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... from which rose the rattle and chatter and whistling and catcalls, all the zoo-noises of the battalion beginning a new day.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, p.21.
PLACE: Southern England
TIME: Sometime during World War II
CIRCUMSTANCE: Description of an army camp
On some days life kept pace with the gondola, as we nosed through the side-canals and the boatman uttered his plaintive musical birdcry of warning;
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, P.97.
PLACE: Venice
TIME: 1922
CIRCUMSTANCE: Talking of the boatmen (gondoliers).
We ate to the music of the press - the crunch of bones, the drip of blood and marrow, the tap of the spoon basting the thin slices of breast.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, p.168.
PLACE: Paillard's Restaurant, Paris
TIME: 1922
CIRCUMSTANCE: They are making the dish "caneton a la presse" (pressed duckling) on a trolley close to the diners.
... the light of the hall was suffused from scores of hollows, giving an even glow, casting no shadows - the whole place hummed from its hundred ventilators and vibrated with the turn of the great engines below.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, p.225.
PLACE: Passenger liner crossing the Atlantic.
TIME: ca. 1930
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