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Updated: May 15, 2025
His obviously artificial style of speech concealed, as she guessed, some real feeling. "Oh, if you insist on disparaging yourself...!" "I was quite as coolly correct as I apprehend him to be; and if I could only have contrived to compass the charming, as well, who knows what ?" "You don't like my word. Is there a better, a more suitable?" "No. You have the mot juste."
And first there were certain animals without sensation, from which intelligent animals were produced, and these were called 'Zopher-Semin, i.e. 'beholders of the heavens; and they were made in the shape of an egg, and from Mot shone forth the sun, and the moon, and the lesser and the greater stars.
They seem to you as if they had continual sorrow of heart, as if some wrong of past ages had set its seal on their features. The Chinaman has very little sense of the ludicrous, and he is lacking in the elements of intellectual sprightliness and vivacity which lead a Frenchman or an American to appreciate and enjoy a sally of wit, a bon mot, or a joke.
This is noble! said I, clapping my hands together. And yet you would not permit this, said the old officer, in England. In England, dear Sir, said I, WE SIT ALL AT OUR EASE. The old French officer would have set me at unity with myself, in case I had been at variance, by saying it was a bon mot; and, as a bon mot is always worth something at Paris, he offered me a pinch of snuff.
He went to Holland accompanied by Hortense, who, however, did mot stay long there. The new King wanted to make himself beloved by his subjects, and as they were an entirely commercial people the best way to win their affections was not to adopt Napoleon's rigid laws against commercial intercourse with England.
He was at the ball, of course, somewhere, since Sir Andrew Ffoulkes and Lord Antony Dewhurst were here, evidently expecting to meet their chief and perhaps to get a fresh MOT D'ORDRE from him.
Harding said nothing wittier had been said for many generations than the mot credited to a young girl, who had described a ball given that season by the women of forty as "The Hags' Hop." Somebody else had called it "The Roaring Forties." Which was the better description of the two?
This belief was strengthened by my noting that Alvarez was frequently absent from home, and this too in the evening, when he was generally wont to shun the bleakness of the English air, an atmosphere, by the by, which I once heard a Frenchman wittily compare to Augustus placed between Horace and Virgil; namely, in the /bon mot/ of the emperor himself, /between sighs and tears/.
He believed that blunders were sources of power, since by them we came to distinguish between right and wrong. He was the first man to say, "That country is governed best which is governed least." He gave Horace Walpole the cue for the mot, "When the people of Paris speak of the Garden of Eden, they always think of Versailles."
No; it would have been impossible for any man, with only a knife, to have fought his way through so many. Moreover, I did not observe any commotion among the savages, as if an enemy had escaped them. None seemed to have gone off from the spot. What then had ? Ha! I now understood, in its proper sense, Rube's jest about his scalp. It was not a double-entendre, but a mot of triple ambiguity.
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