That's not vair [Catching hold of MERCY, who gives a little squeal.
Vair and given to Mangot, and Mangot’s charge of Secretary of State to M.
Three days later, Louis XIII summoned the duke and Du Vair to his cabinet, and, in the presence of Bassompierre and several other courtiers, ordered them to be reconciled.
He went and found Villeroy, Jeannin and Du Vairseated at the council-table.
Du Vair happened to be with the King, and, says Bassompierre, “as M.
Riches are not in the vair and the grey, nor in money, nor in mules and horses, but riches are in kinsmen and friends: the heart of a man is worth all the gold in the land.
The Constable De Luynes had the management of public affairs when Grotius came to France; Silleri was Chancellor, and Du Vair keeper of the Seals.
I had recently been assured by the parish priest that Granny was "a vair releegious woman," and it was upon this fact that I presently laid my schemes.
Vair is the skin of the squirrel, and was arranged in shields of blue and white alternating.
The vair and the gray,--furs used for garments, and in heraldry.
True wealth is not of money, of thevair and the gray, of mules, or of horses.
No successors to Bodin and du Vair appeared; and even in the domain of legal writings, which comes nearest to that of politics, but few names of eminence are to be found.
Des Periers translated the Platonic dialogue Lysis, la Boetie some works of Xenophon and Plutarch, du Vair the De corona, the In Ctesiphontem and the Pro Milone.
If all t' kisses as Oi ha' tuke Wuz zet down vair an' square inter buke, Lard!
Quarterly first and fourth, Gules three Bars Vair Longville pro Bray; second and third, Argent a Chevron between three Eagles Legs.
There will be no one to utter such advice as this: 'My lady, give this vair mantle, this cloak, and this garment to such and such an honest dame!
The furs were not of skinned vair but of sable; the covering he had on him would have been fitting for a king.
Never were seen such furs and such ornaments, both the vair and the grey.
You saw them hurry through the halls carrying furs and furred raiment, both vair and the grey.
It was vair beautiful; sharp as de sting of de hornet.
The knight taketh Messire Gawain by the hand and leadeth him up, and maketh disarm him, and bringeth him a surcoat of scarlet purfled of vair and maketh him do it on.
And I have vairimportant business," said Schwab eagerly.
Cha vore thee, son, do rid me quickly hence, Chill give thee a vair piece of three-halfpence.
Ven you come up again, I shouldn't be surprised if I could see vair the cave is.
You go ovaire-board bose of you, and I am vairsorry for ze bonnes mammas.
It is vort tousand of pounds, and ze place is vair useful to me and ze confrere who come to take it somevere else.
Even the Roundheads always paid theirvair penny for every pennyworth they had, though they wanted a vair pennyworth for each penny.
Du Vair had a great indirect influence on the development of style in French, for in the south of France he made the acquaintance of Malherbe, who conceived a great admiration for Du Vair's writings.
Like other political lawyers of the time, Du Vair busied himself not a little in the study of philosophy.
Du Vair was in orders, and, though during the greater part of his life he exercised only legal functions, he was from 1617 till his death bishop of Lisieux.
Vair en pointe" is a term applied by Nisbet to an arrangement by which the azure shield pointing downwards has beneath it an argent shield pointing downwards, and vice versa, by which method the resulting effect is as shown in Fig.
Ordinary vair in German heraldry is known as Eisenhut-feh, or iron hat vair.
The verbal blazon of vair nearly always commences with the metal, but in the arrangement of the panes there is a difference between French and English usage.
When an ordinary is of vair or vairy, the rows of vair may be depicted either horizontally or following the direction of the ordinary.
Dukes were to be plain, and lined with vair instead of ermine.
German heraldry apparently distinguishes between this and Sturzpfahlfeh, or reversed vair in pale.
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, where the lining of vairto his cloak is plainly to be seen.
It is usual to depict the white panes of ordinary vair with white rather than silver, though the use of the latter cannot be said to be incorrect, there being precedents in favour of that form.
This generalisation may be extended in its application from vair to many other heraldic matters.
In the oldest records vair is represented by means of straight horizontal lines alternating with horizontal wavy or nebuly lines (see Fig.
