"Creme" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... recall, in connection with social functions, the not uncommon name of Brown. The particular Brown to whom I refer was the sexton of Grace Episcopal Church, on the corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, where many of the soi-disant creme de la creme worshiped. He must have possessed a christian name, but if so I never heard it for he was only plain Brown, and Brown he was called. He was born before the days when spurious genealogical charts are thrust at one, nolens volens; but probably this was lucky for him and the public ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur
... the chauffeur knew by instinct what I liked best to eat, and he must have had a very persuasive way with the waiter. There was creme d'orge, in a big cup; there were sweetbreads, and there was lemon meringue. Nothing ever tasted better since my "birthday feasts" as a child, when I was allowed to order ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... she had half feared it might. She seated herself at a small table alone, and an attentive waiter at once approached to take her order. She did not want a profusion; she craved a nice and tasty bite—a half dozen blue-points, a plump chop with cress, a something sweet—a creme-frappee, for instance; a glass of Rhine wine, and after all a small cup of ...
— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin
... ring! merry bells, ring! O fortunate few, With letters blue, Good for a seat and a nearer view! Fortunate few, whom I dare not name; Dilettanti! Creme de la creme! We commoners stood by the street facade, And caught a glimpse of the cavalcade. We saw the bride In diamond pride, With jeweled maidens to guard her side—— Six lustrous maidens in tarletan. She led the van of the caravan; Close behind ...
— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor - Volume I • Various
... in allusion to the jerking practice called Inwa. Again in the "First Shaykh's Story" (vol. i. 27) the "maillet" is mentioned as the means of slaughtering cattle, because familiar to European readers: at the end of the tale it becomes "le couteaufuneste." In Badral Din a "tarte a la creme," so well known to the West, displaces, naturally enough, the outlandish "mess of pomegranate-seeds." Though the text especially tells us the hero removed his bag-trousers (not only "son habit") and placed them under the pillow, a crucial fact in the history, our Professor sends him ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... reprehensible," said the Tennessee Shad. "No, the highest principle in finance, the real cream de la creme, is to make others pay you for what you want them ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
... ring! O fortunate few, With letters blue, Good for a seat and a nearer view! Fortunate few, whom I dare not name; Dilettanti! Creme de la Creme! We commoners stood by the street facade, And caught a glimpse of the cavalcade. We saw the bride In diamond pride, With jeweled maidens to guard her side— Six lustrous maidens in tarletan. She led the van of the caravan; Close behind ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various
... vendanges: ils savent le garder ainsi toute l'annee; c'est un secret qu'ils ont. Les Turcs m'y regalerent de roti; mais il n'etoit pas cuit a moitie. A mesure que la viande se rotissoit, nous la coupions a la broche par tranches. Nous eumes aussi du kaymac; c'est de la creme de buffle. Elle etoit si bonne et si douce, et j'en mangeai tant que ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt |
