"Tapis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cutthees. Mamoodies. Terindams. Cossas. Mahmudihiaties. Tapseils. Chenarize. Mugga-Mamoochis. Tanjeebs. Chittabullus. Mickbannies. Tepoys. Coopees. Masaicks. Tainsooks. Callowaypoose. Moorees. Taffatties. Cuttanees. Mowsannas. Tapis. Carradaries. Mulmouls. Tarnatams. Cheaconies. Mulye-Gungee. Taundah-Khassah. Chucklaes. ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... making our station Cape Crozier has again come on the tapis. There would be many advantages: the ease of getting there at an early date, the fact that none of the autumn or summer parties could be cut off, the fact that the main Barrier could be reached without crossing ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... Generality, he would cure her child: or, perhaps, at his rate of talking, would wear out all his idle themes, down to the very "well-being of mankind;" and them Julia's mysterious indisposition would come on the blank tapis. With these secret hopes she presided at the feast, all grace and gentle amity. Julia, too, sat down with a little design, but a very different one, viz., of being chilly company; for she disliked this new acquaintance, and ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... were still full of speculations on their indifferent success, public curiosity had began to flag upon the inquiry. I had, once or twice, been in Glanville's company when the murder was brought upon the tapis, and narrowly examined his behaviour upon a subject which touched him so fearfully. I could not, however, note any extraordinary confusion or change in his countenance; perhaps the pale cheek grew somewhat paler, the dreaming eye more abstracted, and the absent spirit ...
— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... to hear that your step-mother's brother has appeared on the tapis, and that he has had the audacity to propose to adopt Mabel, whom he claims ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... possible. Le long des murailles, on voyait des armoires remplies de livres, et sur chacune un buste en bronze; au-dessus d'une chemine de marbre, une large glace. Le plancher tait couvert de drap vert, par-dessus lequel taient tendus des tapis de Perse. Dshabitu du luxe dans mon taudis, il y avait si longtemps que je n'avais vu le spectacle de la richesse, que je me sentis pris par la timidit, et j'attendis le comte avec un certain tremblement, comme un solliciteur de province qui va se prsenter l'audience d'un ministre. La ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... mestizas dress like the Filipinas, but do not wear the tapis, and those of them who are married to Europeans are generally clad in both shoes and stockings. Many of the mestizas are extremely pretty, but their gait drags a little, from their habit of wearing slippers. As a rule they are prudent, thrifty, and [Clever business women.] ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.
... to you! Sound be your sleep, and delectable your dreams! Apropos, how do you like this thought in a ballad, I have just now on the tapis? ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... tapestries, their decorative value being so much greater. The book of crafts by Etienne Boileau, provost of the merchants in 1258-1268, contains a curious enumeration of the different craft-guilds of Paris, among which we find 'the tapiciers, or makers of the tapis sarrasinois (or Saracen cloths), who say that their craft is for the service only of churches, or great men like kings and counts'; and, indeed, even in our own day, nearly all our words descriptive of decorative textures and decorative methods point to an Oriental origin. What the inroads of the ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... la Prairie, une grande pelouse qui s'tend comme un tapis au pied de la montagne, une demi-lieue de la ville.... Les trois tudes s'y rendaient sparment; une fois l, on les runissait sous la surveillance d'un seul matre qui tait [46] toujours moi. J'avais tout le collge sur les bras. ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... whole it was rather a picturesque sight. A thick haze hung over the now white "Tapis Vert," and the nude figures of the Bassin d'Apollon were clothed in a mantle of snow, while the white-robed statues of the Allee Royale, one could well believe, shivered as ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield
... ont disperse ces blocs; et alors ils deviennent un nouveau trait cosmologique de quelque importance: car rien ne se meut, ni ne paroit s'etre mu depuis bien des siecles, dans ces lieux qui montrent tant de desordre: un tapis de verdure couvre tout, en conservant les contours baroques du sol. Le betail ne sauroit paturer dans de telles prairies; mais l'industrieux ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... amid the present rude hotch-potch, We natives must forgo this satisfaction, For still the cry is "England for the Scotch" (Or else some other tribe of Celt extraction); That's why I shan't be happy Till Erin's tedious Isle is off the tapis. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 • Various
... Mrs. Marshall-Smith with a book, seated on a little yellow-painted iron chair, the fifteen-centime kind, at the top of the great flight of steps leading down to the wide green expanse of the Tapis Vert. She was alternately reading Huysmans' highly imaginative ideas on Gothic cathedrals, and letting her eyes stray up and down the long facade of the great Louis. Her powers of aesthetic assimilation seemed to be proof against this extraordinary mixture of impressions. ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... Barclay disapproved of him strongly. But Matilda who was beautiful, warm-blooded and wayward did not. She loved Burgwyne with a reciprocal ardour, and when the masked ball at the Brevoorts' came on the tapis it seemed as though the Goddess of Romance had absolutely stretched out her hands to these two reckless, ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin |
