"Bleu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cause Irish Particular One Good Turn deserves Another Sticky The Poet Foiled Black and White Inquest—not Extraordinary Domestic Economy On Seeing an Execution A Voice, and Nothing Else The Amende Honorable The Czar Bas-Bleu To a Rich Young Widow The Railway of Life A Conjugal Conundrum Numbers Altered Grammar for the Court of Berlin The Empty Bottle Aytoun The Death of Doctor Morrison Bentley's Miscellany Epigrams by John G. Saxe. On a Recent Classic Controversy ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... extravagant badinage, into appointing the negro boy to be Governor of the Chateau and Pavilion of Louveciennes at a handsome salary, just as, on another day, she playfully teased the jaded old sensualist into decorating with the cordon bleu her cuisiniere when it was triumphantly revealed to him that the dinner he had been praising with enthusiastic gusto was, after all, the work of a woman cook, the very possibility of which he had contemptuously doubted. ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... that Mademoiselle Mimi was worthy of the azure scarf with which the empresses of the cooking stove were adorned, a phrase which was Greek to the young girl, and which Rodolphe translated by telling her "that she would make a capital Cordon Bleu." ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger
... mention of the Solitaire as inhabiting Bourbon, either in Pere Brown's letter or in the Voyage de l'Arabic Heureuse, from whence the notice of the Oiseau Bleu was extracted. I have since seen Dellon, Relation d'un Voyage des Indes Orientales, 2 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1685, in which there is a brief notice of the Isle of Bourbon or Mascarin; but neither the Dodo, the Solitaire, or the Oiseau Bleu are noticed. The large Bat ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 30. Saturday, May 25, 1850 • Various
... crystallise en mamelons ou stalagmitique. D'autres encore sont, de calcedoine, mais recouverts d'une croute, tantot blanche qui fait effervescence avec l'acide mineral, et qui est, par consequent, de nature calcaire; tantot cette croute est bleue foncee nuancee de bleu-celeste; tantot, enfin, elle est noire, mais toutes les deux refractaires. Outre ces crystallisations silicieuses, il y en a, quoique rarement, de quartzeuses, qui ou forment de petites veines de crystal, ou bien des groupes de crystaux quartzeux, ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
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