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Placards, rich in indicative illustrations of hands all forefingers, point, with a directness never vouchsafed the sinner eager to find the way to right and duty, to the inn of "L'Incomparable, la Fameuse Omelette!" The pilgrims meekly descend at that shrine.
«§ 920. Je reviens aux observations. Il en est une très importante pour la théorie de la terre, dont on peut du haut du Cramont apprécier la valeur, mieux que d'aucun autre site; je veux parler de la fameuse observation de Bourguet sur la correspondance des angles saillans avec les angles rentrans des vallées. J'ai a déj
White in the gathering dusk, Rogers saw the strip of roadway where passed the gorgeous coach cette fameuse diligence du milord marshal Keith or more recent, but grimmer memory, where General Bourbaki's division of the French army, 80,000 strong, trailed in unspeakable anguish, hurrying from the Prussians.
Every Russian looking at Moscow feels her to be a mother; every foreigner who sees her, even if ignorant of her significance as the mother city, must feel her feminine character, and Napoleon felt it. "Cette ville asiatique aux innombrables eglises, Moscou la sainte. La voila done enfin, cette fameuse ville!
Now it so happens that in the course of time certain great races of the apple-tree have arisen, we do not know just why or how. There is the race or family of the russets and of the Fameuse. So are there several races very small in stature, remaining perhaps no larger than bushes. If we were to propagate any of the ordinary apples on such diminutive stocks, we should have a "dwarf apple-tree."
A small orchard provided them with apples, the taste of which was well known to every person in the parish, especially the children, for Parson Dan seldom started forth without his pockets filled with Russets, Pippins, or Fameuse. Mrs. Royal had her hens, and no eggs seemed as large and fresh as the ones she often sent to some sick or aged person, in the parish. While Mrs.
Soon after she was married she and her husband quarrelled about an apple tree they had planted in their orchard. The label was lost. He said it was a Fameuse and she declared it was a Yellow Transparent. They fought over it till the neighbours came out to listen. Finally he got so angry that he told her to shut up.
"Halloo! halloo!" shouted his attendant, "help! help!" and he got at both bells and rang away with might and main; but before any one came the banker was out of bed, struck his attendant a blow in the eye, which made him see one hundred and forty-six suns, and laid him upon the floor, after which he commenced waltzing en chemise in his delirium, all round the room with a chair, dragging after him the unfortunate hero of the pestle and mortar, and roaring at the top of his voice these lines of Racine: Peut-être on t'a conté la fameuse disgrâce De l'altière Vasthi dont j'occupe la place, Lorsque le Roi, centre elle enflammé de dépit,
Eyes like a deer, face like a mayflower, voice like the "D" string in a 'cello, she was the picture of Drummond's girl in "The Habitant": "She's nicer girl on whole Comte, an' jus' got eighteen year Black eye, black hair, and cheek rosee dat's lak wan Fameuse on de fall; But don't spik much, not of dat kin', I can't say she love me at all." With her Jean plunged into love.
It is the long sunlight that gives the fruit of Niagara and Quebec and Annapolis its "fameuse" quality; just as it is the sunlight that gives western fruit its finest coloring, the higher up the plateau it is grown. It is the long sunlight that gives Number One Hard Wheat its white fine quality so indispensable to the millers.
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