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Updated: June 2, 2025
In high delight the fair bride was skipping down the middle, while Monsieur Goupille, wiping his forehead with care, admired her agility; when, to and behold! the whiskered gentleman I have described abruptly advanced from his companion, and cried: "La voila! sacre tonnerre!"
Each of the ironclads is provided with four 27 cm. guns and four 24 cm. ones, not counting the revolving guns, which constitute the small artillery reserved for fighting torpedo boats. The Furieux has two 34 cm. guns, and the Tonnerre and Fulminant each two 37 cm. ones. An endeavor is made, as far as possible, to practice firing such as is done in a naval action, that is, at moving targets.
"Tonnerre!" said she. "Qu'est ce que cela?" "My countrywoman," said I, in French, feeling in my under-trousers for a bit of silver, and tossing it to her, "I am hungry." "And I have no food to sell," said she, tossing it back. "You should know I am of France and not of England. Come, you shall have enough, and for no price but the eating. You have a tired horse.
You remember what she said?" "Tonnerre, you shall see to-morrow," he answered; "now all the sheep go bleating with the bell. Bigot Bigot Bigot there is nothing but Bigot! But, pish! Vaudreuil the Governor is the great man, and Montcalm, aho! son of Mahomet! You shall see. Now they dance to Bigot's whistling; he will lock her safe enough to-morrow, 'less some one steps in to help her.
See to it there the skins when you have got me something to eat. Mend the fisher where he is torn in two, and cover the seam well with fat so that the agent over at the post will not discover it is bad. Tonnerre de Dieu! that brat! Why do you always keep his squalling until I come in? Answer me, Bete!" Such was his greeting.
When they reached the landing that lay between their rooms, Genestas set down his candle on the window ledge and turned towards Benassis. "Tonnerre de Dieu!" he said, with outspoken enthusiasm; "I cannot let you go without telling you that you are the third among christened men to make me understand that there is Something up there," and he pointed to the sky.
In order to afford the Tonnerre and Patriote an opportunity to get out of her reach, an attempt had been made to drown the magazine, but the flow of water was too slow for the purpose. In the efforts to clear the fire-ships upwards of fifty men fell into the sea and were drowned, the boats saving others.
"Tut, tut!" he added impatiently. "I am hardly awake. I was tired, gentlemen. Tonnerre and his brother here led us such a race yesterday that I feel it yet. Well, Leoni, what do you want?" "Your Majesty told me that I might come and continue our little debate of yesterday " "To be sure, yes," said the King, yawning again.
"Yass," Manouvrier mused aloud once more, "I think I build my ole woman one fine house." "Ah! I don't want!" "But yass! Foudre tonnerre! how I goin' spend her else? w'iskee? hosses? women? what da dev'l! Naw, I build a fine 'ouse. You see! she want dat house bad enough when she see her. Yass; fifty t'ousan' dollah faw house and twenty-five t'ousan'" he whisked his thumb at me and I said for him,
And I shall have the pleasing task of making them disgorge. What say you to that, friend Clyffurde?" "That I am sorry for you," replied the other drily. "Sorry for me? Why?" "Because it is never a pleasing task to bully a defenceless woman and an old one at that." De Marmont laughed aloud. "Bully Mme. la Duchesse d'Agen?" he exclaimed. "Sacré tonnerre! what do you take me for.
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