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Updated: June 16, 2025
"That's on the whole my besetting impression." "Cest l
I was the only woman in the hotel dining room for luncheon. The food was good, but the service impossible, as there were some forty men, mostly officers, very hungry, and only one decrepit waiter to do the work. Good humor prevailed, each diner making allowances, and here for the first time I heard that expression, destined to become so popular as an excuse for almost anything: Cest la guerre!
The verger was always outside the walls, but not far from the entrance or the drawbridge crossing the moat and leading to the chateau. It was to the verger, or orchard, curiously enough, that in times of peace the seigneur and his family retired after luncheon for diversion or repose. "D illocques vieng en cest vergier Eascuns jour pour s'esbanoier."
"I'm not Miss Ackroyd," she began with emphasis, when a querulous voice from an inner room called out: "Whom are you talking to, Sylvia?" "A young man with a boxful of beetles," returned the girl, adding in brisk French: "Il est tres amusant ce farceur. Je ne le comprends pas du tout. Cest une blague, peut-etre. Si on l'invitait dans la maison pour un moment?"
"Have you not noticed how largely increased within the last few years is the number of those who cry out, 'La Propriete, cest le vol'? Have you considered the rapid growth of the International Association? I do not say that for all these evils the Empire is exclusively responsible.
He led her up to the chair. The girl's head was wrapped in a veil and turned from her. Mrs. Waldeaux held out her hands. "Lucy! Lucy Dunbar!" she heard herself say. "Mais non! Cest moi!" said a shrill voice, and Mlle. Arpent, turning her head lazily, looked at her, smiling. Clara Vance had her faults, but nobody could deny that, in this crisis, she acted with feeling and tact.
I would not give a brass farthing for your civilisation! 'But what a poor sort of argument, African Semenitch! observed Darya Mihailovna, inwardly much pleased by the calmness and perfect good-breeding of her new acquaintance. 'Cest un homme comme il faut, she thought, looking with well-disposed scrutiny at Rudin; 'we must be nice to him! Those last words she mentally pronounced in Russian.
This commotion, I soon saw, was caused by a very old man with white hair who was making his way through the crowd to his stall. As he moved, there ran through the house the excited whisper, "Cest le Duc d'Otranto."
Pour ta pitie Jesu regarde, Et met cest a me, en sauve garde. His arms were in a Field Argent, on a Chevron Azure, three Leopards heads or, their tongues Gules, two Angels supporters, and the crest a Talbot. Commonly called the monk of Bury, because a native of that place. He was another disciple and admirer of Chaucer, and it must be owned far excelled his master, in the article of versification.
West. saith the daughter. Ranulf. Cest. In this season, one Modwen a virgine in Ireland was greatlie renowmed in the world, vnto whome the forenamed king Ethelwolfe sent his sonne Alfred to be cured of a disease, that was thought incurable: but by hir meanes he recouered health, and therefore when hir monasterie was destroied in Ireland, Modwen came ouer into England, vnto whom king Ethelwolfe gaue land to build two abbeies, and also deliuered vnto hir his sister Edith to be professed a nun.
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