"Velours" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cour des moyens.... Je la vois encore avec sa tente bariole, ses murs couverts de draperies blanches, ses grands arbres verts pleins de drapeaux.... Au fond, une longue estrade o taient installes les autorits du collge dans des fauteuils en velours grenat.... Oh! ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... keep these two larger dabchicks connected pleasantly in school-girl minds by their costumes, and call one 'Silken Runner,' and this,—which, as said above, Gesner seems to mean, Velvet Runner, or Velvet Hen.—Poule de Soie or Poule de Velours? I am getting a little confused myself, however, I find at last, between Poules, Poussins, Pullets, and Pullas; and must for the present leave the matter to the reader's choice and fancy, till I get some more birds looked at, and named:—only, for a pretty end of my Appendix, ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin |
