Despite their continuous quarrels with the Archbishop of Tours, the good priests are rare, the bad ones numerous.
The Carlovingian Coins|Eugne Sue
It was Radegunds wish that they should be fetched from Tours to her nunnery by a procession headed by the bishop of Poitiers.
Woman under Monasticism|Lina Eckenstein
Even then our tours would be circuitous, and sometimes retrograde, and we should turn and double like hares before the hounds.
Haunted London|Walter Thornbury
He made several Alpine tours, and once (in 1860) he accompanied me in an ascent of the Jungfrau with a couple of guides.
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I.|Sir Leslie Stephen
I will take my people, and go to my aunt by Tours and the east road.
Count Hannibal|Stanley J. Weyman
British Dictionary definitions for Tours
Tours
/ (Frenchtur) /
noun
a town in W central France, on the River Loire: nearby is the scene of the defeat of the Arabs in 732, which ended the advance of Islam in W Europe. Pop: 132 820 (1999)