"Bouche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... practice. 2. "Swigging," drinking copiously—of malt liquor in particular. "Pearly drops of dew we drink."—OLD SONG. 3. "Plummiest," the superlative of "plummy," exquisitely delicious; an epithet commonly used by young gentlemen in speaking of a bonne bouche or "tit bit," as a mince pie, a preserved apricot, or an oyster patty. The transference of terms expressive of delightful and poignant savor to female beauty, is common with poets. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath."—SHAKESPEARE. "Charley loves a pretty ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... chante et rit, fleur d'une ame sans fiel. L'ombre elyseenne, ou la nuit n'est que lumiere, Revoit, tout revetu de splendeur douce et fiere, Melicerte, poete a la bouche de miel. ...
— Astrophel and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne, Vol. VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... that this evening I might stay behind during the performance if I liked and I accepted his invitation, for I had a toy theatre of my own once and used to do The Miller and His Men with an explosion at the end; it had to be at the end, not only as a bonne-bouche, but also because my audience, not being composed of Sicilian facchini, were driven out of the room by its effects. Smokeless explosions may be possible now, but we did not then know how to do any better. I would have given ...
— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones
... one of the most critically expert historians of antiquity, has in his work, Die Entstehung des Judenthums (Halle, 1896, 8vo), revived this strange juridical argument in favour of the narrative of Nehemiah. M. Bouche-Leclercq, in a remarkable study on "The Reign of Seleucus II. (Callinicus) and Historical Criticism" (Revue des Universites du Midi, April-June 1897), seems, by way of reaction against the hypercriticism of Niebuhr and Droysen, ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois
... bouche des bons esprits Apollon vous tient a mespris Troupe ignorance et trop hardie, Car vous prophanez ses beaux dons Et faites naistre des chardons Au milieu de ...
— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand
... couteaux sont de'ja prepares. Toute la nation a la fois est proscrite. Aman, l'impie Aman, race d'Amalecite, 170 A pour ce coup funeste arme tout son credit; Et le Roi, trop cre'dule, a signe cet edit. Prevenu centre nous par cette bouche impure, Il nous croit en horreur a toute la nature. Ses ordres sont donnes; et dans tous ses Etats, 175 Le jour fatal est pris pour tant d'assassinats. Cieux, eclairerez-vous cet horrible carnage? Le fer ne connaitra ni le sexe ni l'age; Tout doit servir de proie aux tigres, aux ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... we discovered a freshly-eaten leucotis calf, which had been simply divided by her teeth in lumps of about two pounds each. This was quite fresh, and my soldiers and the natives divided it among them as a bonne-bouche. ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... Callisto, and do the rest of our exploring on Jupiter from a safe height; for, though we succeeded in disabling this beauty, it was largely through luck, and had we not done so we should probably have provided a bon bouche for our deceased friend, instead of standing ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor
... plume, elle m'est tombee des mains lorsque j'ai reflechi que j'ignorais malheureusement dans quel etat de corps et d'esprit ma lettre pourrait vous trouver. Pendant tout l'hiver j'ai recu par lettre et de bouche une infinite de demandes sur votre etat. Vous ne sauriez croire a quel point tous vos amis d'Angleterre, qui sont encore plus nombreux que ceux dont vous avez une connaissance personnelle, m'ont temoigne ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... headquarters of the merchants who deal in Burgundy wines, as Bordeaux is that of the claret merchants. Around it are the first-class vineyards of Beaune Pommard, Volnay, and Romane. Of these the Volnay vineyards, extending over 532 acres, produce the most valuable wine, under the names of Bouche d'Or and Caillerets, and the Pommard under that of Commarine. The town is of poor appearance. The principal church, Notre Dame, founded in the 12th cent., contains semicircular and equilateral-triangled arches and cusped ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... so much mind what you call her flux-de-bouche scolding, but, when she flounced out of the room, she said I was not ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... master," she replied, motioning towards the count, whose mouth screwed itself into that smile of satisfaction which is vulgarly termed a "bouche ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac
... anticipating a later chapter, the resemblances of these to Greek myths, as arrayed by M. Bouche Leclercq (De Origine Generis Humani), ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... former they detained, the latter they plundered and dismissed. In the course of his voyage, England met with two ships, but these taking shelter under Cape Corso Castle, he unsuccessfully attempted to set them on fire. He next sailed down to Whydah road, where Captain La Bouche had been before England, and left him no spoil. He now went into the harbor, cleaned his own ship, and fitted up the Peterborough, which he called the Victory. During several weeks the pirates remained in this quarter, indulging in every species of riot and ...
