"Gauche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... faces and refusing to make herself pleasant or one with us in any sort of way. Lucy Marsh and I had a long talk over her that night, and we put our heads together to concoct a nice little bit of punishment for her. You know she's horridly shy, and as gauche as if she lived in the backwoods, and we meant to 'send her to Coventry.' We had it all arranged, and a whole lot of girls would have joined us, for it's contrary to the spirit of a place like this to allow girls of the Priscilla ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade
... recu un peu de plomb, et meme assez pres de l'oeil gauche; mais le proverbe dit que ce metal est ami de l'homme. J'en serai quitte pour quelques petites bosses sous la peau, et je vous souhaite de vous porter aussi bien que je le fais ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... Groseillers, ten years before, had taken possession of the old house battered with bullets, so Albanel took possession of the deserted huts. Here is what his account says (Cramoisy edition of the Relations): "Le 28 June a peine avions nous avance un quart de lieue, que nous rencontrasmes a main gauche dans un petit ruisseau un heu avec ses agrez de dix ou dou tonneaux, qui portoit le Pavilion Anglois et la voile latine; dela a la portee du fusil, nous entrasmes dans deux maisons desertes . . . nous rencontrasmes ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut
... easily: and, after all, he was trying to say to his guest what he knew his guest would like; and what was that but following those very rules of good society, for breaking which Lucia was always calling him gauche and morose? So he actually quieted his own conscience by the fancy that he was bound to be civil, and to keep up appearances, "even for Lucia's sake," said the self-deceiver to himself. And thus the mischief was done; and the breach between Lucia and her husband, which had been ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... refers to controversies, before the French "July Revolution" of 1830, between rightist ("cote droit" right side) legitimists, who read the official "Moniteur" newspaper and supported the absolutist Bourbon monarchy of King Charles X, and leftist ("cote gauche" left side) liberals, who read "Le Temps" and argued for reform or revolution; "nothing good could come of Nazareth" from the Bible, John, I, 46: "Can any good thing ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper
... was, he felt unusually timid and gauche, not quite knowing what to say, a fact which seemed to amuse ...
— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy
... vont depuis le morne seuil Jusqu'au fond ou l'on voit la table et le fauteuil, Laissent entre leurs fronts une ruelle etroite; Les marquis sont a gauche et les ducs sont a droite; Jusqu'au jour ou le toit que Spignus crenela, Charge d'ans, croulera sur leur tete, ils sont la, Inegaux face a face, et pareils cote a cote. En dehors des deux rangs, en avant, tete haute, Comme pour commander le funebre ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... no difference, I shan't use it. What's become of that black camel's-hair that Mrs. Gauche spoiled ...
— At Fault • Kate Chopin
... executioners observing their victim that every eye went back to the clock as well. Even Carl was guilty of that imitation. Consequently he saw the editor, standing at the back, make notes on his copy-paper and smirk like an ill-bred hound stealing a bone. And the Greek professor stared at Frazer's gauche movements with a grim smugness that indicated, "Quite the sort of thing I expected." The Greek's elbows were on the arm of the seat, and he held up before his breast a small red-leather-covered note-book which he superciliously ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... listening to him: she was dreaming. She was as gauche and simple in his company as a young girl would have been; but her mind was different. It was practical in its dreams, and they had their disturbing unhappiness, as well, from the greater poignancy of her desire. She was not a young girl, to be agreeably ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... music continually enlivened the scene. One of these (Gauche Brothers, of Dallas) was of rare excellence, rendering "Bonnie Blue Flag," "Dixie," and an exquisite nocturne, "The Soldier's Dream" (composed for this occasion by the leader of this band), with so much expression and skill as to elicit great applause. ...
— Memories - A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War • Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers
... 'did he refuse the support of M. Mole in 1835? Why would he never take office under Louis Philippe? Why did he associate himself with the Gauche whom he despised, and oppose the Droit with whom he sympathised? Is the answer given by M. Guizot to a friend of mine who asked a nearly similar question, "Parce qu'il voulait etre ou je suis," the ...
— Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2 • Alexis de Tocqueville
... position with a firm of brokers in New street, at a salary of $10 a week. My employers were good fellows, lovers of pleasure and men of the world, not scrupling to talk freely with me of their various adventures out of business hours. I had lost much of my awkwardness and gauche manners, and under the $10 a week arrangement began to dress fairly well. My employers did a brokerage business and speculated as well on their own account. My duties were decidedly light and pleasant, and brought me into contact with ...
— Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison - Fifteen Years in Solitude • Austin Biron Bidwell
... This woman had a trick of always making her appear gauche. She looked at her watch, not sorry to see that it was already time ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... seem to move his eyes from Mary's nondescript gray eyes, and rather colorless fair skin, and indefinite, pleasant mouth. Mamma's lines were all compact and trim. Mary was rather long of limb, even a little GAUCHE in an attractive, unself-conscious sort of way. But something fine and high, something fresh and young and earnest about her, made its instant appeal ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... related of some early navigator in the Histoire Gen. des Voyages, I. i. 2. "On trouva dans l'isle de Cuervo une statue equestre, couverte d'un manteau, mais la tete nue, qui tenoit de la main gauche la bride du cheval, et qui montroit l'occident de la main droite. Il y avoit sur le bas d'un roc quelques lettres gravees, qui ne furent point entendues; mais il parut clairement que le signe de la ...
— Poems • Samuel Rogers
... themselves republicans. But the name alone is changed, the principles are the same. For in truth, the parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles and Liberals. The sickly, weakly, timid man, fears the people, and is a tory by nature. The healthy, strong, and bold, cherishes them, and is formed a whig by nature. On the eclipse of federalism with us, although not its extinction, its leaders got up the Missouri ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... connu au Congres elle pousserait un point strategique au centre, couperait la partie cedee de la Bessarabie du reste de l'Empire Ottoman, et se mettrait a meme de devenir de nouveau maitresse de la rive gauche du Danube, quand elle le voudra. Comme dans ce cas [nous] nos deux pays sont tenus par Traite a reprendre les armes, il me parait de notre devoir a prevenir de tels dangers. Ces dangers seront ecartes a l'instant que la France s'unira a nous pour tenir un langage ferme a la Russie, ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria
... assume in their eyes a romantic aspect. Even that group of philosophers of the Cote Gauche, who refused to worship any force but the force of reason, began to look upon him with a respect and consideration which no oratorical triumphs could ever have ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... every Saturday night. It was really an Orleanist salon, as they were devoted friends of the Orleans family, but one saw all the moderate Republicans there and the centre gauche (which struggled so long to keep together and be a moderating influence, but has long been swallowed up in the ever-increasing flood of radicalism) and a great many literary men, members of the Institute, Academicians, etc. They had a fine old house entre ...
— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington
... little when she saw that he was really in love. What could he see in that plain, gauche, uncharming creature? See something he undoubtedly did. However, that would wear off very quickly. The Skeaton atmosphere was against romance and Paul was too lazy to be in love very long. Once or twice in the weeks before the wedding Grace's ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... of the question was antiquated in Paris. If I were to say to one of my acquaintances: "Eh! bien, que dites-vous de l'empereur?" the reply would be: "Mais, mon cher, je ne dis rien de lui. Vous voyez si bien que moi, qu'il ne compte plus. C'est un homme par terre. Tout le monde le sait; la gauche meme ne l'attaque plus." Even General Trochu, the Governor of the capital, did not mention Napoleon's name in his proclamation to Paris. He himself hardly dared to send any messages. After having been obliged to surrender the supreme ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes
... woman whom he no longer worshipped, compelled to marry a woman whom he was to hate at first sight! Surely we should not judge a prince harshly. 'Princess Caroline very gauche at cards,' 'Princess Caroline very missish at supper,' are among the entries made in his diary by Lord Malmesbury, while he was at the little German Court. I can conceive no scene more tragic than that of her presentation to the Prince, ...
— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm
... extraordinaire dans la region des ovaires, de plus des sensations d'enflements desagreables, surtout dans la periode des regles. Souvent la douleur s'etend aux flancs et au dos, surtout au flanc gauche, et il se fait sentir un desir incessant d'uriner. A moins que cette affection ne soit arretee promptement rien ne pourra sauver la malade d'une operation. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, cependant, ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham
... travers de bois et de forets de sapins et de quelques paturages dont ce haut est couvert, on parvient au pied du Bundnerberg, montagne des grisons, qui forme la tete du vallon. On laisse a droite un fond ou espece d'entonnoir, entoure de tres-hautes montagnes inaccessibles, pour s'enfourrer a gauche entre des rochers qui font fort resserres, ou coule un torrent. Ce lieu seroit horreur si on ne se trouvoit accoutume, par degres, a voir de ces positions effrayantes: tout y est aride, il n'y a plus d'arbres ni de vegetaux ce sont des rochers entasses les un sur les autres; ce lieu paroit d'autant ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton |
