"Chou" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... north-east from Peking, where people are not so scarce, and where the Mongols live as farmers. I have been to that region twice. I knew some people who came from that region. As soon as Mr. Rees returns from Chi Chou I hope to go again. A doctor might be induced to settle somewhere there, and though it would be hard a bit, a family might live there too, which I don't think would be possible on the ...
— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour
... gentle cabbage submitted without protest. It deprived itself of the joys of light by arranging its leaves in a large compact head, white and tender. In our day, among the successors of those first tiny hearts, are some that, by virtue of their massive bulk, have earned the glorious name of chou quintal, as who should say a hundredweight of cabbage. They are real ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre
... ou mur fut fiquie, Sali hors du piler, coi que nul vous en die, Droit enmi le monstier, c'onques ne fut brisie. Et demoura li traus, dont le piere ert widie, Sans piere est sans quailliel, a cascune partie; Chou deseure soustient, par divine maistrie, Tout en air proprement, n'el tenes a falie. Encore le voit-on en ichelle partie: Qui croire ne m'en voelt, si voist; car je l'en ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... cheure[372] ne scauroit fermer ses pieds, hold its feet. The frenchman sayes that he hath heard qu'une grande riviere et un grand seigneur sont mauvais voisins. Vous serez bien venu comme une singe, mais point comme une renard. Chou pour chou, craft for craft. Patience abuse se tourne en fureur. Laughter compelled and bitter, as the Latins calles it, Risus sardonius, so the French sayes; Le ris d'hosteliers qui ne passe point le noeud de la gorge, because that hoasts and others of sick like stuffe laught ordainarly to please ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder
... cultivation. The shades of night soon shut off our view, but at 9 A.M. we were again anchored—this time at Wu-such. Only the gleaming lights in the distance were visible. Two more places were to be passed during the night, Wang-tu-kiang and Wen-chou; and Hankow was to ...
— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
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