Rais
Gilles de. Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
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How to use Rais in a sentence
The Rais house was a typical sample of the ordinary mountain cabin; walled with rough stone rubble, and floored with beaten earth.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramGilles de Rais met with a well-deserved end: in 1440 he was hanged and burnt.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements | Nesta H. WebsterFond impious man, thinks thou yon sanguine cloud,Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationPleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just Rais'd to shed his blood.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationThe Structure consists but of one Floor, on which are Rais'd six large Pavilions, viz.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I | Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz
British Dictionary definitions for Rais
Retz
/ (French res) /
Gilles de (ʒil də). 1404–40, French nobleman who fought with Joan of Arc: marshal of France (1429–40). He was executed for the torture and murder of more than 140 children
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