— The Pirates Own Book • Charles Ellms
... dix minutes avant que Mateo ouvrt la bouche. L'enfant regardait d'un oeil inquiet tantt sa mre et tantt son pre, qui, s'appuyant sur son fusil, le considrait avec une expression ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... himself out. He walked across a small square to a log house and opened a door which creaked and shrieked with the frost. A dog sprang upon him as he did so, and rubbed its head against his breast. He touched the head as if it had been that of a child, and said: "Lie down, Bouche." ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... "This puts me in mind of a story told of the cruelty and tyranny, of Pope Sixtus the Fifth, who, having one night, after he had enjoyed himself at a Bacchanalian supper, when heated with wine, by way of a 'bonne bouche', ordered the first man that should come through the gate of the 'Strada del popolo' at Rome to be immediately hanged. Every person at this drunken conclave—nay, all Rome—considered the Pope a tyrant, the most cruel of tyrants, ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... BUSH, OR BOUCHE. A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass, let into the lignum vitae sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, thereby preventing the sheave from wearing, without adding much to its weight. The operation of placing it in the wood is called bushing or coaking, ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... treating savage people, "Sir," said he, "I have sometimes been compelled to commit hostilities upon them, but never without suffering the most poignant regret; for, independent of my own feelings on the occasion, his Majesty's (Louis XVI) last words to me, de sa propre bouche, when I took leave of him at Versailles, were: 'It is my express injunction, that you always treat the Indian nations with kindness and humanity. Gratify their wishes, and never, but in a case of the last necessity, when self-defence requires it, shed human ...
— A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson • Watkin Tench
... she got in all her charms. For first she showed her teeth, then, out of good breeding, you know, closed her mouth with three taper fingers. So the moment Gerard's story got too interesting and absorbing, she turned to and made yawns, and "croix sur la bouche." ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... puissent me donner la mort! Soit lui ai-je repondu. Mais, par dedain pour la force humaine, les hommes n'ont pas ete compris daus sa demande. C'est donc par la main d' un homme, qu'il faut immoler ce mechant." Ainsi tombee de la bouche du createur, cette parole salutaire satisfit pleinement le roi des habitants du ciel et tous les Dieux avec lui. La, dans ce meme instant, survint le fortune Visnou, revetu d' une splendeur infinie; car c'etait a lui, que Brahma avait pense dans son ame pour la mort du tyran. Celui-ci ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... until the year 1802, little is known of Paine. He is said to have lived in humble lodgings with one Bonneville, a printer, editor of the "Bouche de Fer" in the good early days of the Revolution. He must have kept up some acquaintance with respectable society; for we find his name on the lists of the Cercle Constitutionnel, a club to which belonged Talleyrand, Benjamin Constant, and conservatives of that class ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... a des rigueurs a nulle autre pareilles. On a beau la prier, La cruelle, qu'elle est, se bouche les oreilles, Et nous ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 • Various
... sans tomber dans la charge ou la bouffonnerie, faire parler systematiquement a ses personnages une langue etrangere, forcement incorrecte dans la bouche de quelqu'un qui l'a apprise par oreille, sans savoir lire meme ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... here to-day to see a couple of rake-hell fellows I know, Fargeau and Duchesne, doctors in the Clinical Hospital beyond here, up by the Parc Mont Souris. They promised that they would spend the night with me some time in my aunt's house,—which is called around here, you must know, 'la Bouche d'Enfer,'—and I thought perhaps they would make it this week, if they can get off duty. Come up with me while I see them, and then we can go across the river to Vefour's and have some luncheon, you can get your things at the Chatham, and ...
— Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories • Ralph Adams Cram
... For he has his unblushing Chateauroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has not only his Maison-Bouche, and Valetaille without end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... too much wine at dinner, teased Count D'Orsay, and said some very disagreeable things, which irritated him; when suddenly John Bush entered the club and shook hands with the Count, who exclaimed, "Voila, la difference entre une bonne bouche ...
— Reminiscences of Captain Gronow • Rees Howell Gronow
... "Oh, we have a bonne-bouche prepared for him, which he may not relish much more than you do those manacles on your legs," remarked the captain, as he left the worthy Tacon to his ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston |
