Word: pensee
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So, when once a Countess bonny Lost her garter at the dance, Then they coined the motto "Honi Soit qui mal y pense."
Their eyes fasted on destroyers and mine-sweepers. They very glibly interpreted Baker at the foretruck. They discerned fore from off with a pense of accomplishment. The water in which all these vessels foaled was early and part of the vast Atlantic, and their hungry hearts longed for action of...
In furtherance of "something new" Poets Auden and MacNeice wind up their book by collaborating on a unique Last Will and Testament in which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who...
'In the execution of Paragraph 3 of Article XVI of the League Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of...