"Midi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... et d'une hardiesse peu communes.... La maniere de vivre, de s'habiller et de parler du comte Souvorow, est aussi singuliere que ses opinions militaires.... II mangeait dans sa tente assis par terre autour d'une natte sur laquelle il prenait le plus detestable repas. L'apres-midi, un semblable repas lui servait de souper, il s'endormait ensuite pendant quelques heures, passait une partie de la nuit a chanter, et a la pointe du jour il sortait presque nu et se roulait sur l'herbe assurant que cet exercice lui etait necessaire pour le preserver des ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... extracts are marked [Figure 1]-[Figure 8]. These are available as MIDI files. Italic text ...
— Charles Dickens and Music • James T. Lightwood
... have their separate personality. It is not a blur of nameless tips. Two especially arrest attention, south and southeast, for they rise head and shoulders above their neighbors. Each bears the name of the Pic du Midi. That opposite us, dominating the valley of Ossau, is the Pic du Midi d'Ossau. It is ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... mistaken, that's the latest train out of Brussels and the earliest we can catch,... if we can catch it. I've never been in Brussels, and Heaven only knows how long it would take us to cab it from the Gare du Midi to the Nord." ...
— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance
... dans l'apres midi pour nous rapprocher de Clausthal. Notre chemin fut encore quelque tems sur des sommites calcaires; et avant que d'en sortir, nous trouvames une autre mine singuliere a Arenfeld. C'est encore un vrai filon; mais dans une montagne de pierre a chaux: C'est a-dire, ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... was situated in Rue de Cherche-Midi. He was a widower, and married for the second time a woman named Mathilde. His shop was at one time prosperous, but business fell away until what was left was only that of an equivocal character. He died of ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson
... of a woman masturbating also occur in eighteenth century engravings. Thus, in France, Baudouin's "Le Midi" (reproduced in Fuchs's Das Erotische Element in der Karikatur, Fig. 92), represents an elegant young lady in a rococo garden-bower; she has been reading a book she has now just dropped, together with her sunshade; she leans languorously back, and her hand begins to find its way through ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... aside; and hold their hands over their eyes so as not to be dazzled, the grass paths lead forward gradually to a place where one sees a little opening in the golden rocks. You were at Chamouni last year, Sibyl; did your guide chance to show you the pierced rock of the Aiguille du Midi? ...
— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin
... is available in two forms, collected in the "files" directory associated with the .html version of this text. —simplified lilypond files (extension .ly), with lyrics and dynamic markings omitted. —MIDI (playable sound) files for each song. Each [Music] tag includes ...
— The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa • Walter James Hoffman
... Beaujeu, capitaine, le commandoit. Il y avoit deux capitaines qui estoient Mrs. Dumas et Ligneris et plusieurs autres officiers subalternes. Ce parti se mit en marche le 9 a 8 heures du matin, et se trouva a midi et demie en presence des Anglois a environ 3 lieues du fort. On commenca a faire feu de part et d'autre. Le feu de l'artillerie ennemie fit reculer un peu par deux fois notre parti. M. de Beaujeu fut tue a la troisieme decharge. M. Dumas prit le ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... from New York to Philadelphia is to enter a zone of tropical luxuriance and warmth. Given this absurd disposition, I could not fail to flatter myself, on reaching La Rochelle, that I was already in the Midi, and to perceive in everything, in the language of the country, the ca- ractere meridional. Really, a great many things had a hint of it. For that matter, it seems to me that to arrive in the south at a bound - to wake up there, as it were - would ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James
... said, speaking in French, "tres bong! there is somebody who comes at twelve, quelqu'un qui vient a midi, who can ...
— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock
... d'achever de classer les faits et les raisonnemens de Monsieur Clarkson, et, cette deduction entierement finie, de commencer a manoeuvrer en tactique le succes douteux de cette perilleuse proposition. J'aurai l'honneur de le recevoir Dimanche depuis onze heures, et meme dix du matin jusqu'a midi, non seulement avec un vif plaisir, mais avec une ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson
... into a travelling-suit and put what money and valuables you have into your pockets. Then go to a dark-green car which will await you by the reservoir in the Boulevard du Midi. Trust the driver. You must get over the frontier into Italy at the earliest moment. Every second's delay is dangerous to you. Do not trouble to find out who sends ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
... of the rain-clouds. But to the east, above the Rhone valley, the sky was lifting; and as Julie sat down upon a midway seat and turned herself eastward, she was met by the full and unveiled glory of the higher Alps—the Rochers de Naye, the Velan, the Dent du Midi. On the jagged peaks of the latter a bright shaft of sun was playing, and the great white or rock-ribbed mass raised itself above the mists of the lower world, once more ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... printed with musical notation (melody only). The HTML version of this e-text includes the songs in three forms: raw lilypond (.ly extension, can be converted to other formats), .pdf (image), and MIDI (sound). Some sites will allow you to download these files individually; if so, look in the "files" directory associated with the HTML text. The first "Folk Melody" appears under the ...
— Modern Icelandic Plays - Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm • Jhann Sigurjnsson
... me communiquer que la nouvelle lancee tout a l'heure de la mobilisation de l'armee et de la flotte allemandes est fausse; que les feuillets des journaux etaient imprimes d'avance en prevision de toutes eventualites, et mis en vente a l'heure de l'apres-midi, mais que maintenant ils ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... this is Unter den Linden. Straight on and fourth turning to the left for the Siegesallee.... Oui, Monsieur, l'auto de luxe pour Petrograd part a midi.... Nein, mein Herr, es ist verboten. Broadly speaking, alles ist polizeilich verboten. You will be quite safe in assuming that anything you yearn for just now ist strengstens polizeilich verboten. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 • Various
... French and Belgian papers are announcing as a positive fact that the suicide of Monsieur Mauclerc (who deliberately precipitated himself from the top of the Pic du Midi cliff) was caused by various troubles I had occasioned him. If he were still living, Monsieur Mauclerc would himself, I feel certain, contradict ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... ignorant! a fool he who is wise!)—in other days in relating the story which I am going to tell you to-day I would, without pausing at the place where the first scene of this book occurs, have accorded it but a superficial mention, and traversing the Midi like any other province, have named Avignon ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... submerged ranges, which they knew lay beneath the watery floor, before them, rose the heads of the Pic du Midi, the Pic de Ger, the Pic de Bigorre, the Massif du Gabizos, the Pic Monne, and dozens of other famous eminences, towering in broken ranks like the bearskins of a "forlorn hope," resisting to the last, in pictures ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss
... find its counterpart only in Paris. Perhaps it is that, being reenforced by wit, it explodes more quickly than the humor of the rest of the country. The Californian with his bulk, his beauty, his boast and his blague descending on New York is very like the native of the Midi who with similar qualities, is always taking Paris by storm. Marseilles, the chief metropolis of the Midi, has a famous promenade—less than half a dozen blocks, packed tight with the peoples and colors and odors of two continents—called the Cannebiere. The ...
— The Native Son • Inez Haynes Irwin
... accommodation. Though the weather remained uncertain and the woods with their leafless trees did not seem to offer the prospect of very enticing walks, I still felt that here there was a possibility of my being forgotten, and being also in my turn allowed to forget the events that had lately filled me with Midi desperate anxiety. My old artistic instinct awoke again. I looked over my Lohengrin score, and quickly decided to send it to Liszt and leave it to him to bring it out as best he could. Now that I had got rid of this score also, I felt as ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner |
