fumier

- kept asking for people to pass the "fumier" (akin to fumer) instead of the "cendrier" (from cendres)!!

arrosoir - French Word-A-Day 2008

kept asking for people to pass the "fumier" (akin to fumer) instead of the "cendrier" (from cendres)!

arrosoir - French Word-A-Day 2008

Non, tu ne les connais pas, les délices du fumier.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various

But it is Hugo’s method to place a marvellous flower of beauty, grace, and goodness on his fumier.

Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Andrew Lang 1917

The motto on the original title page of The Nether World was a quotation from a speech by Renan delivered at the Academie Francaise in 1889: "La peinture d'un fumier peut etre justifiee pourvu qu'il y pousse une belle fleur; sans cela, le fumier n'est que repoussant."

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

-- "_C'est fumier des cigarettes enchantées_ ...."

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

But there are many persons who, not dreaming of the Unities, still object in language less extravagant than Voltaire's or George the Third's, but with hardly less decision, to the "sad stuff," the _fumier_ of Shakespere's admixture of comedy with tragedy, of his digressions and episodes, of his multifarious underplots and minor groups, and ramifications of interest or intrigue.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

_Thyrza_, at any rate, is a most exquisite picture in half-tones of grey and purple of a little Madonna of the slums; she is in reality the _belle fleur d'un fumier_ of which he speaks in the epigraph of the _Nether World_.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

The _fumier_ in question is Lambeth Walk, of which we have a Saturday night scene, worthy of the author of _L'Assommoir_ and _Le

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

"J'ai tant de gloire, ô roi, que j'aspire au fumier!" said Lady Cardiff.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873