"Vivant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Edith, with dazzling complexion all aglow, and large dark eyes lustrous with excitement, was more eloquent than words could have been, and the bon vivant drank in her expression with as much zest as he sipped his wine. Perhaps it was well for him to make the most of that little keen-edged moment of bright anticipation and bewildering hope, for what he was about to propose would cost him many thousands, and exile him ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... front irrit contre moi Dans mon me trouble a d jeter d'effroi. Sur ce trne sacr, qu'environne la foudre, J'ai cru vous voir tout prt me reduire en poudre. 650 Hlas! sans frissonner, quel coeur audacieux Soutiendrait les clairs qui partaient de vos yeux? Ainsi du Dieu vivant la colre tincelle. . ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... [251] "Vivant omnes honeste, ut clerici, prout decet sanctos, non pugnantes, non scurrilia vel turpia loquentes, non cantilenas sive falulas de amasiis vel luxuriosis, aut ad libidinem sonantibus narrantes, cantantes aut libenter audientes." "Munimenta ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... son vivant cheualier de l'ordre, premier Chambellan du Roy, grand Seneschal, Lieutenant-general et gouverneur pour le dict Sieur, en ses pays et duche de Normendie, Capitaine de cent gentile hommes de la maison du dict sieur et de cent ...
— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet
... religion. Still, it may be noted that the majority of non-Jewish converts in the Apostolic age, had probably come to know the Old Testament beforehand—not always the Jewish religion, (see Havet, Le Christianisme, T. IV. p. 120: "Je ne sais s'il y est entre, du vivant de Paul, un seul paien: je veux dire un homme, qui ne connut pas deja, avant d'y entrer, le judaisme et la Bible"). These indications will shew how mistaken and misleading it is to express the different tendencies in the Apostolic age and the period closely ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
... man can live upon nothing. The whole medical profession are getting to very high words; Anglice,—indulging in very low language. The fraternity of physicians, apothecaries, and surgeons, are growing so warm upon the living subject, that we may shortly expect to witness a beautiful tableau vivant of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, • Various
... 295: Il me repliqua que vivant Elizabeth il n'a espoir a la tranquillite du Royaulme, que quant a luy si chascun alloit si rondement en besoyn comme il fait, les choses se porteroient mieux.—Renard to the Emperor, April 3: Rolls House MSS. From these dark plotters, what might not be feared? Holinshed says that ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude
... de pre en fils, L'ont de Pierre Simon, puis moi Jean, transmis. Le premier occupant, est-ce une loi plus sage? — Or bien, sans crier davantage, Rapportons-nous, dit-elle, Raminagrobis." C'tait un chat vivant comme un dvot ermite, Un chat faisant la chattemite, Un saint homme de chat, bien fourr, gros et gras, Arbitre expert sur tous les cas. Jean lapin pour juge l'agre. Les voil tous deux arrivs Devant sa majest ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... I know from your letters, and from the fact of my absence from you making me think more about you, as much about you as those present. I very much enjoy a letter from Joan, which gives me a kind of tableau vivant of you all. That helps me to realize the home life; so do the photographs, they help in the same way. But your letters, and the fact that I think so much about them, and about you, are ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... about the navigation, sat, vigilant and lynx-eyed, at the edge of it; Babu, who had wrapped himself in Oriental impassiveness and a bernouse, and Mr. Hayward's police attendant sat in front, all keeping their positions throughout the night as dutifully as the figures in a tableau vivant, and so we silently left Permatang Pasir for our jungle voyage of eighteen hours, in which time, by unintermitting hard work, we were propelled about as many miles, though some ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
... sont vous autres physiologistes des corps vivants, qui avez appris a nous autres physiologistes de la societe (qui est aussi un corps vivant) la maniere de l'observer et de tirer des consequences de nos observations.—J. B. SAY to DE CANDOLLE, June 1, 1827.—DE ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton
