"Tapis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lve l'horizon; A mes pieds l'toile amoureuse De sa lueur mystrieuse Blanchit les tapis de gazon. ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... alors s'etant revetues de cottes de mailles, ensanglanterent leurs arcs et prirent part a la bataille; elles s'etaient accompagnes de quatres jeunes gens et leurs fleches allerent frapper au milieu du tapis de Chucuybatzin, lances qu' elles etaient par ces heros.... Le capitaine de bataille exposa ensuite les nudites de ces femmes devant les murailles des Zotziles et des Xahiles ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton
... once you be entered. Would you prevent their desires, and give the fellows no wishing-time? Look'ee, Dorinda, if my Lord Aimwell loves you or deserves you, he'll find a way to see you, and there we must leave it. My business comes now upon the tapis. Have you prepared ...
— The Beaux-Stratagem • George Farquhar
... and been the topic, and for two days engrossed the attention of the House of Commons; and probably will be heard of no more. He was even forgotten for three hours while he was on the tapis, by a violent quarrel between Temple Luttrell (a brother of the Duchess of Cumberland) and Lord George Germaine; but the public has taken affection for neither them nor the General: being much more disposed at present to hate than to love—except the dead. It will be well if ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole
... President to-day to send troops to Gordonsville, and to hasten forward supplies. He says Lt.-Gen. Longstreet's corps might now be sent from Suffolk to him. Something of magnitude is on the tapis, whether offensive or defensive, I could ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... parenthesis of some grand 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 hated ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... old thing," he complained. "Here was I all set for an enjoyable winter. Nice people in Vancouver. All sorts of fetching affairs on the tapis. And I'm to be demobilized myself next week. Chucked out into the blooming street with a gratuity and a couple of ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... in the receipt of six hundred dollars a year. He grasped my hand with an air of frankness and sincerity, that at once installed him in my good opinion. A little pleasure excursion was upon the tapis, and he insisted on my joining it. I readily consented. There were five of us, and the expense to each, if borne mutually, would have been something like one dollar. Peyton managed everything, even to paying the bills; and when I offered to pay him ...
— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous
... creative and executive artists must some time come on the tapis, and Schumann affords a perfectly natural opportunity for it. [Liszt's article on Robert Schumann, "Gesammelte Schriften," Vol. iv.] By the proofs of the second article (which I thank you much for having corrected with the necessary exactitude) you will observe that I have modified ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: - Years of Travel as a Virtuoso" • Franz Liszt; Letters assembled by La Mara and translated
... was, to hinder the re-establishment of the Prince of Conde, his implacable enemy; but he was in haste to conclude, and impatient to return to Court, where absence is always dangerous. Don Louis observed this, and never failed at every conference to bring the affair of the Prince of Conde upon the tapis. The Cardinal for some time refused even to treat upon it. Don Louis, with the same 'sang froid', as constantly persisted, till he at last prevailed: contrary to the intentions and the interest both of the Cardinal and of his Court. ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... that a matrimonial union is on the tapis between a gentleman who has made a colossal fortune in the Railway World, and the only daughter of a noble earl, whose estates are situated in D-ddles-x. An early day is fixed for this ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Ce cabinet tait vaste et meubl avec tout le luxe 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 ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... with the exception of their wish that Pedro should accompany them on their expedition. They were debating how this should be brought on the tapis, when the soldier came to them, and stated that the commandant had ordered him to be of the party, and that he was to offer his ...
— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat
... but sound and heavy "cuffs" on the nape; and the sixth brother (Night clxxx.) was not "aux levres fendues" ("he of the hair-lips"), for they had been cut off by the Badawi jealous of his fair wife. Abu al-Hasan would not greet his beloved by saluting "le tapis a ses pieds:" he would kiss her hands and feet. Haiatalnefous (Hayat al-Nufus, Night ccxxvi.) would not "throw cold water in the Princess's face:" she would sprinkle it with eau-de-rose. "Camaralzaman" I. addresses his two abominable wives in language purely European ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... (for 'the Rev.'); rôle (for 'part'); roughs; rowdies; secesh; sensation (for 'noteworthy event'); standpoint (for 'point of view'); start, in the sense of setting out; state (for 'say'); taboo; talent (for 'talents' or 'ability'); talented; tapis; the deceased; war (for 'dispute' ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
... lay listening to, or rather hearing, the conversation of the young Lady Bradstones. They used to come into her room at night, and stay for some time whilst they had their hair curled, and talked over the events of the day—whom they had met—what dresses they had worn—what matches were on the tapis, &c. They happened one night to amuse themselves with reading an old newspaper, in which they came to an account of a splendid masquerade, which had been given the preceding winter in ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
... the wedding preparations were being discussed. The number and names of the bridesmaids were being settled, the dresses were on the tapis, the invitations to be given were talked over. Sensible as Augusta was, she was not above such feminine cares; she was, indeed, rather anxious that the wedding should go off well. She was a little ashamed of her tailor's son, and therefore anxious that things should ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... to take an interest in the operations, far above what they would have manifested in any ordinary labour of the vessel, and I could tell from their looks and gestures that something very serious was on the tapis. What it was I could not guess. I fancied, however, that it was ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid
... spread to Bushwick at least, and this inclined him the more to like him. They sat up talking pleasantly together about impersonal affairs till Bushwick finished his cigar. Then he started for bed, saying, "Well, good-night. I hope Mrs. Westangle won't have anything so active on the tapis ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... exprimer de ma part sa Seigneurie l'espoir d'tre all de cette manire au devant des ouvertures qu'elle serait peut-tre dans le cas de me faire faire [sic] sur la dmarche propose par les cinq Reprsentans Constantinople, mais mise, de prfrence, sur le tapis par M. ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various
... 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 crevasses and that the track to the ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... introduced to him when he was in the neighbourhood of twenty-two years of age. Peyton was then a clerk in the receipt of six hundred dollars a year. He grasped my hand with an air of frankness and sincerity, that at once installed him in my good opinion. A little pleasure excursion was upon the tapis, and he insisted upon my joining it. I readily consented. There were five of us, and the expense to each, if borne mutually, would have been something like one dollar. Peyton managed every thing, even to paying the bills; and when ...
— Words for the Wise • T. S. Arthur
... Bube was, indeed, losing her reason. Or was it he himself who was losing his reason, taking seriously this parochial scandal, and believing that because a doddering hunchback of seventy-five had borrowed an ethical treatise from an octogenarian a marriage must be on the tapis? Yet, on more than one occasion, he came upon circumstances which seemed to justify the popular supposition. There could be no doubt, for example, that when at the conclusion of the synagogue service the feminine stream ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... outburst of her intention,—as she had made when discussing the matter with her cousin,—answered him in the same spirit, and by degrees came so to talk as though the matter were entirely settled. And then, at last, that future day was absolutely brought on the tapis as though now ...
— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope
... will be surprised 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 ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield |
