Soleure

Soleure, the two principal towns of the Confederation.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

The name of the person who figures as deputy of Soleure in these pages, was always, it seems, as it is now, that of a patrician house.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Yet it seemed both to Arthur Philipson and his father, that the advantages of good cheer were more prized by the Banneret of Berne and the Burgess of Soleure, than by their host the Landamman, and the Deputy of Schwytz.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Deputies we are from the towns of Berne and Soleure, the

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Burgher of Soleure, seemed to hold the consequences of war more lightly than they were viewed by the cautious Landam. man of Unterwalden, and his venerable companion, Nicholas Bonstetten, who subscribed to all his opinions.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

But mine is not the single wish of a single man; the whole of my canton, and that of Soleure, are determined on war.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Each was dressed after his fashion; but notwithstanding that the severe eye of Arnold Biederman censured one or two silver belt-buckles, as well as a chain of the same metal, which decorated the portly person of the burgess of Soleure, it seemed that a powerful and victorious people, for such the Swiss were now to be esteemed, were never represented by an embassy of such patriarchal simplicity.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Rudolph Donnerhugel preserved his bold and haughty look; the Banneret the military indifference which made him look with apparent apathy on all around him; the burgher of Soleure was as formal and important as ever; nor did any of the three show themselves affected in the slightest degree by the splendor of the scene around them, or embarrassed by the consideration of their own comparative inferiority of appointments.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Sturmthal, banner-bearer of Berne, a man of middle age, and a soldier of distinguished courage, with Adam Zimmerman, a burgess of Soleure, who was considerably older, completed the number of the envoys.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

The eyes of the good Burgess of Soleure twinkled when he beheld the young men in the act of transferring the supper from the hampers, and arranging it on the table.

Anne of Geierstein 2008