"Au" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... even while he is doing it, the ease with which he does it. If, he says, they find it troublesome crossing the marshy place by Numa's farm,—le platin a cote d' l'habitation a Numa,—then it will be well to virer de bord—go about, et naviguer au large—sail across the open prairie. "Adjieu." He takes up his fagots again, and watches the spattering squad trot away in the storm, wondering why there is no ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... Marquis, springing back beyond my reach. "What can a man do with naught but fools and poltroons to serve him? Faugh! We will continue our sword-play at St. Sulpice des Reaux to-night. Au ...
— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini
... "opened the conversation by saying in his most pontifical manner, 'Chesterton, you wr-r-ite very well.'" Chesterton was then 26, Belloc four years older. It was at the Mont Blanc, a restaurant in Gerrard St., Soho, and the meeting was celebrated with a bottle of Moulin au Vent. ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... Corps mort, Royde come un Baston, Froid comme Marbre, Leger come un esprit, Levons to au ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... s'abaisser a toutes leurs occupations; ils ne se marient jamais, ils assistent a tous les exercises ou la religion semble avoir part, et cette profession de vie extraordinaire les fait passer pour des gens d'un ordre superieur et au-dessus ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854 • Various
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