I urged them to eat some boiled eggs, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

She responded to my protests and oaths with a tone of mockery so cold that I swore to die, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

There was once, in the camp there, two little hares with their sister, and then there was also a big bad bird who wanted to stop them from passing, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

As soon as I set foot on the island..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

The author of this attack is a delicate little wolf, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

We live between ourselves, we hate the nuisances and the visits, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

The further we go, the less we penetrate the horrible mystery of which the unfortunate toad was a victim, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

The Beautiful World of the Tuileries, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

I was ignominiously arrested, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Pierre François Godard, Honoré de Balzac

Instead of all this..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

Here, the civet offers a hit of snuff to an old beaver, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

The Sloth yawned: 'I had...waited', from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

What's that noise? and what does this scoundrel want?, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac