But the best description of the book-hunter of the quais is that given to Dumas by Charles Nodier.
The history of the stall-holders of the quais has been told very engagingly by M.
The parapets of thequais then took the place of those of the bridge, and there the booksellers' cases have been ever since.
Below, the long line of the quais was outlined by long rows of electric lights, swaying and tossing from their poles, and illuminating the shining, wet asphalt of the Bund.
He reached the quais after a sharp run, passing the godowns filled with rubber, which gave forth its peculiar, permeating odour upon the heavy, stagnant air of the harbourside.
They must be going back of the quais now, for the air was heavy with the acrid scent of rubber.
The streets leading from Quais Malaquais and Voltaire, and those behind, parallel with the quays, were cut through her grounds and through the fields farther west.
This chatelet stood at the head of Petit-Pont, on the ground where Quais Saint-Michel and Montebello meet now, and was not demolished until late in the eighteenth century.
The life in our quarter on the quais is very different, an extraordinary animation and movement.
The quaisare very broad, happily, for everything is put there.
The most attractive of these quaisare those which flank the Louvre, the Tuileries, D'Orsay, Voltaire, and Conti.
This animal has two feet and is without features, and usually wanders about the quais and boulevards, stopping in front of every stall and fingering all the books.
The booksellers' stalls of the quais of Paris are famous, though it is doubtful if genuine bargains exist there in great numbers.
The quais which line the Seine as it runs through Paris are like no other quais in the known world.
The Seine of yesterday grows wider, pushing the Quais back to the foot of the town walls, and above his youthful waters slope the rounded arches built by the Empress Matilda, wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet.
After dinner we walked again by thequais to Notre Dame--but it was already shut.
Places that are out of sight rise up, and gigantic walls and colossal quais appear where there are no such constructions.
Nevertheless time has justified the Genevans; its brand-new quais are no longer glaringly new, and "its yellow and its white and its plaster and its chalk" have been toned down by time.
The Quais had not yet got as strait-laced as they are now, and the river flowed its pleasant course without much police supervision.
I was down by the Quais of old Paris, close to the Pont des Aveugles, drawing the Parisian workman as he took his midday rest.
The Quais on each side of the Arno are very broad and spacious and form agreeable promenades in the winter season.
Tournay is a large handsome city and the spacious quais on the banks of the Scheld which runs through it add much to the neatness of its appearance.
Several of the Quais on the north bank of the Seine are occupied almost entirely by jewellers, the windows of whose shops, arranged in a style of the greatest taste, make a dazzling display.
The sewage of the Iles Saint-Louis and de la Cite is carried by two other siphons to the collecteurs of the quais of the right and left banks.
You may study their range of notes there any day if you care to make an instructive pilgrimage along the Quais from old Jerome's stall by the Pont Notre Dame to the Pont Royal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quais" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
