But to praise the good points of fairy stories, from the brief consummateness of Le Chat Botté to the longer drawn but still perfectly golden matter of La Biche au Bois, would really be superfluous.
The longest of all, in the useful collection referred to in the text, are the Oiseau Bleu and the charming Biche au Bois, each of which runs to nearly sixty pages.
Lac la Biche River we pass, and Calling River, and at five in the evening are at Swift Current, Peachy Pruden's place, and then Red Mud.
Our crew live at Lac la Biche and were engaged last winter for their season's work at from twenty to forty dollars a month, with board and moccasins.
Why should A'tim wish him to eat of a Death Flower; and yet, there was the graze of the Wolf's fang on his thigh that time they came up out of La Biche River.
Blondine thanked Bonne-Biche tenderly for all these details.
If you do not promise to conceal my visit from Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon, I will fly away at once and never return.
Opposite Bonne-Biche was a little stool for Beau-Minon while before him was a little porringer in gold, filled with little fried fish and the thighs of snipes.
At last Blondine arrived in a room in every respect resembling that of Bonne-Biche in the Forest of Lilacs.
She had no one to talk with but Bonne-Biche and she was only with her during the hours of lessons and repasts.
Between Beau-Minon and Bonne-Biche a plate was placed for Blondine.
Bonne-Biche returned her caresses and Beau-Minon patted her hand delicately.
If Bonne-Biche perceives your absence you will never again see your father.
What was her anguish when she saw the skins of Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon fastened to the wardrobe with diamond nails!
Bonne-Biche was greatly agitated and said in a trembling voice:-- "Blondine!
Trincomalee is the great depot for this trade, which is carried on to a large extent, together with that of sharks' fins, the latter being used by the Chinese for the same purpose as the biche de mer.
The whole of this coast is rich in thebiche de mer more commonly called the sea-slug.
Maternity is first a malady, and then an ennui; that biche blanche at Amyôt will learn that as I learned it.
Colonel Howell knew that his old steersmen were accompanied by quite a group of relatives but he did not know the exact extent of the Martin and La Biche families.
When Colonel Howell's outfit began to reach the riverbank the next morning, Moosetooth and La Bichehad part of their men on hand to assist in the loading.
The only man retained out of the river outfit was a Lac la Biche half-breed, a relative of Moosetooth, who was to serve both as a cook and a hunter.
Colonel Howell did not welcome another lost outfit and he was quite satisfied when both Moosetooth and La Biche took their empty scows safely through the northern whirlpool.
Just before noon, Moosetooth taking his place in the stern of the rear boat with a small steering oar, La Biche loosened the craft and Norman and Roy were on their first voyage in the historic flatboat of the Athabasca.
Roy proposed to secure a shovel for cleaning out the mud, but old La Biche laughed.
With the help of Moosetooth and La Biche and a few half-breeds, the considerable baggage of the party was dumped out onto the sand of the new roadway and then, all joining in the task, it was carried across the street to the new Alberta Hotel.
And Moosetooth and La Biche are going to run the boats?
But this did not bother Colonel Howell, for Moosetooth and La Biche were alone responsible and these two men well enacted the roles of foremen.
I'm going home with old Moosetooth and La Biche and stay there long enough to forget there's a place like Paris.
Moosetooth and La Biche were yet in camp at the Stampede Grounds.
Moosetooth and La Biche are not the best boatmen on the Athabasca, but they are the ones I want.
Moosetooth and old La Biche had already disappeared toward the misty riverbank.
Three weeks after the fatal duel, Lola made her appearance at the Porte-St.-Martin Theatre, in La Biche au Bois.
I knew now that the Bichewas to be the agent in the affair, and that my offer to Museau was accepted.
The poor little infant began to cry, and was ordered away by Museau, with his usual foul language, to the building which the luckless Biche occupied with her child.
In the daytime the door of my quarters was open, and the Biche free to come and go.
Thou wilt be given up to our red allies--to the brethren of La Biche yonder.
La Biche was by no means so affected as you seem to be, ladies, by the recital of these horrors.
As he turned his back the Biche raised herself; and he was no sooner gone but she was at my feet, kissing my hand, pressing it to her heart, and bursting into tears over my knees.
Biche said to me the day before, in her French jargon.
He stood a moment looking at me from his own door, and I saw a glimpse of the poor Biche behind him.
Biche was my professor, for he had taken a fancy to me.
Biche possessed the art of mesmerising partridges till he could walk up and kill one with a wretched old pistol, without cock or hammer, which he fired by means of a tinder-match.
When the Revolution of 1848 caused shooting prerogatives in the royal forests to pass into the hands of private individuals, Biche gave up shooting.
Of course, she's not a bit like the blue and yellow ladies that our friend Biche paints.
Biche some more sole, can't you see his has got cold?
Biche had not known how the human shoulder was constructed, or that a woman's hair was not, ordinarily, purple.
In 1882, a track survey and geological examination of Athabaska river below the mouth of Lac La Biche river, was made by Doctor Bell.
They kept on the mountains between Lac la Biche and McMurray.
