"Ranz des vaches" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up and down the precipices to the chalet. When they reached the sodded arena, the men commenced milking the cows, the girls set in motion the different processes of the dairy, and the whole united in singing the Ranz des Vaches of the district. It is generally and erroneously believed that there is a particular air which is known throughout Switzerland by this name, whereas in truth nearly every canton has its own song of the mountains, each varying from the others in the notes, as ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... times he hears in his dreams The Ranz des Vaches of old, And the rush of mountain streams ...
— Graded Memory Selections • Various
... hearts; whenever the ruins of an Austrian fortress darken with the remains of frowning walls the round eminences of Uri or Claris; and whenever a calm sunbeam gilds on the declivity of a village the green velvet of the meadows where the herds are feeding to the tinkling of bells and the echo of the Ranz des Vaches—so often the imagination traces in all these varied scenes the hat on the summit of the pole—the archer condemned to aim at the apple placed on the head of his own child—the mark hurled to the ground, transfixed by the unerring arrow—the ...
— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden |
