Louis de Bosredon, the captain of her guards, was executed for complicity in her excesses; and Isabella herself was imprisoned at Blois and afterwards at Tours (1417).
But it is also possible that a volume of the Letters at Corbie was twice copied, once at Corvey (M) and once in the neighborhood of Tours (V).
Professor Ullman is inclined, after a careful analysis of the evidence, to assign the manuscript to Corbie, but allows for the possibility that it was written in Tours or the neighborhood and thence sent to Corbie.
Tours, or according to the Tours weight, which was the more depreciated of the two, while at Paris the French kings attempted to keep up a tradition of a better weight standard.
A nurse from Tours had put a bird into the hands of her little ward, and was teaching him to pull out the feathers and wings of the poor creature.
The history of Gregory of Toursshows us on the one hand, a fierce and barbarous nation; and on the other, kings of as bad a character.
An account of the principal tours he made, and the events in connection therewith, is sufficient for a chapter by itself.
Already predisposed to the measure, the Prince yielded at once to the arguments of his favourite, and secretly leftTours on the 6th of November, accompanied only by fifteen or twenty of his friends.
At the supper which followed the arrival of the Court atTours every mark of respect was shown to the Queen-mother.
From Limerick toursmay be made into North Kerry by rail, or by combined steamer and coach service along the Shannon lakes and shores.
Conveyances Daily for Local Tours at fixed rates for each Person, also for Private Hiring.
From Limerick as centre, as we have said, tours may be made into North Kerry.
Below we sketch out a few very enjoyable Tours which can be made, taking Waterford as the starting point:-- ~First Tour from Waterford.
The driving tours in the locality take in the most delightful scenery in county Clare.
For this I was required to walk three tours of extra guard duty on three consecutive Saturdays, and to serve, besides, a week's confinement in my quarters.
I mean they do not walk extra tours of guard for punishment.
She sometimes made mission tours to keep up the spirit of the Karens till Mr. Mason should be qualified to come among them.
In Gregory of Tours this word is still used vaguely, but the sense of it is gradually defined, and finally the name of Austria or Austrasia was given to the easternmost part of the Frankish kingdom.
The members of these co-operative tours take life tickets, and each tour lasts about one year.
Sudden climatic changes, or the scarcity of food, often cause stay-at-home animals to make tours into new territories.
These strange wanderlust habits are noticed even by the casual observer, and no special insight is required to see that these wise creatures have their annual tours excellently arranged and marked out.
An armourer of Tours was therefore sent thither, and after much labour and search they of St. Catherine's Church found that sword, very ancient, and much bestained with rust.
To Tours I rode, telling them not of my coming, and carrying the jackanapes well wrapped up in furs of the best.
The Dauphin is at Tours," she said, "and there is much coming and going between Tours and this town.
For she being in Tours had it revealed to her that a certain ancient sword, with five crosses on the blade, lay buried behind the altar of St. Catherine of Fierbois.
The weather was frosty, and folk were sliding on the ice of the flooded fields near Tours when I came within sight of the great Minster.
There were days when his treasurer at Tours (as I myself have heard him say) did not reckon three ducats in his coffers, and the heir of France borrowed money from his very cook.
Why has not Tours named her chief square and residential street for Balzac, her own son, instead of for Emile Zola?
Dijon, the leader of the first half of the XV century, benefited Tours by its realism, and the Italian artists, gathered here in the dawn of the foreign Renaissance in France, contributed certain qualities.
Those early Christians were the tutelary saints of Tours Cathedral up to the XIV century.
While one rejoices that a Robert de Lusarches aspired to the Infinite at Amiens, one approves the architect ofTours who worked within human possibilities.
For that cause or another, the projected work at Tours languished.
The glass of Tours belongs to the Paris school, though made, doubtless, by local workers.
One of the busiest streets of Tours runs up what once was the nave of the abbatial, but, not discouraged, the people of Touraine have erected a new Byzantinesque basilica of St. Martin on the site of the transept's southern arm.
Pennant's Toursin Wales and Scotland, and Journey to London.
How she had sent Pere Louchet with the message to Gaillard at Paris, and then had followed on to Tours and discovered where her mistress was imprisoned.
He had traveled so rapidly from Tours that he reached the army almost as soon as General Hoche expected him, and the general attributed the delay of a day or so to the bad condition of the roads.
None the less, it was writing this rascally book that seems to have given him the idea of those agricultural tours which were to make his name famous throughout the world.
The tours excited, for the first time, the agricultural spirit of Great Britain, and their author almost at once became a celebrated man.
It so happened that it was a story which I had heard as happening upon our railroad in one of my tours of inspection.
Yes,' he said, 'out in Nevada we have a great deal of malaria, and while I am on these speaking tours I have sharp attacks and cannot sleep.
One of the colored porters in the Wagner Palace Car service, who was always with me on my tours of inspection over the railroad, told me an amusing story of Mr. Mansfield's devotion to his art.
Some of the tours of Yellowstone National Park also include Grand Teton National Park.
There are also tours to the Pacific Northwest, returning through Banff and Lake Louise.
These tours are especially appreciated by folks who travel by rail to Yellowstone.
There are tours also to California which take in Las Vegas-Hoover Dam, Old Mexico, and Yosemite National Park, as well as tours to the mountain wonderlands of Colorado.
Back to your master, De Marsac, and say that the highwayman of Tours sends him his compliments.
The highwayman of Tours is running wild in the forest!
But the Highwayman of Tours has a card up his sleeve.
I was appointed to a place in Spain; but, happily for me, I got no further thanTours when I was promised the post of Receiver here at Sancerre.
In the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps at Tours a woman whose husband had disappeared at the time when the army of the Loire was disbanded, and who had mourned him deeply, was conspicuous for her excess of devotion.
The Moslems regard this failure as one of the great evils that have befallen the human race, and one which retarded the progress of the world for ages,[21] the other calamity being the defeat in the battle of Tours by Charles Martel.
But in October 732 their march was checked between Tours and Poitiers by Charles Martel and after some days of skirmishing a fierce but indecisive battle was fought.
Jacobus Post and is said to have been a haven for travelers on their early tours across the Netherland country.
At the battle of Tours the cavalry and infantry were in the proportion of one to five, and under Pepin and Charlemagne their numbers were nearly equal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
