"Boule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shady bowers! I say it should be a love song or something livelier," he cried, closing the door behind him and coming toward them. "Why not En Roulant ma Boule, my sweet Jeanne? You know that ...
— The Flaming Forest • James Oliver Curwood
... prophets represent the voice of God in man, the sibyls represent the voice of God in nature. They are properly all forms of one sibyl, [Greek: Dios Boule], the counsel of God; and the chief one, at least in the Roman mind, was the Sibyl of Cumae. From the traditions of her, the Romans, and we through them, received whatever lessons the myth, or fact, of sibyl power has ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin
... craftsmen; but the furnishings filled Dolores's eyes to the exclusion of all else. Divans and chairs, cabinets and tables carried the mind far away to the realm of emperors and kings; vases from China and Greece stood on stands of boule-work; a tall ebony-and-ivory clock-case, in which ticked sonorously a masterpiece of Peter Hele, stood between two gorgeous pieces of Gobelin tapestry. And around her and above, Dolores's amazed eyes lighted upon gems of the painter's art such as ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle
... not so bitter; we are they indeede, That would deprive our fathers of their lives, So we were sure to have a benefit: I way no more the murthring of a child, Drag'd from the sucking bosome of his mother, Then I respect to quaffe a boule of wine, Unto his health, that dearely ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... listen to those quaint ballads which were sung centuries ago in Normandie and Provence. "A la Claire Fontaine," "Dans Paris y a-t-une Brune plus Belle que le Jour," "Sur le Pont d'Avignon," "En Roulant ma Boule," "La Poulette Grise," and a hundred other folk-songs linger among the peasants and voyageurs of these northern ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke |
