"Loup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his shoulders. "Quand on parle du loup, on en voie le queue. Now we shall hear something." ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... bivouac, reitre, lansquenet. All the rest is Latin; and all the Latin words were abridged, according to the custom and genius of the nations of the north; thus from palatium, palais; from lupus, loup; from Auguste, aout; from Junius, juin; from unctus, oint; from purpura, pourpre; from pretium, prix, etc. Hardly were there left any vestiges of the Greek tongue, which had been so long spoken ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... dans les etangs profonds; On vante Eviradnus d'Altorf a Chaux-de-Fonds; Quand il songe et s'accoude, on dirait Charlemagne; Rodant, tout herisse, du bois a la montagne, Velu, fauve, il a l'air d'un loup qui serait bon; Il a sept pieds de haut comme Jean de Bourbon; Tout entier au devoir qu'en sa pensee il couve, Il ne se plaint de rien, mais seulement il trouve Que les hommes sont bas et que les lits sont courts; Il ecoute partout si l'on crie au secours; Quand les rois courbent trop le peuple, ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... be seen across the broad valley of the Rhone on the east, and the peak of Mont Canizou in the Pyrenees on the west. Northward stretches the mountain range of the Cevennes, the bold Pic de Saint-Loup the advanced sentinel of the group; while in the south the prospect is bounded by the blue line ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles
... and lighter, and with their galley slaves can defy the wind, and loup off like a flea in a blanket,' returned Tam, grimly. 'Mair by token, they guess what we are, and will hold on to hae my life's bluid if naething mair! Here! Gie us a soup of the water, and the last ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... there, height above height, rise those rocky ramparts where snowy cascades leap hundreds of feet, then leap again where those chaotic and fantastic rocks and immeasurable sweep of terraced hills stretch away like another world. You will ever remember the Gorge du Loup with its seven-arched viaduct and stream of vivid green and the white foam that pours between its piers. On the road which leads from Nice to the town of Grasse, where are located the famous perfumeries, you will pass orange orchards, flower farms, and charming meadows with patches ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... the tribe one who owned so brave a spirit. Still there were dissenters from this wish, among the principal of whom might be classed the Panther, and his sister, Ie Sumach, so called from the number of her children, who was the widow of le Loup Cervier, now known to have fallen by the hand of the captive. Native ferocity held one in subjection, while the corroding passion of revenge prevented the other from admitting any gentler feeling at the moment. Not so with Rivenoak. This chief arose, stretched ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper
... the slavers trickle! I kick the wee stools o'er the mickle, As round the fire the giglets keckle, To see me loup; While, raving mad, I wish a heckle Were in ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... d'Aulon had just fallen asleep, when the Maid awoke him with a cry. Her voices bade her go against the English, but in what direction she knew not. In fact, the French leaders had begun, without her knowledge, an attack on St. Loup, whither she galloped and took the fort.* It is, of course, conceivable that the din of onset, which presently became audible, had vaguely reached the senses of the sleeping Maid. Her page ...
— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang
... le chien lui representa sa maigreur, et le pria d'attendre un pen. "Mon maitre, lui dit-il, vient de faire un heritage et va donner force festins aux parents et aux amis; je ne saurais manquer d'engraisser pendant cette periode, et vous aurez alors plus de plaisir a me manger." Le loup eut la naivete de croire ce maitre hableur et le laissa partir. Quand il revint le chercher au jour convenu, il ne le trouva pas seul. Le ruse compere avait fait signe aux camarades des alentours: une meute entiere tomba sur la bete fauve et la ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... did not always weep. She taught me to read, while she toiled with her needle, and she told me tales of the genii and of fairy-land, at twilight hour, or as she used to say, 'entre le loup et le chien,' in her own expressive, idiomatic language. She told me, too, stories from the Bible, before I was able to read them, of Isaac bound on the sacrificial pyre, with his father kneeling by him, ready to plunge the knife in his young heart, when ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz
... Frenchmen. They evidently were hatching mischief, for they must have known as well as we did that the frigate was still a long way off, and that if they could overcome us they might yet get away with their brig. She was called the 'Loup' (the Wolf), and a wolf she had proved herself among our merchantmen. I had been relieved at my station at the magazine, when Pat Brady came up to me. 'Burton,' he said, 'I wish you would just take a look at the ...
— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston
... there, twitching a battered muscle; lifting the side with its broken ribs, fluttering the lids over the fierce eyes; for this was Loup, the fiercest husky this side of ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe |
