I shall ask for the time-table, shake hands, thank you for a most delightful visit, and express my regrets that any little contretemps should have arisen to hasten my departure.

" That last remark was a mere contretemps.

Disregarding these minor contretemps, Colonel Dearman clearly and emphatically bellowed: "The battalion will advance.

Thanks to his supervision the Bau-Bhát feast passed off at night without the slightest contretemps.

Yes, in spite of this stupid little contretemps about Pegler, she was glad indeed that circumstances over which she had had rather more control than she liked to think had made it impossible for her to go out to Monte Carlo this winter.

His sudden arrival at this particular juncture was evidently an unexpected contretemps.

Was there ever contretemps so unlucky?

This little domestic contretemps is too good to be neglected, but we must turn to women of greater note and character.

What a vexatious contretemps that I should have chanced to be out when you called; thus missing the pleasure of seeing you at once, and securing that of your society for this evening?