Motte's

The duo's major-label debut, Want, which is marked by Sean Foreman's tongue-in-cheek throwdowns over Nathaniel Motte's fizzy synthesizer pulses, has sold more than 250,000 copies since its release last July.

On the verge: 3OH!3's party line is busting out of its area code 2009

Matthew -- if you have the German, you might enjoy looking at Dieter de la Motte's _Harmonielehre_.

For old long since Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Motte's pride in the French language, it was possible for the great French seventeenth-century authors eventually to displace the ancients as classic models in French culture.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

We crossed the river at Howell's Ferry, and took post at Motte's plantation.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

He stared wide-eyed a moment at the indignant lady before him, then collected himself, and made as plain a tale as he could of the circumstances under which he had parted with the necklace Madame de la Motte's intervention, the mediation of the

The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

Motte's one desire being to find a retreat safe from the police of an offended justice.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Motte's regiments -- 1352; and 122 Engineers under Colonel Green: which makes up, altogether, 5382 officers and men.

Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867

[336-4] From Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol.v. p. 376; originally printed in Motte's "Miscellanies," 1727.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

Motte's interpreter harangued the attentive conclave, placed gift after gift at their feet, -- coats, scarlet cloth, hatchets, knives, and beads, -- and used all his eloquence to persuade them that the building of a fort at the mouth of the Niagara, and a vessel on Lake Erie, were measures vital to their interest.

France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858

A powerful inducement to the study of pure geometry was therefore created by the publication of Motte's translation: ordinary students had here a desirable object to obtain by its careful cultivation, which hitherto had not existed, and hence when Professor Simpson, of

Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852