cold-in-the-nose

Updated: June 14, 2025

M. Dufaure arrived in the Chamber with a provincial and cold-in-the-nose accent that was very queer. But he possessed a mind so clear that occasionally it was almost luminous, and so accurate that occasionally it was decisive. With that his speech was deliberate and cold, but sure, solid, and calmly pushed difficulties before it. M. Dufaure succeeded. He was a deputy, then a minister.

Victor Hugo - The Memoirs of Victor Hugo