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Updated: June 17, 2025
"What a pity that those exquisite hands should be so dirty! 'Do you call my hands dirty? cried Lady Mary, holding them up with the most innocent /naivete/. 'Ah, Madame, /si vous pouviez voir mes pieds!" "/Fi donc/," said I, turning away; "but who is that very small, deformed man behind her, he with the bright black eye?" "Know you not?" said Bolingbroke; "tell it not in Gath!
No one could yet know what would best suit humanity, and the tourist who carried his La Fontaine in mind, caught himself talking as bear or as monkey according to the mirror he held before him. "Am I satisfied? " he asked: "Moi? pourquoi non? N'ai-je pas quatre pieds aussi bien que les autres?
In describing the Saleve, our author proceeds to mention other appearances equally conclusive with regard to the operations of water, but such as may be found over all the surface of the globe, to have been brought about by natural causes. «Ce que l'on nomme le Grottes de l'Hermitage, ou ces excavations profondes de 30 pieds, et 8 ou 10 fois aussi longues produites par la destruction totale de plusieurs couches de rocher.
And he afterwards quotes from Weitbrecht, who had "observé dans un cas l'absence simultanée aux deux mains et aux deux pieds, de quelques doigts, de quelques metacarpiens et metatarsiens, enfin de quelques os du carpe et du tarse." P.t. Pronator teres. F.s. Flexor sublimis digitorum. F.p. Flexor profundus digitorum. F.l.p.
Now I am telling you of the couvre pieds because I know all women love exquisite things, and surely nothing could be more delicious than my couvre-pieds. Literally, it is a "cover for the feet," a sort of glorified and diminutive coverlet, made of the palest of pink silk, lined with the soft long-haired white fur known as mountain tibet, and interlined with down.
This drinking of brandy, "neat," I may remark by the way, is not quite so bad as it looks. Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Maraschino, is only, as it were, tweaking the nose of teetotalism. Well, to go back behind our brackets, the guest is calling to the waiter, "Garcon! et le bain de pieds!"
«Dix minutes après, nous traversâmes une seconde arrête plus haute que la premiere, et nous jugeâmes que sous ces débris la glace étoit de 20 ou 25 pieds plus élevée que dans les endroits où l'air et les rayons du soleil agissent librement sur elle. On rencontre une troisième arrête
Nina, eventez!" cried she to one of her attendants, who was standing at the head of the sofa, with a large feather fan. "Oui, madame," replied the girl, stirring up the dormant atmosphere. "Eventez! Caroline, eventez mes mains, vite." "Oui, madame," replied the second, working away with another fan. "Eventez! eventez mes pieds, Mimi."
Leur habillement consiste en deux ou trois robes de coton l'une sur l'autre, et qui descendent jusqu'aux pieds. Par-dessus celles-l
Immediately before the campaign of Dresden, in a conversation on Napoleon's character, this General observed, "Ce qui characterise cet homme, ce'st le mensonge et l'amour de la vie; Je vais l'attaquer, je le battrai, et je le verrai a mes pieds me demander la vie."
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