"Recherche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been the recipient of flattering attentions from fond papas and aspiring mammas. Invitations to club dinners, banquets and the most recherche lunches, on the one hand, were evenly balanced by cards to receptions, soirees and afternoon teas, on the other. Had he passed heart-whole through all these sieges, only to fall a victim, here ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour
... the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his abominable wife. And here—ah, now, this really is something a little recherche." ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... tell you that I have been elected a member of the Senior Dramatic Club? Very recherche organization. Only seventy-five members out of one thousand. Do you think as a consistent Socialist that I ...
— Daddy-Long-Legs • Jean Webster
... 1628-1702. Voltaire, writing of Bouhours' Maniere de bien penser sur les ouvrages d'esprit, says that he teaches young people 'a eviter l'enflure, l'obscurite, le recherche, et le faux.' Ib, p. 54. Johnson, perhaps, knew him, through The Spectator, No. 62, where it is said that he has shown 'that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, ... that the basis of all ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... a gentleman, who was always trying to catch her out with his quickness. She liked his fine, slim limbs, and his exaggerated generosity. He would ask her out to ridiculously expensive suppers, and send her sweets and flowers, fabulously recherche. He was always ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... was his rage diminished, when, on coming to dinner that day, a recherche banquet served in the Frangipane best style, and requesting a supply of a puree a la bisque aux ecrevisses, the clumsy attendant who served him let fall the assiette of vermeille cisele, with its ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray |
