It was curious to see the dread shown by the common lobster to the langouste. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
We rowed back to the little inn at Ploumanach, and had some eggs and a hot langouste or rock-lobster. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The descriptions of the lobster and the langouste are particularly minute, and the comparison or contrast between the two is drawn with elaborate precision. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Astrid was clearly making an effort to look cheerful, but I could tell she was distraught, and even I felt a little guilty at the thought of poor Łukasz, who had been nice to me, languishing in some Communist jail cell while we feasted on langouste and oysters. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming in French] Reference
Better still are scampi, a kind of small crawfish, rather like tenderer and sweeter langouste. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference
He ate a small portion of langouste with an exquisite salad, and drank a single glass of chablis. From Wordnik.com. [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference
Merci pour la langouste, Have a heart, This is the life, Where did you get that hat?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11. American Slang. 1. Its Origin and Nature] Reference
You take a cooking-pot and put your langouste in it, together with four spoonfuls of olive-oil, an onion and a couple of tomatoes, and boil away until he turns red. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
For the langouste, a baby lobster might serve; and the saffron flavour would be no severe trial to us in the Duchy, who are brought up (so to say) upon saffron cake. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
To be precise, you take a langouste, three rascas (an edible but second-rate fish), a slice of conger, a fine 'chapon,' or red rascas, and one or two 'poissons blancs' (our grey mullet, I take it, would be an equivalent). From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Justine, with her red hands that had washed so many dishes off which other people had dined well, put down between them a scarlet langouste, of which claws and feelers sprawled over the table - cloth that already had a few purplish stains of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
Here also are great joints of tunny, huge red scarpenna, sturgeon, mullet, live whole eels (to prove to me how living they were, a fishmonger one morning allowed one to bite him) and eels in writhing sections, aragosta, or langouste, and all the little Adriatic and lagoon fish -- the scampi and shrimps and calimari -- spread out in little wet heaps on the leaves of the plane-tree. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference
You will hardly believe, "he confided, as I shared his admirable dejeuner -- soup, langouste, an incomparable omelet, stuffed veal, and I forget what beside --" you will hardly believe with what difficulty I bring myself back to this horizon. ". From Wordnik.com. [News from the Duchy] Reference
Oura-miti (langouste) Vau Oiri. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
La langouste. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Commons and Ads on Blogs — Climb to the Stars] Reference
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