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Updated: June 19, 2025
Creeping a little farther into the swamp, I lay concealed for about three hours in the most painful position, sometimes moving a few yards almost ventre
"For supper; yes, let us sup " And Chicot made a fruitless effort to rise. "Ventre St. Gris! how quickly you get drunk. But go along, mordieu! she is getting impatient." "She, who?" "The lady I expect." "A lady; why did you not say, Henriquet? Ah! pardon, I thought I was speaking to the king of France. He has spoiled me, that good Henriquet. Ah! I will go." "You are a gentleman, Chicot.
The young man seized his opponent by the body, threw him down, and bound him with his belt. Chicot soon wounded his adversary, who was very corpulent, between the ribs; he fell, and Chicot, putting his foot on his sword to prevent him from using it, cut the strings of his mask. "M. de Mayenne! ventre de biche, I thought so," said he.
Francois would have stopped if he could, for he feared they were taking him to an ambush, but it was too late, and in a few minutes he found himself in a small open space, where eight or ten men on horseback were drawn up. "Oh! oh!" said the prince, "what does this mean, monsieur?" "Ventre St. Gris! it means that we are saved." "You! Henri!" cried the duke, stupefied, "you! my liberator?"
Argyll, obviously, did not share much of his Chamberlain's excitement. "There was no more than one there?" he asked, sprinkling sand upon his finished letter. "No! Then there seems no great excuse for your extreme perturbation, my good Sim. I'm lord of Argyll, but I'm not lord of the king's highway, and if an honest stranger cares to take a freeman's privilege and stand between the wind and Simon MacTaggart's dignity Simon MacTaggart's very touchy dignity, it would appear who am I that I should blame the liberty? You did not ride ventre
A shattered stool, broken in a frolic, and half a dozen empty wine-skins strewed the floor, and helped to give the place an air of untidiness and disorder. I looked round with eyes of disgust, and my gorge rose. They had spilled oil, and the place reeked foully. 'VENTRE BLEU! I said. 'Is this conduct in a gentleman's house, you rascals?
And she ended with a strange amusement which consisted of swinging to right and left, her knees apart and her body swaying from the waist with the perpetual jogging, twitching movements peculiar to an oriental dancer in the danse du ventre. Muffat sat looking at her. She frightened him. The newspaper had dropped from his hand. For a moment he saw her as she was, and he despised himself.
Such is the description of the vegetables in Zola's "Ventre de Paris," where, if one wishes to see the apotheosis of turnips, beets, and cabbages, he can find them glorified as supremely as if they had been symbols of so many deities; their forms, their colors, their expression, worked upon until they seem as if they were made to be looked at and worshipped rather than to be boiled and eaten.
The figures issuing in a dense mass from the gate were horsemen, all; and they were riding full drive, ventre
The soldiers of M. de Vezin now tried to dislodge Henri and his advanced guards, who received them sword in hand; but the besieged were the strongest, and succeeded in forcing Henri and his troops back beyond the fosse. "Ventre St. Gris!" cried the king, "I believe my flag retreats; I must carry it myself."
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