"Jambon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... violently, meanwhile his hands are flapping across his chest. Some fellows opened their cartouche-boxes, and from them drew eatables of various kinds. You can't think how anxious we were to know the qualities of the same. "Tiens, ce gros qui mange une cuisse de volaille!"—"Il a du jambon, celui-la." "I should like some, too," growls an Englishman, "for I hadn't a morsel of breakfast," and so on. This is the way, my dear, that we see ...
— The Second Funeral of Napoleon • William Makepeace Thackeray (AKA "Michael Angelo Titmarch")
... fois avec une bonne humeur que rien ne pouvait branler, et aprs souper voyant qu'il mourrait de faim s'il ne se servait pas lui-mme, il prit le plus beau jambon qui se trouvait dans le garde-manger et une grosse miche de pain ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber |
