Bonne

Examples

• This done, Madame would send Désirée out for a walk with her _bonne_, and profit by her absence to rob the robber. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This was no more than a sort of native bonne, in a common-place bonne's cap and print-dress. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Et tu te portes toujours bien, bonne s?ur? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She wishes me to engage her as bonne or gouvernante; tells a tale full of integrity, but gives no reference. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He did this at first with pleasure, indeed with unconcealed exultationcondescending to say that he believed I was bonne et pas trop faible (i. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It has been mentioned how Pauline, the bonne, had son homme a elle also in the ranks of the army that had gone out to meet the Emperor Napoleon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Madame was a great deal too ill, and had been in a frightful state ever since her husband's departure, so her bonne said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You shall not be forgotten, ma bonne Meess. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The world called the owner of these blue eyes _bonne petite femme_ (she was not an Englishwoman). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At last the bonne came to make my bed for the night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Pauline, the bonne, was on her knees at church hard by, praying for son homme a elle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here she comes, with her 'bonne,' as she calls her nurse. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He listened good-naturedly, but with laughing indifferencetelling her that she was trop bonne, and that he felt perfectly well. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• With considerable willingness I ate and drankkeeping the _petit p?té_ till the last, as a _bonne bouche_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Amongst her other endowments she boasted an exquisite skill in the art, of provocation, sometimes driving her _bonne_ and the servants almost wild. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It seems that three titled belles in the first row had sat down predetermined that a _bonne d'enfants_ should not give them lessons in English. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She was not proud; and--_bonne d'enfants_ as I was--she would forthwith have made of me a sort of friend and confidant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nous c?usames longtemps; elle était simple et bonne. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Désirée, suddenly cured of her ailments, wastogether with Fifine, packed off to Bonne-Maman, in the country, by way of precaution against infection. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They opened at laSt. A bonne in a smart cap stood before me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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