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Examples
- Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I demand again to know from thee thy business with Brian de Bois-Guilbert? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The royal crown of France is a circle ornamented with eight fleur-de-lis, from which rise as many quarter-circles closing under a double fleur-de-lis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ah, well, '_De gustibus_,' my dear lad. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I love Miss Fanshawe far more than de Hamal loves any human being, and would care for and guard her better than he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hear me, Rebecca--Never did knight take lance in his hand with a heart more devoted to the lady of his love than Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- De Guiche, I will not suffer you to kiss and pull my daughters about in this way. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Moreover, a priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense _esprit de corps_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I suppose you admire a man with the complexion of a cochon de lait. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Vous êtes malade de coeur et d'humeur, he pursued. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was dined at the H?tel de Ville, given the Legion of Honor, and money was subscribed for a monument to mark the place near Calais where he commenced his flight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- De Bracy, said Prince John, what means this? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There's nothing like it in the rue de la Paix, she said. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And then swiftly he dispatched his aides-de-camp to command the horse to fall on the routed enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- En resume, L'OBSERVATION des animaux sauvages demontre deja la variabilite LIMITEE des especes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idées à eux, en amitié, en amour, en tout. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- John William Ward, to the Salon des Etrangers, not knowing that an introduction was necessary, when they were refused admittance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Hortense, when she mentioned Louis, described him as having what she called des moyens, but as being too backward and quiet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l'ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l'inconstance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ce sont des Labassecouriennes, rondesfranches, brusques, et tant soit peu rebelles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well,' said Sam, 'I des-say they may be, sir; but wich is your partickler wanity? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had crossed the Place des Invalides, and were walking down one of the thoroughfares flanking the building. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Monsieur Amontons, in his _Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, An. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He railed at us for our pains, terming us des ménagères avares; but we let him talk, and managed the economy of the repast our own way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Vous ne voulez pas de moi pour voisin, he growled: vous vous donnez des airs de caste; vous me traitez en paria; he scowled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Vous n'êtes donc que des poupées, I heard him thunder. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Rose céleste, reine des anges_! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nothing so absurd, she said, as for des femmes m?res 'to dress themselves like girls of fifteen'--quant à la. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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