"Chevet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Altogether, the assembly was an usual one; but Madame Caballero's guests seemed to enjoy themselves very much. Their good spirits may have been partly due to the fact that they had the pleasing anticipation of an excellent supper, furnished with all the choicest dainties that Chevet can provide; for Madame Caballero's receptions were of a substantial order, and she owed a good deal of her popularity to the profusion that ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... homes and their comfortable nightcaps in the Rue St. Honore: they had luckily fallen in with a flock of sheep and a drove of oxen at Tours the day before; but what were these, compared to the delicacies of Chevet's or three courses at Vefour's? They mournfully cooked their steaks and cutlets on their ramrods, and passed a ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... itself out wearily, with their resumed readings and wanderings and maunderings, their potterings on the quays, their hauntings of the museums, their occasional lingerings in the Palais Royal when the first sharp weather came on and there was a comfort in warm emanations, before Chevet's wonderful succulent window. Morgan wanted to hear all about the opulent youth—he took an immense interest in him. Some of the details of his opulence—Pemberton could spare him none of them—evidently fed the boy's appreciation of all his friend had given up to come back to ...
— The Pupil • Henry James
... voila ces vieilles tours vivantes. La chambre d'Isora se remplit de servantes; Pour faire un digne accueil au roi d'Arle, on revet L'enfant de ses habits de fete; a son chevet, L'aieul, dans un fauteuil d'orme incruste d'erable, S'assied, songeant aux jours passes, et, venerable, Il contemple Isora, front joyeux, cheveux d'or, Comme les cherubins peints dans le corridor, Regard d'enfant Jesus que porte la madone, ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... The Chevet shrugged his shoulders with pity. Vizard shrugged his too, to soothe him; and, after a few more hurried words, took the lover of color into the garden. It was delicious, with green slopes, and rich foliage, and flowers, and enlivened by bright silk dresses, sparkling fitfully ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... my intimacy with Clementi, and, calling me that master's worthy successor, he said he should like to visit me in Leipsic, if it were not for those dreadful railways, which he would never travel by. All this in his bright and lively way; but when we came to discuss Chevet, who wishes to supplant musical notes by ciphers, he maintained in an earnest and dogmatic tone that the system of notation, as it had developed itself since Pope Gregory's time, was sufficient for all ...
— Great Italian and French Composers • George T. Ferris |
