"Chef-d'oeuvre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thrown Mary Snow in his way, he would not have gone out of his way to seek a subject for his experiment. Mary Snow was the daughter of an engraver,—not of an artist who receives four or five thousand pounds for engraving the chef-d'oeuvre of a modern painter,—but of a man who executed flourishes on ornamental cards for tradespeople, and assisted in the illustration of circus playbills. With this man Graham had become acquainted through certain transactions of his with the press, and had found him to be ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... of the elaborate character of the German entrenchments, and of the British genius for comfort developed in our own lines, but it is doubtful whether anything done by either side in that direction has surpassed the chef-d'oeuvre of an ingenious French engineer shown in our illustration. At one point in the French trenches not seven hundred yards from those of the enemy, and within two miles of the German artillery, he constructed ...
— The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 • Various
... greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place is equal to any. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a 'chef-d'oeuvre' for the highest; And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow-crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger ...
— The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson
... les oriflammes Et les clairons, sacre devant le monde entier Par Urbain quatre, pape, et fils d'un savetier? Que voulez-vous qu'on fasse a de tels miserables? Avoir mis son doigt noir sur ces yeux adorables! Ce chef-d'oeuvre du Dieu vivant, l'avoir detruit! Quelle mamelle d'ombre et d'horreur et de nuit, Dieu juste, a donc ete de ce monstre nourrice? Un tel homme suffit pour qu'un siecle pourrisse. Plus de bien ni de mal, ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo |
