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...n saving boats. Vinyard harvested by the sun and squeezed by lights. The wine drops memories into the glasses. I open a bottle full of gloomy long... ...iterary anthologies and appeared in Craiova (1980), Caen, Puymeras, Paris, Bordeaux (1989, 1990, 1991), New York, Colorado (1991, 1992), and Seoul (19... ...ants, the hills with cows, the corn, the bell, Alp horn, the vineyard, the wine, the heart, the thought, the violins, the music, the dance, the longin... ...ws / …the trees / turn their backs to me." He himself recognizes that "The wine / drops in the glasses / rememberences," and sometimes, when "Through ...

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...aincthuin to make their home. My father trained horses for others and made wine from grapes that grew in a little arbor behind the modest house. M... ...to Baincthuin. It was June of 1887. Philippe sought my father’s advice on winemaking. He had inherited a significant sum of money and decided to ... ..., he left Paris for Baincthuin, which had a reputation as a town where fine wines were made. He could have chosen the Alsace, Bordeaux or any other... ...tion as a town where fine wines were made. He could have chosen the Alsace, Bordeaux or any other area, but he came to our village. The first time I... ... from an angel. The right side, though, was discolored and twisted. A port wine birthmark discolored skin so thin and fragile that lumps of misshape... ...rmal and natural. Our meal was a simple affair of bread, cheese, cold meats, wine and fruit. Erik had no means of preparing a hot meal in his subter...

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...see, that many dead things have yet c ertaine secret relations unto life. Wine doth alter and change in sellers, according to the changes and alterat... ...ver the pot containeth must be shewne, be it good or had, foule or cleane, wine or water. Nam veræ voces tum demum pectore ab imo Ejiciuntur, et er... ...ong till it come to a kind of pap, which afterward they mingle with their wine, and so drinke it. Where the most desired sepulcher that some wish fo... ...utie of the hangings about a chamber, or of the taste of some good cup of wine, many good discourses at the lower end have utterly been lost. He sha... ...t of his house, and indifference in his taste, whether it be flesh, fish, wine, or water, or whatsoever he feedeth upon. Qui disciplinam suam non os... ...that lieth on this side Clery, with two Masters of Arts, traveling toward Bordeaux, about fiftie paces one from another; far off behind them, I descr...

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...summate negotiators arguing in the interests of calico, jewels, frippery , wines; and often displaying more true diplomacy than ambassadors themselves... ...es her round the waist or by the heart; gurgles at dinner like a bottle of wine and pretends to draw the cork by sounding a filip on his distended che... ...intervals and could give his wife excellent advice as to the sale of their wines; but at such times he became extremely annoying, and would ransack he... ... va- garies. He insisted on keeping a sack of flour and two pun- cheons of wine in the cellar of his house, and he would allow no one to lay hands on ... ...e puncheons. Ma- dame Margaritis could nearly always persuade him that the wine had been sold at an enormous price, which she paid over to him, and wh... ...ts, to mix it with wines grown in the neighbor- hood of Paris, and call it Bordeaux. But what you are drink- ing just now, my good Monsieur, is a wine...

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...a petrified forest, pre- pares a far more delightful curiosity, in the form of Mr. Evans, whom may all prosperity attend throughout a long and green o... ...oughout a long and green old age. CHAPTER III – NAPA WINE was interested in Californian wine. Indeed, I am interested in all wines, and have been al... ...one upon the board of Caesar. Some of us, kind old Pagans, watch with dread the shadows falling on the age: how the unconquerable worm invades the sun... ...upon the quays at Cette the chemicals arrayed; behold the analyst at Marseilles, rais- ing hands in obsecration, attesting god Lyoeus, and the vats st... ...ion, attesting god Lyoeus, and the vats staved in, and the dishonest wines poured forth among the sea. It is not Pan only; Bacchus, too, is dead. 14 ... ...he sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be in- voked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly, and storing reminiscen...

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.... Nevertheless, we ought in justice to say that while he accepted casks of wine, and took care of himself in all the purchases that he made for the co... ... moustache.” Oscar, anxious to play the man, swallowed the second glass of wine, and ate three more cheese-cakes. “Good wine, that!” said Pere Leger, ... ...se it comes from Bercy. I’ve been to Alicante myself, and I know that this wine no more resembles what is made there than my arm is like a windmill. O... ...e resembles what is made there than my arm is like a windmill. Our made-up wines are a great deal better than the natural ones in their own country. C... ... stomachs make short purses.’” “Come, Pere Leger, let us drink a bottle of Bordeaux to- gether,” said Georges to the farmer. “T wenty francs for his b... ...e inn-keeper. “Can’t you stay and breakfast? The colonel here pays for the wine at fifty sous, and has ordered a bottle of champagne.” “I can’t. I’ve ... ...estaurateur, rue du Hasard, with exquisite wines of three regions, to wit: Bordeaux, Champagne, and Burgundy, also with dishes most carefully chosen, ...