They kept on the mountains between Lac la Biche and McMurray, and another band, probably about three hundred strong, was between Athabaska and Peace rivers on Thickwood and Birch mountains.
Taking the advice of Ozawinder, a Chippewa Indian, they followed up their journey in birch bark canoes, went up the smaller fork of the Mississippi, and then by portage reached the eastern extremity of La Biche or Itasca Lake.
Lac La Biche was already known to exist, and to this Schoolcraft pointed his expedition.
For this purpose he found Guillaume deBiche a very useful go-between.
Yes, sire, it was I, but I almost regret having done so, for I perceive thatBiche is a dangerous rival, and I am jealous of her.
At first, the king laughed heartily; then, as he remarked how tenderly Biche licked the hand of the baron, he shook his head thoughtfully.
At this moment, the Signora Biche began to bay light notes of welcome, and raised herself up from her comfortable position on the sofa.
Biche knows that my heart is filled with but one love--love to my king and master.
Biche is not here," he said quietly; "bring Biche to me, my friend.
When this lady learned that Biche had been a pet of the king, she at first refused to give it up: and only after several demands, and with much difficulty, could she be induced to return it.
The little Biche stood still for a moment, looking around intelligently, and then ran lightly across the apartment, sprang upon the table and laid its forepaw on the king's neck.
The wise Biche knows that the heart of Pollnitz is always in the same place, and that love to my king and master has alone brought me back to Berlin.
Biche began to bark with delight, nestle closely to her master, and look lovingly at him with her bright little eyes.
I will stick a half pound in each of your pockets, and if Biche still growls at you, it will be a proof that she is far more noble than men; in short, that she cannot be bribed.
I shall never forget that Biche on one occasion might have discovered me to the Austrians, and did not betray me, as thousands of men would have done in her place.
Sire, said he, "is it only Biche who has the grandes and petites entrees, or have I also?
These were the graves of an Indian and his wife and four children, who had pitched through from Lac la Biche to hunt, and who all died together of diphtheria in this lonely spot.
Leaving Calling River before noon, we passed Rivière la Biche towards evening, and camped about four miles above it on the same side of the river.
When he left Fort Saskatchewan he was apparently in good health, but at Lake La Biche he went violently insane as a result of the hardships of his trip and his anxiety for the safety of his charge.
Then Pedley goes on: "I arrived at Lake La Biche on the 31st, and secured a team of horses to carry me to Fort Saskatchewan.
It was such lessons as this that made the children--Crébiche among them--still gather round the humble master and love to grasp his hand.
These articles of commerce are not so much attended to at the present time, and the biche de mar and tortoise-shell, formerly brought hither, are now carried to other places.
They are also very frequently employed in the biche de mar or tripang fisheries among the islands to the south.
They were to receive a stipulated quantity of blue beads, knives, red cloth, and so forth, for every certain number of piculs of the biche de mer which should be ready on our return.
At length he seemed to have some idea of our meaning, and offered to accompany us to a part of the coast where he assured us the biche de mer (pointing to a specimen of that animal) was to be found in great abundance.
A large flat space near the eastern shore of the bay was selected, where there was plenty both of wood and water, and within a convenient distance of the principal reefs on which the biche de mer was to be procured.
We saw also some biche de mer in the hands of one of the savages, who was greedily devouring it in its natural state.
The Chinese, as before stated, consider biche de mer a very great luxury, believing that it wonderfully strengthens and nourishes the system, and renews the exhausted system of the immoderate voluptuary.
The biche de mer is generally taken in three or four feet water; after which they are brought on shore, and split at one end with a knife, the incision being one inch or more, according to the size of the mollusca.
I often had tickets for the Porte Saint Martin, and I thoroughly enjoyed La biche au bois.
A piece entitled La biche au bois was then being given.
One of them, who spoke a little biche la mar, came up to me and asked me to anchor that night near their beach, and buy yams from them, which we promised to do.
We frequently tried to obtain information about the organization of the family among these natives, but, being dependent on biche la mar, we made small progress.
Sometimes a few natives came to keep me company; and once I got hold of a man who spoke a little bichela mar, and was willing to tell me about some old-time customs.
Soon a missionary was brought ashore in the same way, and then, to our greatest surprise, a man approached us who spoke biche la mar.
His language was of the strangest, a mixture of bichela mar, negro French and English, and was very hard to understand.
The women had disappeared in the huts; the men were sitting outside, around the fires, and, thinking I was asleep, talked about me in biche la mar.
I soon found two boys who had some vague notion of biche la mar, real savages, who served me well in a childish, playful way.
We saw also some biche de mer in the hands of one of the savages, who was greedily devouring it in its natural state.
The biche de mer is generally taken in three or four feet of water; after which they are brought on shore, and split at one end with a knife, the incision being one inch or more, according to the size of the mollusca.
At length he seemed to have some idea of our meaning, and offered to accompany us to a part of coast where he assured us the biche de mer (pointing to a specimen of that animal) was to be found in great abundance.
A large flat space near the eastern shore of the bay was selected, where there was plenty of both wood and water, and within a convenient distance of the principal reefs on which the biche de mer was to be procured.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biche" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
