"Salade" Quotes from Famous Books
... that we neutrals should witness this celebration? The Vicomte de B—— busied himself with reciting the menu: entree, omelette parmentier; game, pigeon roti; plat de resistance—pommes de terre Marseillaise; Salade, tomate—not to speak of toast and tea. M. Guyot hinted darkly and mysteriously that he would attend to the wine list; we should have laughed at this had we not realized that a wine merchant who has lost his entire store of wine is not a ... — The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
... "This (mace) is a dangerous weapon when struck on the shoulders or unguarded arm: I am convinced that a blow with it on a head armoured with a salade (cassis caelata, a light iron helmet) would stun a man" ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton |