"Chasse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over with powder and pomatum, was tied behind in a large club, which hung swagging upon his shoulders like a soldier's knapsack. Thus elegantly dressed, he strutted along the streets with a large stick in his hand about a foot taller than himself, and a small cutteau de chasse by his side, which he could handle with as much dexterity as his pen; an instrument in the use of which he had made such a contemptible proficiency, that it required as much acuteness to discover the meaning of his aukward scrawl, as ...
— Vice in its Proper Shape • Anonymous
... highwaymen would not continue to hold Georgia judge-and-jury justice in quite such contemptible estimation, and that the gallows would not be left so long bereft of their legitimate swingings. As for fees, it was predicted that the young fellow as he stood, or rather "chasse'd," could snap his fingers at both ...
— Balcony Stories • Grace E. King
... famyly; but weakly or falsely for little private interest and views abandon your duty to your name, and suffer a pretended heiresse, and her Mackenzie children to possess your country and the true right of the heirs male, they will certainly in les than an age chasse you all by slight and might, as well Gentlemen, as Commons, out of your native country, which will be possessed by the Mackenzies and the Mackdonalls, and you will be, like the miserable unnatural Jews, ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume III. • Mrs. Thomson
... here come the chasse marees," and he pointed to two vessels which had lain close under the shadow of the forts, and which were now ...
— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty
... gave Howard his portrait, with, "Pour mon petit ami, Howard, d'un pauvre chasse.—Adolf, Duc de Nassau." Very nice of ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
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