"Chablis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but it is all part of my story. We had oysters, two dozen Marennes, and a glass or two of Chablis; then a good portion of tripe, and with them a bottle, only one, monsieur, of Pontet Canet; after that a beefsteak with potatoes and a little Burgundy, then a ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... Guallee," or sometimes "Vogue la Gualee" (see p.5). Jehan Du Pr the Lyons printer, used the accompanying Mark formed of his initials. The first as well as the most noted member of the Le Rouge family of printers was Pierre, who resided at Chablis, Troyes, and Paris, and who was the first to take the title of "Libraire-Imprimeur du Roi," ceded to him by Charles VIII., and used in "La Mer des Histoires," 1488. Appropriately enough, Michel Le Noir, whose motto we have already quoted, may ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts
... fetched the Eau-de-Cologne, bathed your manly brow, and then blown her balmy breath over your temples. That sweet coolness, my dear fellow, is my idea of the proper temperature for Chablis." ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... to feel his heart sink lower and lower. I don't know how many times he was disappointed. The waiter ahemmed politely. Warburton, in order to have an excuse to remain, at length hit upon a partridge and a pint of Chablis. ...
— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath
... others, for any one, that he, for the hour, saw reasons enough in the mere way the bright clean ordered water-side life came in at the open window?—the mere way Madame de Vionnet, opposite him over their intensely white table-linen, their omelette aux tomates, their bottle of straw-coloured Chablis, thanked him for everything almost with the smile of a child, while her grey eyes moved in and out of their talk, back to the quarter of the warm spring air, in which early summer had already begun to throb, and then back again to his face and their ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James
... a soup to-day, in which twenty kinds of vegetables were represented, and manifested each its own aroma; a fillet of stewed beef, and a fowl, in some sort of delicate fricassee. We had a bottle of Chablis, and renewed ourselves, at the close of the banquet, with a plate of Chateaubriand ice. It was all very good, and we respected ourselves far more than if we had eaten a quantity of red roast beef; but I am not quite sure that we were right. . . ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... I went indoors, brought out a loaf, Half a cheese and a bottle of Chablis; Lay on the grass and forgot the oaf Over ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 14, 1919 • Various
... chief cashier at "The Ladies' Paradise." "Son of a tax-collector at Chablis, he came to Paris as a clerk in the office of a merchant of the Port-aux-Vins. Then, while lodging in Rue Cuvier, he married the daughter of his concierge, and from that day he bowed submissively ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson
... pressure is employed. This is run off immediately into casks which are hermetically closed when the fermentation has subsided. The after-treatment of the wine is the same as in the Champagne. Sparkling wines are likewise made at Epineuil, a village in the neighbourhood of Tonnerre, and at Chablis, so famous for its white wines, ...
— Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines • Henry Vizetelly |
