Gascons

The Gascons were the first; the Swiss followed "with a stately leisure;" and a hand-to-hand fight began all along the English works.

The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

Thus the Gascons are the gayest people in France; but the moment we pass the Pyrenees, we find the serious and saturine character of the Spaniard.

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 1796

The Gascons had taken this ill and erupted in such viciousness that they even killed a number of his homines, some with the sword, some by burning.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

Normans, and Gascons, poured down on the Argau, and the districts adjacent.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Yes, Basques and Gascons have the highest Rh- in the world, followed by Celtic-speaking peoples of Atlantic Europe, and then by other Europeans, with a west to east cline roughly.

Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008

If the Gascons do live longer, we realized, it's because they're happier -- who wouldn't be if they ate like this?

Food: All Fun And Game 2007

“True enough, the Normans are the Gascons of the north!”

Pierre And Jean 2003

In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly established intimacy with the

War and Peace 2003

And it has been seen how nine thousand Swiss at Novara, mentioned above by us, went out and attacked ten thousand cavalry and as many infantry, and defeated them, for the cavalry could not attack them, and the infantry being forces composed for the most part of Gascons and ill-disciplined, they [the Swiss] esteemed them little.

Discourses 2003

Count Timascheff, a Russian nobleman, was evidently rich; to him perhaps, for a proper consideration, a loan might be made: Captain Servadac was a Gascon, and Gascons are proverbially poor; it would never do to lend any money to him; but here was a professor, a mere man of science, with circumscribed means; did he expect to borrow?

Off on a Comet 2003