Vulgar words in Under the Rose (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 10 ~ ~ ~
On his throne in Fools' hall, Triboulet, the king's hunchback, leaned complacently back, his eyes bent upon a tapestry but newly hung in that room, the meeting place of jesters, buffoons and versifiers.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 19 ~ ~ ~
And truly it was said that sprightly ladies, working between love and pleasure times, drew from the court fool for their conception of the mythological buffoon, reproducing Triboulet's great head; his mouth, proportionately large; his protruding eyes; his bowed back, short, twisted legs and long, muscular arms; and his nose far larger than that of Francis, who otherwise had the largest nose in the kingdom.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 26 ~ ~ ~
Over a goodly gathering of jesters, buffoons, poets, and even philosophers, he lorded it, holding his head as high as his hump would permit and conscious of his own place in the esteem of the king.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 72 ~ ~ ~
At this the cardinal's buffoon looked disappointed, for his master liked more highly-flavored hearsay, while Triboulet frowned and brought down his heavy fist upon the arm of the throne.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 150 ~ ~ ~
Crouching like an animal, the king's buffoon sprang with headlong fury, uttering hoarse, guttural sounds that awakened misgivings regarding the fate of his too confident antagonist.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 235 ~ ~ ~
In portraiture the classical buffoon grinned and gibed at them from the tapestry; and even from his high station above the clouds Jupiter, who had ejected the offending fool of the gods, looked less stern and implacable.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 742 ~ ~ ~
Louis, the bastard of Pfalz-Urfeld!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 880 ~ ~ ~
As vagrant followers hover on the verge of a camp, or watchful vultures circle around their prey, so these lower parasites (distinct from the other well-born, more aristocratic genus of smell-feast) prowled vigilantly without the castle walls and beyond the limits of the royal pleasure grounds, finding occasional employment from lackey, valet or equerry, who, imitating their betters, amused themselves betimes with some low buffoon or vulgar clown and rewarded him for his gross stories and antics with a crust and a cup.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 881 ~ ~ ~
Faith, in those thrice happy days, every henchman could whistle to him his shabby poet, and every ostler hold court in the stable, with a _visdase_, or ass face, to keep the audience in a roar, and a nimble-footed trull to set them into ecstasies.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 913 ~ ~ ~
The king, who heard, laughed, and the dwarf's heart immediately expanded, auguring he should soon be restored to the monarch's favor; for since the night the buffoon had failed to answer the duke's jester in Fools' hall Francis had received Triboulet's advances and small pleasantries with terrifying coldness.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,095 ~ ~ ~
Nor had the princess' look when the goblet had fallen, been lost upon the misshapen buffoon; alert, wide-awake, his mind, quick to suspect, reached a sudden conclusion; a conclusion which by rapid process of reasoning became a conviction.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,128 ~ ~ ~
What have you to say, fool?" he continued, turning to the object of the buffoon's insidious and malicious attack.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,178 ~ ~ ~
With peals of merriment and triumphant shouts, the court, of one accord, directed a fusillade of fruits, nuts and other viands at the head and person of the raging and hapless buffoon, the countess herself, apple in hand--Eve bent upon vengeance--leading in the assault.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,349 ~ ~ ~
"The bastard of Hochfels!" exclaimed the jester, fixedly regarding the man whose name was known throughout Europe for his reckless bravery, his personal resources and his indomitable pride or love of freedom and independence, which held him aloof from emperor or monarch, and made him peer and leader among the many intractable spirits of the Austrian country who had not yet bowed their necks to conquest; a soldier of many battles, whose thick-walled fortress, perched picturesquely in mid-air on a steep mountain top, established his security on all sides.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,903 ~ ~ ~
"He is the bastard of Pfalz-Urfeld, the so-called free baron of Hochfels.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,923 ~ ~ ~
Should he be able to convince Francis of the deception practised upon him, was it altogether unlikely that the king might not be brought to condone the offense for the sake of an alliance with this bastard of Pfalz-Urfeld and the other unconquerable free barons of the Austrian border against Charles himself?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,437 ~ ~ ~
"I urged upon him the impropriety of sending for you at the festivities," resumed the man, sniffing at the vial, "but he became excited, swore he would leave the bed and brain me with mine own pestle if I ventured to hinder him.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,603 ~ ~ ~
And that sort of warfare was to be expected from the bastard of Pfalz-Urfeld."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,148 ~ ~ ~
How Francis, evincing a sudden interest as strong as it was unexpected, had exchanged Triboulet for herself, and the princess, at the king's request, had taken the buffoon with her, and left the girl behind.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,373 ~ ~ ~
In this room was gathered a nondescript company: mountebanks and buffoons; rogues unclassified, drinking and dicing; a robust vagrant, at whose feet slept a performing boar, with a ring--badge of servitude--through its nose; a black-bearded, shaggy-haired Spanish troubadour, with attire so ragged and worn as to have lost its erstwhile picturesque characteristics.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,166 ~ ~ ~
Again the jester returned to the tap-room, where he found the landlord polishing the pewter tankards.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,499 ~ ~ ~
"Think you, your Majesty, if the princess be not yet married to the bastard, she is like to espouse the true duke?" asked the courtier, as a soldier left the tent to carry out the orders of the emperor.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,709 ~ ~ ~
While thus he spoke, as calm as though secluded in one of his monastery retreats, weighing the affairs of state, nearer and nearer drew the soldiers of the bastard of Pfalz-Urfeld; roughly calculating, a force numerically as strong as the emperor's own guard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,764 ~ ~ ~
At the sight of him the bastard paused; his breast rose and fell with his labored breathing; his sword was dyed red, also his arms, his clothes; from his forehead the blood ran down over his beard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,819 ~ ~ ~
"He who lies before you is not the duke, but Louis of Hochfels, the bastard of Pfalz-Urfeld."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,941 ~ ~ ~
"He is not of the guard, nor of the bastard's following."