"Metier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He went boldly up to the lodge. His hand was already on the latch, when certain sounds which proceeded from the interior of the lodge caused him to pause and to bend his ear in order to listen. It was Tournefort's metier to listen. What had arrested his attention was the sound of a man's voice, saying in a ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... metier d'etre Roi!" So said one of the many dead and gone martyrs on the rack of sovereignty. Alas, poor soul, thou would'st have been happier in any other 'metier' I warrant! For kingship is a profession which cannot be abandoned for a change of humour, or cast ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... laughter-loving subjects, wit carried weight. The actor was summoned before the prefect of police, severely lectured, and admonished to abjure puns, if he would escape punishment. "Mais que voulez vous que je fasse," replied poor Brunet, in piteous accents, "c'est mon metier de faire des calembourgs, j'y gagne ma vie. Voulez vous donc que je scie du bois?"[15] And, in spite of menaces and imprisonment, he continued each evening to delight the audience of the Varietes with his highly spiced allusions to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various
... l'Ohio une blanche d'origine francoise, menee a Londres, et enlevee, a l'age de douze ans, par des corsaires qui faisoient metier d'enlever des enfans, et de les vendre en Amerique pour un temps fixe de leur travail.—Des circonstances singulieres l'engagerent a epouser un negre qui lui acheta sa liberte, et qui la tira des mains d'un blanc, maitre barbare et libi-dineux, qui ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... departure for Marseilles, where an excellent fellow called Solary, got at in a round about fashion through various French channels, had promised good-naturedly to put le jeune homme in the way of getting a decent ship for his first start if he really wanted a taste of ce metier ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad
... prodigious feasts? They say that all the works bearing Dumas's name are not written by him. Well? Does not the chief cook have aides under him? Did not Rubens's pupils paint on his canvases? Had not Lawrence assistants for his backgrounds? For myself, being also du metier, I confess I would often like to have a competent, respectable, and rapid clerk for the business part of my novels; and on his arrival, at eleven o'clock, would say, "Mr. Jones, if you please, the archbishop ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... youth who ran it. Clodagh kept up bravely until she was seated in the taxi, and could have kept up until the end without too great an effort, for her collapse had made her feel rested. It was not, however, the girl's metier to "keep up." The task was but half accomplished. The ...
— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |
