"Auberge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that he did, and left me to nurse my unpleasant thoughts for half an hour, returning at the end of that time with the information that M. de Canaples was seated at dinner in the "Auberge du Soleil." ...
— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini
... The words "Auberge du Grand Dauphin" looked remarkably inviting, written in bold, shiny black characters on the white-washed wall of one of the foremost houses in the village. The riders drew rein once more, this time in front of the little inn, and as a ...
— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
... permit me to suggest one of almost universal application. Respecting here-burh, an inland station for an army, in the same sense as a "harbour" for ships on the sea-coast, a word still sufficiently familiar and intelligible, the question seems to be settled; and the French "auberge" for an inn has been used as an illustration, though the first syllable may be doubtful. The principal difficulty appears to consist in the prefix "Cold;" for why, it may be asked, should a bleak and "cold" situation be selected as a "harbour"? ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 • Various
... Mar. 10. Jan Blockx's opera "La Princesse d'Auberge" presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with Maria Labia and Jeanne Gerville-Reache in ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
... dtail dans sa mmoire, et continua son chemin. Il arriva une ville. L il trouva tout le monde en dtresse, car la fille du roi tait dangereusement malade, et tous les mdecins disaient qu'elle allait mourir. Janko alla une auberge ( petit htel), appela l'aubergiste ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... to see her again. She should be punished for her cruelty. I sat down on one of the benches on the Place, and looking at the Mairie clock stolidly thought of supper. They made famous onion soup at the little auberge where we lodged, and Paragot, himself a connoisseur, had pronounced their tripes a la mode de Caen superior to anything that Mrs. Housekeeper had executed for the Lotus Club. Besides I was getting hungry. With youth a full heart rarely compensates an ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... sunk in sleep, save myself. Hour after hour rolled by, the rain pattering upon the roof, and the heavy plash of the horses' feet contributing their mournful sounds to the melancholy that was stealing over me. At length we drew up at the door of a little auberge; and, by the noise and bustle without, I perceived there was a change of horses. Anxious to stretch my legs, and relieve, if even for a moment, the wearisome monotony of the night, I got out and strode into the little parlour of the ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... still a couple of hours of daylight, to hire a couple of horses of old Salvatore, in the Palace-square, and to take a gallop into the country, as a preparation for a grand ball which was to take place that evening at the Auberge de Provence, and where Raby promised Jemmy Duff he would point him out Miss Garden. Away hurried the two happy youngsters, without casting another thought on the speronara. I, however, particularly wish my readers ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... the junction of the St. Amand road, he gave a little auberge his custom, comforting nature with an omelet while a fowl was being put on the spit. But because custom such as Paul Beaufoy's came that way but seldom the fowl was slow to come by, yet slower to cook, ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond |
