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Sentences starting with french

French names they were, but their interests and sympathies were English. [5]
French steamboating is still of Fulton's date--1809. [5]
French soldiers were running past him. [2]
French realism does not stop at the tin pan, but must deal with the slop-pail and the wash-tub as if it were literally true that "In the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. [6]
French ones--and they never cost a blow! [5]
French society is much more elegant--much more so. [5]
French or English, I dun'no'. [11]
French soldiers in English red coats and carrying British flags were straggling along the roads to join the battalion at the volunteers' camp three miles from the town, and singing: "Brigadier, respondez Pandore-- Brigadier, vous avez raison. [11]
French Canadian might be heard on the main square as well as Yankee; and that revolutionary vehicle, the automobile, had inspired there a great brick edifice with a banner called the Bremerton House. [9]
French and Scotch and English half-breeds, as they were, they understood how she was making a fight for all who were half-Indian, half- white, and watched her with a furtive devotion, acknowledging her superior place, and proud of it. [11]

Sentences ending with french

Here am I, with all my blood for generations Saxon, and yet I feel French. [11]
From the spot where the peasant was standing they could see the French. [2]
We might as well be speaking French. [9]
A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French. [2]
In the same way little by little he came to understand the news he had been told after his rescue, about the death of Prince Andrew, the death of his wife, and the destruction of the French. [2]
The old sailor was pointing to the shore, and speaking in bad French. [11]
The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, goes up to Auersperg and says: 'Prince, you are being deceived, here are the French! [2]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
She had through translations a sufficient knowledge of the classics to give her the necessary literary background, and her study of Latin had led her into the more useful acquisition of French. [4]
He was a traitor, and was in league with the French. [11]

Short sentences using french

Always afraid of the French. [2]
I like French people. [9]
The French did not move. [2]
Where did she learn French? [6]
The French do it. [11]
This other book is French. [11]
The French are good fellows. [2]
Do you read French? [4]
Will you speak French? [11]
These were the French. [2]

Sentences containing french two or more times

And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
At night he would go out for booty and always brought back French clothing and weapons, and when told to would bring in French captives also. [2]
So now the whole council is French, and in all ordinary matters of legislation they vote together and in the French interest, not the English. [5]
The French parties were our parties; the French issue, our issue. [9]
The Tenth Article was resentful against her for "pretending" that St. Catherine and St. Marguerite spoke French and not English, and were French in their politics. [5]
The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German accent. [2]
After the French victory at Borodino there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist. [2]
When you come to the long conversation in the second act, turn to any pamphlet of your French Meisterschaft, and shovel in as much French talk on any subject as will fill up the gaps left by the expunged German. [5]
Sometimes it seems to me, somehow, that there must be a difference between Parisian French and Quaker City French. [5]
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines. [2]

More example sentences with the word french in them

I will keep your verses to tell me dat my French subjects are all loyal like M. [11]
In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
There was another young lady who taught French, of the ahvaung and baundahng style, which does not exactly smack of the asphalt of the Boulevards. [6]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
So I cabled you, and said to myself that I would take the French steamer tomorrow (which will be Sunday). [5]
I am glad you approve of what I say about the French Revolution. [5]
It seems only yesterday that, for the first time, on a farm "over the border," from the French province, I saw him standing by a log outside the wood-house door, splitting maple knots. [11]
One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses. [2]
Then we heard Xavier's voice, in French, thanking the Blessed Virgin for our escape. [9]
Prince Eugene of Wurttemberg fired from a hill over the French crowds that were running past, and demanded reinforcements which did not arrive. [2]
And Tikhon, purposely writhing and making faces, pretended to be angry and swore at the French with the funniest curses. [2]
You did not write it yourself but translated it, and translated it abominably, because you don't even know French, you fool. [2]
In France he would have produced something better--something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. [5]
She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York--the surprise would follow; the surprise she had been working over for days. [5]
Then the King would fain cruise at once against the French, but Queen Dorothy must needs go with him. [9]
He makes, at worst, a poor anarchist, though he is a good revolutionist; and the French colonials had never been divorced from monarchical France. [11]
Though tattered, hungry, worn out, and reduced to a third of their original number, the French entered Moscow in good marching order. [2]
When we had worked our way through their reserves and gotten their confidence, we found that they secretly harbored French hearts in their bodies. [5]
All the missionaries work up their French on it when they come here to pervert the Catholic mongrel. [5]
And upon my word, if I have to live under foreign rule, I'd as leave have a French whip over me as an English! [11]
News comes that within this week Siam has acknowledged herself to be, in effect, a French province. [5]
The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
Sadly, in accordance with the treaty which Monsieur Talleyrand had known nothing about, his Catholic Majesty instructed his Intendant at New Orleans to make ready to deliver Louisiana to the French Commission. [9]
Asked in French, with the same result. [4]
Contrast these reports with the lively and faithful pictures of the French Assembly which are served to the Paris papers. [4]
He was furnished with the French word 'est', and was told it was second in a sentence of three words. [5]
I got in with the French toughs over at Manitou, at Barbazon's Tavern, and I gave them gin--we made it a gin night. [11]
She spoke English with no perceptible accent, as she spoke Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Greek; and there was nothing in her speech marking her as different from the ordinary Western woman. [11]
It's all French, with mirrors and big white panels and satin chairs and sofas, and a carved gilt piano that she got for nothing from a dealer she knows; and church candlesticks. [9]
We came along with good winds, having no check, though twice we sighted French sloops, which, however, seemed most concerned to leave us to ourselves. [11]
The French colonel with difficulty repressed a yawn, but was polite and evidently understood Balashev's importance. [2]
A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink. [2]
He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another. [2]
Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. [2]
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. [11]
Think of that, with a French audience all stirred up and ready. [5]
She spoke English with a French accent. [9]
Tomorrow our Emperor will send a St. George's Cross to the bravest of the French Guards. [2]
What interest, you will say, could the pioneer lawyers and storekeepers and planters have in the French Revolution? [9]
Then when the whole field was covered with smoke, two divisions, Campan's and Dessaix's, advanced from the French right, while Murat's troops advanced on Borodino from their left. [2]
The baker Carcaud, who, with Olivier Delagarde, betrayed the country into the hands of Rullecour years ago, had, with a French confederate of Mattingley's, been captured in attempting to steal Jean Touzel's boat, the Hardi Biaou. [11]
Who was Grand, who was Well-Beloved, who was Desired, who was the Idol of the French, who was worthy to be called a King of the Citizens? [4]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
The French leaders, who had never heard of Indians who would fight in the open, were, in spite of great opposing numbers, in warrior mood. [11]
Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! [5]
I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
It is there where he meets his associates, where they talk of the French Louisiane. [9]
I laughed out when I got to the mention of Frederika's special accomplishment, given by you with a distinct simplicity that, to my taste, is what the French would call 'impayable. [14]
Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? [2]
Of course; but what astounds me is that a man of your standing should believe the French are coming here now to Ireland. [11]
Where our men were, and where the French, he did not know. [2]
Yankee settlers, we were told, possess it now, and there are no descendants of the French Acadians in this valley. [4]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
The two commanders were much exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. [2]
But whether they were moving or stationary, whether they were French or Russian, could not be discovered from the Shevardino Redoubt. [2]
Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French Uhlans appeared from round the corner. [2]
The French guns were hastily reloaded. [2]
Illustrations of this were drawn from the Greek, the French, and the English literatures. [4]
Soon the two were clean cut off from the French army, and must fight to the death or surrender. [11]
At "Flowers" they were chased by four French men-of-war. [4]
In politics they were Armagnacs--patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. [5]
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. [2]
He dismounted and went up into the porch of a large country house which had remained intact between the Russian and French forces. [2]
The French soldiers went to kill and be killed at the battle of Borodino not because of Napoleon's orders but by their own volition. [2]
After dinner they went into the little orchard behind the house and sat drinking (in the French fashion) the commandant's precious coffee which had been sent to him from far-away New Orleans. [9]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
I speak French well, I presume, but I spoke it from the cradle. [11]
He knew French well, but could speak almost no Jersey patois, so, in compliment to him, Jean Touzel, Ranulph, and Guida spoke in English. [11]
The patient gets well by the use of arnica in a little more than a month longer, and this extraordinary fact is published in the French "Archives of Homoeopathic Medicine. [3]
The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition pouch was slung. [2]
Zum Beispiel, suppose we wish to adjust the play to the French tongue. [5]
But in 1803 we purchased Louisiana of the French, and it included with much more what has since been formed into the State of Missouri. [7]
To the Admiralty we owed the fact, the journal urged, that the Araminta was now at the bottom of the sea, and its young commander confined in a French fortress, his brave and distinguished services lost to the country. [11]
Reaching the shore, we marched together, I singing the refrain of an old French song as we went, En roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant, ma boule so attracting the attention of the Indians. [11]
Many a time we had discussed the pitcher and the deed, and fingered the linen, now talking in French, now in English; for in France, years before, he had been a valet to an English officer at King Louis's court. [11]
No, my friend, we French are not colonists. [11]
At French River we change horses. [4]
The French journals, we are accustomed to say, are not newspapers at all. [4]
And, by the way, she speaks French as though she had lived in Paris. [9]
In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides. [2]
But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate. [2]
Beyond Shamshevo, Dolokhov was to observe the road in the same way, to find out at what distance there were other French troops. [2]
At last here was to be a test of fighting in open field, though the French had in their whole army twice the number of our men, a walled and provisioned city behind them, and field-pieces in great number to bring against us. [11]
The French ambassador was there, and a foreign prince of the blood who had of late become a frequent visitor of hers, and many brilliant ladies and gentlemen. [2]
The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
What had happened was that news (which afterwards proved to be false) had been received during the night of a movement by the French to outflank the Drissa camp. [2]
The French cause was standing still, our King was standing still, there was no hint that by and by the Constable Richemont would come forward and take up the great work of Joan of Arc and finish it. [5]
Across the paper was scrawled in pencil, without capital letters, misspelled, and without punctuation: "Unsoundly constructed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating. [2]
Our right flank was posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. [2]
Behind the houses was often a kind of pink-and-cream paradise of flowering fruit trees, so dear to the French settlers. [9]
And the mantel was now but a bit of a shelf, and held many things that seemed scarce at home on the rough and painted wood,--gold filigree; and China and Japan, and a French clock that ought not to have been just there. [9]
To him Davout was not merely a French general, but a man notorious for his cruelty. [2]
One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had taken from the prisoner. [2]
Order after order was issued by the French commanders that day forbidding the men to disperse about the town, sternly forbidding any violence to the inhabitants or any looting, and announcing a roll call for that very evening. [2]
How quiet it was inside when her light supper was eaten, bread and beans and pea-soup--she had got this from her French mother. [11]
If Mark Twain was hard up in search of, a French "chestnut," I might have told him the following little anecdote. [5]
I thought there was French blood in her. [4]
Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero. [2]

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