"Frappe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... voulu lui soumettre, ayant pour objet d'etablir le fait que Mlle. Mitchell ait la premiere decouvert la comete telescopique d'Octobre de l'an dernier, a bien voulu trouver ces preuves suffisantes, et a ordonne qu'on frappe une medaille, afin de la lui faire presenter comme une marque de distinction que sa Majeste croit qu'elle merite en effet, quoiqu'elle n'ait pas rigoureusement observe les formalites prescrites par le Roi Frederic VI., fondateur de ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... sort of person." At the annual dinner of the club, which took place in a private dining room at the "Clarry" (the Clarendon Hotel) in February, Forbes was called upon to respond to the toast "The Real Kathleen." His voice, tremulous with emotion and absinthe frappe, nearly failed him; but he managed to stammer a few phrases which, thought at the time to be extemporaneous, called forth loud applause; but it was found later that he had jotted them down on the tablecloth during the soup and fish courses. "Fellow Scorpers," he said, "I mean you chaps, look ...
— Kathleen • Christopher Morley
... Comte de Chavannes," he said, slowly, "car je vous connais, et vous me connaitrez aussi, je vous le jure; vous m'avez frappe, vous me rendrez ...
— Valerie • Frederick Marryat
... regarde attentivement, il se frappe le ventre et les genoux a plusieurs reprises et ne trouve jamais autre chose a leur dire que Eh bien! mes demoiselles.—Eh bien! vous voila donc.... Eh bien! vous voila ... vous voila ici? Cette phrase dura un quart d'heure sans qu'il put en sortir. Une d'elles ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... years opened the Maison Riche, a famous restaurant that went out of existence in the fire of 1906. Gourmets soon discovered that the California House offered something unusual and it became a famed resort. Somali's specialties were roast turkey, chateaubriand steak and coffee frappe. It is said of his turkeys that their flavor was of such excellence that one of the gourmands of that day, Michael Reece, would always order two when he gave a dinner—one for his guests and one for himself. It is also said ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes--The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords
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