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A true French poivrade has a soupçon of garlic, obtained by rubbing a crust on a clove of it, and simmering it in the sauce before straining it; but although many would like the scarcely perceptible zest imparted by this cautious use of garlic, no one should try the experiment unless sure of her company.
This, with the soupcon of a demi-shrug; "You will not suffer much" being implied. Laura said to herself, "I am not a fool." A moment after, Arabella was admitting in her own mind, as well as Fine Shades could interpret it, that she was. On entering the dining-hall, she beheld two figures seated at the point whither Laura was led by her partner. These were Mrs. Chump and Mr.
Unlike Deroulede he was of great height, with fair hair and a somewhat lazy expression in his good-natured blue eyes, and as he spoke, there was just a soupcon of foreign accent in the pronunciation of the French vowels, a certain drawl of o's and a's, that would have betrayed the Britisher to an observant ear.
Do you think Dickens never saw a taproom or a thief's den? or that Thackeray is unacquainted with the "Cave of Harmony"? No, all the piquancy of life comes from the slight soupçon of wickedness wherewithal we season it." "I like amazingly to have you wander off in this way; you are always entertaining, whether your ethics are sound or not." "Don't trouble yourself about ethics.
The old housekeeper did not dream of conducting Miss Meadowsweet to this apartment. She smiled at her affectionately, told her she knew the way herself, and left her. When Beatrice entered the study the Rector got up and took his favorite by both her hands. "I am glad to see you, my child," he said. "I was just feeling the slightest soupçon of loneliness, so you have come in opportunely.
She was aware from across the room of an electric message from Aunt Victoria protesting against her perversity; and she reflected with a morose amusement that however delicately phrased Aunt Victoria's protests might be, its substance was the same as that of Hélène, crying out on her for not adding the soupçon of rouge. She took a sudden resolution. Well, why not?
"You will get married," she was insisting, "you wait and see." Anthony was playing with an ancient tennis ball, and he bounced it carefully on the floor several times before he answered with a soupcon of acidity: "You're a little idiot, Geraldine." She smiled provokingly. "Oh, I am, am I? Want to bet?" "That'd be silly too." "Oh, it would, would it?
She was like a duck, so tight her plain feathers fitted her, and there she sat, smooth, snug, and delicious, with a book in her hand and a soupcon of her wrist just visible as she held it. Her opposite neighbour was what I call a good style of man, the more to his credit since he belonged to a corporation that frequently turns out the worst imaginable style of young men.
A few minutes afterwards, Dr. Dunlop, as he often did, came in to see me, and drink a glass of cider, of which I had at that time some of excellent quality in bottle. The Doctor, as he said, used to "improve" it, making what he called, "a stone-fence," by inserting a small soupcon of brandy from a pocket- pistol, which he was too much in the habit of carrying about with him in hot weather.
She shrugged as delicately as she could: 'We cannot possibly please everybody in life. 'No: only we may spare them a shock: mayn't we? 'Sophistries of any description, I detest. 'But sometimes you smile to please, don't you? 'Do you detect falseness in that? she answered, after the demurest of pauses. 'No: but isn't there a soupcon of sophistry in it?
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