"Couleur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brother-in-law was presenting her son? Only once, leaning on Arthur's arm, she had passed through the room where the green tables were prepared for play, and the croaking croupiers were calling out their fatal words of Rouge gagne and Couleur perd. She had shrunk terrified out of the pandemonium, imploring Pen, extorting from him a promise, on his word of honour, that he would never play at those tables; and the scene which so frightened the simple widow, only amused the worldly old veteran, and made him young again! He could breathe ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... physiognomy, which had, if we may venture so to speak, neither age nor sex. It was not the bold and masculine air of a descendant of a race of Magnates, who knew nothing but drinking, hunting and making war; neither was it the effeminate loveliness of a cherub couleur de rose. It was more like the ideal creations with which the poetry of the middle ages adorned the Christian temples: a beautiful angel, with a form pure and slight as a young god of Olympus, with a face like that ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... arbres plus gros, qui constituoient de petits bosquets tres-agreables; le reste de l'ile, avec une disposition differente, offroit un coup d'oeil bien different aussi: parmi ces monceaux de laves entassees sans ordre, regne une sterilite generale; et la couleur noire de ces roches volcaniques ajoutoit encore a l'aspect triste et monotone de cette petite ile. La marche y est difficile, a cause des prismes de basalte qui, couches horizontalement sur le sol, presentent leurs aretes aigues en ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King
... and varied gestures: such was the outward presence of Chopin. As to the colour of the eyes and hair, the authorities contradict each other most thoroughly. Liszt describes the eyes as blue, Karasowski as dark brown, and M. Mathias as "couleur de biere." [FOOTNOTE: This strange expression we find again in Count Wodzinski's Les trois Romans de Frederic Chopin, where the author says: "His large limpid, expressive, and soft eyes had that tint which ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... verriez nos p'tits soldats, J'vous assure qu'ils seraient un peu la, Habilles, D'la tete jusqu'aux pieds, En khaki, en khaki, Ils seraient fiers de repartir, Pour le front avec plaisir, Si les quatre poches etaient bien games De billets bleus couleur khaki. ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
... puissants! quelle trange pleur 635 De son teint tout coup efface la couleur? Esther, que craignez-vous? Suis-je pas votre frre? Est-ce pour vous qu'est fait un ordre si svre? Vivez, le sceptre d'or, que vous tend cette main, Pour vous de ma clmence est un ...
— Esther • Jean Racine |
