"Glace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mince cristal l'hiver conduit leurs pas, Le precipice est sous la glace: Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface: Glissez, ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson
... on Mont Blanc. Weary, scorched by the sun, De Stael and Recamier protested that they would go no farther. In vain the guide boasted, both in French and German, of the spectacle presented by the Mer de Glace. "Should you persuade me in all the languages of Europe," replied Madame de Stael, "I would not go another step." During the long and cruel banishment inflicted by Napoleon on this eloquent woman, the bold champion of liberty, her friend often paid her visits, and constantly ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger
... were up betimes. The harim had begged of me to wear an English ball-dress, that they might see what it was like. I said, "I will do what you ask, but I know that you will be shocked." "Oh no," they replied; "we are quite sure we shall be delighted." So I wore a white glace silk skirt, a turquoise blue tunic and corsage, the whole affair looped up and trimmed with blush roses, and the same flowers in my hair. Thus arrayed I appeared before the harim. They turned me round and round, and often asked me if I were not very cold about the shoulders; if it were really ...
— The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins
... premises, but it was still Mrs. Shaw's characteristic conclusion, as she thought over her sister's lot: 'Married for love, what can dearest Maria have to wish for in this world?' Mrs. Hale, if she spoke truth, might have answered with a ready-made list, 'a silver-grey glace silk, a white chip bonnet, oh! dozens of things for the wedding, and hundreds of things for the house.' Margaret only knew that her mother had not found it convenient to come, and she was not sorry to think that ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... answer. If you were a Raffaelle in glace silk and crinoline, you would tell me no more than that. I can only hope that some happy accident will one day give me an opportunity of judging for myself. And now, I think, you had better put on your hat. Our train ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... when it is ready dissolve in it an ounce of Nelson's Gelatine, previously soaked in half-a-pint of milk. When made, the quantity of custard should be fully a pint-and-a-half, otherwise the cream may be too stiff. When the cream is cool, put a little into a mould, previously ornamented with glace cherries and little pieces of angelica to represent leaves. The fruit is all the better if soaked in a little brandy, as are the cakes, but milk can be used for these last. Put a portion of two ounces ...
— Nelson's Home Comforts - Thirteenth Edition • Mary Hooper
... la julienne avec des macaroni-dumplings. Potage de poison (sic) avec des pommes de terre. Pudding de Nordahl. Glace du Greenland. De la table biere de la Ringnaees. ...
— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen
... he said. "M. de Wardes, I wish to talk with you. Do not leave us, Raoul; every one can hear what I have to say to M. de Wardes." His smile immediately faded away, and his glace became cold and sharp as ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... be of black kid, suede, or black silk. In the evening, black suede or glace, or white suede should be worn. White gloves with black stitching should not ...
— The Book of Good Manners • W. C. Green
... candles fell on revolving tulle skirts, on girlish heads wreathed with modest blossoms, on the dashing aigrettes and ornaments of the young married women's coiffures, and on the glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fresh glace gloves. ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton
... small pieces stale sponge cake or lady fingers, a few macaroons, some French cherries and apricots (glace), and mix all together. Make a custard of 1 quart milk and 6 eggs, and when cooked, reserve 1 cupful for a sauce, and add to the remainder 1/4 ounce of gelatine. Put the mixture of cake and fruit in an ice cream mold and strain the custard over it, and place it in the freezer, ...
— The Cookery Blue Book • Society for Christian Work of the First Unitarian Church, San
... on, I think," she told Katy one night. "She says 'Biscuit glace' quite nicely now. But I never will let her look at the book, though she always wants to; for if once she saw how the words are spelled, she would never in the world pronounce them right again. They look so very ...
— What Katy Did Next • Susan Coolidge
... Dress of glace silk, shaded in light green and lilac. The skirt trimmed with four rows of fringe of green and lilac silk intermingled. The corsage low and plain, with a pelerine which passes along the back and shoulders, and is brought down to the front of the waist ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
... I want you to insist that aunt Gertrude and I ought to make the ascent of Montanvert and visit the Mer de Glace— before ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... de hameaux entoures d'arbres et de champs bien cultives. Au moment ou l'on arrive au Montanvert, la scene change; et au lieu de cette riante et fertile vallee, on se trouve presqu'au bord d'un precipice, dont le fond est une vallee beaucoup plus large et plus etendue, remplie de neige et de glace, et bordee de montagnes colossales, qui etonnent par leur hauteur et par leurs formes, et qui effraient par leur sterilite ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton |
