The magnificent regular army withdrew into winter quarters, and left Turenne to deliver the princes with a motleyhost of Frondeurs and Lorrainers.
His style is a laborious mixture of archaisms, a motley cento, with the aid of which he conceals the poverty of his knowledge and ideas.
Sam "brothers and sisters" the motley crowd he domineers like a colored preacher, but I fear he is not "in good and regular standing" in any church in Norfolk.
Around the office, crate manufactory, and paying booth were gathered over a thousand people--a motley and variegated crowd, that the South only can produce.
The motley crowd was streaming down on either side of the creek, while across a little causeway came a counter current, the majority of them having trays full of berries.
In doing so her eyes fell upon the courtyard, where, just after the Ave Maria, a motley throng had gathered.
After Eva had thrown hers on the grass, she asked the nun to do the same with her own motley bundle.
Israel loved Joseph above all his sons for as much as he had gotten him in his old age, and made for him a motley coat.
Anon then as he came they took off his motley coat, and set him into an old cistern that had no water.
The whole nation, with a motley following from various tribes, amounted to about two or three hundred thousand persons.
It is not impossible that themotley character of Rome, of which all writers speak in one way or another, had its first cause in that second building of the city.
After about eighteen months of hard persistence the system began at length to work; the refractory spirits had either refrained from coming or had abandoned the opposition; and now a semblance of order pervaded the motley assemblage.
Hawthorne was given a book to read, while waiting; and when the photographer was readyMotley attracted his friend's attention.
Here a motley assemblage were gathered to greet our advent, an array of cochas, voitures, and cabriolets, drawn by dusty, uncurried mules and horses.
This motley band, led by a gentle and spiritual-faced woman, will not soon be forgotten by those who saw it depart.
A motley assortment, these neighbors of ours, an uncultivated field for the fiction writers.
What transformations cannot the Motleyhistorian bring about!
Gilbert-town had not long been vacated by Ferguson and his troops, when the motley host we have described thronged in.
Nowhere were these sectional jealousies more prevalent than in the motley army assembled from distant quarters under Washington's own command.
It was a motley force which appeared before it; British, Hessian, Royalist, Canadian and Indian, about seventeen hundred in all.
How had this strange Bristol boy tamed and mastered his rude and motley materials into a music that comprehended every tune and key, from the simplest to the sublimest?
He set up placards all over the town asking for recruits, with the result that a motleycrew of adventurers rushed to take ship in this strange new enterprise.
A strange white light-ghost of Spring passing in this last violent outburst-painted the leaves of every tree; and a hundred savage hues had come down like a motley of bright birds on moor and fields.
When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer That fools should be so deep contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial.
Russia shows this marked homogeneity, despite a motley collection of race ingredients which have entered into the make-up of the Russian people.
The army which Attila the Hun brought into Gaul was a motley crowd, comprising peoples of probable Slav origin from the Russian steppes, Teutonic Ostrogoths and Gepidae, and numerous German tribes, besides the Huns themselves.
Here the territory of the dominant Zandeh harbored a motley collection of shattered tribes, remnants of peoples, and intruding or refugee colonies from neighboring districts.
Lord of Misrule wields his motley scepter--leading from one reckless frolic to another till Mardi Gras culminates in a giddy whirl of delirious fun on which, at midnight, Lent drops a somber veil!
Preaching and pranks will share the motley scene, Ours parcelled out, as thine have ever been, God's worship and the mountebank between.
The million flit as gay As if created only like the fly, That spreads his motley wings in the eye of noon, To sport their season, and be seen no more.
A motley ring of boys and matrons girdle the walls.
Here Antonius with barbarian aid andmotley arms, from the conquered nations of the Dawn and the shore of the southern sea, carries with him Egypt and the Eastern forces of utmost Bactra, and the shameful Egyptian woman goes as his consort.
Not fools exactly, but wisdom disguised in the motley of wit, often gains entrance to ears deaf to angelic voices.
And this was very much the case also with Mr. Motley in his letter to the London Times.
