"De" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Willie Spence, the chief clerk at the Grand View Hotel, one of the most inveterate readers in town. To Willie the name of any author was a nom de plume; it didn't make any difference whether it was his ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... BON FRERE,—C'est avec un vif empressement que je viens remercier votre Majeste Imperiale des superbes objets de l'industrie et des arts de votre Empire, que vous avez eu l'extreme bonte de m'envoyer et qui me seront bien precieux a plus d'un titre d'abord comme venant de votre Majeste, et puis a cause de leur grande beaute et comme un souvenir a une epoque ou il a plu au Tout-Puissant de permettre une ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria
... obliged to hurry away, as my appointment with Jacques to-day was for 6:30, and I wanted to stop at an imitation jeweller's place in the rue de la Paix, where I had heard were some wonderful paste necklaces. They are quite extraordinary. I ordered one, and shall never tell a soul it's not real. I was late home, but Jacques, the dear boy, was waiting, and seemed ...
— The Smart Set - Correspondence & Conversations • Clyde Fitch
... least, is the conclusion suggested by the proportions of the skeleton figured by Cuvier and De Blainville; but perhaps something between a Horse and an Agouti would be ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... manufacturing portraits of tradesmen and their wives; concocting conventional religious pictures or daubing blinds for restaurants or sign-boards for accoucheuses. When first he had returned to Paris, he had rented a very large studio in the Impasse des Bourdonnais; but he had moved to the Quai de Bourbon from motives of economy. He lived there like a savage, with an absolute contempt for everything that was not painting. He had fallen out with his relatives, who disgusted him; he had even ceased visiting his aunt, who kept a pork-butcher's shop near the Central Markets, because ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
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