Guiscard

[ French gees-kar ]

/ French gisˈkar /

Ro·bert

[French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/, Robert de Hauteville,c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.

Example sentences from the Web for guiscard

Within a hundred yards I met my two friends, Varnhorst and Guiscard, and poured out my whole catalogue of wrongs at once.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. |Various
I must not pass by without a further word on Sigismund and Guiscard.

Some Notes on Early Woodcut Books, with a Chapter on Illuminated Manuscripts |Willam Morris
For Guiscard himself is plague-stricken; the mortal sickness is raging in his intestines; its poison is consuming his very bones.

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany |Georg Brandes
We had already separated, when I heard my name called again, and Guiscard returned.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 |Various

These schemes proving abortive, Guiscard's regiment was disbanded, and he was discharged with a pension of 500 pounds a year.

The Journal to Stella |Jonathan Swift

Guiscard

/ (French ɡiskar) /

Robert (rɔbɛr). ?1015–85, Norman conqueror in S Italy