to the Emperor Charles out of gratitude for the new edicts that had revived in Flanders the earlier vigour of the Holy Inquisition.
Ulenspiegel also learnt to carve in wood and in stone, for once a master-mason came to Damme to carve a stall in the choir of Notre Dame.
I have already asked you once," the lady insisted, "whether the road is still the same that leads from Dammeto Dudzeel.
For ten years ago it was that he threw me into the Dammecanal because I had denounced his father.
She was taken to the grand market of Damme by the torturer and his assistants.
The dame only smiled, and said to Ulenspiegel: "Tell me, my player of bagpipes, is the road still the same that leads from Damme to Dudzeel?
And she would sit on the bench at the back of her cottage, under the lime-trees, wagging her head and staring at the people of Damme as they passed by.
As a result of this mighty deed Ulenspiegel found it convenient to depart from Koolkerke, and off he went to Damme as fast as his legs would carry him, fearing the vengeance of the alderman.
And they walked for four hours, and came to Damme where was a great crowd assembled that already was aware of what had happened.
Sometimes an artist would come to Damme to paint the members of one of the Guilds, upon their knees.
Then must Mar-Martin have some smell Of forge, or else of fire: A sotte in wit, a beaste in minde, For so was damme and sire.
Damme if I wouldn't have left the 'quite' out," muttered the elder Yeovil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "damme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
