"Bisque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a poor relation to most of the residences there. The black areaway rail is broken, and the basement-door grill is rusty. But at the windows are red-and-white-figured chintz curtains, with a $2.98 bisque figurine of an unclothed lady between them; the door is of spotless white, with ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
... Turbots to remove the Soops. Haunch of Venison. Palaits de Mouton. Selle de Mouton. Salade. Saucisses au Ecrevisses. Boudin Blanc a le Reine. Petits Pates a l'Espaniol. Coteletts a la Cardinal. Selle d'Agneau glace aux Cocombres. Saumon a la Chambord. Fillets de Saules Royales. Une bisque de Lait de Maquereaux. Un Lambert aux Innocents. Des Perdrix Sauce Vin de Champaign. Poulets a le Russiene. Ris de Veau en Arlequin. Quee d'Agneau a la Montaban. Dix Cailles. Un Lapreau. Un Phesant. Dix Ortolans. Une Tourte de Cerises. Artichaux a le Provensalle. Choufleurs au ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... and showed a flash of white teeth. "You bet! How's Gwendolyn?" nodding toward the great bisque doll seated in the wonderful doll carriage. "I wish I had ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... Palestine Soup Black Bean Soup Parker House Tomato Soup Celery Soup Bisque of Prawns or Shrimps Lobster Soup Venison Soup Puree of Venison Clear Soup Stock Daniel Webster's Chowder Scott's Chowder Marblehead Chowder Clam Chowder I Clam Chowder II Force ...
— Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures • Joe Tilden
... evident that she was speaking the truth, for they disappeared in an instant, and were followed by a bisque of shrimps of ...
— Fair Margaret - A Portrait • Francis Marion Crawford
... a toy theater, also a full morocco set of Lives of Famous Musicians, in six volumes, this being an afterthought of Pope's, who feared the effects of Bob's low musical tastes upon a tender child. In addition to all these there was an elaborate enameled baby's bed with garlands of bisque flowers and a point d'esprit canopy. This Adoree's sad-faced footman had held upon the front of the automobile during an embarrassing trip up Fifth ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... ornament is of porcelain, four porcelain figures to match have at least a logical reason for their presence, or a bisque "garden" set of vases and balustrades, with small flowers and vines put in the vases to look as though they were growing, follows out the decoration. Most people, however, like ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... the summer landscape seems dry and dusty, but after living here one grows to love the peculiar soft tones of tan and bisque, with bright shades of ice plant for color, and by the sea the wonderful blues and greens of the water. No one can do justice to the glory of that. Sky-blue, sea-blue, the shimmer of peacocks' tails and the calm of that ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane |
