"Frappe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... called him "Pudge." For months he had been reminding her that his name was Percival. And he wasn't wrecking his stomach. That was silly talk. He had eaten but two nut sundaes and a chocolate frappe since luncheon. It wasn't soda and candy that made him so fat. Some folks just were fat, and some folks were thin. That was all ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... 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. ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... simplicity:—"Depuis que FA HIAN avait quitte la terre de Han, plusieurs annees s'etaient ecoulees; les gens avec lesquels il avait des rapports etaient tous des hommes de contrees etrangeres. Les montagnes, les rivieres, les herbes, les arbres, tout ce qui avait frappe ses yeux etait nouveau pour lui. De plus, ceux qui avaient fait route avec lui, s'en etaient separes, les uns s'etant arretes, et les autres etant morts. En reflechissant au passe, son coeur etait toujours rempli de pensees et de tristesse. ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... water; one cup sugar; one can grated pineapple; two cups cream; make syrup by boiling sugar and water fifteen minutes; strain, cool, and add pineapple, and freeze to a mush. Fold in whip from cream; let stand thirty minutes before serving. Serve in frappe glasses and garnish with ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various
... PALLEGOIX, in his Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam, adverts to a sound produced by the elephant when weary: "quand il est fatigue, il frappe la terre avec sa trompe, et en tire un son semblable a celui ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
... enfin avec une telle furie que les Francais furent enfonces de tous cotes. Dans ce moment affreux ou les morts et les mourants jonchaient la terre, le premier Consul, place au milieu de sa garde, semblait immuable, insensible, et comme frappe de la foudre. Vainement les generaux lui depechaient coup sur coup leurs Aides de Camp, pour demander des secours; vainement les Aides de Camp attendaient les ordres; il n'endonnait aucune; il donnait a ...
— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison
... They had games on the wide lawn, they sang their sweet, happy choruses, Giuseppe played and danced, Peace and the preacher whistled, Elizabeth told them stories, and Aunt Pen surprised them all by serving sparkling frappe with huge slices of fig cake, such as only Minnie, the cook, could make. Then, as the afternoon drew to a close, and the matron began lining up her charges for the homeward walk, Tony and Lottie stepped out of the ranks and sang a pretty little verse of thanks for the ...
— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown
... garantir de la mort, pleuroit a chaudes larmes, et s'efforcoit de la toucher par les liens du sang, et de l'amitie qui les unissoit ensemble. Elle lui disoit sans cesse, 'C'en est donc fait; in veux que nous ne nous retrouvions jamais plus, et que nous ne nous revoyions jamais?' Le missionnaire, frappe de ces paroles, lui en demanda la raison. 'Il me semble,' dit-il, 'que vous avez un pays des ames, ou vous devez tous vous reunir a vos ancetres; pourquoi donc est ce que tu parles ainsi a la soeur?' ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton
... were any widows in the neighbourhood, and the lawyers inquired if the planters of the vicinity were any way litigious. By the bye, I have observed that Captain Finn was a celebrated character. As we warmed with the Madere frappe a glace, we pressed him to relate some of his wild adventures, with which request he readily complied; for he loved to rehearse his former exploits, and it was not always that he could narrate them to so numerous ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat
... restaurant. When the aged but indestructible banker opened his eyes he saw a beautiful vision bending over him with a pitiful, tender smile, bathing his forehead with beef tea and chafing his hands with something frappe out of a chafing-dish. Mr. McRamsey sighed, lost a vest button, gazed with deep gratitude upon his fair preserveress, and then ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... est frappe, & tous sont delivres, Dieu frappe sons fils innocent, pour l'amour Des hommes coupables, & pardonne aux hommes Coupables, pour l'amour de son ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... I grew impatient of conventionality. How was it possible for these people to look so quietly, eye to eye, upon the most vitally perfect of living beings? How could they turn from me to orange frappe ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... at first hand. The dignified frappe which he received in way of honorarium for his university lecture had its advantages. People in San Francisco wanted to hear what the editor had to say as well as to read his utterances. He was invited to give the Fourth of July oration at the Grand ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard
... on our private refrigerator-car. That cold-storage chicken looks the finest that ever happened. What's this rolled up in tissue-paper? Deviled eggs and ham sandwiches AND caviar, not to speak of claret frappe. I'm certainly grateful to the gentleman finished in ebony who helped to provision us for this siege. He'll never know what a tip he missed by not ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine |
