St. Droctoveus and the early abbots of Saint-Germain-des-Pres have been occupying me for the past forty years; but I do not know whether I shall be able to write their history before I go to join them.
Sibillais heste, as he commandit was, Tho sped in haist forto perform weping: For the sepulcre funerale fyre or byng, Ane hepe of treis thai pres onone to dycht, 25 And vp onto the hevynnys rays on hight.
On this wys spak gret Jove to Hercules; 25 And, with that word, hys eyn towart the pres On the Rutilian feild addressis he.
Now was thar than present in the pres Iapis, that was son of Iasides.
And to the sammyn purpos we may apply Horatius in hys art of poetry; Pres nocht, says he, thou traste interpreter, Word eftir word to translait thi mater.
Gif thou depart, and forthir quhat wald thou do, In wyntir sesson pres graith thi navy, lo!
The lusty Aventynus nixt in pres Hym followis, the son of worthy Hercules.
PRES [consulting his notes] When you were arrested you were both completely destitute.
PRES [to Lucie] Was it of her own free will that your sister, the unfortunate Annette Jarras, in consequence of whose death the defendants have been arrested, came to Paris and placed herself in the hands of this woman?
PRES [pretending not to hear and consulting his notes] You gave yourself up and declared that you yourself took her to this woman's house.
A quoi sert de gratter toute sa vie un morceau de terre, quand pres de soi on voit tout a coup surgir un chef d'oeuvre d'une main a qui la sculpture etait jusque la restee etrangere?
Having been informed that the Chapel of the Virgin at Saint-Germain- des-Pres was being repaved, I entered the church with the hope of discovering some old inscriptions, possibly exposed by the labours of the workmen.
All the inestimable additions of the monk of Saint-Germain- des-Pres were there.
Saint Drocoveus and the early abbots of Saint-Germain-des-Pres have been occupying me for the past forty years; but I do not know if I shall be able to write their history before I go to join them.
Molinier lately wrote that a work with this scope and title "serait, a notre sens, une entreprise a peu pres chimerique.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
