To begin, then, with you(addressing himself to a corpulent man, of a florid complexion, at the lower end of the table:)As you already have a redundancy of flesh and blood, I assign the soupe maîgre to you; while to our mathematical friend on this side, whose delicate constitution requires nourishment, I recommend the smoking ragoût.

But now the supper crowns their simple hoard: The healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food: The soupe their only hawkie does afford, That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood.

This, as a learned friend observes, resembles the French invitation, Voulez vous venir manger la soupe chez moi!"

"C'est la Soupe," says one of the best of proverbs, "qui fait le Soldat;" "It is the soup that makes the soldier."

fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima^; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre [Fr.], short commons, Barmecide feast^; short rations.

In those days there is no doubt but that hot soup formed an indispensable part of the daily meals, and that each person took it at least twice a day, according to the old proverb: "Soupe la soir, soupe le matin, C'est l'ordinaire du bon chrétien.

In those days there is no doubt but that hot soup formed an indispensable part of the daily meals, and that each person took it at least twice a day, according to the old proverb: "Soupe la soir, soupe le matin, C'est l'ordinaire du bon chrétien.

As a proof of this we must refer to the famous soupe dorée, the description of which is given by Taillevent, head cook of Charles VII., in the following words, "Toast slices of bread, throw them into a jelly made of sugar, white wine, yolk of egg, and rosewater; when they are well soaked fry them, then throw them again into the rosewater and sprinkle them with sugar and saffron.

Either the angel or the goblin who goes a wayfaring with me led me this time into a heated little auberge infested by myriads of flies, which, getting into the steam of the soupe caix choux in their anxiety to be served first, fell upon their backs in the hot mixture, and made frantic signals to me with their legs to help them out.

This was a name given him by the pope for an admirable soupe maigre which he invented for Lent.

The French say, C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat, and we have always found on a tramping expedition nothing so life-restoring after fatigue and hunger as the portable soup now so easily obtained at places where prepared food is put up for travellers' uses.

"Oui, sans doute, mais il faut qu'ils aient à manger tout de suite," dit Shaftesbury, et sur l'heure il rentre chez lui, et expédie 400 rations de soupe.

Our projects of conquest were, however, all frustrated by the unlucky intervention of Bernardine's soupe aux choux,

Our projects of conquest were, however, all frustrated by the unlucky intervention of Bernardine's soupe aux choux,

Au seuil de la forêt, un clerc lui donne à boire Un vin mystérieux versé dans un ciboire, Qui doit, le soir venu, l'endormir jusqu'au jour; Puis on le laisse, il part et monte dans la tour; Il trouve dans la salle une table dressée; Il soupe et dort; et l'ombre envoie

La femme est au logis, cousant les vieilles toiles, Remmaillant les filets, préparant l'hameçon, Surveillant l'âtre où bout la soupe de poisson, Puis priant Dieu sitôt que les cinq enfants dorment.

De la main à la bouche se perd souvent la soupe.