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...country, as in Touraine, atmospheric vicissitudes control commercial life. Wine-growers, proprietors, wood-merchants, coopers, inn- keepers, mariners,... ...nished the Republican armies with two or three thousand puncheons of white wine, and took his pay in splendid fields belonging to a community of women... ...,”—a local term used to de- note those that produced the finest quality of wine. He might have asked for the cross of the Legion of honor. This event ... ...eyard, which in fruitful years yielded seven or eight hundred hogsheads of wine. He owned thirteen farms, an old abbey, whose windows and arches he ha... ...due to one who owed no man any- thing, who, skilful cooper and experienced wine-grower that he was, guessed with the precision of an astronomer whethe... ...rosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house... ...rion neglected no means of cap- turing so rich a son-in-law. On landing at Bordeaux in June, 1827, Monsieur, Madame, Mademoiselle d’Aubrion, and Charl... ...est of the sum you were kind enough to lend me. I am expecting a case from Bordeaux which contains a few things which you must allow me to offer you a...

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...l in the disguise of a palmer, to consult with him during his captivity at Bordeaux, and many most curious anecdotes of his early childhood and youth.... ...n his absence. I told him we should see how he liked to be sent packing to Bordeaux with a sheaf of arrows on his back, instead of the sheaf of wheat ... ...ok not downcast on it,” said he; “you have time before you and one year at Bordeaux is worth four elsewhere. But I forget, you are the young clerk; an... ... with the Knight’s followers, who regretted more and more the gay court of Bordeaux, and grew impa- tient at the prospect of spending a tedious winter... ...pick up a better suit for half the price at old Battista, the Lombard’s at Bordeaux; nevertheless, since young Eustace would be the show of the camp i... ...Best that you should do it,” he added in a low voice, taking up a flask of wine, “and save our comrade from at once making himself a laughing-stock.” ... ...re not wont to like English beef and English discipline better than Gascon wine and Gascon free- dom. I begin to think that the cub of the Black Wolf ... ...ts had nearly finished their meal, and the Squires having served them with wine, returned to their own table, now freshly supplied with meat, which th... ...ple to you save, perhaps, in the mat- ter of sitting a steed, or handing a wine-cup. I have no purse to lose, and I have wit to keep it if I had, or a...

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...de of a giver of holy water; “perhaps you can tell me why con- ductors and wine-merchants are so fond of it?” 27 Balzac Blondet, a master of irony, a... ...to her head to come and preach morality or something! There’s lots of good wine to get out of it.” After these last instructions, which the sly look i... ...way opened a cellar built of Bur- gundy brick, containing several casks of wine. Though the kitchen utensils of the peasantry are usually only two, na... ...h coun- try air, this cottage exhaled the same strong and nauseous odor of wine and food which assails you in Paris as you pass the door of the cheap ... ...the loss of his wife, he tried to drown his troubles, like the English, in wine, and then, when he had put the poor deceased out of his mind, he found... ...ars of Belgium, the finest vintages of Burgundy rubbed sides with those of Bordeaux, Champagne, Roussillon, not to speak of Spanish and Rhine wines, a...

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...rgue and over the Pont Neuf— to reproach us for our Sunday travelling. The wine shops (every second house) were driving a roaring trade; awnings were ... ...r anything stirring about the place but a dangling bush, indicative of the wine inside: which flutters idly in the wind, in lazy keeping with every t... ...ve Courier, in particular, is everywhere: looking af ter the beds, having wine poured down his throat by his dear brother the landlord, and picking u... ... afterwards; some poultry afterwards; a dessert afterwards; and no lack of wine. There is not much in the dishes; but they are very good, and always r... ... served in the iron cauldron it was boiled in. They have a pitcher of thin wine, and are very merry; merrier than the gentleman with the red beard, wh... ...y good sort of leath ern bottle, filled to the throat with the best light Bordeaux wine in the house. He never pays the bill till this bottle is full...

