"You don't know what a joy your perfect French is to me, dear," said Mrs. Marshall-Smith, still rapidly turning every peg in sight in an endeavor to loosen tension; but no noticeable relaxation took place in Sylvia.

The French are the most apt, the most practised, and the most economical managers of food of any of the parties engaged in the war.

The people having never heard of Christians, thought the French must be a kind of Muhammadans, but they could not make out from what country they came.

To these measures, which we are now to consider, it must be ascribed, that the French are no longer lords of Germany; that they no longer hold the princes of the empire in subjection, lay provinces waste at pleasure, and sell their friendship on their own terms.

The best thing that the French achieved by their Revolution, was a portion of Germanity.

hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with, to the blunders of thy countrymen, who are not much better politicians, than the French are poets.'

The French are realists.

The French were good fighters.

When, too, we remember that English was still, to a great degree, tabooed in England itself; that the official and familiar language of the Normans was French, that French of which the Statutes of Kilkenny are themselves a specimen, the difficulty of keeping within the law at this point must, it will be owned, have been considerable.

He had, besides, the glory of depriving the Roman Republic of two hundred fourteen killed and wounded, twenty-five officers among them, and of carrying off one prisoner, Ugo Bassi, the chaplain, who had remained behind to assist a dying man, his only weapon being the cross, of which the French were the knightly protectors.

The French are not a dull people; and the Russians are not a tedious people (what they do they do suddenly, without explanation); so that if we fail to take pleasure in them we have ourselves to blame.

The French trouvere (finder or poet) told his story in a straightforward, prosaic fashion, omitting no details in the action and unrolling endless descriptions of dresses, trappings, gardens, etc.

Anyhow, the Germans were his enemy, and the French were our friendswhich was queerand the British army was going to save Europe again according to its glorious traditions as mentioned more than once by the Colonel.

Miss French is a miniaturist and exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1901, a case of her works which she was later specially invited to send to an exhibition in Liverpool, and several other exhibits.

"The French are a dirty lot.

We must take care to secure Tunis, and then the French will be no gainers by their move.

The French are not a domestic, but a social, race; they are no friends to a silent tête-à-tête, which they call une conversation anglaise; they run gossiping about from the café to the casino, and from the casino to the salons; their light champagne-blood and inborn talent for company drive them to social life, whose first and last principle, yes, whose very soul, is equality.

As I often tell Robert, here, the French are enemies of whom anybody can be proud.

All the French are cowards, to whom I say'People, whose crimes inspire universal horror, I quit life with tranquility and pleasure.

French was the language spoken, the only exception being made by Lord Beaconsfield, who always spoke in English, although it was most evident, W. said, that he understood French perfectly well.

That fatal French saying about small reforms being the worst enemies of great reforms is, in the sense in which it is commonly used, a formula of social ruin.

Mr. French was rector of the Episcopal church in Portland, and afterward Professor and Chaplain at West Point.

The French and Russians were good boys; but the English were bad boys, who had no discipline.

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French was the language spoken, the only exception being made by Lord Beaconsfield, who always spoke in English, although it was most evident, W. said, that he understood French perfectly well.