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Eustace laughed heartily at this report, and assured his friend that, though he had heard his brother often give his Squire in jest his nom de guerre of Gaston le Maure, yet d'Aubricour was a gallant gentleman of Gascony. But still Leonard was not satisfied. "Had ever man born in Christian land such flashing black eyes and white teeth? And is not he horribly fierce and strict?"
In a modern English Latin Grammar, the charming sight that meets our gaze is as follows: Nom. Mensa. A table. Voc. Mensa. Oh, table! Acc. Mensam. A table. Gen. Mensæ. Of a table. Dat. Mensæ. To or for a table. Abl. Mensa. By, with or from a table. The method of Comenius was different. Instead of mentioning the names of the cases, he showed how the cases were actually used, as follows:
De ce côté, près de la pointe de l'angle, est la belle église de Saint-George, qui a, en face de la Turquie, [Footnote: Il s'agit ici de la Turquie d'Asie. On n'avoit point encore donné ce nom aux provinces que les Turcs possedoient en Europe.] une tour
But, 'nom Dieu! what with the fright you gave me, sitting there, whereas I deemed you were meat for eels and carp, and what with thy tale ha, ha! and my tale, and the wine, maybe, I forgot your own peril, my lad. Faith, your neck is like to be longer, if we be not better advised."
"I came out to look at meteors," said she, laughing at his unwonted flowers of speech; "and I don't know who gave you leave to call me by my Christian name." "It isn't your Christian," urged Jack. "It will be my nom de guerre, then, if you say it again." "Change it if you like," quoth he, "if you will let me change your surname too."
Giving a quick downward glance at his shoulder, he saw the bleeding stump and knew what had been done, whereon he became furiously angry. "Ah, nom de Dieu! what have you been doing to me? It is a shame!" Bouroche was too done up to make him an immediate answer, but presently, in his fatherly way: "I acted for the best; I didn't want to see you kick the bucket, my boy.
The signature, "Common Sense," Paine preserved through life. It became what our authorlings, who ought to know better, will persist in calling a nom de plume a Yankee affectation, unknown to French idioms. In the autumn of 1776, Paine joined the army as volunteer aide-de-camp to General Greene, and served through the gloomy campaign which opened with the loss of New York in September.
As you gazed at him there passed through your mind vague impressions of mummies, wax figures, Russian exiles, and men lost on desert islands. His face was covered almost to his eyes with a curly brown beard that he kept trimmed short with a pocket-knife, and that had furnished him with his nom de route.
Nom de diable, I will say my own Mass, light my own candle, go my own way. I have too much." Now, as he sat glooming, after his outbreak of oaths, there came a rattling noise at the door, the grinding of a key in the lock, the shooting of bolts, and a face appeared at the little wicket in the door. Then the door opened and the Sheriff stepped inside, accompanied by a white-haired, stately old man.
While he was here came Madame de Villeneuve and Madame de Kergolay. Scarcely were they all gone, when I desired Rodolphe to let no other person in, as the carriage had been ordered at eleven, and it was now near two. "Miladi!" cried Rodolphe, running in with a card, "voila une dame qui me dit de vous faire voir son nom."
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