We're all living wonders, Major," he went on, turning to Thomson, "but if I don't get a Sole Colbert and a grill at the
Savoy, and a front seat at the Alhambra, before many weeks have passed, I shall get stale--that's what'll happen to me."
Caught on the flank, by the Rue Saint- Pierre-aux-Boeufs, and in the rear through the Rue du Parvis, driven to bay against Notre-Dame, which they still assailed and Quasimodo defended, at the same time besiegers and besieged, they were in the singular situation in which Comte Henri Harcourt, Taurinum obsessor idem et obsessus , as his epitaph says, found himself later on, at the famous siege of Turin, in 1640, between Prince Thomas of
Savoy, whom he was besieging, and the Marquis de Leganez, who was blockading him.
In 1855, Brun-Rollet, a native of
Savoy, appointed consul for Sardinia in Eastern Soudan, to take the place of Vaudey, who had just died, set out from Karthoum, and, under the name of Yacoub the merchant, trading in gums and ivory, got as far as Belenia, beyond the fourth degree, but had to return in ill-health to Karthoum, where he died in 1857.
Still, if you like to get in a cab with me and ride as far as the Savoy, I'll tell you what I can."
"I am at the Savoy Hotel, speaking from my room--number 443."
He started to walk along Piccadilly, and had reached Hyde Park Corner before he recollected that he had an engagement to take supper with Mr Prosser at the
Savoy Hotel.
The melting of the snows had filled the boulder-strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) that flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, above which the peaks of Savoy and of Dauphine tower on every side.
This sort of roof, which has a peculiar appearance, denotes the nearness of the borders of Savoy, where it is very common.
The competency of this regulation may be estimated by a clause in their treaty of 1683, with Victor Amadeus of
Savoy; in which he obliges himself to interpose as mediator in disputes between the cantons, and to employ force, if necessary, against the contumacious party.
Emerging at Euston at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, Alexander had his luggage sent to the
Savoy and drove at once to Bedford Square.
The rain-storms had been at work during several days, and had done a deal of damage in Switzerland and
Savoy. We came to one place where a stream had changed its course and plunged down a mountain in a new place, sweeping everything before it.
It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of
Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.