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The Commissary (after a pause): "Eh bien, je vais vous dire ce que vous êtes. Vous êtes allemand el vous venez chanter
The other Americans exchanged looks, and Elliott tried to check Clifford's folly before it was too late. "Espion!" muttered the Frenchman, adding, a little louder, "Sale Allemand!" Gethryn looked up startled. "Keep cool," whispered Thaxton; "if they think we're Germans we're done for." Carleton glanced nervously about. "How they stare," he whispered.
Diderot's article on the Germans is an excellent illustration of this wholesome predominance of the scientific spirit over the superficialities of barren erudition. The word "Allemand," says Diderot, "has a great many etymologies, but they are so forced, that it is almost as well to know none of them, as to know them all.
Our captain took off his beaver, felt the bullet-hole in the brim, looked up coolly, and pointed his musket. "Drop that pistol!" said he. The fellow yelped out fear. Down clattered his weapon to the deck. "Now sit there," ordered Radisson, replacing his beaver. "Sit there till I give you leave to come down!" Allemand, the pilot, had lost his head and was steering a course crooked as a worm fence.
He told me, 'que vous parliez l'Allemand comme un Allemand; que vous saviez le droit public de l'empire parfaitement bien; que vous aviez le gout sur, et des connoissances fort etendues'. I told him that I knew all this very well; but that I wanted to know whether you had l'air, les manieres, les attentions, en fin le brillant d'un honnete homme': his answer was, 'Mais oui en verite, c'est fort bien'. This, you see, is but cold in comparison of what I do wish, and of what you ought to wish.
Hors du Joug allemand, par Léon Daudet. When war was declared in 1914 hundreds of Germans applied for papers of naturalization in Switzerland, and obtained them from various little Swiss communes which were in sore want of funds. Spies eager to place their machinations under the protection of Swiss citizenship found smooth ways to the desired goal.
The tram-car by this time had run through the Place Molard, the Allemand Marché, and was turning into the Rue de la Corraterie, pointing upward for the theatre and the Promenade des Bastions. Where was my involuntary companion bound? She settled the question by getting out at the Place Neuve with a few parting words. "I have a call to make near here. I had forgotten it.
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