"Bisque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oysters and clams now," said he, "so we'll pass right on to the soup. It seems to me a desecration to pretend to replace them. We'll have a bisque," he told the waiter, "rich and creamy. Then planked whitefish, and have them just a light crisp, brown. You can bring some celery, too, if you have it fresh and good. And for entree tell your cook ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White
... fugae 'fer opem, deprendimur,' inquam, 'Armigerae, Diana, tuae, cui saepe dedisti Ferre tuos arcus inclusaque tela pharetra.' 620 Mota dea est spissisque ferens e nubibus unam Me super iniecit. lustrat caligine tectam Amnis et ignarus circum cava nubila quaerit. Bisque locum, quo me dea texerat, inscius ambit Et bis 'io Arethusa, io Arethusa' vocavit.... 625 In latices mutor, sed enim cognoscit amatas 636 Amnis aquas, positoque viri, quod sumpserat, ore Vertitur in proprias, ut se mihi ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... and the spit turned more heavily than usual. Roast partridges flanked with quails and flanking a larded leveret; boiled fowls; ham, fried and sprinkled with white wine; cardons of Guipuzcoa and la bisque ecrevisses: these, together with the soups and hors-d'oeuvre, constituted the governor's bill of fare. Baisemeaux, seated at table, was rubbing his hands and looking at the bishop of Vannes, who, booted like a cavalier, dressed ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas |
