2794 examples of frenchman in sentences

Every now and then in the papers one runs across some anecdote from France in which the Frenchman is permitted to make the retort at the expense of the English.

The Frenchman's eyes dilated a trifle and a smile flashed behind rather than across his faceone could not know whether it was gratitude or defiance.

Yet it is one of history's or geography's ironies that the Frenchman goes on his way, neither knowing nor wanting to know the blond beasts over the Rhine"Jamais un lourdaud quoiqu'il fasse" . .

No Frenchman, Englishman, or American could be taught, let alone achieve of his own free will, the utter self-forgetfulness with which this vast creature, every muscle tense, breathing like a race-horse, roared, or rather exploded: "Herr Hauptmann!

It had been dismal, there were one or two intransigent kickers, and the aesthetic young Frenchman who spent his idle time drawing pictures of fashion-plate young ladies, had become so unstrung that he had regularly "thrown a fit" and been unconscious for half an hour until they could massage him back to life again.

Humor was quite gone out of them, and when the clergyman suggested that it was a compliment to be sent out to be shot atflattering, at any rate, to the prowess of the Alliesa Frenchman emphatically denied it.

"I mean, you make the sketches in your ordinary way andthe result comes out of itself, so to speak?" She nodded, throwing her hands out like a Frenchman.

This is liberty!" cried a Frenchman, who had joined our ship in Turkey, and was now seated beside me, enjoying the return to security, peace, and the comfort of his own language.

Among the Anti-Aristotelians only two famous names need be mentioned, that of the influential Frenchman, Petrus Ramus, and the German, Taurellus.

It was reserved for the third Napoleon to develop the original idea of a Frenchman, and thus to place France on the sea nearly or quite upon a footing with England.

The first messenger that he sent became alarmed before he was within a hundred miles of a Frenchman, and went back to say that everything was as good as lost.

"If you will march your men straight home, and give me a pledge that they and all Virginians will stay out of the Ohio Country for the next twelve months, you may go," said the Frenchman.

Soon afterwards the English infidels in India sent agents to impede the reception of the Frenchman.

The savages were there, and with them a white man, a Frenchman, that Charles Langlade, called the Owl, from whom we fled.

Robert saw at once that he was a Frenchman and he felt instinctively that it was Langlade.

"So you've come back to earth," said the Frenchman, who had seen his eyes openhe spoke in good French, which Robert understood perfectly.

The Frenchman laughed.

Only a Frenchman is fit to lead Frenchmen, and under a mighty captain we will crush you.

The Frenchman gave him a hearty grasp of the hand in English fashion, but they did not have time to say anything.

In the year 1827, the Earl of Dalhousie being Governor-General, a monument was raised in Quebec to Wolfe and Montcalm; and the death they both met at the post of honour is commemorated on the same column,a column on which an Englishman may gaze with pride and a Frenchman without a blush.

The diet of the Frenchman, is chiefly vegetable, and his frogs are rarities reserved for the delectation of the opulent, and answering, in some degree, to the brains and tongues of singing-birds amongst ancient epicures; since, after being subjected to a peculiar process of fattening and purifying, only the legs of these animals are eaten.

Somewhere on the German side was a little steel bullet or a bit of shell waiting for the Frenchman to whom it was destined.

You will on no account enter the cabins; on this head my orders are explicit, and I shall make no more of throwing the man into the sea, who dares to transgress them, than if he were a dead Frenchman; and, as we now clearly understand each other, and know our duty so well, there remains no more than to do it.

Death and wounding come by nature, but to lie dry, sleep soft, and keep yourself clean by forethought and contrivance is art, and in all things the Frenchman is gloriously an artist.

It occurs to me that this must be because every Frenchman has his place and his chance, direct or indirect, to diminish the number of Boches still alive.

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