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...he friends were requested to declare which they liked best, a pint of good wine, or a tun of cheap rubbish; a diamond of twenty-two carats, or a flint... ...m into expense, and proving to them, if need were, by sound argument, that wines were dear, and that whatever they might think, noth- ing was given aw... ...hereupon the host sat down, but not until he had poured out a gobletful of wine. “My turn first,” said the Anjou man. “I commence.” “In our Duchy of A... ...d. A good man of Larze, returning one night from his evening prayer to the wine flasks of Pomme-de-Pin, where he had left his understanding and 12 Ba... ...is dilemma, and opened the door of the house to him, out of respect to the wine, which is lord of this country. The good man then went and got into th... ...ved the idea of a relay of sweethearts, so that when he went from Paris to Bordeaux, every time he unsettled his nag he found ready for him a good mea...

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...dity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the waiters roy- ally, and Jos gobbled the turtle with imm... .... George was evi- dently of quite a different taste; for when he had taken wine enough, he went off to half-price at the play, to see Mr. Kean perform... ...nd the war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave... ...ing his winnings, and went to a buffet, where he drank off many bumpers of wine. Here, as he was rattling away to the people around, laughing loudly a... ... was flushed and jovial. ‘’Hullo, Dob! Come and drink, old Dob! The Duke’s wine is famous. Give me some more, you sir”; and he held out a trembling gl... ...Major that J. Sedley and Company, having established agen- cies at Oporto, Bordeaux, and St. Mary’s, were enabled to offer to their friends and the pu...

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...f the law, inasmuch as in his schedule his name appeared as Hooker Walker, wine-merchant, commission-agent, music-seller, or what not. The fact is, th... ...ys remained with him in the course of the transaction. He was an agent for wine, too; an agent for places to be had through the influence of great men... ... you’ll never guess.” “Was it two guineas a head?—In course I mean without wine,” said the genteel perfumer. “Guess again!” “Well, was it ten guineas ... ...ope), called Dick, the boy, to him, and despatched him with all speed to a wine merchant’s, where a couple of bottles of the liquor were procured. “Br... ...e. In the trio of Baroski’s own opera of “Eliogabalo,” “Rosy lips and rosy wine,” Miss Larkins, who was evidently unwell, was taking the part of the E... ...rling,” says Berry, blushing; “but now we’re not alone—ha, ha! Anatole, du Bordeaux!” “I’m sure they sat after the ladies at CarIton House; didn’t the... ... said he loved a cup of tea and a little music better than all the wine of Bordeaux. As for 136 Men’s Wives the Frenchman, when Mrs. Berry said, “And...

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...s at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words “foolish, twaddlin... ... give way to any ebullitions of private grief. A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were pro- duced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the... ... at this occurrence. He and Joseph Sedley drank a fitting quantity of port-wine, tete-a- tete, in the dining-room, during the drinking of which Sedley... ...rary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought the town- boys. Ponies used to come for him to ride home... ...id the cause of Fair Rosamond’s retiring from the world? Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not... ...Major that J. Sedley and Company, having established agen- cies at Oporto, Bordeaux, and St. Mary’s, were enabled to offer to their friends and the pu...

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...o the pleasures of Paris, and a solace for his discouragement. A bottle of Bordeaux, oysters from Ostend, a dish of fish, a partridge, a dish of macar... ...impecunios- ity. There a dinner of three courses, with a quarter bottle of wine or a bottle of beer, could be had for eighteen sous; or for twenty-two... ...y is due to the catholicity 44 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris of the wine, which checks good fellowship of any kind. Flicoteaux’s frequenters ma... ...e, turning to his friend, “you would see an oak counter from some bankrupt wine merchant’s sale, and a tallow dip, never 100 A Distinguished Provinci... ...ke the filthiest arrangements for obscuring daylight to be found in little wineshops in the suburbs. The Galleries, parallel passages about twelve fee... ...d—” “Does your druggist do things properly?” “He will not give us doctored wine,” said Lucien. “You are very witty, monsieur,” Blondet returned gravel... ...his gray hair for your golden head.” She gave Lucien the richest wine that Bordeaux keeps for the wealthiest English purchaser, and persuaded Lucien t... ...he Rocher de Cancale to drown memory and thought in a couple of bottles of Bordeaux; Lucien parted company with him on the threshold, declining to sha...

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...coings managed to serve an excellent dinner, and to add two bottles of old wine with a little “liqueur des iles,” a treasure left over from her former... ...r stake. The lottery was drawn every five days in different localities, at Bordeaux, Lyons, Lille, Strasburg, and Paris. The Paris lottery was drawn o... ...s the emperor Probus the Noah of the Gauls, Caesar speaks of the excellent wine of Champ-Fort (“de Campo Forti”) still one of the best vintages of Iss... ...introduced everywhere except in Berry. The vineyards of Issoudun produce a wine which is drunk throughout the two departments, and which, if manufac- ... ...tured as Burgundy and Gascony manufacture theirs, would be one of the best wines in France. Alas, “to do as our fathers did,” with no innovations, is ... ... refuse of the grape in the juice during its fermentation, which makes the wine detestable, when it might be a source of ever-springing wealth, and an...

