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"Chablis" Quotes from Famous Books

... but it is all part of my story. We had oysters, two dozen Marennes, and a glass or two of Chablis; then a good portion of tripe, and with them a bottle, only one, monsieur, of Pontet Canet; after that a beefsteak with potatoes and a little Burgundy, then a ...

— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths

... Guallee," or sometimes "Vogue la Gualee" (see p.5). Jehan Du Pr the Lyons printer, used the accompanying Mark formed of his initials. The first as well as the most noted member of the Le Rouge family of printers was Pierre, who resided at Chablis, Troyes, and Paris, and who was the first to take the title of "Libraire-Imprimeur du Roi," ceded to him by Charles VIII., and used in "La Mer des Histoires," 1488. Appropriately enough, Michel Le Noir, whose motto we have already quoted, may ...

— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts

... fetched the Eau-de-Cologne, bathed your manly brow, and then blown her balmy breath over your temples. That sweet coolness, my dear fellow, is my idea of the proper temperature for Chablis." ...

— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold

... to feel his heart sink lower and lower. I don't know how many times he was disappointed. The waiter ahemmed politely. Warburton, in order to have an excuse to remain, at length hit upon a partridge and a pint of Chablis. ...

— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath

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