The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.