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There had been alternate long runs upon red and black. "'Mille noms de Dieu! exclaimed a hoarse cracked voice just below me. 'What a series of black! Twenty-two, and only three red! And to be unable to take advantage of it!
William de Albini, one of the twenty-five sureties, was sent to possess himself of the Castle of Rochester; but before he could bring in sufficient stores, he was invested by John, with Savary de Mauleon, called the Bloody, and a band of free-companions, whose noms de guerre were equally truculent namely, the Merciless, the Murderer, the Iron-hearted.
"We can't get even halfway!" "Heaven and Earth!" "Mille noms d'un boulet!" cried Ardan, wildly gesticulating. "And we shall fall back to the Earth!" "Oh!" "Ah!" They could say no more. This fearful revelation took them like a stroke of apoplexy. How could they imagine that the Observatory men had committed such a blunder? Barbican would not believe it possible.
The marquis with supernatural gravity mentioned to him the name of each, while the gentleman who bore it bowed; they were all what are called in France beaux noms. "I wanted extremely to see you," the duchess went on. "C'est positif. In the first place, I am very fond of the person you are going to marry; she is the most charming creature in France.
These various documents were published in 1628, one part of them in the Mercure François, and the other in a pamphlet, large in quarto of twenty-three pages. The list of the Hundred Associates was also printed in a small pamphlet of eight pages, bearing as title: Noms, surnoms et Qualitez des Associez En la Compagnie de la Nouvelle France, suyvant les jours et dates de leurs signatures.
Chacun de ces feuillets, vu de l'Allée-Blanche, paroît une grande montagne, je les ai décrits dans le chapitre précédent sous le noms de Mont-Pétéret, Mont-Rouge, et Mont-Broglia, § 830, 831, 834.
There was one such bulletin at the shop on the corner of the neighboring avenue; the names were unfamiliar and foreign, Jelly, Zarnshi, Pasko, Lemenueville. Sommers suspected that their owners had taken to themselves noms de guerre. At first Sommers avoided these places, and got the few drugs he needed at a well-known pharmacy in the city.
"Well, the husband who abused and deserted me was, I have reason to believe, a passenger on the Excelsior." "M'Corkle! impossible. There was no such name on the passenger list." "M'Corkle!" repeated Miss Montgomery, with a dissonant tone in her voice and a slight flash in her eyes. "What are you thinking of? There never was a Mr. M'Corkle; it was one of my noms de plume.
"Ah, monsoo," he cried with boisterous good humour, "permittez-moi introducer un friend of mine, Monsoo Smeeth, de Londres, you know. Je ne savez pas les noms de votre companiongs, but they are très bons camarades, je suis certain." Gros Jean was most complaisant. "It ees von grand plaisir, m'sieu," he said, whilst the Turks gravely bowed their acknowledgments.
Then there was a pause, during which, at the desire of Madame de Fontanges, Newton was offered a chair, and sat down. "Allons, dites-lui les noms de toute la garniture," said Madame de Fontanges to her attendants. "Oui, madame," said Mimi, going up to Newton, and, pointing to the fan in her hand, "éventail."
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