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Example sentences for "foie"

Lexicographically close words:
fogy; foh; foi; foible; foibles; foies; foight; foil; foile; foiled
  1. Bring me a good slice of pate de foie gras, and a bottle of very old Beaune; we will toy with that, and then we'll see.

  2. The fatted calf is rivalled by the fatted schoolboy; the cramming of Strasburg geese itself is not more disgusting than the cramming which makes pâté de foie gras of the moral fibre of the young.

  3. When the foie gras was finished she got up, but I stopped her, for the dinner was only half over.

  4. I am sorry to hear that; but you like foie gras?

  5. The dinner that was served to me was very good, though cooked in the Jewish style, and Leah brought in the foie gras and sat down opposite to me with a muslin kerchief over her breast.

  6. You can give me the foie gras every day, if you will eat it with me.

  7. It was past three o'clock in the morning, and I felt very ill, so I said I would not get up till late, and that I would dine in my bed without any foie gras.

  8. In the morning Leah brought the chocolate and sat down on my bed, saying that we should have some fine foie gras, and that she should have all the better appetite for dinner as she had not taken any supper.

  9. I told him I had relished my supper, but that I should like the foie gras every day as I had a dispensation.

  10. The foie gras was excellent, and we washed it down with copious libations of Scopolo, which Leah found very much to her taste.

  11. Monsieur Watts said that the General was a madman who had been weaned on pate de foie gras.

  12. I was going to see if there was anything left to eat in this city of half-bricks except pate de foie gras, child.

  13. If the old gentleman is gay, and he does not assert that he is not, the true reason lies in either the caviare or the pâté de foie gras, or in his crystal conscience.

  14. Or if you choose you can call it simply caviare, pâté de foie gras, grapes and champagne.

  15. Lady Mickleham held a jar containing pate de foie gras; from time to time she dug a piece out with a fork and flung the morsel to a big retriever which was sitting on the terrace.

  16. She thinks dogs ought not to be fed on pate de foie gras.

  17. They are made by rubbing the butter to a cream, combined with anchovy paste, with mustard, with chopped parsley and tarragon, with pate de foie gras, etc.

  18. It may be served hot with a brown sauce; but is better cold with salad, or used like pate de foie gras.

  19. Dip them in good melted butter, put them on a pan in the oven until they are a nice light-brown color; then take out the center of each croustade and fill with foie gras.

  20. I left the pâté de foie gras in the pantry with ice round it.

  21. She goes in to supper a second time, and has more pate de foie gras.

  22. This foie gras with saffron sauce is the height of perfection!

  23. Well, my friend, for me there is a gastronomic poesy in foie gras; in fact I am prepared to crown Daedalus with laurels for this dish, just as I would crown an Olympic ode of Pindar!

  24. This slave belongs to a family of cooks," he said calmly, when I questioned him as to where he had learnt to make "Petits Timbales de foie gras a la Belle Eugenie.

  25. My Inspector-General used to bewail the Petits Timbales de foie gras a la Belle Eugenie.

  26. Stasy is hungry; the foie gras sandwiches are very tempting, but to partake of one would be a tacit admission that there is no hope of a visitor, and she must not be the first to confess the fact.

  27. It came from Baltimore, and everything was cold; the pâté de foie gras never appeared at all!

  28. A lobster salad and a small pâté de foie gras are at your end of the table.

  29. I've already paid a bill for some oysters and a pâté de foie gras.

  30. At the opposite end of the table the figures were those of eagles, while the pates de foie gras arranged above on horseshoes were little square blocks, attached to the horseshoes by means of silver skewers, with ornamental hilts.

  31. At the eastern end the figures upholding three fancy molds of jellied pate de foie gras were white swans, with outspread wings, under the shelter of which rested a brood of snowy young ones.

  32. On this afternoon I was giving the foie gras plate a turn.

  33. I know a man who will never touch foie gras because of the cruelty involved in the preparation of it.

  34. Adolphe to Perrault, To 1 Pate de Foie Gras delivered at Madame Schontz's, the 6th of January, fr.

  35. We have slowly evolved a tongue and palate on the one hand, and French cooks and pâté de foie gras on the other.

  36. Something you have eaten has, perhaps, disagreed with you, aunt; some philosophical pate de foie gras may be in fault.

  37. The celebrated patés de foie gras, imported from Strasbourg, are usually without the paste enclosure, and come to us in hermetically sealed jars.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.