The ranz des vaches is a type of mountain tune, played on the cor des Alpes (Alpine horn) and so charged with feeling for those bred to its cadences that under the old regime it had to be prohibited within the royal precincts because the Swiss guard would desert or commit suicide on hearing it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
L'art d'appréter et teindre toutessortes de peaus. contenant plusieurs découvertes & réflections, tant sur les opérations qui précédent que sur celles que concernent et suivent la teinture des marroquins, vaches tannés, peaux chamoises, passémes en mégie etc. Paris, 1775. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Note 15: Quemiset, L'Art d'appréter et teindre toutes sortes de peaus. contenant plusieurs découvertes & réflections, tant sur les opérations qui précédent que sur celles que concernent et suivent la teinture des marroquins, vaches tannés, peaux chamoises, passémes en mégie etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)
J'ai besoin du nom pour me souvenir qu'effectivement, on a gardé les vaches ensemble l'été passé. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Souvent, lorsqu'un visage un peu familier m'aborde comme si on avait gardé les vaches ensemble, je n'ai aucune idée de qui il s'agit. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Chacun son métier et les vaches seront bien gardées" = "If each does his job, the cows will be well looked after" = (it is best to mind one's own business) ❋ Unknown (2005)
"Chacun son métier et les vaches seront bien gardées" = "If each does his job, the cows will be well looked after" = it is best to mind one's own business ❋ Unknown (2005)
Des bages Rfid pour les √àl√ãves… et pour les vaches ❋ Unknown (2005)
The tracks and the bois de vaches of buffaloes were numerous, and there were several indications of rhinoceros being near. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
By the quantity of bois de vaches, we judged buffaloes were plentiful here, as well as elephant and rhinoceros. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
When I was six, Aishe tried to teach me how to chew, but my baby teeth hurt so much that I quickly abandoned the idea, to the great relief of my grandmother, who loved to say about those who chewed, “Ils ressemblent à des vaches espagnoles” “They look like Spanish cows”. ❋ Colette Rossant (2004)
The "Armaillis" still drive their herds to the mountains, still singing "_Le ranz des vaches_," the song which among all others best reveals the soul of their race. ❋ Mrs. Reginald De Koven (N/A)
His fuel is "chips" (_bois des vaches_); with a spade he excavates a sunken fireplace, and over this erects an iron rod on which to hang pots, etc. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)
Certain carriages (chaises and cabriolets) would carry only portmanteaux (_vaches_), but _voitures fermées_, _calèches_, and the like might carry also a trunk (_malle_). ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Les vaches se vendent ici de quinze à vingt dollars, les boeufs quarante, les chevaux pour le labour cent; ceux pour la voiture coutent souvent six cents dollars la paire. ❋ Various (N/A)
Much of this may be owing to a cause similar to that which fires the Swiss soldier on foreign service when he hears the chant of his own mountain "_Rans des vaches_." ❋ John Jenkins (N/A)
The next night we encamped on a bare prairie without wood, having recourse to the bois de vaches, or buffalo-chips, which strewed the ground, to make a fire. ❋ Unknown (1916)
