"Aspic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like the aspic she was carrying. "Laws, Miss Kate, honey, I allus did have a eye fo' de gentlemen," she said coyly. "I des 'bleeged ter have a peep at de beaux. Mighty long time sense we-all's had a ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... good-natured and kindly personage, who had wistful yearnings for mush and molasses, and flap-jacks, and bread fried in bacon-grease, and similar sensible things, while her chef was compelling her to eat pate de foie gras in aspic, and milk-fed guinea-chicks, and biscuits glacees Tortoni. Of course she did not say that at dinner,—she made a game effort to play her part,—with the result of at least ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... smoothly, to flatter agreeably, to encourage warmly, to counsel wisely: to sing with, to drink with, and to kiss with: and that they should turn them into the mouths of adders, bears, wolves, hyenas, and whistle like tempests, and emit breath through them like distillations of aspic poison, to asperse and vilify the innocent labours of their fellow creatures who are desirous ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... clamouring, we were driven remorselessly along a road decked on either side with exquisitely appointed tables, set out with all our favourite dishes, to be had for nothing—never once allowed to stop for a crumb of pate de foie gras, or a bit of chicken in aspic? Yet asking myself this, I had no ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson |
