amerement

Updated: May 20, 2025

At present I say, 'Bah! a pack of ragged boys, gamins de Paris; but my friend the Colonel, twisting his moustache en souriant amerement, says, 'It is the indignation of Paris at the apathy of the Government under insult to the honour of France; and Heaven only knows how rapidly French gamins grow into giants when Colonels talk about the indignation of Paris and the honour of France!"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Parisians — Volume 10

At present I say, 'Bah! a pack of ragged boys, gamins de Paris; but my friend the Colonel, twisting his moustache en souriant amerement, says, 'It is the indignation of Paris at the apathy of the Government under insult to the honour of France; and Heaven only knows how rapidly French gamins grow into giants when Colonels talk about the indignation of Paris and the honour of France!"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Parisians — Complete

And there, too! there! upon the ottoman! who could he be? he, the petitmaitre no, the Deity who sat as if carved in marble, et qui sourit, with his pale countenance, si amerement? Mais il faut agir that is to say, a Frenchman never faints outright. Besides, his Grace hated a scene De L'Omelette is himself again. There were some foils upon a table some points also. The Duc s'echapper.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4