72 examples of ménage in sentences

A HUNDRED DIFFERENT DISHES.Modern housewives know pretty well how much care, and attention, and foresight are necessary in order to serve well a little dinner for six or eight persons,a dinner which will give credit to the ménage, and satisfaction and pleasure to the guests.

Does he sup on them, or are they only the cups and saucers of his vegeto-aquarian ménage?

Now, there is Geneva, a town given to subtleties as ingenious and complicated as the machinery of their own watches; it can never have a merry-making without a leaven of disputation and reason, two as damnable ingredients in the public humor as schism in religion, or two minds in a ménage.

Then appeared the section of a dwelling, which was made to portray the interior of domestic economy, having its kitchen, its utensils, and most of the useful and necessary objects that may be said to compose the material elements of an humble ménage.

A sweep appeared at the chimney-top, raising his cry, in allusion to the business of the ménage, and then all moved away, as had been done by those who had preceded them.

continued the well-pleased Peterchen, who was never half so happy as when he was officially providing for the happiness of others; "it promises a happy ménage.

"A happy ménage is like a well-ordered state, a foretaste of the joys and peace of Heaven; while a discontented household and a turbulent community may be likened at once to the penalties and the pains of hell!

The first set of presents were big brocade bags, and we called one our "pot au feu" and pretended it was for the ingredients to make bon ménage, and so all the presents that were small enough afterwards we put in there to keep for me.

"I cannot ask you to dinner yet, sir; for my ménage will be hardly settled: but a cup of coffee, and an exceedingly good cigar, I think my establishment may furnish you by seven o'clock to-night;if you think them worth walking down for.

" George Crabbe the younger, who gives this graphic account of the ménage at Parham, was naturally anxious to claim for his mother, who so long formed one of this queer household, a degree of refinement superior to that of her surroundings.

The idea of a transition from his squalid and pinching boarding-house to the delicate comfort of Miss Lucinda's ménage, the prospect of so kind and good a wife to care for his hitherto dreaded future,all this was pleasant.

Gentle and pliable as oil, he seemed to penetrate every joint of the ménage by a subtile and seductive sympathy.

His strong, daring nature carried her with it beyond those narrow, daily bounds where her soul was weary of treading; and just as his voyages had given to the trite prose of her ménage a poetry of strange, foreign perfumes, of quaint objects of interest, speaking of many a far-off shore, so his mind and life were a constant channel of outreach through which her soul held converse with the active and stirring world.

Stella could not deny that she enjoyed the luxury of the Abbey ménage, the little festive round which was shaping about Linda in these last days of her spinsterhood.

I undertook the domestic part of the ménage, you the out-of-doors and the general control.

The English of that is that for our joint ménage we shouldn't want your income at all; we could quite well do without it, and you would be perfectly free to use it in whatever way you like.

Dante invited Mr. and Mrs. Ford Madox Brown, and then Mr. and Mrs. Morris, and as they were all excellent friends of mine I could make no objection, though ill able to bear my share of the expense of the ménage incurred, and finally I broke away, leaving him in possession, with Madame Bodichon's consent.

MÉNAGE, Gilles, Bayle's character of him, iv.

MÉNAGE, m., mari et femme dans leur vie commune.

SERVANTE, f., femme ou fille à gages; employée aux travaux du ménage.

A very simple ménage, you see, Mr. Spinrobin.

Prof. le Moine, of Leyden (quoted by Ménage), claims for it also an Eastern origin, and thinks we have received it from the Arabians, together with their method of reckoning ciphers.

" These lines are said by Ménage (Menagiana, Amstm. 1713.

This was the first sign of interest I had given in the matter of ménage; by which it will be seen I was still a little selfish, and not very wise.

And it was by some of these malcontents with more wit than reason, that Lady Holland was accused of receiving in two very distinct fashionsen ménage and en ménagerie.

72 examples of  ménage  in sentences