"Souterrain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... embellir ma narration me perdre dans de brillantes descriptions, et commencer par celle de notre clocher; mais malheureusement nous n'en avons point; car je ne crois pas que l'on puisse appeller de ce nom l'endroit presque souterrain ou logent trois mauvaises cloches. Elles m'etourdissent par fois au point que sans leur bapteme, je les enverrois aux enfers sonner les diners de ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... and at intervals he continued to write and publish books of no importance. One of his poorest stories is called "Memoirs of the Cellarage," or, as the French translation has it, "L'Esprit Souterrain." The two parts of the story contain two curious types of women. The hero is the regulation weak-willed Russian; his singular adventures with an old criminal and his mistress in the first part of the story, and with a harlot in the second, have only occasional ...
— Essays on Russian Novelists • William Lyon Phelps |
