It appears in a certain group of romances, Octavian, Le Bone Florence of Rome, Sir Eglamour of artois, Torrent of Portyngale, The Earl of Toulouse, all of which develop in some degree the Constance story, familiar in The Man of Law's Tale.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
As soon as the battle of Arras started it was clear to him that we should deliver our next blow when we had moved forward our guns upon this "Oppy" line, as we call it, which protects the Hindenburg positions north and south of Vitry-en-artois.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
In the Brigade the officers and men had the pleasure of meeting friends they had known at home in Liverpool, comrades with whom they were destined to serve for the next two years, principally in artois and Ypres.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts