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Updated: May 6, 2025
We went together to a prize-fight, which had been well advertised. A small boy with a gong handed me a bill on the rue du Four, which read: The bill said further in French and Tahitian that this was to be the climax of all ring battles in the South Seas between natives, the Christchurch Kid and Cowan, the bridegroom, being hors concours. Every seat was reserved by noon.
Every one talks of your 'concours'. Although I have abandoned medicine without the wish to return to it, I have not become indifferent to what concerns it, and I learned of your success. Which portrait shall we put in circulation? The old or the new?" "The new." "Then let us arrange the pose."
To gain a hundred francs he will do anything; he makes money only for the pleasure of making it, for he has neither child nor relative." "Well, I promise to be on my guard as you advise. But, wicked as Caffie may be, I believe that I shall accept the concours that he offered me. Who knows what may happen in the short time that he gains for me?
The odd thing is that my friend should think it necessary to preface his meeting with courteous formulas, which I suppose are really merely liturgical, like the Dominus vobiscum, relating to what a polite Frenchman the other day called votre présence et votre précieux concours.
You don't feel with other women that you are as you please to call it hors de concours out of the running. And somehow, with me, it humiliates.
Gray and sober in color, with a firmly closed mouth and serious eyes denoting great strength of character, it is admirably studied and designed and proves the unusual excellence of the art of this gifted daughter of Jules Breton. At the Exposition of Limoges, May to November, 1903, Mme. Demont-Breton was pronounced hors concours in painting.
The occasion was the Concours Hippique, an ultra-equine fête, where the lovers of the friend of man, and such persons as are fitted by an ungenerous fate with limbs suitable to horsey clothes, meet and bow. It is your small man who is ever the horsiest in his outward appearance, just as it is your very plain young person who is keenest at the Sunday-school class.
But she swung up at last, and by the time The Dancer had finished his display of haute ecole Gaston was mounted. "After riding The Dancer I feel confident to enter for the Concours Hippique," she laughed over her shoulder, and touched the horse with her heel.
They are never serious, and nothing counts except," she added, recklessly, "that I get a little amusement by the way." "Julie," cried the Duchess, "as if Jacob " Julie frowned and released herself; then she laughed. "Nothing that one ever says about ordinary mortals applies to Mr. Delafield. He is, of course, hors concours." "Julie!" "It is you, Evelyn, who make me méchante.
No difficulty if I could keepe the highway, which is greatly beatten with the great concours of that people that comes & goes to trade with the flemings; but to avoid all encounters I must prolong a farre off. Soe being assisted by the best hope of the world, I made all diligence in the meene while that my mother nor kindred should mistrust me in the least.
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