Roxelane

"Roxelane;" the versification of the piece is extremely easy and graceful, and the preponderance of female characters and convenient

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

But Roxelane tells the go-between to stay to supper, declaring that she herself does not feel inclined for a _tête-à-tête_ yet, and finally sends him off with this obliging predecessor and substitute, presenting her with the legendary handkerchief, which she has actually borrowed from the guileless

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

But for that very reason the Sultan tires of her likewise; and for the same, she is not inconsolable or restive: indeed she acts as a sort of Lady Pandara, if not to introduce, at any rate to tame, the third, Roxelane, a French girl of no very regular beauty, but with infinite attractions, and in particular possessed of what Mr. Dobson elegantly calls "a madding ineffable nose" of the

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

The scene is partly there and at Genoa -- the best Genoese families, including the Dorias, appearing -- partly at Constantinople: and the business at the latter place is largely concerned with the intrigues, jealousies, and cruelties of Roxelane, who is drawn much more (one regrets to say) as history paints her than as the agreeable creature of Marmontel's subsequent fancy.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Parnasse, heavily timbered to the top; -- while on your left the valley of the Roxelane shallows up, and Pelée shows less and less of its tremendous base.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The swelling of rivers is so sudden that washer-women at work in the Roxelane and other streams have been swept away and drowned without the least warning of their danger; the shower occurring seven or eight miles off.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Now all the bathing resorts are deserted, -- because the lazarettos infect the bay with refuse, and because the clothing of the sick is washed in the Roxelane.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

All the white bridges of the Roxelane are dotted with lookers-on during fine days, and particularly in the morning, when every bonne on her way to and from the market stops a moment to observe or to greet those blanchisseuses whom she knows.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

But there are days and weeks when they do not sing, -- times of want or of plague, when the silence of the valley is broken only by the sound of linen beaten upon the rocks, and the great voice of the Roxelane, which will sing on when the city itself shall have ceased to be, just as it sang one hundred thousand years ago ....

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The road by which you follow the north-west coast round the skirts of Pelée is very picturesque: -- you cross the Roxelane, the Rivière des Pères, the

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877