“poor and honest” at Rollot, a little bourg in Picardy some two leagues from Montdidier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

I have a plan that will soon take us all to Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference

Those in the provinces of Champagne, Normandy, and Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

This reformer was born at Noyon in Picardy, July 10, 1409.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

Picardy, and planted it near his forest castle of Selkirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference

You may choose the maids of Belgium or Ma'm'selles of Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference

Benezet was born in St. Quentin in Picardy in France in 1713.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

It would not have been thus, had we remained in sunny Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference

Quintin remained in Picardy, and was very zealous in his ministry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

The descendants of emigrants from Bretagne, Picardy, Normandy, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

Crusade was the preaching of Peter the Hermit, a native of Picardy, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Through Picardy he marched eastward burning and laying waste as before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

When he came from Picardy to Meaux, his old neighbors prophesied for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

Imperial successes both in Italy and in Picardy -- which went far to justify.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

COLETTE BOILET, a carpenter's daughter, was born at Corbie, in Picardy, in 1380.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

It was now nearly a month since they had started from Picardy, from the castle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference

Born in Picardy, the historians are not agreed whether of obscure or noble family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference

Picardy, where chalk strata prevailed, deep subterranean passages and caves abounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Étaples in Picardy, held a high rank for natural ability and extensive acquirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

Picardy, commanded by the finest captains of the kingdom, and amongst these was Bayard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach] Reference

While Loyola was preparing himself for his work, John Calvin was growing up in Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

Often and with pleasure have we in the Iraq looked back on that summer spent in Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference

Britons of Picardy mentioned by Pliny, were of the same nation and contiguous to each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town] Reference

He sauntered away, proclaiming in song the satisfactory condition of rose-culture in Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919] Reference

John Calvin was born on the tenth of July, 1509, at Noyon, a small but ancient city of Picardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

His possessions in Picardy and Alsace lay wholly beyond the limits of either Burgundy or Lorraine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

Peter, commonly called the Hermit, a native of Amiens in Picardy, had made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference

I see them wandering among Domrémy woods and meadows, -- around the castle of Picardy, -- talking of Joan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

Some wood is occasionally to be seen; but Picardy is not famous either for the quantity or quality of its timber.    From Wordnik.com.  [A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium] Reference

Most of the Huguenots who fled to England for an asylum were natives of Normandy, Brittany, Picardy, and Guienne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

There were some of the Frenchmen of Artois and Picardy that were as glad to joust in the water as on the dry land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

"Roses of Picardy," while all around me German waiters were running about deferentially, with trays in their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919] Reference

They hadn't got any seats for Picardy Princess that night, not one in the whole house, but they'd got a box so I took that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainbow and the Rose]

Victor Le Roy, student from Picardy, occupied the room next theirs, and was startled from his slumber by the voices of the girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

From the silence and retirement of his home in Picardy he had come to Meaux, -- the town that was so astir, busy, thoroughly alive!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

Late into the night he sat thinking of the marvel of Domrémy and of Antonine Duprè, of Picardy and of Meaux, of priests and of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

The timid caution of the Governor of Picardy had thus lost him, in all probability, the chance of a splendid adventure, for the capture of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach] Reference