She's now their collective daughter, or "vivandiere" - a woman who hangs out with a regiment serving as their mascot but also as a nurse, confidante and cook. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mary, a vivandiere, has been found and educated by a French sergeant, named Sulpice, and therefore belongs in a sense to his regiment, which is on a campaign in Italy. ❋ Charles Annesley (N/A)
Africa, of her desire to be a nurse, he had pieced together an effigy of the combined traits of a Hottentot and a vivandiere. ❋ Hamilton Brock Fuller (1905)
It had made her feel that she had some share in his life; that, in a way, she had helped him on the march, the vivandiere who carried the water-bag which would give him drink when parched, battle-worn, or wounded. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
The vivandiere was by instinct a fine political economist. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
He bowed to her with the old grace of manner that had so amused and amazed the little vivandiere. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
Her auditor was silent; she thought as the vivandiere thought, but the pride in her, the natural reticence and reserve of her class, made her shrink from discussing the history of one whom she knew -- shrink from having any argument on his past or future with a saucy, rough, fiery young camp-follower, who had broken thus unceremoniously on her privacy. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
The few impressive, vivid words of the young vivandiere had painted before him like a picture the horrors of mutiny and its hopelessness; rather than that, through him, these should befall the men who had become his brethren-in-arms, he felt ready to let the ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
"Your cigars are good, mon lion," she said impatiently, as she sprang up; her lithe, elastic figure in the bright vivandiere uniform standing out in full relief against the pearly gray of the ruined pillars, the vivid green of the rank vegetation, and the intense light of the noon. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
It was amusing to see how they minded her contemptuous orders; how these black-bearded fire-eaters, the terror of the country, each one of whom could have crushed her in his grasp as a wolf crushes a lamb, slunk back, silenced and obedient, before the imperious bidding of the little vivandiere. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
"No! You are as silent as the grave commonly; but when you do speak, you speak well," said the vivandiere condescendingly. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
She would have "slanged" the Emperor himself with the self-same coolness, and the Army had given her a passport of immunity so wide that it would have fared ill with anyone who had ever attempted to bring the vivandiere to book for her uttermost mischief. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
So the carvings had won him one warm heart and one keen pang that day; the vivandiere forgave, the aristocrat stung him, by means of those snowy, fragile, artistic toys that he had shaped in lonely nights under canvas by ruddy picket-fires, beneath the shade of wild fig trees, and in the stir and color of Bedouin encampments. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
The Englishman looked at her with astonishment that was mingled with a vivid sense of intense annoyance and irritated pride, that the name he cherished closest should be thus brought in, at a camp dinner, on the lips of a vivandiere and in connection with a trooper of Chasseurs. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
Their guest said little more on the subject; in his own thoughts he was bitterly resentful that, by the mention of this Chasseur's fortunes, he should have brought in the name he loved so well -- the purest, fairest, haughtiest name in Europe -- into a discussion with a vivandiere at a camp dinner. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
It made her wish, with an impatient scorn for the wish, that she knew how to read and had not her hair cut short like a boy's -- a weakness the little vivandiere had never been visited with before. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
He was not there; he was leaning over the little wooden ledge of a narrow window in an inner room, from which, one by one, some Spahis and some troopers of his own tribu, with whom he had just been drinking such burgundies and brandies as the place could give, had sloped away, one by one, under the irresistible attraction of the vivandiere. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
