Noyon

-- Some years ago, an instance of humanity and presence of mind occurred at a place called Noyon, in France, which well deserves to be commemorated.

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various

With a sorrowful expression Noyon went to a sort of bookcase and took down a blue packet.

The Enormous Room 1928

With low obeisances they begged the foreign "Noyon" to enter the yurta.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

Boldon was mobilizing the Mongolian beggars and horse stealers, arming and training them; that the soldiers were taking the sheep of the monastery; that the "Noyon" Domojiroff was always drunk; and that the protests of the Hutuktu were answered with jeers and scolding.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

The story here, "The Mighty Manslayer" 1918, begins: "Chakar Noyon was dead, long before the end of the sixteenth century, when Khlit, the Cossack called the 'Wolf,' he of the curved saber, rode into Samarkand."

The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011

She introduced him to a priestly relative of the Canon of Noyon, who in turn recommended him to the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He was a seventh child and his mother, left a widow in early life and compelled to earn her livelihood, saw scant chance of educating him when the kindly assistance of a Canon of the Cathedral and President of the Collége de Noyon relieved her difficulties.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In his last illness, an attack of asthma complicated with pectoral mischief, he sent to Noyon for his nephew Julien Galland212 to assist him in ordering his Mss. and in making his will after the simplest military fashion: he bequeathed his writings to the Bibliothèque du Roi, his Numismatic

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But I as the seventh child of a small tradesman at Noyon, I had not a sou to my name, nor personal knowledge of any capitalist but Daddy Gobseck.

Gobseck 2007

Noyon — caused Michael Servetus to be burned at Geneva by a slow fire with green fagots.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007