"Tapis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... l'horizon; A mes pieds l'etoile amoureuse De sa lueur mysterieuse Blanchit les tapis ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... the tapis. Eventually it returned. "This officer can be granted leave only on condition that he promises to serve ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 • Various
... the afternoon, when they assemble in crowds, and all the scandal and news of the town is circulated, marriages concluded, and the secret intrigues of the parties are reciprocally detailed; in short, every thing which may be supposed to be brought on the tapis in an exclusive meeting of the fair sex. Nature is every where the same; and I presume, whether in a bath at Stamboul, a Parisian saloon, or a drawing-room in London, a similar love of gossip is their distinguishing ...
— Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 • John Auldjo |
