"Caporal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... la douleur la plus vive, et reduit en meme temps au desespoir par ce retour imprevu du Caporal qui rend notre entrevue de ce soir la chose du monde ...
— A Sentimental Journey • Laurence Sterne
... foretold, in about an hour more the gendarme returned; our lamp was still burning, but he had a light of his own. He looked at the beds, perceived at once that he had been duped, went to the open window, and then exclaimed, "Sacre Dieu! ils m'ont echappes et je ne suis plus caporal. F——tre! a la chasse!" He rushed out of the room, and in a minute afterwards we heard him open the street ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... bit of tobacco fit to smoke till we came to Strasburg, where I got some caporal." The man's mind is full, very likely, of the great sights which he has seen, of the great emotions with which the vast works of nature have inspired it. But his enthusiasm is too coy to show itself, even to his closest friend, and he veils it with a cloud of tobacco. He will speak more fully ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray |
