m'exprimer

Updated: May 15, 2025

It may well be so, when the disposition of the drama is in the hands of the Duke of Newcastle those hands that are always groping and sprawling, and fluttering, and hurrying on the rest of his precipitate person. But there is no describing him but as M. Courcelle, a French prisoner, did t'other day: "Je ne scais pas," dit il, "je ne scaurois m'exprimer, mais il a un certain tatillonage."

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I

I expected the light lank hair and the heavy unlifting step of the people whose only emotions are in music. But it was too early for any one to be about, and my German garden, si j'ose m'exprimer ainsi, had to suffice me for an impression of the Central Europeans. I gazed at it a little while as it grew lighter. I went out into the road and sighed profoundly.

Hilaire Belloc - The Path to Rome