ten-franc

Will you understand, I wonder, the excitement that possessed me when, plunged deep in the listlessness of despair, I opened my writing-table drawer, and found a fair and splendid ten-franc piece that shone like a rising star, new and sparkling, and slily hiding in a cranny between two boards?

The Magic Skin 2007

Her house, enriched by gallant tributes, displayed the exaggerated magnificence of women who, caring little about the cost of things, care only for the things themselves, and give them the value of their own caprices, — women who will break a fan or a smelling-bottle fit for queens in a moment of passion, and scream with rage if a servant breaks a ten-franc saucer from which their poodle drinks.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

I chose the longest, ten-franc taper and lit it with the prayer that by then had become my interior mantra: Let him die a speedy death, a painless death, a death with me at his side.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

I chose the longest, ten-franc taper and lit it with the prayer that by then had become my interior mantra: Let him die a speedy death, a painless death, a death with me at his side.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

I chose the longest, ten-franc taper and lit it with the prayer that by then had become my interior mantra: Let him die a speedy death, a painless death, a death with me at his side.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

I chose the longest, ten-franc taper and lit it with the prayer that by then had become my interior mantra: Let him die a speedy death, a painless death, a death with me at his side.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

Jean brought the bottle and the glasses and two ten-franc saucers with the syphon.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

He went into the café and came out carrying the bottle of whisky, two large glasses, two ten-franc gold-rimmed saucers and a seltzer bottle.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

Jean brought the bottle and the glasses and two ten-franc saucers with the syphon.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

He went into the café and came out carrying the bottle of whisky, two large glasses, two ten-franc gold-rimmed saucers and a seltzer bottle.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992