Use valmond in a sentence
Sentences starting with valmond
- Valmond got silence with a gesture. [11]
- Valmond appeared not to see the little coterie, but presently turned, when just opposite the gate, and, raising his hat, half paused. [11]
- Valmond was about to follow her. [11]
- Valmond mechanically saw the mealman, open-mouthed and dazed, start forward from the crowd; but, hesitating, he drew back again almost instantly, and was swallowed up in the safety of distance. [11]
- Valmond was in the grasp of a giant, and, struggle as he might, he could not withstand the powerful arms of his assailant. [11]
- Valmond had not stirred, but his face was pale again. [11]
- Valmond did not stir, but looked steadily at De la Riviere, and said slowly, dramatically, yet with a strange genuineness also: "The spirit of France, monsieur, the spirit of France looks not forward only, but backward, for her inspiration. [11]
- Valmond sat very still, his right hand thrust in his bosom, his forehead bent, his eyes calmly, resolutely, yet distantly, looking at the sergeant, who grew suddenly still also, while the people watched and wondered. [11]
- Valmond took the seat offered him beside the Cure, who remarked presently: "My dear friend, Monsieur Garon, was saying just now that the spirit of France has ever been the Captain of Freedom among the nations. [11]
- Valmond left the river-men to the tyranny of her tongue and stick, and came on to where the red light of the forge showed through the smithy window. [11]
Sentences ending with valmond
- The villagers were up at Dalgrothe Mountain, soldiering for Valmond. [11]
- The old sergeant stood silent, his eyes full fixed upon Valmond. [11]
- Mechanically the hand of the sergeant went to his cap, then, starting forward with an angry movement, he seemed as though he would attack Valmond. [11]
- A private saying of Napoleon's, a word from his letters and biography, a phrase out of his speeches to his soldiers, sent tears to the avocat's eyes, and for a moment transformed Valmond. [11]
- Just in front of him, his eyes burning with a strange fire, sat Monsieur Valmond. [11]
- I have a letter here from Monsieur Valmond. [11]
- He seemed to impute some personal interest in Valmond. [11]
- She slowly repeated his words, looked towards the Manor House, with a strange expression, then went up to her little bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed for a long time, where she had sat with Valmond. [11]
- She turned to him, startled, for she thought he meant Valmond. [11]
- One thought kept going through her brain: there was, as she had felt, trouble coming for Valmond. [11]
Short sentences using valmond
- Valmond turned towards Madame Chalice. [11]
- Valmond approached the lads. [11]
- Valmond smiled languidly. [11]
- Valmond looked around. [11]
- It was Valmond. [11]
- Valmond! [11]
- Valmond bowed. [11]
- O Valmond! [11]
Sentences containing valmond two or more times
- Monsieur Garon and Valmond talked on, eager, responsive, Valmond lost in the discussion of Napoleon, Garon in the man before him. [11]
- But Elise Malboir had a keener interest that night, for Valmond and Parpon brought her uncle "General Lagroin," in honour to her mother's cottage; and she sat and listened dreamily, as Valmond and the old man talked of great things to be done. [11]
- As Valmond bowed, a thought seemed to fetch down the pink eyelids, and she stretched out her hand, which he took and kissed, while she said in English, though they had been talking in French: "A traveller too, like myself, Monsieur Valmond? [11]
More example sentences with the word valmond in them
- He approached Valmond, who was moving on towards the Louis Quinze, with appreciation of a time for disappearing. [11]
- Parpon the dwarf, who that moment perched himself on the fence, could not decide which Valmond was just then--dauphin or fool. [11]
- The young Seigneur was serious enough about it, and more than once, irritated and perturbed, he sought Madame Chalice; but she gave him no encouragement, remarking coldly that Monsieur Valmond probably knew very well what he was doing, and was weighing all consequences. [11]
- He knew that Valmond understood whereof he spoke. [11]
- Sitting very straight, Valmond rode steadily down towards the old soldier. [11]
- This was why Valmond interested her--not as a man, a physical personality, but as a mystery to be probed, discovered. [11]
- Upon this plateau Valmond had pitched his tents. [11]
- Elise's arm paused upon the lever of the bellows, when she saw Valmond watching them from the door. [11]
- Take my horses to-night, leave here, and come back no more; and so none of us shall feel sorrow in thinking of the time when Valmond came to Pontiac. [11]
- When Valmond was told, he listened with a better understanding. [11]
- Instantly Lagroin wheeled to summon any stray men of his little army, but Valmond laid a hand on his arm, stopping him. [11]
- Elise had come to get some necessaries for Valmond and for her mother. [11]
- For a long time Valmond and his General talked, devised, planned, schemed, till the old man grew husky and pale. [11]
- They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
- He remembered now the sickly, pungent air that floated past, and how Valmond, weak from the loss of blood in the fight at the smithy, shuddered, and drew his cloak about him. [11]
- During mass and the sermon Valmond had sat very still, once or twice smiling curiously at thought of how, inactive himself, the gate of destiny was being opened up for him. [11]
- She had disappeared the night Valmond was seized of the fever, and she came back to her little home in the very hour that Elise visited her. [11]
- He almost perilled the gravity of the oath they all took to Valmond by this idiosyncrasy. [11]
- As Valmond entered the garden, Madame Chalice was leaning over the lower half of the entrance door, which opened latitudinally, and was hung on large iron hinges of quaint design, made by some seventeenth- century forgeron. [11]
- At dusk on the eve of St. John the Baptist's Day, after a long conference with Lagroin and Parpon, Valmond went through the village, and came to the smithy to talk with Lajeunesse. [11]
- Parpon knew that the disease had seized upon Valmond the night of the burial of Gabriel. [11]
- In another moment the Cure finished his sermon, but not till his eyes had again met those of Valmond, and there had passed into his mind a sudden, startling thought. [11]
- She turned to the Cure again, but not till Valmond had added: "Or the same--who knows? [11]
- Scattering money among the crowd, and giving some silver to the lads, Valmond stood looking at the bonfire for a moment, and then, pointing to it dramatically, said: "My friends, my brothers, Frenchmen, we will light larger fires than these. [11]
- As they passed the carriage of Madame Chalice, Valmond made no sign. [11]
- She knew also that he had been courteous enough to send a man each day to inquire after Valmond, but that was not to the point; he was torturing her, he had prophesied the downfall of her "spurious Napoleon. [11]
- There must be something behind Valmond, some real, even some great thing, or this were not possible. [11]
- If it be so, will you not let us call you Napoleon" (he took off his hat, and Valmond did the same), "and will you tell us what we may do for you? [11]
- Then there was silence in the room, and Valmond appeared to sleep. [11]
- For Valmond the scene had a moving power. [11]
- Leaning against a rock not far away, Valmond watched the tiny man with the long arms throw up the soft, good-smelling earth, enriched by centuries of dead leaves and flowers. [11]
- The Cure instantly presented Valmond to her. [11]
- All day the people sought the place, viewing with awe and superstition the shed of death, and the spot in the smithy where, it was said, Valmond had killed the giant. [11]
- But in one or two houses there was dancing, and, as he passed, Valmond heard the chansons of the humble games they played--primitive games, primitive chansons: "In my right hand I hold a rose-bush, Which will bloom, Manon lon la! [11]
- Valmond watched like one in a dream, and twice or thrice he turned faint, and drew his cloak about him as if he were cold; for a sickly air, passing by, seemed to fill his lungs with poison. [11]
- In the stenographer's office of the Windsor Hotel, with the life of a caravanserai buzzing around me, I dictated the last few pages of When Valmond Came to Pontiac. [11]
- At the appearance of 'When Valmond Came to Pontiac', however, Mr. Stevens came to the conclusion that my future was assured. [11]
- Valmond knew nothing of Sergeant Lagroin, so that what followed was of the inspiration of the moment. [11]
- She had heard of De la Riviere's visit to Valmond, and she intended sending for him, but delayed it. [11]
- His Highness Valmond Napoleon will come out of this with more honour than yourself. [11]
- He was no more of Pontiac and this simple life than was Valmond himself. [11]
- Valmond calmly met Monsieur Garon's pained look, and courteously whispered his name. [11]
- But a passing member of the legislature met and was conquered by Valmond, and carried on to neighbouring parishes the wondrous tale. [11]
- Suddenly the giant's knee touched the red-hot steel that Madelinette had dropped, and with a snarl he flung Valmond back against the anvil, his head striking the iron with a sickening thud. [11]
- Afterwards some said it was Parpon, the now chosen comrade--or servant--of Valmond, who, people said, had given himself up to the stranger, body and soul; but no one could swear to that. [11]
- I assure you it is my fondest hope that Prince Valmond Napoleon will ever count me among his friends, in spite of all his enemies. [11]
- Valmond stood watching intently, and the people were very still, for this seemed like real life, and no burlesque. [11]
- If Valmond were in very truth a Napoleon, all might be well, though this crusade must close here. [11]
- At seven o'clock in the evening, Valmond and Lagroin were in the streets, after they had marched their men back to camp. [11]
- Mass was said in the church, all the parish attending; and Valmond was present, with Lagroin in full regimentals. [11]
- She figured Valmond in her mind as he stood in this place and that, his voice, his words to her, the look in his face, the clasp of his hand. [11]
- He looks as if he had the Napoleonic daring,--or rashness,--but I am sure he has not the good heart of our Valmond Napoleon. [11]
- Valmond got from his horse, and waited for them. [11]
- Valmond stood over his body, one leg on either side, and drew a pistol. [11]
- This fixed in her mind the belief that if Valmond died, he would leave both misery and shame behind; if he lived, she should, in any case, see him no more. [11]
- The swift look he cast on Valmond had no distrust now. [11]
- But it would have its hour yet, and Valmond knew this as well as did the young Seigneur. [11]
- Valmond came forward, hat in hand, and raised to his lips the fingers she gave him. [11]
- Valmond doffed his hat again and said ceremoniously: "Mademoiselle Madelinette, Mademoiselle Elise, pray do not stop your work. [11]
- You were very happy here before Monsieur Valmond came. [11]
- The soldiers were halted a little distance from the two; and the officer commanding, after a dull mechanical preamble, in the name of the Government, formally called upon Valmond and Lagroin to surrender themselves, or suffer the perils of resistance. [11]
- She was but half-turned to Valmond, but he caught the pure outlines of her face and neck, her extreme delicacy of expression, which had a pathetic, subtle refinement, in acute contrast to the quick, abundant health, the warm energy, the half defiant look of Elise. [11]
- With a few gracious words to Medallion, she bowed and drove away, leaving Valmond in the midst of an admiring crowd. [11]
- Hearing Valmond, he got to his feet. [11]
- This man--" He got no further, for Valmond raised his hand to Lagroin, and the drums began to beat. [11]
- Valmond caught the giant's wrist with both hands, and with a mighty effort wrenched himself aside. [11]
- When the people gathered again in the little church upon the hill, Valmond and his adventure had become almost a legend, so soon are men and events lost in the distance of death and ruin. [11]
- They stopped in front of the hotel, and Valmond, motioning to the garcon, gave him an order. [11]
- Valmond saw it from his window, and knew it to be Parpon's watchfire, by the grave of his brother Gabriel. [11]
- They bowed profoundly, first to Valmond, and afterwards to Madame Chalice. [11]
- It is mere filibustering, and you are an--" Valmond waved his hand, as if to stop the word. [11]
- During the next few days Valmond was everywhere--kind, liberal, quaint, tireless, at times melancholy; "in the distant perspective of the stage," as Monsieur De la Riviere remarked mockingly. [11]
- Valmond, no longer fantastic in dress, speech, or manner, was happy, busy, buoyed up and cast down by turn, troubled, exhilarated. [11]
- Valmond did not fail to see her meaning, but he was too wise to show it. [11]
- Valmond took in every detail of the chamber at a single glance. [11]
- On the Friday evening of this particular week, all were seated in the front garden of the Cure's house, as Valmond came over the hill, going towards the Louis Quinze. [11]
- It was, in effect, what the Daily Chronicle said of 'When Valmond Came to Pontiac', a tour de force. [11]
- In turn, the dwarf had never told any one but Valmond of the relationship; and so the two lived their strange lives in their own singular way. [11]
- Lagroin was still dressed in the uniform of the Old Guard, and wore on his breast the sacred ribbon which Valmond had given him the day before. [11]
- The three journeyed down into the valley, then up onto the plateau, where they were challenged, allowed to pass, and came to where Valmond sat upon his horse. [11]
- Valmond had spoken down at the aged drummer, whose arms were young again, as once more he marched on Pratzen. [11]
- Valmond had escaped death, but in her poor confused way she felt another storm gathering about him. [11]
- He wheeled, the crowd made way for him, and at the neck of the white horse he came on with Valmond. [11]
- The fire that corrodes, when it does not make glorious without and within, was in her veins, and when Valmond should call she was ready to come. [11]
- And because Valmond commanded the old sergeant to silence, the matter ended for the moment. [11]
- Then he came close to Valmond. [11]
- When the lament ceased, there was a long silence, broken by Valmond. [11]
- Medallion paused, then came to Valmond and said: "Your Excellency, if ever you need me, let me know. [11]
- Indeed, 'When Valmond Came to Pontiac', historical fantasy as it is, has elements both of romance and realism. [11]
- Valmond, the bizarre but popular Napoleonic pretender, had raised his standard there; the stones before the parish church had been stained with his blood; and he lay in the churchyard of St. Saviour's forgiven and unforgotten. [11]
- His lips moved, but he said nothing aloud, and he glanced quickly towards Madame Chalice, who sat moveless, her face flushed, her look fixed on Valmond. [11]
- Wisdom might have been expected of Parpon, but he had been won by Valmond from the start; and now, in the great hour, he was deep in another theme --the restoration of his mother to himself, and to herself. [11]
- She pushed him back with her stick contemptuously, looked Valmond over, ran her fingers down his cheek, felt his throat, and at last held his restless hand. [11]
- All at once, at a word from Valmond, he broke into the Marseillaise, with his voice and with his drum. [11]
- It was these apparently incongruous things, together with legends that I had heard and read of Napoleon, which gave me the idea of Valmond. [11]
- Valmond took it, and, holding it in his hands, said softly: "Soldier of the Old Guard, here is a drum of France. [11]
- A cheer followed, and Valmond motioned for wine to go round freely. [11]
- Valmond looked round, and ordered away a listening soldier. [11]
- Valmond was pale, and his eyes burned like restless ghosts. [11]
- For Valmond had an instant's madness, and only saved himself from the tumult in his blood by getting to his feet, with strenuous resolution. [11]
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