53 Words to use with bon

And to this, also, may be traced the celebrated bon mot of Mr. GREELEY, who once remarked, on a festive occasion, that "Ham was afflicted with trichinosis when it had Louis NAPOLEON in it.

This is all done in what he considers facetious play, with a view to giving you a hint to examine your pockets, and see what bon-bons you have got for him, as he munches cakes and comfits with epicurean gout; and if the door be ajar, he will gravely take his station behind your chair at meal-time, like a lackey, giving you an admonitory kick every now and then, if you fail to help him as well as yourself.

On one occasion he speaks of coming out of a tavern with the dramatist, when they both found the staircase in a very cork-screw condition: and elsewhere, of encountering a Mr. C, who "had no notion of meeting with a bon-vivant in a scribbler," and summed the poet's eulogy with the phrase, "he drinks like a man."

And so I bid the dear little wanderer (dear to me), God-speed, and bon voyage.

'We will drink success to M. le Maire,' he said, 'mes bons amis!

The volcano of the French Revolution was seen expiring in its own flames, like a bon-fire made of straw: the principles of Reform were scattered in all directions, like chaff before the keen northern blast.

By way of providing a substitute for realI mean intellectualsuperiority, which is seldom to be met with, and intolerable when it is found, society has capriciously adopted a false kind of superiority, conventional in its character, and resting upon arbitrary principles,a tradition, as it were, handed down in the higher circles, and, like a password, subject to alteration; I refer to bon-ton fashion.

The French government, however, has not ventured to act any further upon it, than to make a pompous display of the royalist zeal and bon esprit that pervades the Department of the Doubs.

Si le chef ou quelqu'un des officiers s'aperçoit que l'ennemi qui poursuit est en désordre, il frappe trois coups sur son instrument; chacun de son côté et de loin en loin en fait autant: en un instant tous se rassemblent autour du chef, "comme pourceaux au cry l'un de l'autre," et, selon les circonstances, ils reçoivent en bon ordre les assaillans ou fondent sur eux par pelotons, on les attaquant de toutes parts.

The good people we saw in Ges, a village of thatched cottages looking the worse for rain, said we should find the "road vile," but this did not daunt us, and with a "bon jour" we passed on.

EXAMPLES Un bon garçon, Une petite femme, A good boy, a little woman, the le jeune homme, les chevaux young man, the black horses, noirs, l'école française, la the French school, the round table ronde, la porte ouverte, table, the open door, an un livre excellent.

Mais, monsieur, it is a dispensation of the bon dieu that he has not hydrophobia or the leprosy.

After the usual questions, the patient was declared in a fever, and condemned to cathartics, bleeding, and "bon bouillons;" that is to say, greasy beef soup, in which there is never an oeconomy of onions.

Ninon was amazed when she found her "bon homme," as she called him, in the startlingly original disguise of a shepherd, a crook in his hand, a wallet hanging by his side, and a great flapping straw hat, trimmed with rose colored silk on his head.

A woman in France, whatever be her condition, cannot be persuaded to resign her influence with her youth; and the bourgeoise who has no pretensions to court favour or the disposal of wealthy heiresses, attaches her eleve by knitting him stockings, forcing him with bons morceaux till he has an indigestion, and frequent regales of coffee and liqueur.

Grey a dit à l'Ambassadeur d'Allemagne qu'à son avis la mobilisation autrichienne devait entraîner la mobilisation de la Russie, qu'alors surgirait le danger aigu d'une guerre générale et qu'il ne voyait qu'un seul moyen pour une solution pacifique: qu'en présence des mobilisations autrichienne et russe, l'Allemagne, la France, l'Italie et l'Angleterre s'abstiennent d'une mobilisation immédiate et proposent tout d'abord leurs bons offices.

J'eus aussi deux journées de forêts, après quoi je traversai une belle plaine dans laquelle il y a quelques villages assez bons pour le pays.

The learned Dr. Guy Patin says: "On dit que M. de Meziriac avoit corrigé dans son Amyot huit mille fautes, et qu'Amyot n'avoit pas de bons exemplaires, ou qu'il n'avoit pas bien entendu le Grec de Plutarque."[C] [Footnote B: Essays, Book II.

La plupart des courtisans du prince trouvaient que leur maître attachait beaucoup d'importance à de bien petites choses: "Pourquoi, Sire, dirent-ils, tenez-vous à payer ce peu de sel, dont le vendeur ne ferait pas de cas, et qu'il s'estimerait heureux de pouvoir vous laisser gratis?Un roi, leur répondit-il, doit ne donner que de bons exemples.

Il ne vous manque qu'un bon danger qui vous saisisse à l'improviste.

Vienne est une ville assez grande, bien fermée de bons fossés et de hauts murs, et l'on trouve de riches marchands et des ouvriers de toute profession.

La voix de fer parlant sous le grillage noir Reprend, pendant que Joss blêmit, lugubre à voir, Et que Zério chancelle ainsi qu'un mât qui sombre: Hommes qui m'écoutez, il est un pacte sombre Dont tout l'univers parle et que vous connaissez; Le voici: 'Moi, Satan, dieu des cieux éclipsés, Roi des jours ténébreux, prince des vents contraires, Je contracte alliance avec mes deux bons frères, L'empereur

Then Gui Camoys shouted, as a herald might have done, "Laissez les aller, laissez les aller, laissez les aller, les bons combatants!"

Besides," she added, in an audible aside, "he is a bon garçonan Englishmanand a book-student like yourself.

He was buried in one of the churches at Montefiascone and the monks of the Convent there, themselves bons-vivans, determined to give him a suitable epitaph.

53 Words to use with  bon