Poetry was the attribute of his order as joy was the parure of the preux chevalier. |
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The chevalier would then brush away the snuff which had settled in the folds of his waistcoat or his paduasoy breeches. |
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Since the Trappist's visit, the chevalier had entered, as it were, upon a fresh term of life. |
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The chevalier was singing a virelay which he accompanied by striking Rolande against the branches, then barren of foliage. |
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This interview was, so to speak, a finishing touch to the unhappy chevalier. |
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The chevalier was thus overpowered, garroted and captured in less time than it has taken to write these words. |
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This was the first public appearance of the chevalier since the sad business at the vier Prison a fortnight before. |
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Moreover, I myself, will be her preux chevalier, sixty and gouty though I be. |
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Pescara then placed a guard around the tent and went himself and fetched a priest to console the dying chevalier. |
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We will start on our drive to the nunnery as early as you please, chevalier. |
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So, chevalier, we are reunited after more than eighteen years of separation. |
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Madame Lardot leased to the chevalier two rooms on the second floor of her house, for the modest sum of one hundred francs a year. |
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The linen of the chevalier was invariably of a fineness and whiteness that were truly aristocratic. |
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In short, had it not been for his magisterial and stupendous nose, the chevalier might have been thought a trifle too dainty. |
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Nevertheless, the chevalier frowned, rather from pride than gluttony. |
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The chevalier assumed to know from the number of her capes in the wash how the love-affairs of the wife of the prefect were going on. |
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Besides, the chevalier was as unctuous with the abbe as he was paternal with the grisettes. |
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Never was it known positively by what means the old chevalier obtained these two solemn consecrations of his title and merits. |
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The chevalier studied all faces, for he knew that his firebrand had been very successfully introduced into the chief houses of the place. |
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But where, my dear Olivo, is the chevalier de Seingalt of whom you speak? |
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All this took place so rapidly that the chevalier was dumfounded. |
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So it may be said that in the mornings, while breakfasting, the chevalier usually amused himself as much as the saints in heaven. |
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He was an adventurous chevalier of business who gave up an agent's contract in return for a right to become a roving propagandist. |
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Du Bousquier cast upon the chevalier the most venomous look that toad ever darted on its prey. |
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The dear chevalier instantly arrested the peals of laughter by asserting that there was only the difference between a sheep and a lamb. |
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This will serve to explain why, in spite of his constant winning at play, the old chevalier remained the spoilt darling of the town. |
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He had previously been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. |
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Olivo was delighted to see how well the chevalier got on with the girls. |
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The chevalier moved forward, followed by the Baron and Vivian. |
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Without using perfumes, the chevalier exhaled a certain fragrance of youth, that refreshed the atmosphere. |
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The chevalier drew the rouleaux from his pocket and showed them. |
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War was the profession of your true chevalier and brigandage his pastime. |
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The head woman, Madame Lardot's factotum, an old maid of forty-six, hideous to behold, lived on the opposite side of the passage to the chevalier. |
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Besides his fiction of an annuity, about which no one at the present time knew anything, the chevalier really had, therefore, a bona fide income of a thousand francs. |
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The particular point about the chevalier which would have made him noticeable from Paris to Pekin, was the gentle paternity of his manner to grisettes. |
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The chevalier put cotton in his ears, and wore, appended to them, two little ear-rings representing negroes' heads in diamonds, of admirable workmanship. |
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This freshness of ablution and all the other little cares harmonized charmingly with the blue eyes, the ivory teeth, and the blond person of the old chevalier. |
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But the chevalier believed that his rival had still such strong chances of success that he dealt him this coup de Jarnac with a blade that was finely tempered for the purpose. |
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