"Hiver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fut pas un instant refroidi. Tout juste vers ce temps-l, l'oncle Baptiste se dgota subitement de son perroquet et me le donna. Ce perroquet remplaa Vendredi. Je l'installai dans une belle cage au fond de ma rsidence d'hiver, et me voil, plus Cruso que jamais, passant mes journes en tte—tte avec cet intressant volatile et cherchant lui faire dire: "Robinson, mon pauvre [8] Robinson!" Comprenez-vous cela? Ce perroquet, ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... quadrangular space between flat walls, pierced by from 3 to 4 stories of windows, not on the same level nor of the same size. From the court ascend the Escalier d'Honneur, agroined staircase, of which the steps were formerly of marble, to the Salle Consistoriale d'Hiver, with an elegantly-groined roof. Before this hall was divided into two, it was 52 ft. high, 65 wide, and 170 long. From it we enter the Salle d'Armes, with mural paintings by Simone Memmi of Sienna. Ascending higher the grand staircase, we pass on ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... dans le ciel, Vos cimes couronnees D'un hiver eternelle, Pour nous livrer passage Ouvrez vos larges flancs, Faites faire l'orage, Voici, ...
— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar
... perpendiculaires. Entre ces couches il s'en est trouve de plus noires que les autres et capable de bruler, mais difficilement. Les habitans ont extrait beaucoup de cette matiere terreuse, et lui ont donne le nom de charbon de terre. Ils viennent meme a bout de la faire bruler, et de s'en servir l'hiver en la melant avec du bois. Ce schiste noir particulier m'a paru exister principalement dans les endroits ou les eaux se sont infiltrees entre les couches perpendiculaires, et y ont entraine diverse matieres, ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... did not gain much either by this expedition. George Sand finished her novel entitled Spiridion at Valdemosa. She had commenced it before starting for Spain. In a volume on Un hiver a Majorque she gave some fine descriptions, and also a harsh accusation of the monks, whom she held responsible for all the mishaps of the Sand caravan. She considered that the Majorcans had been brutalized and fanaticized, thanks to their influence. As to Chopin, he was ...
— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic
... Hotel des Invalides, on the avenue des Champs Elysees, is the fashionable Jardin d'Hiver, a roofed garden of hot-houses, and which is open in winter as a flower-garden. The admittance is not free, but costs a franc. It often contains very fine collections of the costliest and rarest of plants and flowers. The French exquisites in the cold and chilly weather are fond of frequenting ...
— Paris: With Pen and Pencil - Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business • David W. Bartlett
... composer recovered his health for a time. Chopin declared that the destruction of his relations with Madame Dudevant in 1847 broke up his life. The association of these two artists has provoked a whole literature on the nature of their relations, of which the novelist's Un Hiver a Majorque was the beginning. The last ten years of Chopin's life were a continual struggle with the pulmonary disease to which he succumbed in Paris on the 17th of October 1849. The year before his death he visited England, where he was received with enthusiasm ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various |
