"Midi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Midi Station at midnight and arrive in Paris at half-past five. I will engage sleeping berths, and I will telephone to my friend, Inspector Dricot, at the Prefecture, to send an agent of the brigade mobile to meet us. ...
— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux
... is something strange. For Bearn lies in the Midi, close to the Pyrenees; and, as I understand, the regiment of Bearn was recruited and officered almost entirely from its own province. But this Sergeant a Clive comes from the north; his speech has no taste of the south in it, and indeed he ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... ploughed up and men and women are busy sowing and planting; too far off to disturb us with noise, but looking, the women at least, rather picturesque in their short blue dresses and straw hats. On the right hand the Dent du Midi is seen to great advantage; it is now covered with snow. The little village of St. Leger lies off in the distance; you can just see its roofs and the quaint spire of a very old church; otherwise you see next to no houses, and ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... "The Three Kingdoms." He gave me a kindly welcome, and was pleased to talk in his own tongue. An excellent bottle of rich wine was produced, and over the glass the Father painted with voluble energy the evil qualities of the people whom he has left his beautiful home in the Midi of France to lead to Rome. "No Chinaman can resist temptation; all are thieves. Justice depends on the richness of the accused. Victory in a court of justice is to the richer. Talk to the Chinese of Religion, ...
— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison
... ten dishes of various eatables makes its appearance in foreign inns; particularly when he remembers the perpetual mutton chop and mashed potatoes of the English road. The author remembers arriving at a roadside inn, in a remote part of Dauphiny, immediately under the foot of the Pic du Midi. On looking at the clay floor, and the worn state of the furniture, he remarked to his friend, "Surely we can get no dinner here." "Wait till you see," was his answer. In about half-an-hour, the table (though propped up) was spread with a clean table-cloth; and successive ...
— Thrift • Samuel Smiles
... son of a farmer of Moranges, was a big boy of twenty years, known throughout the country for his prodigious strength. During a festival at Toulouse he had vanquished Martial, the "Lion of the Midi." With that, a nice boy, with a heart of gold. He was even timid, and he blushed when Veronique looked him squarely in ...
— The Flood • Emile Zola
... d'Elbingerode dans l'apres midi pour nous rapprocher de Clausthal. Notre chemin fut encore quelque tems sur des sommites calcaires; et avant que d'en sortir, nous trouvames une autre mine singuliere a Arenfeld. C'est encore un vrai filon; mais dans une montagne de pierre ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... accommodation. Though the weather remained uncertain and the woods with their leafless trees did not seem to offer the prospect of very enticing walks, I still felt that here there was a possibility of my being forgotten, and being also in my turn allowed to forget the events that had lately filled me with Midi desperate anxiety. My old artistic instinct awoke again. I looked over my Lohengrin score, and quickly decided to send it to Liszt and leave it to him to bring it out as best he could. Now that I had got rid of this score also, I felt as free as a bird and as careless ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... Reuter's domicile, I was at least equally punctual in arriving there; I came the next day at five minutes before two, and on reaching the schoolroom door, before I opened it, I heard a rapid, gabbling sound, which warned me that the "priere du midi" was not yet concluded. I waited the termination thereof; it would have been impious to intrude my heretical presence during its progress. How the repeater of the prayer did cackle and splutter! I never before or since ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... Tour in Normandy, I. p. 139.—The mention of this sculpture affords an opportunity of pointing out what appears a singular error on the part of the late M. Millin, in his Voyage dans les Departemens du Midi de la France. He has figured, in the atlas to that work, plate twelve, a bas-relief of the eleventh century, representing the assassination of Count Dalmace, by the hands of his son-in-law, Robert I. Duke of Burgundy; and, in the ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... art and ethics destined to leaven the mass of human thought, the infinitude and grandeur of mountain scenery had a dispersive effect on Javelle's mind. I can so well understand him. He wandered over the chain of Valais—my mountains (each worshipper has his special idols)—the Dent du Midi, the Vaudois Alps, and the Bernese Oberland in search of beauty, more and more beauty. He ascended peak after peak, attracted by an irresistible force, permeated by a desire for new points of view, forgetful of ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby
... not seem to suffer much at sea. Some of the camels imported by the U.S. government into Texas from the Crimea and Northern Africa were a whole year on shipboard. On the other hand, George Sand, in Un Hiver au Midi, gives an amusing description of the sea-sickness of swine in the short passage from the Baleares to Barcelona. America had no domestic quadruped but a species of dog, the lama tribe, and, to a certain extent, the bison or buffalo. [Footnote: See Chapter III., post; also Humboldt, ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh
... this get into a travelling-suit and put what money and valuables you have into your pockets. Then go to a dark-green car which will await you by the reservoir in the Boulevard du Midi. Trust the driver. You must get over the frontier into Italy at the earliest moment. Every second's delay is dangerous to you. Do not trouble to find out who sends you this warning! ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
... in reading Gogol that he was a man of the South—"homme du Midi." In all countries of the world, there is a marked difference between the Northern and the Southern temperament. The southern sun seems to make human nature more mellow. Southerners are more warm-hearted, more emotional, more hospitable, and much more ...
— Essays on Russian Novelists • William Lyon Phelps
... juncture, Potiphar and his minions break upon the scene. His wife, after denouncing Joseph, is distracted between passion of hatred and passion of love, and there is some play (reminding one of L'Apres-midi d'un Faune) with the purple cloak which Joseph had discarded. Presently she eludes her dilemma ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 • Various
... aieux qui lui sont apparus, On le mene a l'eglise ou dort Borivorus; L'eveque lui benit la bouche et la paupiere, Et met dans ses deux mains les deux haches de pierre Dont Attila frappait juste comme la mort, D'un bras sur le midi, de l'autre sur ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... scene. She had grown to love Lac Leman and the mountains amid which it lay. Opposite her, on the far side of the water, the beautiful Savoy range sloped upwards from the shore, brooding maternally above the villages which fringed the borders of the lake, while to her left the snow-capped Dents du Midi, almost dazzling in the brilliant sunshine, guarded the gracious valley of ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... nameless tips. Two especially arrest attention, south and southeast, for they rise head and shoulders above their neighbors. Each bears the name of the Pic du Midi. That opposite us, dominating the valley of Ossau, is the Pic du Midi d'Ossau. ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
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— The Beggar's Opera - to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song • John Gay
... an essential unity, a sublimate of art. This style was at first employed with restraint in his earlier works, but Mallarme had boldly proclaimed it in a verse on Theophile Gautier and in l'Apres-midi du faune, an eclogue where the subtleties of sensual joys are described in mysterious and caressing verses suddenly pierced by this wild, rending ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... town, well worth a visit. Permit me to recommend you, sirs, that you stop at the Hotel du Midi. The proprietor is a relative of mine—a nephew, in fact; he will ...
— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... Pierre Pointue, which hangs with its flag nearly seven thousand feet above sea level, and high over the seracs of the Glacier des Bossons, we began the ascent by way of the Pierre a l'Echelle and over the missile-scarred foot of the Aiguille du Midi. The upper part of this mountain as seen from Chamonix looks quite sharp-pointed enough to deserve its name of the "Needle of the South." The side toward the Glacier des Bossons is exceedingly steep, and when the snows are melting the peak becomes a perfect catapult, ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various
... nous ouvre la barriere, La liberte guide nos pas, Et du nord au midi, la trompette guerriere A sonne l'heure des combats; Tremblez enemis de la France, Rois ivres de sang et d'orgueil, Le peuple souverain s'avance; Tyrans, descendez au cercueil! La Republique nous appelle, Sachons vaincre ou sachons perir, ...
— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston |
