"Au fond" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... M'apportaient de bien belles choses; L'un d'eux avaient un encensoir, Le deuxieme un chapelet de roses. Et le troisieme avait en main Une robe toute fleurie, De perles, d'or et de jasmin, Comme en a Madame Marie. Noel! Noel! Nous venons du ciel, T'apporter ce que tu desires; Car le bon Dieu, Au fond du ciel bleu, A chagrin ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards
... sad when she refused the men who proposed to her; I pitied no man who loved me. I told Laura that both her lovers and mine had a very good chance of getting over it, as they invariably declared themselves too soon. We were neither of us au fond very susceptible. It was the custom of the house that men should be in love with us, but I can truly say that we gave quite ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... one, under the spell of such a master, might indeed be able to comfort the sick and sorry, and to whisper in their ears that cosmic secret—"Bon Espoir y gist au fond!" "Good Hope lies at the Bottom!" "Good Hope" for all; for the best and the worst—for the whole miserable welter of this ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... qui distinguoit les actes et qui marquoit les repos necessaires, on introduisit des joueurs d'instrumens, qui d'abord furent places sur les ailes du theatre, ou ils executoient differens airs avant la commencement de la piece et entre les actes. Ensuite ils furent mis au fond des troisieme loges, puis aux secondes, enfin entre le theatre et la ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook |
