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Usage examples of roue.

After a while, you will be seen as an overly emotional, impulsive girl,, who was seduced by a seasoned roue who finally had the decency to own up to his culpability and marry you.

The young roue was hurt at her silence, and continued pestering her, giving her all the best pieces on his plate after tasting them first.

But he was a roue, and had nothing in common with this booby, who has a talent for painting as an elephant has a trunk--what irony!

Her mother, consequently, did not interfere, and Monsieur de Riverolles, her father, gave her to the Marquis de Marzardouin, a roue young nobleman, immensely rich, and shockingly dissipated.

An ageing roue, he was a gazetted fortune-hunter who liked to think that he was dangerous.

I thought you were only a roue, that you had deliberately deceived me by feigning a love you did not feel, and that I saw you such as you really were.

Roues, more than all others, are exposed to that fury, and the reason is very simple: ordinary life is the limpid surface, that of the roue is the rapid current swirling over and over, and at times touching the bottom.

Lord Rizborough, an old roue of the kind which was a little out of style these days, clasped a hand over his heart.

I knew him for a young roue of a vicomte -- a brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.

He soon left us, and after the Opera I saw him with the Duke of Haverfield, one of the most incorrigible roues of the day, leading out a woman of notoriously bad character and of the most ostentatious profligacy.

I saw through the windows of the long Galerie de Diane the roues of the Regency at supper, and at table with them a dark, semi-barbarian little man in a coat of Russian sable, the coolest head in Europe at a drinking-bout.

Such, for instance, is that roue yonder, the very prince of Bath fops, Handsome Jack, whose vanity induces him to assert that his eyebrows are worth one hundred per annum to any young fellow in pursuit of a fortune: it should, however, be admitted, that his gentlemanly manners and great good-nature more than compensate for any little detractions on the score of self-conceit.

I saw through the windows of the long Galerie de Diane the roues of the Regency at supper, and at table with them a dark, semi-barbarian little man in a coat of Russian sable, the coolest head in Europe at a drinking-bout.

The young roue was hurt at her silence, and continued pestering her, giving her all the best pieces on his plate after tasting them first.

If there be an existence of wretchedness on earth it must be that of the elderly, worn-out roue, who has run this race of debt and bills of accommodation and acceptances--of what, if we were not in these days somewhat afraid of good broad English, we might call lying and swindling, falsehood and fraud--and who, having ruined all whom he should have loved, having burnt up every one who would trust him much, and scorched all who would trust him a little, is at last left to finish his life with such bread and water as these men get, without one honest thought to strengthen his sinking heart, or one honest friend to hold his shivering hand!