And she has tain hir Gill Morice, And kissd baith mouth and chin: 'I was once as fow of Gill Morice As the hip is o the stean.
Then up and spack the bauld baron, An angry man was hee; He's tain the table wi his foot, Sae has he wi his knee, Till siller cup and ezar dish In flinders he gard flee.
Up she has tain him Young Hunting, And she has had him to her bed, .
She has tain a napkin in her hand, And she ty'd up baith her eeen; She was to swear, her oth to save, She saw na him sene late yestreen.
And he has tain Gill Morice up, Laid him across his steid, And brocht him to his painted bowr, And laid him on a bed.
And he has tain Gill Morice head, And set it on a speir; The meanest man in a' his train Has gotten that head to bear.
As the last notes came tumbling back from the hills Pétain moved forward.
Pétain stopped in front of the old sergeant at the end of the line and looked at him for a minute without speaking.
Generals Pétain and Pershing accompanied Poincaré in his car up to the drill ground.
Bring back the trumpets," Pétain commanded and for the lone poilu the fanfare was sounded again.
When Pershing and Pétain made a joint trip through the American army zone there were two little girls and two bouquets in each village.
General Pétain has gone to spend a few hours with these heroes, accompanied by my worthy comrade de Buisseret.
And presently we are passing the Moulin des Regrets, where Castelnau and Pétain met on the night of the 25th, and the resolution was taken to counter-attack instead of withdrawing.
But," said General Gouraud, "Pétain stepped in and saved the situation.
Pétain was miles away; but it was the spontaneous recognition of him as the soldiers' champion and friend.
In the photograph above may be seen (from right to left) the President of the Republic, General Pétain (half hidden by M.
Curtis acknowledged that he had already pointed out what an unusual route they were taking, but that the cap- tain had said that he was quite aware what he was about.
In an instant the cap- tain has ordered the sails to be furled, and the anchor dropped from the stern.
The sound was repeated three times, and as I went up to the cap- tain to ask him about it, I heard him mutter to himself: "Birds!
The Yellow Book version calls her Badb in this tale, but the account in the Tain bo Cualnge (Leabhar na h-Uidhri facsimile, pp.
Tain bo Dartada, Flidais, Fraich, Regamon, and Regamna; all these five are given in this volume.
The versions of a few centuries later are the copies we now have in the epic Tain Bo Cualnge.
Quiggin's article on Irish Literature in the Britannica, the originalTain consisted of prose interspersed with rhythmical prose called rhetoric.
Tain Bo Cualnge, most of the poetry being usually in declamatory prose style known as rosg, while in the later version long verse poems are frequent.
As Mr. Quiggin says, the Tain is of interest as showing the preliminary stage through which the epics of all other nations had gone.
Illustration: General Joffre conferring with General Pétain near Verdun, where General Pétain's forces meet the assaults of the armies of the Crown Prince in the battle for the fortress.
And he has tain Gill Morice up, 145 Laid him across his steid, And brocht him to his painted bowr And laid him on a bed.
And she has tain her Gill Morice, And kissd baith mouth and chin: I was once as fow of Gill Morice, As the hip is o' the stean.
And he has tain Gill Morice' head And set it on a speir; The meanest man in a' his train Has gotten that head to bear.
The interest on these is fixed at a cer- tain rate per cent.
A cer- tain date is fixed when these shares and stocks are saleable "ex-div.
Cap-tain Jack stepped in front of his band and said that he and his men were used to rough work, and knew how to deal with the red-men, and would be glad to join the force.
While at this place Cap-tain Jack, and his brave band of hunts-men came in-to camp.
Here they were met by a small force, in charge of Cap-tain Ad-am Ste-phen.
One of the head men who died while in camp, was borne to the grave in this style: A guard marched in front of the corpse, the cap-tain of it in the rear.
He sought the aid of Half-King, who told him to plead with the French, and to beg them to wait till the Cap-tain came back, and the two went at once to the French camp.
Brad-dock looked on him with a gaze of scorn, and spoke to him in a way that roused the ire of Cap-tain Jack.
General Pétain is appointed Chief of the French Staff.
General Pétain succeeds General Nivelle as Commander-in-Chief of the French army; he is succeeded by General Foch as Chief of Staff.
She has tain a napkin in her hand, And she ty’d up baith her een; She was to swear, her oth to save, She saw na him sene late yestreen.
Here Nivelle, who had taken over the command from Pétain in April, entrusted the attack to Mangin.
After Nivelle's comprehensive disappointment on the Chemin des Dames and Moronvillers heights in April, Pétain restricted the field of his attacks and took ample time to prepare them.
It was not until August that the first was launched, and for a sphere of action Pétain reverted once more to Verdun.
On that day, too, Pétain arrived to take over the command, and he was followed by reinforcements.
On 28 April Pétain was appointed chief of staff and on 15 May commander-in-chief in succession to Nivelle, while Foch became chief of staff.
He had believed that the time had come for ambitious objectives; Haig had demurred and clung to the idea of operations limited in their scope like that of the Somme; and Pétain accepted that view when he succeeded Nivelle.
Pétain and then Nivelle, who succeeded him in April, had held the fort till the appointed time; and their heroic troops had made their name and that of Verdun a possession for ever.
He must say, as Pétain had said at Verdun: "They shall not pass!
General Pétain is said to have rejected the suggestion.
The Boston and British skippers came no more, and it was cer- tain that no Russian ship would visit California again until the treaty was signed and official news of it had made its slow way to these uttermost shores.
She felt quite cer- tain that he rolled a Russian oath under his tongue, and she made a slight involuntary motion toward him, her lips trembling apart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
