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... odieux de cette nation infernale, rather than our petits maitres here, in Caca du Dauphin, Boue de Paris, Bile repandue du Comte d'Artois, ou vomis (sic) de la Reine. Ce sont les couleurs les plus a la mode, et pour le ...

— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... and the last dinner, at which the writer distinguished himself, and the host-in-himself was at last allowed to manipulate (with accompanying lecture) a marvellous bivouac-tin containing a compound called beef a la mode, which came provided with its own spirits of wine and wick, both of which proved ineffectual to raise the temperature of the beef above a mediocre tepidity. Parker, having heard that the remains of this toothsome ...

— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman

... wheeled, touched his thumb to his nose at Tilghman. "You are dished," he whispered. "The general dresses too well himself to misjudge a man because he tries to keep neat and a la mode." ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... not have enjoyed much in the way of appreciation outside of a few artists of their time, and even now they may be said to be the artists for artists. It is reasonable to hope that they were not successful, since that which was a la mode in the expression of their time was essentially of the dry Academy. One would hardly think of Homer Martin's "Border of the Seine" landscape in the Metropolitan Museum, hardly more then than now, and it leaves many a painter flat in appreciation of its great dignity, austerity, ...

— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley

... Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding. Horseradish Sauce. Potatoes a la mode and Brussels Sprouts. Plum Pudding. Mince Pies. Caviare Antarctic. Crystallised fruits. Chocolate Bonbons. Butter Bonbons. Walnut ...

— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans

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