"Cloche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whatsoever. And Germany: From Germany comes a stolid gentleman, who, usually, is shaped like a pickle mounted on legs and is so extensively and convexedly eyeglassed as to give him the appearance of something that is about to be served sous cloche. Caparisoned in strange garments, he stalks through France or Italy with an umbrella under his arm, his nose being buried so deeply in his guidebook that he has no time to waste upon the scenery or the people; while some ten paces in the rear, his wife staggers along in his wake with ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... us commence with the first," exclaimed Bezard, again referring to the file of secret reports before him. "On Wednesday, the fourteenth day of January, you went to Commercy, where, at the Cafe de la Cloche, you met a certain Belgian who passed under the ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux |
