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More "Caviar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fortunes had not been enhanced materially by his brief excursion into the realms of melody; he had thirty cents in cash and a "dollar-and-a-half appetite." An untidy place where they displayed a bargain assortment of creature comforts attracted his gaze. He thought of meals in the past—of caviar, a la Russe, three dollars and a half a portion; peaches Melba, three francs each at the Cafe de Paris; truffled capon from Normandy; duck after the manner of the incomparable Frederic. About half a dozen peaches Melba would have appealed to him now; he looked, instead, with ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... (1785-1859). It used to be said in a college classroom that what De Quincey wrote was seldom important and always doubtful, but that we ought to read him for his style; which means, as you might say, that caviar is a stomach-upsetting food, but we ought to eat a little of it because it comes ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... I had observed that Colonel Maitland's face had worn a slightly resigned expression that reminded me of a picture I had seen somewhere of Christian martyrs being led to the stake. He took a mouthful of caviar and the cloud lifted. After the soup the dominant note of self-sacrifice had vanished entirely. With the fish his features attained repose. When we reached the entree his face had the radiance of a translated saint's. Then, with my mind at rest as ...
— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster
... house, after stripping off our furs, than out of doors with them on. They gave us a supper consisting of smorgas ("butter-goose"—the Swedish prelude to a meal, consisting usually of bread, butter, pickled anchovies, and caviar flavored with garlic), sausages, potatoes, and milk, and made for us sumptuous beds of the snowiest and sweetest linen. When we rose next morning it was snowing. About an inch had fallen during the night, and the mercury had risen to 6 deg. below zero. We drove along ...
— Northern Travel - Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland • Bayard Taylor
... I like Botticelli and caviar sandwiches and street songs and Egypt, and Roger does not," she told Clarence King once—I ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... ulaluminated with gorgeous reds and crimsons, vistas of stupendous distances, coined phrases, unusual words, and general touches of either mysticism or purposeless obscurity. Such a poem is a feast for epicures who delight in intellectual caviar, but is not half so satisfying to the average poetic ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... caviar; the taste has to grow. I'm capable of only a limited artistic education, Jack; ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
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