You're the ol'e gen'leman as is said to own the crimson town, ain't you?
If ye have loved 'twas a false false love, And an ill leman was he; But her true love had angel's eyes, And as fair was his sweet body.
It was a maid lay sick of love, All for a leman fair; And it was three of her bower-maidens That came to comfort her.
She has crossed over the high hills, And the low hills between, And she has found the may's leman Beneath a flag of green.
The scenery does not become grand until the mountain chain which surrounds Lake Leman appears at the end of a pine wood, which for a long time conceals both the lake and the town of Lausanne.
From this point on the right the view reaches to the Canton de Vaud, ending in the distance beyond Lake Leman at the Jura, and on the left towards the wilderness of the Valais you can see as far as the snowy chain of Saint Bernard.
At Villeneuve the road leaves Lake Leman and plunges into a wild and narrow gorge.
Of lesser note, in this particular department of endeavour, were Leman Rede, Stirling Coyne, and Tom Taylor, who were more distinguished in other fields.
Priest: 'thy leman is lost, and thou shalt be lost with her.
The vault occupied by General Leman and his staff suffered terrific blows which made the whole place tremble.
On the evening of Friday, 7th August, the day on which von Emmich asked General Leman for a truce so that he might bury his dead, a French brigade marched out of Belfort and crossed the frontier.
Meanwhile General Leman had been carried in an ambulance to the headquarters of General von Emmich.
By the evening of the 6th General Leman had decided that his troops could make no further resistance, and that they would be shut up in Liége unless they were got away at once.
In the following pages we shall read of many black and shameful deeds done by the Germans; but let us here honour them for their treatment of General Leman and the gallant twenty-five who fought with him to the end.
General Leman was carried prisoner into Germany; but before he left Belgium he was allowed to send the following touching letter to King Albert:-- "Your Majesty will learn with sorrow that Fort Loncin was blown up yesterday at 5.
Old Leman dropped in here the other evening and began in his usual style about Ibsen and the destiny of the human race, and the Socialistic idea and all the rest of it--you know his way.
Curious to hear old Leman talking like that, wasn't it?
It was his light leman took his life, And hided him in the linn.
O gae ye down to yon laigh house, I sall pay there your lawing; And as I am your leman trew, I'll meet ye at the dawing.
I have been often jealous of this Leman in my little airings and poultry-visits.
This vile Joseph Leman had given a hint to Betty, and she to me, as if Lovelace would be found out to be a very bad man, at a place where he had been lately seen in disguise.
It may not be amiss to observe in this place, that Mr. Lovelace artfully contrived to drive the family on, by permitting his and their agent Leman to report machinations, which he had neither intention nor power to execute.
If I were upon such terms with him as he could wish me to be, I should give him such a hint, that this treacherous Joseph Leman cannot be so much attached to him, as perhaps he thinks him to be.
But, vanquished, your eternal bondslave make; 9 And me, your worthy meed, unto your leman take.
How I loved him best of all, I whom men his leman call; Better knew his body fair Than the mother which him bare.
A wandering Asian tribe once came down that way, rested a hundred years or so along the Leman shore, then went drifting up the Rhone and across the Simplon to make trouble for Rome.
When Lord Byron visited Lake Leman he lodged in Clarens, between Vevey and Montreux, and a tablet now identifies the house.
Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue.
Lady Arranmore to Ellen Ravensworth, as their boat, whose wing-like sails not a breath filled, was rowed slowly up clearLeman by the measured splash of the oars, over which bent two stout Switzers.
Lycan speaks of a part of Cæsar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.
If any consideration could induce me to forget the claims of justice, the recollection of thy good service on the Leman would prove thy best friend.
Thou art accustomed to this climate, reverend Augustine; is it usual to see so deep a calm on the Leman at this late season?
The barks of the Leman are not constructed for beating to windward, and it might even have been questioned, whether the Winkelried would have borne her canvass against so heavy a breeze.
The deep darkness which shut in the vault, giving to the embeddedLeman the appearance of a gloomy, liquid glen, contributed to the awful sublimity of the night.
The Leman was never more peaceable, and I should take it truly in evil part, were the rebellious lake to get into one of its fits of sudden anger with so precious a freight on its bosom.
To him the roaring tempest was mute, the boiling and hissing lake had no horrors, and he had plunged into the fathomlessLeman as recklessly as he could have leaped to land.
Our Leman winds will not wait for king or noble, bishop or priest, and duty to those I have in the bark commands me to quit the port as soon as possible.
Leman winds liveried lackeys, to come and go as may suit your fancies; now to blow west, and now east, as shall be most wanted, to help you on your journeys?
We have already said, that the point just described was at the place where the Leman fairly enters its eastern horn, and where its shores possess their boldest and finest faces.
There's the landlord of this crib won't give a gen'leman like me tick not for one blessed farden.
At Antioch and elsewhere the appearance of the Morning Star on the day of the festival may in like manner have been hailed as the coming of the goddess of love to wake her dead leman from his earthy bed.
Sidenote: Byron at Villa Diodati] Byron loved this Leman lake, and it is said his discontented sprite still walks its margins; certain it is he remains its poetic genius; his melody seems to wake in every breeze that stirs its surface.
The police from Leman Street were utterly incompetent to hold back the rush of the infuriated thousands, who fought desperately with each other for the spoils, starving men, women, and children all joining in the fray.
Whitechapel, too, devoid of its alien population, who have escaped into Essex, has held its own, and the enemy have had some great losses in the streets off Cable and Leman Streets.
General Leman was discovered amid its débris, pinned beneath a huge beam.
General Leman unbuckled his sword to offer it to the victor.
A party of German hussars availed themselves of some unguarded path to make a daring but ineffectual dash to capture General Leman and his staff.
After its accomplishment, General Leman took command of the northern forts, determined to hold them against Von Kluck until the last Belgian gun was silenced.
The fighting here was of such a desperate nature, that General Leman hastened to reenforce with all his reserve.
So long as these remained uncaptured, General Leman maintained that, strategically, Liege had not fallen.
The end being merely a question of hours, General Leman ordered the evacuation of the city by the infantry.
General Leman cried for a revolver to defend himself, but another officer, fearing the Germans had entered the city in force, lifted him up over a foundry wall.
Both Leman and the officer made their escape by way of an adjacent house.
When sufficiently recovered, General Leman was conducted to General von Emmich to tender his personal surrender.
In such cases, it is well that the gen'leman should add a small tip, for his niceness' sake.
Tony fails to understand how a gen'leman can possibly haggle over the hire of a boat.
I am not so much now 'thic ther gen'leman tu Tony Widger's.
I am not sure that he doesn't prefer to regard the gen'leman as another species of animal.
What we are not so often told is that the poor man not less instinctively looks upon the gen'leman as legitimate sport.
I should have liked to ask Mrs Pinn to take a glass, but knew I could not afford to let it be noised abroad that 'there's a young gen'leman to Tony Widger's very free with his whiskey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
