United States or France ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The Gazetta di Venezia responds, affirming that the majority of the bishops brought with them to Rome their mistresses, and in some instances their children. The Gazetta offers to disclose the names of these bishops, and demands that the Pope shall satisfy the Catholic world by taking measures against them. And the result is merely to create scandal and invite his own disgrace! A quoi bon!"
After a moment passed in dipping the ladle full, and then raising it on high, as the thick rich fluid fell back into the kettle, he suddenly gave it a whirl, as if to cool what yet remained, and offered the bowl to Mr. Le Quoi, saying: Taste that, mounsher, and you will say it is worth more than you offer. The molasses itself would fetch the money,
Jones is more familiar to me, or even the polite masquerade of Monsieur Le Quoi. Do you speak French? said the lady, with quickness. It is a common language with the Iroquois, and through the Canadas, he answered, smiling. Ah! but they are Mingoes, and your enemies.
If you don't mind smoke, I should like to console myself with a cigar while you draw the bond." The question was a polite formula, the atmosphere of George Sheldon's office being redolent of stale tobacco. "Smoke away," said the lawyer; "and if you can drink brandy-and-soda at this time of day, you'll find the de quoi in that cupboard. Make yourself at home." Mr.
Very well, Benjamin, interrupted Elizabeth, glancing her eyes from the hunter to Monsieur Le Quoi, who was most politely attending to what fell from each individual in succession, you shall tell me of that, and all your entertaining adventures together; just now, a room must be prepared, in which the arm of this gentleman can be dressed.
I fear the want of that amiable and engaging 'je ne sais quoi', which as some philosophers have, unintelligibly enough, said of the soul, is all in all, and all in every part; it should shed its influence over every word and action. I fear the want of that air, and first 'abord', which suddenly lays hold of the heart, one does not know distinctly how or why.
It is what the French call a je ne sais quoi, a something insaisissable, a sort of nuance, not amounting of course to a lueur, but still, how shall one put it, SOMETHING. Showing the Stimulating Effect of the War on Its Literary Style "There is no doubt that our boys, and the Americans, are going some on the western front.
But you shall be called by an English name, if you wish, though to my mind there's a je ne sais quoi about the French. I once knew a Frenchman, a writing and dancing master, called Duvelleroy, which always seemed the beautifullest name." "Was he beautiful himself?" I asked. "He used to play a kit which is a kind of small fiddle holding it across his waist.
But in addition to all these necessary qualifications the really great person the true super man or woman of the ballroom must be possessed of that certain divine something, that je ne sais quoi ability to rise superior to all occasions, to overcome the most difficult situations, which has distinguished the great men and women of all ages.
There were those who gave themselves up to admiration, who gushed with enthusiasm; there were those who had the weary air of surfeit with splendor of this sort; there were the bustling and volatile, who made facetious remarks, and treated the affair like a Fourth of July; and there were also groups dark and haughty, like the Stotts, who held a little aloof, and coldly admitted that it was most successful; it lacked je ne sais quoi, but it was in much better taste than they had expected.
Word Of The Day