He was essentially French, or rather Parisian, knew everybody, and was au courant of all that went on politically and socially, and had a certain blague, that eminently French quality which is very difficult to explain.

He had opened the case, and inside it was a photographthe photograph of a woman with bold, dark eyes and full lips and oval facea face so typically French that it was not to be mistaken.

The merit of the work under consideration is, that, though decidedly French in all its views, it condenses in a few paragraphs the present mooted question of race.

Not only is the fact new, but it has for France an entirely special interest, sinceto employ an expression much abused in the present day it is a fact eminently French, essentially national.

It will penetrate the hearts of the best men for ever, and ideas characteristically and originally French will continue to mould the world's thought and action till the end of time.

There is nothing very trenchantly French about him either, except the large necktie; his eyes are small and his words are sharp, ironical, cynical.

His comments were a delight, and the conclusion was so purely French in its artless conception that I felt for your innocent blushes.

" The creature on view proved to be a little fat man, obviously French or Swiss, who sat, his rotund figure tightly enveloped in a frock-coat, the lapel of which was decorated with a bit of ribbon, on the edge of a chair facing the chief's desk.

"De French leddy struck me on me old place.

She knows a little French; the French of courtship merely.

So the Hairy Jocks trudged along the long, straight, nubbly French road, well content, speculating with comfortable pessimism as to the character of the billets in which they would find themselves.

I loved the democratic "fellow citizens"so pat and oratorically French.

... At the end of three years Sarah Haddon returned to New York with an English accent, a slight embonpoint, and a little foreign habit of rushing up to her men friends with a delighted exclamation (preferably French) and kissing them on both cheeks.

So into Trinidad poured, for good and evil, a mixed population, principally French, to the number of some 12,000; till within a year or two the island was Spanish only in name.

This is typically, provincially French.

" I have never encountered anything more radically French than the temperament of this aged woman.

We remonstrated, hut to little purpose; the fellow knew scarcely any French, and we as little Italian, so rather than lose time or temper, we paid what he demanded and went on, leaving him to laugh at the successful imposition.

He maintained and made peace ingloriously; he obtained it sometimes by meannesses in bearing and modes of acting; he enriched himself by his intrigues, abroad as well as at home; his policy none the less was steadfastly French, even in his relations with the court of Rome, and in spite of his eager desire for the cardinal's hat.

She talks a good deal, and French tolerably; possesses herself, is frank, but with great respect to the King.

The design, the idea, and the genius of Canterbury choir are French, spoiled by English prejudice, but undoubtedly French for all that.

To his first unspeakable relief succeeded the astonishment of hearing the voices continue in shrill chorus, the tones Chinese, the words, in louder fragments, unmistakably French.

Some of the names M. Zola, having now made progress with his English, could readily understand; others, too, were virtually French, such as Bellevue, Beaumont, and so forth; but there were several that I had to interpret, such as Oakdene, Thornbrake, Beechcroft, Hillbrow, Woodcote, Fernside, Fairholme, Inglenook, etc.

Somebody said this was our battery shelling the French and English in those woods yonder, but you could hardly be expected to believe that, since no reply came back and no French or English whatsoever showed themselves.

Beyle is a too-French French writertoo French even for the bulk of his own compatriots; and so for us it is only natural that he should be a little difficult.

The construction of this little clever monster is diabolically French.