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Bouche  v. t.  Same as Bush, to line.






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"Bouche" Quotes from Famous Books



... entertainment, the bonne bouche of the afternoon, was reserved for the end of our drive, when we reached the wharf by the Arsenal, where the British stores and transport were collected. Here was a long row of motor-buses, about sixty of them, all drawn up in line along the river. Beside them was a long row of heavily loaded ...
— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

... povre qui donne au riche demande Six heures dort l'escholier, sept y'e voyager, huict y'e vigneron, et neuf en demand le poltron. La guerre fait les larrons et la paix les meine au gibbett Au prester couzin germaine, au rendre fils de putaine Qui n'ha point du miel en sa cruche, qu'il en aye en sa bouche. Langage de Hauts bonnetts. Les paroles du soir ne sembles a celles du matin. Qui a bon voisin a bon matin. Estre en la paille jusque an ventre. Il faut prendre le temps comme il est, et les gens comme ils sont. Il n'est Tresor que de vivre a son aise. La langue n'a point ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

... est sans souffle et ton front sans ride; Mais l'eclair voile d'une flamme humide, Flamme eclose au coeur d'un ciel pluvieux, Rallume ta levre et remplit tes yeux De lueurs d'opale; Ta bouche est vermeille et ton front joyeux, ...
— Poems & Ballads (Second Series) - Swinburne's Poems Volume III • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... teeth, then, out of good breeding, you know, closed her mouth with three taper fingers. So the moment Gerard's story got too interesting and absorbing, she turned to and made yawns, and "croix sur la bouche." ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... so much mind what you call her flux-de-bouche scolding, but, when she flounced out of the room, she said I was not to ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... inside we discovered a freshly-eaten leucotis calf, which had been simply divided by her teeth in lumps of about two pounds each. This was quite fresh, and my soldiers and the natives divided it among them as a bonne-bouche. ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... delicacy. It is almost impossible, for example, to find even at Paris the finest quality of the red vin de cave of Bouzy. This is illustrated by the fact that the only samples of this exquisite wine sent to Paris for the Universal Exposition of 1889 were those sent by Bouche Fils at Mareuil-sur-Ay, and these represented only three vintages, the earliest being that of 1884. The daintily aromatic bouquet of this wine is seldom unaffected even by the short railway journey to the capital. Of course ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... their judges. Their answers to plain questions were evasive and indirect; they lectured Roman dignitaries as if the latter were the criminals and they themselves the judges; and they even used violent reproaches and coarse, insulting gestures." Bouche-Leclercq (L'Intolerance Religieuse et le Politique, 1911, especially chap. X) shows how the early Christians insisted on being persecuted. We see much the same attitude to-day among anarchists of the lower class (and also, ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... Arundel nous dit qu'il convenoit que son alteze amena ses cuyseniers, sommeliers du cave, et autres officiers pour son bouche, que quant aux autres luy y pourvoyeroit selon les coustumes d'Angleterre.—Renard to Charles V.: ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude

... fine male was named Moolah Bux. He was rather savage, but he became my great friend through the intervention of sugar-canes and the sweet medium of jaggery (native sugar) and chupatties, with which I fed him personally whenever he was brought before me for the day's work; I also gave him some bonne-bouche upon dismounting at the ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... this is, the [that] he must then have something to combat with, and that is, truth and reason. Without that, and you two together only, or Hare, what will follow? There will be flux de bouche, which to me is totally incomprehensible, as Sir G. M('Cartney) told me that it was to him. Il fondera en larmes, and then you will be told afterwards, whenever a measure of any vigour is proposed, that you had acquiesced, ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... departure until the year 1802, little is known of Paine. He is said to have lived in humble lodgings with one Bonneville, a printer, editor of the "Bouche de Fer" in the good early days of the Revolution. He must have kept up some acquaintance with respectable society; for we find his name on the lists of the Cercle Constitutionnel, a club to which belonged Talleyrand, Benjamin Constant, and conservatives of that class who were opposed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

... un grand trouble. Avant de repondre, Henri ... je dois vous faire une demande ... ces paroles si tendres, que vient de prononcer votre bouche ... sortent-elles bien du fond de ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve

... n'aimez point ce tableau, lui dit le peintre.—Ma foi, non!—C'est pourtant un de ceux devant lesquels tout le monde s'arrete.—Il n'y a pas de quoi. Voyez cet imbecile de peintre qui a fait un cheval dont la bouche est toute couverte d'ecume et qui, pourtant, n'a pas de mors." David se tut; mais des que le salon fut ferme, il ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann

... le conduit dans sa caverne, lui donne manger et boire, et lui fait ensuite signe de se coucher et de dormir. (Placer le rcit dans la bouche de Robinson.) ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet

... wolves. No sooner was the carcase flayed than the struggle commenced for the meat; the people were a mass of blood, as some stood thigh-deep in the reeking intestines wrestling for the fat, while many hacked at each other's hands for coveted portions that were striven for as a bonne bouche. I left the savage crowd in their ferocious enjoyment of flesh and blood, and I returned to camp for breakfast, my Turk, Hadji Achmet, ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker

... investment for Bombay and Surat, were in Johanna roads, engaged in watering. At anchor, near them, was an Ostend ship that had called for the same purpose. A few days before, they had received intelligence that a French pirate, Oliver la Bouche,[2] had run on a reef off Mayotta, and lost his ship, and was engaged in building a new one. Thinking that the opportunity of catching the pirates at a disadvantage should not be lost, Macrae and Kirby agreed to go in ...
— The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago • John Biddulph

... our journey, the conversation turned upon the night's adventure, being introduced by the capuchin, who asked me how I liked my lodging; I declared my satisfaction, and talked in rapture of the agreeable Nanette, at which he shook his head, and smiling said, she was a morceau pour la bonne bouche. "I never valued myself," continued he, "upon anything so much as the conquest of Nanette; and, vanity apart, I have been pretty fortunate in my amours." This information shocked me not a little, as I was well convinced of his intimacy with her sister; and though I did not care to tax him ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett



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