Sur
[s:(r)]
Definition
(noun.) a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks.
Typist: Steven--From WordNet
Examples
- Has your Society among its books the French work _Sur les Arts et les Metiers_? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Jehl, Hipple, and Force assisted Mr. Batchelor to install the lamp-works of the French Edison Company at Ivry-sur-Seine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Les EXPERIENCES sur les animaux sauvages devenus domestiques, et sur les animaux domestiques redevenus sauvages, la demontrent plus clairment encore. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In France, where there is no bank, the state bills (billets d'etat {See Examen des Reflections Politiques sur les Finances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Pas plus que sur ma main, responded the doctor, showing his palm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Vous ne passerez pas à moins que ce ne soit sur mon cadavre, et vous ne danserez qu'avec la nonnette du jardin (alluding to the legend). Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Courage, soyons meshuy sur nos gardes, Dieu nous aydera. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The thinker who has faced this difficulty most radically is Georges Sorel in the Reflexions sur la Violence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She did not look as if she was twenty; but she assured me, _sur son honneur_, she was in her twenty-sixth year. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In this year the liquefaction of oxygen, by Pictet, of Geneva, and Cailletet, of Chatillon-sur-Seine, was independently accomplished. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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