Word: pensee
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"Honi soit qui mal y pense," remarked the learned jurist.
Overnight the tone of talk in "The City"?London's Wall Street?changed utterly last week. Bitterness at Uncle Shylock changed to pride that John Bull had paid. Fear lest the pound fall vanished as Sterling rose slightly in terms of both the dollar and the franc. England was...
It exactly resembled all the other forks at table, was of solid silver, engraved with an ornate crest supported between a lion and a unicorn rampant. It bore the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense.
H. G. Wells himself has written an introduction to this book, in which he informs you that "Geoffrey West's" real name is Geoffrey H. Wells, no relation, who adopted his pen-name to avoid confusion. Everything in the book, says Wells, is quite true as far as it...
As this was not a Chapter (formal meeting) of the Order of the Garter, George V and Edward of Wales wore ordinary morning dress instead of gorgeous Garter robes, but the clergy of the Order came robed and resplendent, each churchman displaying the famed motto: Honi soit qui mal y...