"Milieu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... equally on medicine and algebra. It is this: if you pack up too much, then, by this extra burthen of salt provisions, you may retard for days your arrival at fresh provisions; on the other hand, if you pack up too little, you may never arrive at all. Catalina hit the juste milieu; and about twilight on the second day, she found herself entering Paita, without having had to swim any river in ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... wouldn't have done her any harm. People would have shrugged their shoulders at it, and forgotten it. It's the transferring of the scene here, among you, that makes it grave. All your ideas are so different that what's bad becomes worse, by being carried out of its milieu. Monsieur de Bienville must be made to understand that, and repair ...
— The Inner Shrine • Basil King
... Lyttleton had not stolen the jewels and that she knew positively who had! The man was a favourite of Mrs. Gosnold's; she had proved it too often by open indulgence of his nonsense. He amused her. And it seemed that in this milieu the virtue of being amusing outweighed ...
— Nobody • Louis Joseph Vance
... chaque haleine Ce mot qu'un sourd sanglot entrecoupe au milieu, Comme si tous les sons dont la nature est pleine N'avaient pour sens unique, hlas ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... ce temps avec agitation. Est-il un plus beau role que celui de sauveur dans un incendie!... marcher sur des poutres enflammees ... disparaitre au milieu des tourbillons de fumee et de feu ... au moment le plus terrible ... quand la toiture va s'ecrouler.... Voir tout a coup a une fenetre un vieillard, une femme qui tend vers vous les bras, en s'ecriant! Sauvez-moi!... ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve
... de St. Pierre of such a scene, "une de ces nuits delicieuses, si communes entre les tropiques, et dont le plus abile pinceau ne rendrait pas le beaute. La lune paraissait au milieu du firmament, entouree d'un rideau de nuages, que ses rayons dissipaient par degres. Sa lumiere se repandait insensiblement sur les montagnes de l'ile et sur leurs pitons, qui brillaient d'un vert argente. Les vents retenaient leurs haleines. On entendait dans les bois, au fond des vallees, ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock
... Chase, W., a thin disguise for a riverside neighbourhood easy to recognise. I could never get myself quite to believe that Stephen's friend, Egerton, accessory after the fact, would so long and so tamely have borne the suspicion of it; but for the rest Mr. HERBERT'S study of his milieu shows a very intimate observation. If his Stephen, in whom the highest poetic talents are found tainted with a touch of coarseness, may not always be credible, the passion for self-expression which leads him on to versify his own experience in the form of a mediaeval ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 • Various
... and animal communities, of which the ecologists are now writing so interestingly, are a living whole; not because of any intrinsic relations between the individuals who compose them, but because each individual member of the community, finds in the community as a whole, a suitable milieu, an environment adapted to his needs and one to which he ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park |