... have said how long it lasted—during which they were reduced, for all interchange, to looking at each other on quite an inordinate scale. They might at this moment, in their positively portentous stillness, have been keeping it up for a wager, sitting for their photograph or even enacting a tableau-vivant. ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... ceste eglise, qui fist mettre en argent le menton de Saint-Vincent et de Saint-Amant et le pie des Innocens; qui toujours en son vivant fut preud'homme et vayllant. Priez pour ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... had died of apoplexy at his villa in Italy—Mr Athill had been presented with the better preferment of Eiderdown, and had, therefore, removed to another part of the county. He was somewhat of a bon-vivant, and a man who thoroughly understood dinner-parties; and with much good nature he took ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... which filled the shelves of her store-room—which she laughingly called her boudoir—almost to the exclusion of the usual currant jellies and raspberry jams of such receptacles: for she had the real bon vivant's preference of the savory to the sweet, and left all the latter branch of the art to her subordinates, confining the exercise of her own talents, or immediate superintendence, to the production of the above-named "elegant extracts." ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... appeared with a bright green ticket pinned in the front of her white muslin frock, and when asked what this queer fancy meant, she made Lady Kew a curtsey, looking her full in the face, and turning round to her father, said, "I am a tableau-vivant, papa. I am Number 46 in the Exhibition of the ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... d'or parut ensuite; il apportait un faisan vivant, orne d'un collier d'or; alors le duc Philippe, suivant l'ancien usage qu'avaient les seigneurs de preter leurs serments sur quelque noble oiseau, jura qu'il irait en personne dans l'Orient combattre le chef des Sarrasins." &c., &c.—Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne, par F. Valentin, troisieme ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 • Various
... calls them Homeric, but there is none of the Homeric simplicity in this tumult of coloured and clotted speech, in which the language is tortured to make it speak. The comparison with Rabelais is nearer. La recherche du terme vivant, sa mise en valeur et en saveur, la surabondance des vocables puises a toutes sources ... la condensation de l'action autour de ces quelques motifs eternels de l'epopee: combat, ripaille, palabre et luxure, there, as she sees justly, are links ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... ———"Vivant Galataeque Syrique Cappadoces, Gallique, extremique orbis Iberi, Armenii, Cilices: nam post civilia bella Hic Populus Romanus erit." [Footnote: Blackwell, in his Court of Augustus, vol. i. p. 382, when noticing these lines upon occasion of the murder ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... almost with a start, "I think I know who you mean. His beard is pointed, and his eyes rather small and shining. He has the air of a bon-vivant, and speaks English extremely well. He wears the amethyst on the little finger of his ...
— Hushed Up - A Mystery of London • William Le Queux
... embraced me again, mounted his horse, and disappeared. He went to the Carthusian monastery at Morlaix. Two years afterward, fasts, macerations, and grief had made of this bon vivant, this joyous companion, this devoted friend, a premature skeleton. At the end of three years he died, leaving me ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses [3] Ont le meme destin; Et, rosse, elle a vecu ce que vivant les rosses, L'espace ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... A merry facetious fellow; a BON VIVANT, who never flinches from his glass, nor cries to go home ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... rep. Gallorum; quod tot lites et causae forenses, aliae ferantur ex aliis, in immensum producantur, et magnos sumptus requirant unde fit ut juris administri plerumque nobilium possessiones adquirant, tum quod sumptuose vivant, et a mercatoribus absorbentur et ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... indemnity, a matter of some two hundred thousand gulden. Villars, upon payment of this sum, half of which he is reported by German historians to have retained for his own uses, now left Wirtemberg, and marched towards the French frontier, leaving, however, six thousand men under General Vivant in the country. ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... eyebrows, flabby cheeks, over which was spread a network of purplish fibres, full, sensual lips, and a scanty, straggling beard, that scarcely covered the short, round chin, made up a physiognomy worthy to serve as the model for a Silenus; for it was plainly that of a wine-bibber and bon vivant. Yet a certain expression of good humour and kindness, almost of gentleness, redeemed what would otherwise have been a repulsive face. The comical little wrinkles gathering about the eyes, and the merry upward turn of the comers of the mouth, showed a disposition to smile as he ...
— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier |
