The Triple Alliance, however, had cause to feel uneasy when they heard of this latest escapade of their ancient enemy.

At a certain chateau in the Loire Valley, as recently as two months ago, you had an unfortunate escapade with French government agents.

When a man so spat, he stopped laughing abruptly, straightened his face, and stared emptily at the rusty stove until further inquisition developed some other preposterous escapade in Bob's jail career.

"Yes," she answered eagerly: almost too eagerly Carroll thought"he has had escapades like thisseveral times.

Bruce felt it would be disloyal, and he had the decency to be ashamed to speak of his escapade to an intimate friend of his wife.

Even in the meantime they made small escapades into free space.

So that such escapades as Peter's in the story, being not very uncommon at that dark period (and having its foundation in fact), may have touched hearts over here, which will be unmoved on the other side of the Atlantic.

When we came to the Golden Horn, she pointed to my caique which lay at the Old Seraglio steps, and over the water we went, she lying quite at ease now, with her face at the level of the water in the centre of the crescent-shape, as familiarly as a hanum of old engaged in some escapade through the crowded Babel of Galata and that north side of the Horn.

But Gabriel was not of an amorous temperament; curiosity and the thirst for knowledge mastered him, and after these escapades from which he returned fresher, and with his brain keener, he threw himself with greater ardour into his studies.

Narrate an escapade for (a) your father, (b) your cronies in response to a toast at a banquet with them.

The whole affair struck him as excessively odd, as a mad escapade on his part.

But however much a man of such talents preaches decency, he will, nevertheless, sometimes feel himself tempted to transgress the boundaries of propriety and decorum, since from time immemorial genius has reckoned such escapades among its prerogatives.

Donnegan with money, with well-fitted clothes, and with a few notorious escapades behind himyes, Donnegan with such a flying start might flutter the heart of Nelly Lebrun for a moment.

A thousand times I said to my brother, 'See, Esteban, this young gentleman is not for your daughter'very sympathetic, very lively, and wearing the uniform of the Academy like no one else, leader of a group of the wildest cadets in all their escapades about the town, besides a son of a great familywealthy people who did not allow him to come to Toledo with his purse empty.