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... had faded into a nameless shade be- 6 The Three Musketeers tween lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of... ... ingredients the list of which has not come down to us, for some oil, some wine, and some rosemary, and with his mother’s recipe in his hand composed ... ... morrow. But when the time came to pay for his rosemary, this oil, and the wine, the only expense the master had incurred, as he had preserved a stric... ...hird time, into such a rage as was near costing him a fresh consumption of wine, oil, and rosemary—for upon seeing this hot-headed youth be- come exas... ... that his piquette* stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine.” *A watered liquor, made from the second pressing of the grape. The t... ... dispense with your saying grace.” Grimaud silently swallowed the glass of Bordeaux wine; but his eyes, raised toward heaven during this delicious oc-...

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...w any better than to mistake the Counts of Champagne for the accounts of a wine-shop, as Rogron did this evening, 30 Pierrette they had better, in my... ... absurdly about the eggs in their cornice, and their won- derful cellar of wine, the like of which was not in Provins. Before long the Rogron house wa... ...e dinners, which had cost her forty or fifty francs without the 35 Balzac wines, and did not fulfil her social hopes, hopes that are as hard to reali... ...ses.” “That is one of the caprices of caprice,” said the old gentle- man. “Bordeaux wine was unknown a hundred years ago. Marechal de Richelieu, one o... ...at is one of the caprices of caprice,” said the old gentle- man. “Bordeaux wine was unknown a hundred years ago. Marechal de Richelieu, one of the not... ...d governor of Guyenne. His lungs were diseased, and, heaven knows why! the wine of the country did him good and he recovered. 37 Balzac Bordeaux inst... ...ows why! the wine of the country did him good and he recovered. 37 Balzac Bordeaux instantly made a hundred millions; the marshal widened its territo... ...rt, to over a hundred miles of circumference! it is hard to tell where the Bordeaux vineyards end. And yet they haven’t erected an equestrian statue t... ...s end. And yet they haven’t erected an equestrian statue to the marshal in Bordeaux!” “Ah! if anything of that kind happens to Provins,” said Monsieur...

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...open 10 Essays: Book III way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love. Philippides, in my opinion, answered King Lysimachus very di... ...he battles fought under sacred Ilium; but what to give for a cask of Chian wine, who shall prepare the warm bath, and in whose house, and when I may e... ...ere most retired. A young man should be whipped who pretends to a taste in wine and sauces; there was nothing which, at that age, I less valued or kne... ...des attribut- ing it to a divine ecstasy, love, martial fierceness, poesy, wine, they have not also attributed a part to health: a boiling, vig- orous... ... Absentem marmoreamve putes:” [“As if they are preparing frankincense and wine … you might think her absent or marble.”—Martial, xi. 103, 12, and 59,... ..., hidden under deceitful ashes.”—Horace, Od., ii. i, 7.] The Parliament of Bordeaux chose me mayor of their city at a time when I was at a distance fr... ...speaking, according to the height of their magisterial place. The Mayor of Bordeaux and Montaigne have ever been two by very manifest separation. Beca... ...and more load myself every day, [In fact, the first edition of the Essays (Bordeaux, 1580) has very few quotations. These became more numerous in the ... ...et music be wanting.”] Apology: [In fact, the first edition of the Essays (Bordeaux, 1580) has very few quotations. These became more numer- ous in th...

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...o an answer,—a prudence sug- gested by the number of her swains, wholesale wine-mer- chants, rich proprietors of cafes, and others who made soft eyes ... ...ch infatuated old men seldom forget. One evening, after a supper where the wine flowed freely, Roguin unbosomed himself to du Tillet on the subject of... ...wed by two scullions bearing in three baskets a dinner, and six bottles of wine selected with discernment. “How shall we ever eat it all up?” said Pop... ... brought him an income equal to that of land); he supplied the dinner, the wines, and the wait- ers, under the orders of a major-domo of dignified asp... ...ways raise a laugh. The ex- cellence of the dishes and the goodness of the wines were fully appreciated. It was half-past nine o’clock when the com- p... ...ke it all over to them, at any villanous price they choose to give. Havre, Bordeaux, Marseilles, could tell you tales about them! They make use of pol...