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"Tels sont les cailloux en boules et rognons avant leur état de perfection, il y aura même au milieu une partie de pierre calcaire non changée.
There I shall visit a real barber; pass the time of day with my friend Henriette, whose black eyes and ready tongue grace a book shop of the Rue des Trois Cailloux; dine greatly at a little restaurant in the Rue du Corps Nu Sans Tête; and return with reinforcements of Anatole France, collar-studs, and French slang.
«Quelques-uns de ces bancs, remplis de cailloux, offrent une particularité bien remarquable; on voit
Coming away from the cathedral through a side-street going into the rue des Trois Cailloux, I used to pass the Palais de Justice a big, grim building, with a long flight of steps leading up to its doorways, and above the portico the figure of Justice, blind, holding her scales.
The Street of the Three Pebbles la rue des Trois Cailloux which goes up from the station through the heart of Amiens, was the crowded highway. She had been in Amiens, as I was, on a dreadful night of August of 1914, when the French army passed through in retreat from Bapaume, and she and the people of her city knew for the first time that the Germans were close upon them.
Upon this occasion Mr Reboul observes: «Les ruines amoncelées et la grand quantité de cailloux roulés qui forment ces digues naturelles, invitent sans doute
It had come on to rain, I know not what had happened to the moon, and the whole place was anything but gay. It was not what I had looked for; what I had looked for was in the irrecoverable past. I groped my way back to the inn over the infernal cailloux, feeling like a discomfited Dogberry. I had chosen it for the sake of this exceptional ornament.
This decomposition of the sand stone we shall find also explained from what follows of the description of this place. Tous les bancs de grès que l'on voit sur cette montagne ne renferment pas des cailloux roulés; il y a des alternatives irrégulières, de bancs de grés pur, et de bancs de grès mêlé de cailloux. Les plus élevés n'en contiennent point.
«§ 691. La nature même de la matière qu'enveloppe les cailloux de ces poudingues rend ce fait plus curieux et plus décisif. Car si c'étoit une pâte informe et grossière, on pourroit croire que ces cailloux et la pâte qui les lie ont été jetés pêle-mêle dans quelques crevasses verticales, où la partie liquide c'est endurcie par le dessèchement. Mais bien loin de-l
In this abortive attempt, Captain Andrew Cailloux and Second Lieutenant John H. Crowder, of the 1st regiment, were instantly killed. Cailloux, who is said to have been a free man of color, although all the officers of his race were at that time supposed to have resigned, fell at the head of the leading company of his regiment, while gallantly cheering on his men.
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