"Loge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Garden, he said, and had taken nothing but a tankard of stout and a Welsh rarebit. He had been hearing the divinest singing—boys with the voices of angels—and had been taking his supper in a place which duchesses themselves did not disdain to peep at from the sacred recesses of a loge grillee, George Sheldon had told him. But poor country-bred Georgina Halliday would not believe in the duchesses, or the angelic singing boys, or the primitive simplicity of Welsh rarebits. She had a vision of beautiful women, and halls of dazzling light, where there was the mad music of ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
 Read full book for free!
... '79 or '80 it was bought by a syndicate of bankers and other rich business men who parted with it to its present proprietor. The Comte de Grammont Caderousse and his companions in what used to be known as the "Loge Infernale" at the old Opera, were the best-known patrons of the Anglais; and until the Opera House, replaced by the present building, was burnt down, the Anglais was a great supping-place, the little rabbit-hutches of ...
— The Gourmet's Guide to Europe • Algernon Bastard
Read full book for free!
... pasa ton onton physis ou dynatai chorein se ten proten physin; plerois gar auten alla kai pleion meneis, Theou Loge zon kai draki to pan pheron, kan sarx alethes heuretheis perigraphe, 5 psychais de pistais mystikos enidrye monen seauto pegnyon athanaton; oukoun dechou ton oikon hon teteucha soi deiknynta saphos tes psyches mou ten schesin; ton syzygon de pheu teleutesanta ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen
Read full book for free!
... son plus beau chapeau, son chapeau bleu" ... and then? Why, then picking up her skirt she threads her way through the crowded streets, reads the advertisements on the walls, hails the omnibus, inquires at the concierge's loge, murmurs as she goes upstairs, "Que c'est haut le cinqieme," and then? Why, the door opens, and she cries, ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore
Read full book for free! |
