How delightful, if on the continent, to escape from the narrow limits of the dungeon-like diligence, where you sit with your knees next your collar-bone, fainting with heat and suffocated by dust, and find yourself suddenly beside the tempting "plats" of a little French dejeune, with its cutlets, its fried fish, its poulet, its salad, and its little entre of fruit, tempered with a not despicable bottle of Beaune.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
The resemblance struck her; she would cry aloud to the men- 'Voici Monsieur Geelby, le poulet qui a peur de descendre!
"A Dozen Ways Of Love"
Lily Dougall
This petition was presented by the honourable Ann poulet, and Alexander Hood, esq.
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson