"Yes, a chef d'
oeuvre of the great Florentine sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini," replied Athos.
Somewhat later another Frenchman, named Fontenelle, wrote `The Plurality of Worlds,' a chef-d'
oeuvre of its time.
The travelers could distinguish clearly cones, central hills, remarkable positions of the soil, naturally placed to receive the chefs-d'
oeuvre of Selenite architecture.
The next day Sarah showed Schulenberg a neat card on which the menu was beautifully typewritten with the viands temptingly marshalled under their right and proper heads from "hors d'
oeuvre" to "not responsible for overcoats and umbrellas."
In the centre of the room was a Roller and Blanchet "baby grand" piano in rosewood, but holding the potentialities of an orchestra in its narrow and sonorous cavity, and groaning beneath the weight of the chefs-d'
oeuvre of Beethoven, Weber, Mozart, Haydn, Gretry, and Porpora.
A chef d'
oeuvre of that kind of quiet evolution of character through circumstance, introduced into English literature by Miss Austen, and carried to perfection in France by George Sand (who is more to the point, because, like Mrs.
I forgot," the latter replied, with no sign of regret, and without even apologising to me he went off to order the hors d'
oeuvre.
Reuter sat silent a moment; some novel movements were evidently working in her mind, and they showed their nature on her astute brow; she was meditating some CHEF D'
OEUVRE of policy.
Bougainville has well remarked concerning these people, that they treat the "chefs d'
oeuvre de l'industrie humaine, comme ils traitent les loix de la nature et ses phenomenes."
Tulliver, whose mind was actively engaged on the possibility of getting a humble imitation of this chef-d'
oeuvre made from a piece of silk she had at home.
"'L'homme c'est rien--l'
oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand."
For hors d'
oeuvres what do you say to oeufs de pluvier?