comble

Updated: May 29, 2025

The memories of his childhood and his early youth bound him to the old regime and despite appearances to the contrary, this Prince, so dear to the bourgeois and to the National Guard, was always by his tastes and aspirations a man of Versailles. Charles X. would gladly have said to the Duke of Orleans, as Augustus to Cinna, speaking of his benefits: "Je t'en avais comble, je t'en veux accabler."

baron Arthur Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand - The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X

The visitors find at its Casino all the best newspapers and magazines of civilization laid out for their amusement, to which are added an excellent theatre, an unsurpassed orchestra, and 'pour comble de malheur' open tables at which any stranger can play at roulette, or at trente-et-quarante, upon presentation of a card of address.

W. Cope Devereux - Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo: Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily: with a Short Account of Malta

He added the comble to all his graces and courtesies by shaking her hand as he left the house, and expressing a hope that she would be so kind as to give him another cup of tea, the very next time he was in Cullerne. The light was failing as Lord Blandamer descended the flight of steps outside the door of Bellevue Lodge.

John Meade Falkner - The Nebuly Coat

From the top of this tower the prospect is very extensive, and, during the year 1793, when the republican army quartered themselves in it, a sentinel was placed there to give notice in case of the approach of an enemy. The historian of that period, speaking of the entrance to this tower, observes, in reference to the cruelties committed there in the Vendean war: "Il existait au milieu de la dernière cour un très beau puits, taillé dans le roc et extrêmement profond: il est actuellement comblé, et ma plume se refuse

W.D. Fellowes - A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 : With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. : Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot

Etre simple, c'est le comble de l'art. Ca vous donne," he added, with clasped hands and a step backward, "ca vous donne tout a fait l'air d'une dame de Nattier." Madame took the hand-glass, and did not deny that she was eblouissante. If madame, suggested Monsieur Cadron, had but a little dress a la Marie Antoinette?

Winston Churchill - A Modern Chronicle — Volume 06

* "Le pillage a ete porte a son comble les militaires au lieu de songer a ce qu'ils avoient a faire, n'ont pense qu'a remplir leurs sacs, et a voir se perpetuer une guerre aussi avantageuse a leur interet beaucoup de simples soldats ont acquis cinquante mille francs et plus; on en a vu couverts de bijoux, et faisant dans tous les genres des depenses d'une produgaloite, monstreuse."

An English Lady - A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794: Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General: and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

Louis across her shoulders; secondly, the same order round her neck; thirdly, the small cross of the same in her buttonhole; and, pour comble de gloire, a golden lily of nearly the natural size as a star. So far the effect was somewhat ludicrous.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

Etre simple, c'est le comble de l'art. Ca vous donne," he added, with clasped hands and a step backward, "ca vous donne tout a fait l'air d'une dame de Nattier." Madame took the hand-glass, and did not deny that she was eblouissante. If madame, suggested Monsieur Cadron, had but a little dress a la Marie Antoinette?

Winston Churchill - A Modern Chronicle — Complete