Astrid was clearly making an effort to look cheerful, but I could tell she was distraught, and even I felt a little guilty at the thought of poor Łukasz, who had been nice to me, languishing in some Communist jail cell while we feasted on langouste and oysters. ❋ Megan McAndrew (2009)
Her husband, like most French people, was sadly deficient in holiday spirit, and limited his revels to the consumption of oysters and langouste in a restaurant, in the company of his mistress. ❋ Megan McAndrew (2009)
We rowed back to the little inn at Ploumanach, and had some eggs and a hot langouste or rock-lobster. ❋ Fanny Bury Palliser (N/A)
The descriptions of the lobster and the langouste are particularly minute, and the comparison or contrast between the two is drawn with elaborate precision. ❋ Various (N/A)
Provence_ and _langouste_ and Chabas's famous straw potatoes and rum omelette for ten days, and were sorry when it was all over. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It was curious to see the dread shown by the common lobster to the langouste. ❋ Fanny Bury Palliser (N/A)
Justine, with her red hands that had washed so many dishes off which other people had dined well, put down between them a scarlet langouste, of which claws and feelers sprawled over the table - cloth that already had a few purplish stains of wine. ❋ John Dos Passos (1933)
Merci pour la langouste, Have a heart, This is the life, Where did you get that hat? ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
Better still are scampi, a kind of small crawfish, rather like tenderer and sweeter langouste. ❋ Harry [Illustrator] Morley (1903)
Here also are great joints of tunny, huge red scarpenna, sturgeon, mullet, live whole eels (to prove to me how living they were, a fishmonger one morning allowed one to bite him) and eels in writhing sections, aragosta, or langouste, and all the little Adriatic and lagoon fish -- the scampi and shrimps and calimari -- spread out in little wet heaps on the leaves of the plane-tree. ❋ Harry [Illustrator] Morley (1903)
To be precise, you take a langouste, three rascas (an edible but second-rate fish), a slice of conger, a fine 'chapon,' or red rascas, and one or two 'poissons blancs' (our grey mullet, I take it, would be an equivalent). ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
You take a cooking-pot and put your langouste in it, together with four spoonfuls of olive-oil, an onion and a couple of tomatoes, and boil away until he turns red. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
For the langouste, a baby lobster might serve; and the saffron flavour would be no severe trial to us in the Duchy, who are brought up (so to say) upon saffron cake. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
“_Langostas_ does mean _langouste_ — or lobsters, I suppose, sir?” asked ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1901)
A langouste, in his flaming scarlet coat of mail, passed through a glassy pool among the rocks, treading sedately on pointed claws; the lançons tunnelled the oozing beach under her pink feet, like streams of living quicksilver; the big, blue sea-crabs sidled off the reef, sheering down sideways into limpid depths. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Loup-de-mer, mostelle, langouste ... a studied helping of each in a soup plate, then the sodden toast from the tureen and the ladles of clear, rich, yellow liquid flavoured with saffron and with an artist's inspiration of garlic, the essence of the dozen kinds of fish that had yielded up their being to the making of the bouillabaisse. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
