26 Verbs to Use for the Word gendarmes

If she had intended to break her word, she would have brought a gendarme, not that ape.

I saw an unfortunate gendarme taken to the prison; he had been arrested near the Grenier d'Abondance, on a denunciation.

When I was still some miles from Entraygues (called by the peasants Entrayou), I met a young gendarme.

Their liberation, in fact, was near; for their envious jailor, finding probably no excuse for longer detaining them, suffered them to depart, but sent the gendarme to guard them as far as Berlenburg.

The whole quarter around the Place Clichy was occupied by the Republican Guard, foot Chasseurs, mounted gendarmes, Chasseurs d'Afrique, and a half battery of artillery.

Two hours after we were in peaceable possession of the property, the same two Russian vice-consuls drove up to the gate and began insulting and abusing the Persian Treasury guards, endeavoring, of course, to provoke the gendarmes into some act against them.

Le rapport du gendarme.

Prosper et les gendarmes.

There he revolted against the revolt itself, got imprisoned, escaped, outwitted the gendarmes, got retaken: his adventures sound like a legend or romance.

We were not a little surprised on perceiving our gendarmes sitting in an antiquated motor, whose puffing and wheezing betokened its age.

" Then, as Gregoire this time without replying laughed yet more loudly, with the merry laugh of youth, his father gravely resumed: "Listen, my lad, it is not at all to my taste to play the gendarme behind my sons.

During all my preceding exploration in Peru I had had such an easy time that I not only forgot, but failed to realize, how often an ever-present gendarme, provided through the courtesy of President Leguia's government, had quieted suspicions and assured us a cordial welcome.

The police are Englishmen and good fellows, and they accept a situation which would rouse any continental gendarme to heroic indignation.

I sought out the gendarmes, whilst I pretended to avoid them; but they, thinking I wished to get away from them, demanded a sight of my papers.

Three timesface to face with her past life, her life red with passion and suffering, haunted by the image of expiationshe stammered: "The gendarme!

A colonel standing beside me under a railway-culvert summoned a gendarme, gave him the necessary orders, and added, "Bonne chance, mon brave."

"We are in the position to assert that a company of the 132nd Battalion has this morning surrounded fifteen thousand gendarmes and sergents-de-ville, in the park of Neuilly.

he said, and, following his gaze, I saw approaching twelve gendarmes.

So I thanked the gendarme and left there, having decided to drive thence on the morrow.

I did not know whether or not it was correct to ask gendarmes to sit down, but I ventured it.

As for the man with the white cap, who had walked slowly away about his business that morning when he grew tired of following the gendarmes, he was in a terrible state of mind.

From what I hear the gendarmes and sergents de ville had fought their way as far as the Rue des Huissiers.

Let's take the matter up, an' consider it like ol' Raoul, the lawyer, did when Murray killed the gendarme at Areu.

He is a well-knit, agile fellow, who knows every inch of his ground, and he has led the gendarmes who have surprised him such dances over rocks, and placed them in such unpleasant positions, that they have come to treat him with the respect and consideration due to a man of his talent and resource.

And Tom picks up his tackle, while the prudent gendarme reloads; and Tom marches down the hill, the gendarme following, with his bayonet disagreeably near the small of Tom's back.

26 Verbs to Use for the Word  gendarmes