35 Metaphors for frenchman

Unwilling to concede that slaves could have so well planned such a daring attack, the press of the time insisted that two Frenchmen were the promoters of the affair in Virginia.

"No Frenchman of the Comte de Bourgueil's position and rankhe is a godson, you know, of the Comte de Chambordwould come to California without my knowledge," said the Consul.

A Frenchman by the name of Anthony Salignac removed from St. Domingo to New-Jersey, and brought with him several slaves; among whom was Romaine.

It may be true that the ordinary Frenchman is in some respects the victim of as poor an egoism as that of the ordinary Englishman; and that the American has no advantage over us in certain kinds of magnanimous sentiment.

But out spake gentle Henry then: 'No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go!'

A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux."

This Frenchman, St. Luc, of whom they talked, might be a great partisan leader, but he would know when the price he was paying became too high, and would draw off.

The first Frenchman to sail down the river to its mouth was La Salle.

Frenchmen are his best chapmen; he keeps amblers for them on purpose, and knows he can deceive them very easily.

'Your excellency will observe that this Frenchman is our prisoner,' said he.

Not that there was no wisdom in my words, but these Frenchmen are the most "dog gorned" insensible people to right up and down, plain, everyday gospel truth that Providence ever permitted to play checkers with Destiny.

A Frenchman is a Frenchman all the world over, and politics may be avoided by a graceful reference to the Patrie, for which Republican and Legitimist are alike prepared to die.

The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals always received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the neighbourhood, an invitation to visit him.

"But," he added, after a pause, with the air of a man obliged to revive a stale and unpleasant memory, "if I didwhat about it?" "Nuthin', only that you kin hev it to-morrow, ez that 'ere Frenchman is movin' out," responded Nott.

An elderly Frenchman was the only other occupant of the vehicle.

One said to me, as I thought, quite cleverly: "A Greek is half an Italian, and the Italian is half a Frenchman, the Frenchman is half an Englishman, and you, my friend, are half a German.

If, as in the good old days, I could boldly believe a Frenchman to be an inferior creature, while he, as simply, wrote me down a savage, there would be an easy end of the matter.

The Frenchmen are all heroes.

Every Frenchman was a soldier.

Not that there was no wisdom in my words, but these Frenchmen are the most "dog gorned" insensible people to right up and down, plain, everyday gospel truth that Providence ever permitted to play checkers with Destiny.

The Frenchman is the equal of the Roman in talent, but the resemblance goes no farther.

This Frenchman was Claude Bernard.

Every Frenchman I don't know is a detective or a process server with a copy of the Versailles judgment in his pockets.

In Germany the ruler is the artist, always painting the happy German like a portrait; in France the Frenchman is the artist, always painting and repainting France like a house.

but on any occasion where his fortune has suffered, the liveliest Frenchman is au desespoir for whole days.

35 Metaphors for  frenchman