"Sarrasine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vents," we descended to the kitchen of the farmer who rents the house, which now belongs to the Tocqueville family. His wife was busily employed in making "crepes," a favourite kind of cake in Normandy and Brittany. It is made generally of the flour of the sarrasin or buckwheat, mixed with milk or water, and spread into a kind of pancake, which is fried on an iron pan, resembling the Scotch griddle-cakes. Another variety, called "galette," is made of the same ingredients, but differs from the crepe in its being made three ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... difficultes, passoit alors pour impossible. En vain ses camarades essaient de l'en detourner: il s'y obstine; il part, et, apres avoir surmonte tous les obstacles, il revient, dans le cours de l'annee 1433, se presenter au duc sous le costume Sarrasin, qu'il avoit ete oblige de prendre, et avec le cheval qui seul avoit fourni ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt |
