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Usage examples of dernier.

Il dit ces derniers mots avec une energie voulue et comme avec une intention.

Nous avions vu, dans la note sur Gesril, que ce dernier en faisait partie.

Vicious caricatures of the emperor were drawn on walls, and caricatures of the Napoleonic eagle, clutching a bloody soldier in its talons, captioned "le dernier vol de l'aigle.

Perhaps the best indicator of what the Russian upper classes apparently considered le dernier cri: in the foyer of every great house that the circus people visited stood a stuffed polar bear, erect on its hind legs, holding in its forepaws a silver tray for calling cards.

At any rate, when it is asserted that the plans represent the dernier cri in some form of war preparation, it is well to remember that a 'last cry' is last only until there is a later.

Sylvia is having Marcel and Jeanne Duhaux redecorate the entire mansion in Encino from basement to roof in the most devastatingly dernier cri.

He was wearing a prefaded jump suit, beautifully tailored, the dernier cri in the nostalgic 2100s, but really too youthful for his thirty-odd years.

Were it possible for this circumstance to justify in your Excellency a determination to lend us your personal aid, it is evident from the universal voice, that the presence of their beloved Countryman, whose talents have so long been successfully employed, in establishing the freedom of kindred States, to whose person they have still flattered themselves they retained some right and have ever looked up as their dernier resort in distress.